Academy Awards 1950 Nominations

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Best Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay	Best Motion Picture Story
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Best Song	Best Sound Recording
Best Art Direction (Color)	Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Best Cinematography (Color)	Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Best Costume Design (Color)	Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects

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Best Motion Picture

• A Letter to Three Wives
• All the King's Men
• Battleground
• The Heiress
• Twelve O'Clock High

Best Director

• A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• All the King's Men (Robert Rossen)
• Battleground (William A. Wellman)
• The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
• The Heiress (William Wyler)

Best Actor

• All the King's Men (Broderick Crawford)
• Champion (Kirk Douglas)
• Sands of Iwo Jima (John Wayne)
• The Hasty Heart (Richard Todd)
• Twelve O'Clock High (Gregory Peck)

Best Actress

• Come to the Stable (Loretta Young)
• Edward, My Son (Deborah Kerr)
• My Foolish Heart (Susan Hayward)
• Pinky (Jeanne Crain)
• The Heiress (Olivia de Havilland)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• All the King's Men (John Ireland)
• Battleground (James Whitmore)
• Champion (Arthur Kennedy)
• The Heiress (Ralph Richardson)
• Twelve O'Clock High (Dean Jagger)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• All the King's Men (Mercedes McCambridge)
• Come to the Stable (Elsa Lanchester)
• Come to the Stable (Celeste Holm)
• Pinky (Ethel Barrymore)
• Pinky (Ethel Waters)

Best Story and Screenplay

• Battleground
• Jolson Sings Again
• Paisan
• Passport to Pimlico

Best Motion Picture Story

• Come to the Stable
• It Happens Every Spring
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• The Stratton Story
• White Heat

Best Screenplay

• A Letter to Three Wives
• All the King's Men
• Bicycle Thieves
• Champion
• The Fallen Idol

Best Documentary Feature

• Daybreak in Udi
• Kenji Comes Home

Best Documentary Short

• A Chance to Live
• Eighteen Forty-Eight
• So Much for So Little
• The Rising Tide

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• Aquatic House Party
• Roller Derby Girl
• So You Think You're Not Guilty
• Spills and Chills
• Water Trix

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Boy and the Eagle
• Chase of Death
• Snow Carnival
• The Grass Is Always Greener
• Van Gogh

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Canary Row
• For Scent-imental Reasons
• Hatch Up Your Troubles
• The Magic Fluke
• Toy Tinkers

Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

• Beyond the Forest
• Champion
• The Heiress

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Jolson Sings Again
• Look for the Silver Lining
• On the Town

Best Song

• Come to the Stable ("Through a Long and Sleepless Night")
• It's a Great Feeling ("It's a Great Feeling")
• My Foolish Heart ("My Foolish Heart")
• Neptune's Daughter ("Baby, It's Cold Outside")
• So Dear to My Heart ("Lavender Blue")

Best Sound Recording

• Once More, My Darling
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• Twelve O'Clock High

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Adventures of Don Juan
• Little Women
• Saraband

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Come to the Stable
• Madame Bovary
• The Heiress

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Jolson Sings Again
• Little Women
• Sand
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
• The Barkleys of Broadway

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Battleground
• Champion
• Come to the Stable
• Prince of Foxes
• The Heiress

Best Costume Design (Color)

• Adventures of Don Juan
• Mother Is a Freshman

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Prince of Foxes
• The Heiress

Best Film Editing

• All the King's Men
• Battleground
• Champion
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• The Window

Best Special Effects

• Mighty Joe Young
• Tulsa