Best Written Film Concerning American Scene
- The Snake Pit, Screenplay by Frank Partos and Millen Brand
- All My Sons, Screenplay by Chester Erskine
- Another Part of the Forest, Screenplay by Vladimir Pozner
- Apartment for Peggy, Screenplay by George Seaton
- Call Northside 777, Screenplay by Jerome Cady, and Jay Dratler
- Command Decision, Screenplay by William R. Laidlaw, and George Froeschel
- Cry of the City, Screenplay by Richard Murphy
- I Remember Mama, Screenplay by Dewitt Bodeen
- Louisiana Story, Screenplay by Frances H. Flaherty, and Robert Flaherty
- The Naked City, Screenplay by Albert Maltz, and Malvin Wald
- The Street with No Name, Screenplay by Harry Kleiner
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Best Written Western
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Screenplay by John Huston
- Fort Apache, Screenplay by John Huston
- Four Faces West, Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent
- Fury at Furnace Creek, Screenplay by C. Graham Baker, and Teddi Sherman
- Green Grass of Wyoming, Screenplay by Martin Berkeley
- Rachel and the Stranger, Screenplay by Waldo Salt
- Red River, Screenplay by Borden Chase, and Charles Schnee
- Station West, Screenplay by Frank Fenton, and Winston Miller
- The Man From Colorado, Screenplay by Robert Hardy Andrews, and Ben Maddow
- The Paleface, Screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann, Frank Tashlin, and Jack Rose
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Best Written Musical
- Easter Parade, Screenplay by Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett
- Luxury Liner, Screenplay by Gladys Lehman, and Richard Connell
- On an Island with You, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, Dorothy Cooper, Charles Martin, and Hans Wilhelm
- That Lady in Ermine, Screenplay by Samson Raphaelson
- The Emperor Waltz, Screenplay by Charles Brackett, and Billy Wilder
- When My Baby Smiles at Me, Screenplay by Lamar Trotti
- You Were Meant for Me, Screenplay by Elick Moll, and Valentine Davies
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Best Written Drama
- The Snake Pit, Screenplay by Frank Partos, and Millen Brand
- All My Sons, Screenplay by Chester Erskine
- Another Part of the Forest, Screenplay by Vladimir Pozner
- Berlin Express, Screenplay by Harold Medford
- Call Northside 777, Screenplay by Jerome Cady, and Jay Dratler
- Command Decision, Screenplay by William R. Laidlaw, and George Froeschel
- I Remember Mama, Screenplay by Dewitt Bodeen
- Johnny Belinda, Screenplay by Irma von Cube, and Allen Vincent
- Key Largo, Screenplay by Richard Brooks, and John Huston
- Sorry, Wrong Number, Screenplay by Lucille Fletcher
- The Naked City, Screenplay by Albert Maltz, and Malvin Wald
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Screenplay by John Huston
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Best Written Comedy
- Sitting Pretty, Screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert
- A Foreign Affair, Screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Richard L. Breen
- Apartment for Peggy, Screenplay by George Seaton
- I Remember Mama, Screenplay by Dewitt Bodeen
- June Bride, Screenplay by Ranald Macdougall
- Miss Tatlock's Millions, Screenplay by Charles Brackett, and Richard L. Breen
- No Minor Vices, Screenplay by Arnold Manoff
- The Mating of Millie, Screenplay by Louella MacFarlane, and St. Clair McKelway
- The Paleface, Screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann, Frank Tashlin, and Jack Rose
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