All About Eve – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox
Born Yesterday – S. Sylvan Simon for Columbia Pictures* Father of the Bride – Pandro S. Berman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer* King Solomon's Mines – Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer* Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett for Paramount Pictures | Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve* John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle* George Cukor – Born Yesterday* Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard* Carol Reed – The Third Man |
| José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac* Louis Calhern – The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.* William Holden – Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis* James Stewart – Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd* Spencer Tracy – Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks | Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday as Emma "Billie" Dawn* Anne Baxter – All About Eve as Eve Harrington* Bette Davis – All About Eve as Margo Channing* Eleanor Parker – Caged as Marie Allen* Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond |
| George Sanders – All About Eve as Addison DeWitt* Jeff Chandler – Broken Arrow as Cochise* Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880 as "Skipper" Miller* Sam Jaffe – The Asphalt Jungle as "Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider* Erich von Stroheim – Sunset Boulevard as Max von Mayerling | Josephine Hull – Harvey as Veta Louise Simmons* Hope Emerson – Caged as Evelyn Harper* Celeste Holm – All About Eve as Karen Richards* Nancy Olson – Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaefer* Thelma Ritter – All About Eve as Birdie |
| All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz from "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr* The Asphalt Jungle – Ben Maddow and John Huston from The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett* Born Yesterday – Albert Mannheimer from Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin* Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz from Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold* Father of the Bride – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter | Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr.* Adam's Rib – Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin* Caged – Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld* The Men – Carl Foreman* No Way Out – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels |
| Panic in the Streets – Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt* Bitter Rice – Giuseppe De Santis and Carlo Lizzani* The Gunfighter – William Bowers and André de Toth* Mystery Street – Leonard Spigelgass* When Willie Comes Marching Home – Sy Gomberg | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo – Robert Snyder* With These Hands – Jack Arnold and Lee Goodman |
| Why Korea? – Edmund Reek* The Fight: Science Against Cancer – Guy Glover* The Stairs – Film Documents, Inc. | Grandad of Races – Gordon Hollingshead* Blaze Busters – Robert Youngson* Wrong Way Butch – Pete Smith |
| In Beaver Valley – Walt Disney* Grandma Moses – Falcon Films, Inc.* My Country 'Tis of Thee – Gordon Hollingshead | Gerald McBoing-Boing – Stephen Bosustow* Jerry's Cousin – Fred Quimby* Trouble Indemnity – Stephen Bosustow |
| Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman* All About Eve – Alfred Newman* The Flame and the Arrow – Max Steiner* No Sad Songs for Me – George Duning* Samson and Delilah – Victor Young | Annie Get Your Gun – Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens* Cinderella – Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith* I'll Get By – Lionel Newman* Three Little Words – André Previn* The West Point Story – Ray Heindorf |
| "Mona Lisa" from Captain Carey, U.S.A. – Music and Lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston* "Be My Love" from The Toast of New Orleans – Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn* "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella – Music and Lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston* "Mule Train" from Singing Guns – Music and Lyrics by Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, and Johnny Lange* "Wilhelmina" from Wabash Avenue – Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon | All About Eve – Thomas T. Moulton* Cinderella – C. O. Slyfield* Louisa – Leslie I. Carey* Our Very Own – Gordon E. Sawyer* Trio – Cyril Crowhurst |
| Sunset Boulevard – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and John Meehan; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer* All About Eve – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and George Davis; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott* The Red Danube – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt | Samson and Delilah – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Samuel M. Comer and Ray Moyer* Annie Get Your Gun – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Richard A. Pefferle* Destination Moon – Art Direction: Ernst Fegté; Set Decoration: George Sawley |
| The Third Man – Robert Krasker* All About Eve – Milton Krasner* The Asphalt Jungle – Harold Rosson* The Furies – Victor Milner* Sunset Boulevard – John F. Seitz | King Solomon's Mines – Robert Surtees* Annie Get Your Gun – Charles Rosher* Broken Arrow – Ernest Palmer* The Flame and the Arrow – Ernest Haller* Samson and Delilah – George Barnes |
| All About Eve – Edith Head and Charles LeMaire* Born Yesterday – Jean Louis* The Magnificent Yankee – Walter Plunkett | Samson and Delilah – Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, and Gwen Wakeling* The Black Rose – Michael Whittaker* That Forsyte Woman – Walter Plunkett and Valles |
| King Solomon's Mines – Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig* All About Eve – Barbara McLean* Annie Get Your Gun – James E. Newcom* Sunset Boulevard – Arthur P. Schmidt and Doane Harrison* The Third Man – Oswald Hafenrichter | Destination Moon – George Pal Productions and Eagle Lion Classics* Samson and Delilah – Cecil B. DeMille Productions and Paramount |