1949

1. The Third Man 2. Late Spring 3. White Heat 4. Kind Hearts and Coronets 5. The Heiress 6. Jour de Fête 7. Stray Dog 8. The Small Back Room 9. The Fountainhead 10. Battleground

11. Le Silence de la Mer 12. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 13. The Set-Up 14. Whisky Galore! 15. Blood of the Beasts 16. The Reckless Moment 17. Act of Violence 18. On the Town 19. Thieves’ Highway 20. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1. Carol Reed, The Third Man 2. Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog 3. Raoul Walsh, White Heat 4. Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring 5. Robert Wise, The Set-Up

6. William Wyler,  The Heiress 7. Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, The Small Back Room 8. William A. Wellman, Battleground 9. Robert Hamer, Kind Hearts and Coronets 10. Fred Zinnemann, Act of Violence

1. Chishû Ryû, Late Spring 2. James Cagney, White Heat 3. David Farrar, The Small Back Room 4. Kirk Douglas, Champion 5. Toshiro Mifune, Stray Dog

6. Toshiro Mifune, The Quiet Duel 7. Joseph Cotten, The Third Man 8. Robert Ryan, The Set-Up 9. Dennis Price, Kind Hearts and Coronets 10. Van Heflin, Act of Violence

1. Setsuko Hara, Late Spring 2. Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress 3. Viviane Romance, Maya 4. Patricia Neal, The Fountainhead 5. Eva Henning, Thirst

6. Virginia Mayo, Colorado Territory 7. Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway 8. Linda Darnell, A Letter to Three Wives 9. Edith Evans, The Last Days of Dolwyn 10. Doris Svelund, Prison

1. Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts and Coronets 2. Orson Welles, The Third Man 3. Ralph Richardson, The Heiress 4. Claude Rains,  The Passionate Friends 5. Jose Ferrer, Whirlpool

6. Trevor Howard, The Third Man 7. James Whitmore,  Battleground 8. Juano Hernandez, Intruder in the Dust 9. Edmond O'Brien,  White Heat 10. Raymond Massey,  The Fountainhead

1. Mercedes McCambridge, All The King's Men 2. Judy Holliday, Adam's Rib 3. Margaret Wycherly, White Heat 4. Kathleen Byron The Small Back Room 5. Joan Greenwood, Kind Hearts and Coronets

6. Miriam Hopkins The Heiress 7. Thelma Ritter, A Letter to Three Wives 8. Ethel Waters, Pinky 9. Noriko Sengoku, The Quiet Duel 10. Valentina Cortese, Thieves' Highway

1. Robert Krasker, The Third Man 2. Otello Martelli, Bitter Rice 3. Douglas Slocombe, Kind Hearts and Coronets 4. Winton C. Hoch, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 5. André Thomas, Maya

6. Paul Vogel, Battleground 7. Yûharu Atsuta, Late Spring 8. Leo Tover, The Heiress 9. Leon Shamroy,  Prince of Foxes 10. Robert Burks, The Fountainhead