Academy Awards 1947

Best Picture

WINNER:
The Best Years of Our Lives: (Samuel Goldwyn Productions)

NOMINEES:
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France: (J. Arthur Rank, Two Cities)
It's a Wonderful Life: (Liberty Films)
The Razor's Edge: (20th Century Fox)
The Yearling: (M-G-M)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
The Best Years of Our Lives: Fredric March
Fredric March was not present at the awards ceremony. Cathy O'Donnell accepted the award on his behalf.

NOMINEES:
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France: Laurence Olivier
The Jolson Story: Larry Parks
The Yearling: Gregory Peck
It's a Wonderful Life: James Stewart

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
To Each His Own: Olivia de Havilland

NOMINEES:
Brief Encounter: Celia Johnson
Duel in the Sun: Jennifer Jones
Sister Kenny: Rosalind Russell
The Yearling: Jane Wyman

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
The Best Years of Our Lives: Harold Russell

NOMINEES:
The Green Years: Charles Coburn
The Jolson Story: William Demarest
Notorious: Claude Rains
The Razor's Edge: Clifton Webb

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
The Razor's Edge: Anne Baxter

NOMINEES:
The Spiral Staircase: Ethel Barrymore
Duel in the Sun: Lillian Gish
Saratoga Trunk: Flora Robson
Anna and the King of Siam: Gale Sondergaard

Best Director

WINNER:
The Best Years of Our Lives: William Wyler

NOMINEES:
The Yearling: Clarence Brown
It's a Wonderful Life: Frank Capra
Brief Encounter: David Lean
The Killers: Robert Siodmak

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER:
The Seventh Veil: Muriel Box, Sydney Box

NOMINEES:
The Blue Dahlia: Raymond Chandler
Les enfants du paradis: Jacques Prévert
Notorious: Ben Hecht
Road to Utopia: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

Best Writing, Original Story

WINNER:
Perfect Strangers: Clemence Dane

NOMINEES:
The Dark Mirror: Vladimir Pozner
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: John Patrick
The Stranger: Victor Trivas
To Each His Own: Charles Brackett

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER:
The Best Years of Our Lives: Robert E. Sherwood

NOMINEES:
Anna and the King of Siam: Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings
Brief Encounter: Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame
The Killers: Anthony Veiller
Roma, città aperta: Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER:
The Yearling: Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, Arthur E. Arling

NOMINEE:
The Jolson Story: Joseph Walker

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER:
Anna and the King of Siam: Arthur C. Miller

NOMINEE:
The Green Years: George J. Folsey

Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

WINNER:
Anna and the King of Siam: Lyle R. Wheeler, William S. Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
NOMINEES
Kitty: Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
The Razor's Edge: Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox

Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color

WINNER:
The Yearling: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis

NOMINEES:
Caesar and Cleopatra: John Bryan
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France: Paul Sheriff, Carmen Dillon

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER:
The Jolson Story: John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)

NOMINEES:
The Best Years of Our Lives: Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
It's a Wonderful Life: John Aalberg (RKO Radio SSD)

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
The Best Years of Our Lives: Daniel Mandell

NOMINEES:
It's a Wonderful Life: William Hornbeck
The Jolson Story: William A. Lyon
The Killers: Arthur Hilton
The Yearling: Harold F. Kress

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER:
Blithe Spirit: Tom Howard (visual)

NOMINEE:
A Stolen Life: William C. McGann (visual), Nathan Levinson (audible)

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
The Harvey Girls: Harry Warren (music), Johnny Mercer (lyrics)
For the song "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe".

NOMINEES:
Centennial Summer: Jerome Kern (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
For the song "All Through the Day".
The Dolly Sisters: James V. Monaco (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics)
For the song "I Can't Begin to Tell You".
Canyon Passage: Hoagy Carmichael (music), Jack Brooks (lyrics)
For the song "Ole Buttermilk Sky".
Blue Skies: Irving Berlin
For the song "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song".

Best 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

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER:
The Best Years of Our Lives: Hugo Friedhofer

NOMINEES:
Anna and the King of Siam: Bernard Herrmann
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France: William Walton
Humoresque: Franz Waxman
The Killers: Miklós Rózsa

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER:
A Boy and His Dog: Gordon Hollingshead

NOMINEES:
College Queen: George Templeton
Hiss and Yell: Jules White
A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: The Luckiest Guy in the World: Jerry Bresler

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER:
Facing Your Danger: Gordon Hollingshead

NOMINEES:
Dive-Hi Champs: Jack Eaton
Golden Horses: Edmund Reek
Smart as a Fox: Gordon Hollingshead
Sure Cures: Pete Smith

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER:
The Cat Concerto: Fred Quimby

NOMINEES:
Musical Moments from Chopin: Walter Lantz
John Henry and the Inky-Poo: George Pal
Squatter's Rights: Walt Disney
Walky Talky Hawky: Edward Selzer

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
Seeds of Destiny: (U.S. War Dept.)

NOMINEES:
Atomic Power: (20th Century-Fox)
Life at the Zoo: (Artkino)
Paramount News Issue #37: (Paramount)
Traffic with the Devil: (M-G-M)

Juvenile Award

WINNER:
Claude Jarman Jr.
For the outstanding child actor of 1946.

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France: Laurence Olivier
For his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing 'Henry V' to the screen.
The Best Years of Our Lives: Harold Russell
For bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives.
Ernst Lubitsch
For his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture
(certificate).

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNER:
Samuel Goldwyn

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
Harlan L. Baumbach (Paramount West Coast Laboratory)
For an improved method for the quantitative determination of hydroquinone and metol in photographic developing baths.
Herbert E. Britt
For the development and application of formulas and equipment for producing cloud and smoke effects.
Burton F. Miller (Warner Bros. Studio Sound and Electrical Departments)
For the design and construction of a motion picture arc lighting generator filter.
Carlton W. Faulkner (20th Century-Fox SSD)
For the reversed bias method, including a double bias method for light valve and galvanometer density recording.
(Mole-Richardson Co.)
For the Type 450 super high intensity carbon arc lamp.
Arthur F. Blinn, Robert O. Cook, C.O. Slyfield (Walt Disney SSD)
For the design and development of an audio finder and track viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks.
Burton F. Miller (Warner Bros. SSD)
For the design and application of an equalizer to eliminate relative spectral energy distortion in electronic compressors.
Marty Martin (RKO Radio Studio Miniature Department), Hal Adkins (RKO Radio Studio Miniature Department)
For the design and construction of equipment providing visual bullet effects.
Harold Nye (Warner Bros. Studio Electrical Dept.)
For the development of the electronically controlled fire and gaslight effect.

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