1948 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1948

ƒ Bicycle Thieves

The Fallen Idol

ƒ Germany Year Zero

✔ Hamlet

Key Largo

The Lady From Shanghai

Letter From An Unknown Woman

Red River

The Red Shoes

★ The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

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Best Actor of 1948

Richard Attenborough (Brighton Rock)

Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre and Key Largo)

★ ✔ Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)

Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes)

John Wayne (Red River)

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Best Actress of 1948

Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)

Marlene Dietrich (A Foreign Affair)

★ Joan Fontaine (Letter From An Unknown Woman)

Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)

✔ Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)

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Best Director of 1948

Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves)

Howard Hawks (Red River)

★ ✔ John Huston (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes)

Orson Welles (The Lady From Shanghai)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1948

Thomas Gomez (Force Of Evil and Key Largo)

Tim Holt (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

★ ✔ Walter Huston (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

Edward G. Robinson (Key Largo)

Everett Sloane (The Lady From Shanghai)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1948

Mary Astor (Act of Violence)

Hermione Baddeley (Brighton Rock)

Barbara Bel Geddes (I Remember Mama)

Elsa Lanchester (The Big Clock)

★ ✔ Claire Trevor (Key Largo)

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Special Award

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (most dysfunctional relationship) (sisters category)

"We don't need no stinkin' badges" (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (most iconic misquoted line)

John Huston, based on the novel by B. Traven (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (adapted screenplay)

Max Steiner (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (score)

Borden Chase and Charles Schnee, from the short story by Borden Chase (Red River) (original screenplay)

Robert Helpmann (The Red Shoes) (choreography)

Charles Lawton, Jr. (The Lady From Shanghai) (cinematography)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

1947 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1947

Black Narcissus

Body And Soul

Crossfire

✔ Gentleman's Agreement

The Ghost And Mrs. Muir

Miracle On 34th Street

Monsieur Verdoux

Nightmare Alley

Odd Man Out

★ Out Of The Past

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Best Actor of 1947

John Garfield (Body and Soul)

Rex Harrison (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

James Mason (Odd Man Out)

★ Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past)

Tyrone Power (Nightmare Alley)

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Best Actress of 1947

Jane Greer (Out of the Past)

Susan Hayward (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman)

★ Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)

Gene Tierney (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

✔ Loretta Young (The Bishop's Wife and The Farmer's Daughter)

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Best Director of 1947

Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire)

★ Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Black Narcissus)

Carol Reed (Odd Man Out)

George Seaton (Miracle On 34th Street)

Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1947

★ ✔ Edmund Gwenn (Miracle On 34th Street)

Gene Lockhart (Miracle On 34th Street)

Victor Moore (It Happened On 5th Avenue)

Robert Ryan (Crossfire)

Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1947

★ Kathleen Byron (Black Narcissus)

Gloria Grahame (Crossfire)

✔ Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement)

Martha Raye (Monsieur Verdoux)

Anne Revere (Body and Soul and Gentleman's Agreement)

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Special Award

George Seaton, from a story by Valentine Davies (Miracle On 34th Street) (original screenplay)

Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) from his novel Build My Gallows High (Out of the Past) (adapted screenplay)

Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus) (cinematography)

Alfred Junge (Black Narcissus) (art direction - set decoration)

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" (Song of the South) music by Allie Wrubel; lyrics by Ray Gilbert (song)

Gentleman's Agreement and Crossfire (everything old is new again) (prejudice category)

William Frawley ("Charlie Halloran") (Miracle On 34th Street) (best legal advice) (existence of Santa Claus category)

Fred Gailey's apartment (Miracle On 34th Street) (least likely place you'd allow a seven year old girl to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade)

Porter Hall ("Mr. Sawyer") (Miracle On 34th Street) (worst co-worker)

Jerome Cowan ("Thomas Mara") (Miracle On 34th Street) (most hapless district attorney)

Robert Hyatt ("Thomas Mara Jr.") (Miracle On 34th Street) (most devastating surprise witness)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

1946 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1946

Beauty And The Beast

✔ The Best Years Of Our Lives

The Big Sleep

Gilda

Great Expectations

★ It's A Wonderful Life

A Matter Of Life and Death (Stairway To Heaven)

My Darling Clementine

Notorious

The Postman Always Rings Twice

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Best Actor of 1946

Dana Andrews (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

Henry Fonda (My Darling Clementine)

Cary Grant (Notorious)

✔ Fredric March (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

★ James Stewart (It's A Wonderful Life)

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Best Actress of 1946

Lauren Bacall (The Big Sleep)

Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)

✔ Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own and The Dark Mirror)

★ Rita Hayworth (Gilda)

Dorothy McGuire (The Spiral Staircase)

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Best Director of 1946

Frank Capra (It's A Wonderful Life)

Jean Cocteau (Beauty And The Beast)

John Ford (My Darling Clementine)

Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious)

★ ✔ William Wyler (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1946

Walter Brennan (My Darling Clementine)

George Macready (Gilda)

★ Claude Rains (Notorious)

✔ Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)

Henry Travers (It's a Wonderful Life)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1946

✔ Anne Baxter (The Razor's Edge)

Martita Hunt (Great Expectations)

Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)

★ Myrna Loy (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

Teresa Wright (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

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Special Award

Robert E. Sherwood, from the novella Glory For Me by MacKinlay Kantor based on a Time magazine article (The Best Years Of Our Lives) (adapted screenplay)

Gregg Toland (The Best Years of Our Lives) (cinematography)

Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Connell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell (The Best Years Of Our Lives) (ensemble cast)

Christian Berard, Lucien Carre and Rene Moulaert (Beauty And The Beast) (art direction-set decoration)

Ben Hecht (Notorious) (original screenplay)

Bugs Bunny and the sneaker-wearing monster (Hair-Raising Hare) (best manicure)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.