Los ganadores están listados primero y destacados en negrita.
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- Yellow Sky – W.R. Burnett and Lamar Trotti; argumento de W.R. Burnett⭐
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon – Frank S. Nugent, and Laurence Stallings; basado en la historia "The Big Hunt" and "War Party" por James Warner Bellah
- Streets of Laredo – Charles Marquis Warren
- The Gal Who Took the West – William Bowers y Oscar Brodney
- Whispering Smith – Frank Butler y Karl Kamb
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- All the King's Men – Robert Rossen⭐
- Battleground – Robert Pirosh
- Champion – Carl Foreman; historia de Ring Lardner
- Intruder in the Dust – Ben Maddow; basado en la novela de William Faulkner
- The Hasty Heast – Ranald MacDougall, basado en la obra de teatro de John Patrick
- The Heiress – Ruth Goetz y August Goetz
- The Window – Mel Dinelli; Basado en la historia "The Boy Cried Murder" de Cornell Woolrich
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- A Letter to Three Wives – Joseph L. Mankiewicz⭐
- Adam's Rib – Ruth Gordon y Garson Kanin
- Come to the Stable – Oscar Millard y Sally Benson; historia de Clare Boothe Luce
- Every Girl Should Be Married – Stephen Morehouse Avery; escrito por Don Hartman; historia de Eleanor Harris
- I Was a Male War Bride – Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigel y Hagar Wilde; argumento de Henri Rochard
- It Happens Every Spring – Valentine Davies; basado en una historia de Shirley W. Smith y Valentine Davies
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