1948 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees

The AwardWentTo archive contains 105 Academy Award records for the 1948 film year, covering 53 films and including 28 wins.

Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.

1949 → ← 1947

Best Picture result

  • ★ Hamlet
    J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films

5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history

Acting category results

Leading winning films

Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.

  1. Hamlet

    4 wins from 7 award records

  2. Joan of Arc

    3 wins from 8 award records

  3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    3 wins from 4 award records

  4. The Red Shoes

    2 wins from 5 award records

  5. The Search

    2 wins from 5 award records

  6. The Naked City

    2 wins from 3 award records

Category winners

Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.

Nominations and award records by category

Showing 105 of 105 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.

Best Picture

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actress

Art Direction (Black-and-White)

  • ★ Hamlet IMDB — Art Direction: Roger K. Furse; Set Decoration: Carmen Dillon
  • Johnny Belinda IMDB — Art Direction: Robert Haas; Set Decoration: William Wallace

Art Direction (Color)

  • ★ The Red Shoes IMDB — Art Direction: Hein Heckroth; Set Decoration: Arthur Lawson
  • Joan of Arc IMDB — Art Direction: Richard Day; Set Decoration: Edwin Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Cinematography (Color)

Costume Design (Black-and-White)

Costume Design (Color)

Best Director

Documentary Feature

Documentary Short Subject

Film Editing

Original Score

Original Song

Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)

Animated Short Film

Short Subject (One-Reel)

Short Subject (Two-Reel)

Sound Recording

  • ★ The Snake Pit IMDB — 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
  • Johnny Belinda IMDB — Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Col. Nathan O. Levinson, Sound Director
  • Moonrise IMDB — Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Sound Director

Special Award

  • ★ The Search IMDB — Ivan Jandl
    Source context

    To Ivan Jandl, for the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as \"Karel Malik\" in The Search.

  • ★ Joan of Arc IMDB — Walter Wanger
    Source context

    To Walter Wanger for distinguished service to the industry in adding to its moral stature in the world community by his production of the picture Joan of Arc.

Special Foreign Language Film Award

  • ★ Monsieur Vincent IMDB
    Source context

    To Monsieur Vincent - voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948.

Visual Effects

  • ★ Portrait of Jennie IMDB — Special Visual Effects by Paul Eagler, J. McMillan Johnson, Russell Shearman, Clarence Slifer; Special Audible Effects by Charles Freeman, James G. Stewart
  • Deep Waters IMDB — Special Visual Effects by Ralph Hammeras, Fred Sersen, Edward Snyder; Special Audible Effects by Roger Heman

Adapted Screenplay

Writing (Original Story)

Nominated films and other recorded entries

53 films represented in the 1948 archive selection.

About these award records

This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.

Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.

Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.

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