1947
The 19th Academy Awards | 1947
Shrine Civic Auditorium
Thursday, March 13, 1947
Honoring movies released in 1946
Highlights
Memorable Moments
Winners & Nominees
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Harold Russell
The Best Years of Our Lives
Nominees
Charles Coburn
The Green Years
William Demarest
The Jolson Story
Claude Rains
Notorious
Clifton Webb
The Razor's Edge
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Anne Baxter
The Razor's Edge
Nominees
Ethel Barrymore
The Spiral Staircase
Lillian Gish
Duel in the Sun
Flora Robson
Saratoga Trunk
Gale Sondergaard
Anna and the King of Siam
Directing
Winner
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
Nominees
Brief Encounter
David Lean
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
The Killers
Robert Siodmak
The Yearling
Clarence Brown
Film Editing
Winner
The Best Years of Our Lives
Daniel Mandell
Nominees
It's a Wonderful Life
William Hornbeck
The Jolson Story
William Lyon
The Killers
Arthur Hilton
The Yearling
Harold Kress
Actor
Winner
Fredric March
The Best Years of Our Lives
Nominees
Laurence Olivier
Henry V
Larry Parks
The Jolson Story
Gregory Peck
The Yearling
James Stewart
It's a Wonderful Life
Actress
Winner
Olivia de Havilland
To Each His Own
Nominees
Celia Johnson
Brief Encounter
Jennifer Jones
Duel in the Sun
Rosalind Russell
Sister Kenny
Jane Wyman
The Yearling
Special Award
Winner
The Best Years of Our Lives
Special Award
Henry V
Special Award
Sound Recording
Winner
The Jolson Story
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
Nominees
The Best Years of Our Lives
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
It's a Wonderful Life
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Cat Concerto
Frederick Quimby, Producer
Nominees
Chopin's Musical Moments
Walter Lantz, Producer
John Henry and the Inky Poo
George Pal, Producer
Squatter's Rights
Walt Disney, Producer
Walky Talky Hawky
Edward Selzer, Producer
Music (Song)
Winner
The Harvey Girls
On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe in "The Harvey Girls" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Nominees
Centennial Summer
All Through The Day in "Centennial Summer" Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
The Dolly Sisters
I Can't Begin To Tell You in "The Dolly Sisters" Music by James Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
Canyon Passage
Ole Buttermilk Sky in "Canyon Passage" Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Lyrics by Jack Brooks
Blue Skies
You Keep Coming Back Like A Song in "Blue Skies" Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Writing (Screenplay)
Winner
The Best Years of Our Lives
Robert E. Sherwood
Nominees
Brief Encounter
David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
The Killers
Anthony Veiller
Open City
Sergio Amidei, F. Fellini
Anna and the King of Siam
Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson
Short Subject (One-reel)
Winner
Facing Your Danger
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Nominees
Dive-Hi Champs
Jack Eaton, Producer
Golden Horses
Edmund Reek, Producer
Smart as a Fox
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Sure Cures
Pete Smith, Producer
Short Subject (Two-reel)
Winner
A Boy and His Dog
Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Nominees
College Queen
George B. Templeton, Producer
Hiss and Yell
Jules White, Producer
The Luckiest Guy in the World
Jerry Bresler, Producer
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Samuel Goldwyn
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Winner
Anna and the King of Siam
Arthur Miller
Nominees
The Green Years
George Folsey
Cinematography (Color)
Winner
The Yearling
Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, Arthur Arling
Nominees
The Jolson Story
Joseph Walker
Special Effects
Winner
Blithe Spirit
Special Visual Effects by Thomas Howard
Nominees
A Stolen Life
Special Visual Effects by William McGann; Special Audible Effects by Nathan Levinson
Art Direction (Black-and-White)
Winner
Anna and the King of Siam
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, William Darling; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
Nominees
Kitty
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
The Razor's Edge
Art Direction: Richard Day, Nathan Juran; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Art Direction (Color)
Winner
The Yearling
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis
Nominees
Caesar and Cleopatra
John Bryan
Henry V
Art Direction: Paul Sheriff, Carmen Dillon
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Winner
The Seventh Veil
Muriel Box, Sydney Box
Nominees
The Blue Dahlia
Raymond Chandler
Children of Paradise
Jacques Prevert
Notorious
Ben Hecht
Road to Utopia
Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Seeds of Destiny
United States Department of War
Nominees
Atomic Power
The March of Time
Life at the Zoo
Artkino
Paramount News Issue #37 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue! 1927.....1947)
Paramount
Traffic with the Devil
Herbert Morgan, Producer
Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
Winner
The Jolson Story
Morris Stoloff
Nominees
Blue Skies
Robert Emmett Dolan
Centennial Summer
Alfred Newman
The Harvey Girls
Lennie Hayton
Night and Day
Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
Winner
The Best Years of Our Lives
Hugo Friedhofer
Nominees
Henry V
William Walton
Humoresque
Franz Waxman
The Killers
Miklos Rozsa
Anna and the King of Siam
Bernard Herrmann
Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)
Winner
Vacation from Marriage
Clemence Dane
Nominees
The Dark Mirror
Vladimir Pozner
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Jack Patrick
The Stranger
Victor Trivas
To Each His Own
Charles Brackett
Best Motion Picture
Winner
The Best Years of Our Lives
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Nominees
The Razor's Edge
20th Century-Fox
The Yearling
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Henry V
J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
It's a Wonderful Life
Liberty Films
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