Academy Awards

Best Picture:"The Best Years of Our Lives"
Best Director: William Wyler... "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Best Actor: Frederic March... "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Best Actress:Olivia de Havilland ... "To Each His Own"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
ROBINSON, Sir ROBERT, Great Britain, Oxford University, b. 1886, d. 1975: "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids"

Literature
GIDE, ANDRƒ PAUL GUILLAUME, France, b. 1869, d. 1951: "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight"

Peace
The prize was awarded jointly to: THE FRIENDS SERVICE COUNCIL (The Quakers), London. Founded in 1647. THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (The Quakers), Washington. The society's first official meeting was held in 1672.

Physiology or Medicine
The prize was divided, one half being awarded jointly to: CORI, CARL FERDINAND, U.S.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1896, (in Prague, then Austria), d. 1984; and his wife CORI, GERTY THERESA, nŽe RADNITZ, U.S.A., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1896 (in Prague, then Austria), d. 1957: "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"; the other half being awarded to: HOUSSAY, BERNARDO ALBERTO, Argentina, Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental (Institute for Biology and Experimental Medicine), Buenos Aires, b. 1887, d. 1971: "for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"

Physics
APPLETON, Sir EDWARD VICTOR, Great Britain, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London, b. 1892, d. 1965: "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer"

Pulitzer Prizes

Fiction: Robert Penn Waren ... "All the King's Men"
History: James Phinney Baxter III ... "Scientist Against Time"
International Reporting: Eddy Gilmore ... "Associated Press"
National Reporting: Edward T. Folliard ... "Washington Post"
Public Service: "Baltimore Sun"