Academy Awards

Best Picture: "Casablanca - Michael Curtiz"
Best Director: Michael Curtiz ... "Casablanca"
Best Actor: Paul Lukas ... "Watch on the Rhine"
Best Actress: Jennifer Jones ... "The Song of Bernadette"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
DE HEVESY, GEORGE, Hungary, Stockholm University, Sweden, b. 1885, d. 1966: "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"

Literature
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.

Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided equally between: DAM, HENRIK CARL PETER, Denmark, Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen, b. 1895, d. 1976: "for his discovery of vitamin K"; and DOISY, EDWARD ADELBERT, U.S.A., Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1893, d. 1986: "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K"

Physics
STERN, OTTO, U.S.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, PA, b. 1888 (in Sorau, then Germany), d. 1969: "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama: Thornton Wilder ... "The Skin of Our Teeth"
Fiction: Upton Sinclair ... "Dragon's Teeth"
History: Esther Forbes ... "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In"
International Reporting: Ira Wolfert ... "North American Newspaper Alliance"
Public Service: "Omaha (NE) World-Herald"