Oscar Nominations and Winners (1946)

Best Picture

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Henry V
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Razor's Edge
• The Yearling

Best Director

• Clarence Brown (The Yearling)
• Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life)
• David Lean (Brief Encounter)
• Robert Siodmak (The Killers)
• William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Laurence Olivier (Henry V)
• Larry Parks (The Jolson Story)
• Gregory Peck (The Yearling)
• James Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Charles Coburn (The Green Years)
• William Demarest (The Jolson Story)
• Claude Rains (Notorious)
• Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)
• Clifton Webb (The Razor's Edge)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)
• Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)
• Jennifer Jones (Duel in the Sun)
• Rosalind Russell (Sister Kenny)
• Jane Wyman (The Yearling)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
• Anne Baxter (The Razor's Edge)
• Lilian Gish (Duel in the Sun)
• Flora Robson (Saratoga Trunk)
• Gale Sondergaard (Anna and the King of Siam)

Best Story

• The Dark Mirror (Vladimir Pozner)
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Jack Patrick)
• The Stranger (Victor Trivas)
• To Each His Own (Charles Brackett)
• Vacation From Marriage (Clemence Dane)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Anna and the King of Siam (Sally Benson and Talbot Jennings)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (Robert E. Sherwood)
• Brief Encounter (Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame)
• The Killers (Anthony Veiller)
• Open City (Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini)

Best Original Story and Screenplay

• The Blue Dahlia (Raymond Chandler)
• Children of Paradise (Jacques Pr�vert)
• Notorious (Ben Hecht)
• Road to Utopia (Norman Panama and Melvin Frank)
• The Seventh Veil (Muriel Box and Sydney Box)

Art Direction - Black and White

• Anna and the King of Siam
• Kitty
• The Razor's Edge

Art Direction - Color

• Caesar and Cleopatra
• Henry V
• The Yearling

Cinematography - Black and White

• Anna and the King of Siam
• The Green Years

Cinematography - Color

• The Jolson Story
• The Yearling

Documentary Short Subject

• Atomic Power
• Life at the Zoo
• Paramount News Issue #37
• Seeds of Destiny
• Traffic With the Devil

Film Editing

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Jolson Story
• The Killers
• The Yearling

Original Score For Drama or Comedy

• Anna and the King of Siam (Bernard Herrmann)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (Hugo Friedhofer)
• Henry V (William Walton)
• Humoresque (Franz Waxman)
• The Killers (Miklos Rozsa)

Original Score For Musical

• Blue Skies (Robert Emmett Dolan)
• Centennial Summer (Alfred Newman)
• The Harvey Girls (Lennie Hayton)
• The Jolson Story (Morris Stoloff)
• Night and Day (Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner)

Original Song

• "All Through the Day" (Centennial Summer) Music by Jerome Kern. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
• "I Can't Begin to Tell You" (The Dolly Sisters) Music by James Monaco. Lyrics by Mack Gordon.
• "Ole Buttermilk Sky" (Canyon Passage) Music by Hoagy Carmichael. Lyrics by Jack Brooks.
• "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (The Harvey Girls) Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" (Blue Skies) Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• The Cat Concerto
• Chopin's Musical Moments
• John Henry and the Inky Poo
• Squatter's Rights
• Walky Talky Hawky

Live Action Short Film - One Reel

• Dive-Hi Champs
• Facing Your Danger
• Golden Horses
• Smart as a Fox
• Sure Cures

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels

• A Boy and His Dog
• College Queen
• Hiss and Yell
• The Luckiest Guy in the World

Sound

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Jolson Story

Special Effects

• Blithe Spirit
• A Stolen Life