QCW Awards
1948

Best Picture

Bicycle Thieves
Force of Evil
A Foreign Affair
Germany Year Zero
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Red River
The Red Shoes (WINNER)
Spring in a Small Town
They Live by Night
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Best Director

Vittorio De Sica for Bicycle Thieves
Max Ophüls for Letter from an Unknown Woman
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for The Red Shoes (WINNER)
Nicholas Ray for They Live by Night
Roberto Rossellini for Germany Year Zero
Orson Welles for Macbeth

Best Performance by AN Actress in a Leading Role

Joan Fontaine as Lisa Berndle in Letter from an Unknown Woman (WINNER)
Cathy O'Donnell as Catherine Mobley in They Live by Night
Moira Shearer as Victoria Page in The Red Shoes
Wei Wei as Zhou Yuwen in Spring in a Small Town
Jane Wyman as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda

Best Performance by An Actor in a Leading Role

Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown in Brighton Rock
Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (WINNER)
Lamberto Maggiorani as Antonio Ricci in Bicycle Thieves
Orson Welles as Macbeth in Macbeth
Anton Wolbrook as Boris Lermontov in The Red Shoes

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Marlene Dietrich as Erika von Schlütow in A Foreign Affair (WINNER)
Sonia Dresdel as Mrs. Baines in The Fallen Idol
Joanne Dru as Tess Millay in Red River
Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn in Key Largo
Kay Walsh as Nancy in Oliver Twist

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Thomas Gomez as Leo Morse in Force of Evil
Alec Guinness as Fagin in Oliver Twist
Oskar Homolka as Chris Halvorsen in I Remember Mama
Walter Huston as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (WINNER)
Enzo Staiola as Bruno Ricci in Bicycle Thieves

Best Ensemble

Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda and Vittorio Antonucci in Bicycle Thieves
Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O’Dea and Jack Hawkins in The Fallen Idol
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Grey Harry Carey and John Ireland in Red River
Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Léonide Massine and Robert Helpmann in The Red Shoes
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Alfonso Bedoya, et. al in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (WINNER)

Best Foreign Language Film

From Italy, Bicycle Thieves (WINNER)
From Japan, Drunken Angel
From Italy, Germany Year Zero
From Japan, A Hen in the Wind
From China, Spring in a Small Town

Best Original Screenplay

Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Robert Harari for A Foreign Affair
Roberto Rossellini, Max Kolpé and Carlo Lizzani for Germany Year Zero
Yasujirō Ozu and Ryosuke Saito for A Hen in the Wind
Tianji Li for Spring in a Small Town
Preston Sturges for Unfaithfully Yours (WINNER)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, et al. for Bicycle Thieves (Based on the book of the same name by Luigi Bartolini)
Howard Koch for Letter from an Unknown Woman (Based on the novella of the same name by Stefan Zweig)
Borden Chase and Charles Schnee for Red River (Based on Chases' story The Chisolm Trail)
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger and Keith Winter for The Red Shoes (Based on the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen) (WINNER)
John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Based on the novel of the same name by B. Traven)

Best Cinematography

Joseph H. August for Portrait of Jennie
Jack Cardiff for The Red Shoes (WINNER)
Guy Green for Oliver Twist
Franz Planer for Letter from an Unknown Woman
John L. Russell for Macbeth

Best Editing

Eraldo Da Roma for Bicycle Thieves
Ted J. Kent for Letter from an Unknown Woman
Reginald Mills for The Red Shoes (WINNER)

Best Production Design

Hein Heckroth for The Red Shoes (WINNER)
Alexander Golitzen for Letter from an Unknown Woman
Fred Ritter for Macbeth
T. Hopewell Ash & Claude Momsay for Oliver Twist
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith & Edwin B. Willis for The Pirate

Best Original Score

Arnold Bax for Oliver Twist
Alessandro Cicognini for Bicycle Thieves
Brian Easdale for The Red Shoes (WINNER)
Alfred Newman for The Snake Pit
Max Steiner for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre