Academy Awards

Best Picture: "The Lost Weekend"
Best Director: Billy Wilder ... "The Lost Weekend"
Best Actor: Ray Milland ... "The Lost Weekend"
Best Actress: Joan Crawford ... "Mildred Pierce"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
VIRTANEN, ARTTURI ILMARI, Finland, Helsinki University, b. 1895, d. 1973: "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method"

Literature
MISTRAL, GABRIELA (pen-name of GODOY Y ALCAYAGA, LUCILA), Chile, b. 1889, d. 1957: "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world"

Peace
HULL, CORDELL, USA, b. 1871, d. 1955: Former Secretary of State. One of the initiators of the United Nations.

Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: FLEMING, Sir ALEXANDER, Great Britain, London University, b. 1881, (in Lochfield, Scotland), d. 1955; CHAIN, Sir ERNST BORIS, Great Britain, Oxford University, b. 1906, (in Berlin, Germany), d. 1979; and FLOREY, Lord (HOWARD WALTER), Great Britain, Oxford University, b. 1898 (in Adelaide, Australia), d. 1968:

Physics
PAULI, WOLFGANG, Austria, Princeton University, NJ, U.S.A., b. 1900, d. 1958: "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama: Mary Chase ... "Harvey"
Fiction: John Hersey ... "A Bell for Adano"
History: Stephen Bonsal ... "Unfinished Business"
Mark S. Watson ... "Baltimore Sun" James B. Reston ... "New York Times" "Detroit Free Press"