Academy Awards 1948

Best Picture

WINNER:
Gentleman's Agreement: (20th Century Fox)

NOMINEES:
The Bishop's Wife: (Samuel Goldwyn Productions)
Crossfire: (RKO Radio)
Great Expectations: (J. Arthur Rank, Cineguild)
Miracle on 34th Street: (20th Century Box)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
A Double Life: Ronald Colman

NOMINEES:
Body and Soul: John Garfield
Gentleman's Agreement: Gregory Peck
Life with Father: William Powell
Mourning Becomes Electra: Michael Redgrave

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
The Farmer's Daughter: Loretta Young

NOMINEES:
Possessed: Joan Crawford
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman: Susan Hayward
Gentleman's Agreement: Dorothy McGuire
Mourning Becomes Electra: Rosalind Russell

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Miracle on 34th Street: Edmund Gwenn

NOMINEES:
The Farmer's Daughter: Charles Bickford
Ride the Pink Horse: Thomas Gomez
Crossfire: Robert Ryan
Kiss of Death: Richard Widmark

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Gentleman's Agreement: Celeste Holm

NOMINEES:
The Paradine Case: Ethel Barrymore
Crossfire: Gloria Grahame
The Egg and I: Marjorie Main
Gentleman's Agreement: Anne Revere

Best Director

WINNER:
Gentleman's Agreement: Elia Kazan

NOMINEES:
A Double Life: George Cukor
Crossfire: Edward Dmytryk
The Bishop's Wife: Henry Koster
Great Expectations: David Lean

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER:
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer: Sidney Sheldon

NOMINEES:
Body and Soul: Abraham Polonsky
A Double Life: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Monsieur Verdoux: Charles Chaplin
Shoeshine: Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini

Best Writing, Original Story

WINNER:
Miracle on 34th Street: Valentine Davies

NOMINEES:
La cage aux rossignols: Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler
It Happened on Fifth Avenue: Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
Kiss of Death: Eleazar Lipsky
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman: Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER:
Miracle on 34th Street: George Seaton

NOMINEES:
Boomerang!: Richard Murphy
Crossfire: John Paxton
Gentleman's Agreement: Moss Hart
Great Expectations: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan

Best Cinematography, Color

WINNER:
Black Narcissus: Jack Cardiff

NOMINEES:
Life with Father: J. Peverell Marley, William V. Skall
Mother Wore Tights: Harry Jackson

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

WINNER:
Great Expectations: Guy Green

NOMINEES:
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Charles Lang
Green Dolphin Street: George J. Folsey

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

WINNER:
Great Expectations: John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton

NOMINEE:
The Foxes of Harrow: Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

WINNER:
Black Narcissus: Alfred Junge

NOMINEE:
Life with Father: Robert M. Haas, George James Hopkins

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER:
The Bishop's Wife: Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

NOMINEES:
Green Dolphin Street: Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)
T-Men: Jack Whitney (Sound Services Inc.)

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
Body and Soul: Francis D. Lyon, Robert Parrish

NOMINEES:
The Bishop's Wife: Monica Collingwood
Gentleman's Agreement: Harmon Jones
Green Dolphin Street: George White
Odd Man Out: Fergus McDonell

Best Effects, Special Effects

WINNER:
Green Dolphin Street: A. Arnold Gillespie (visual), Warren Newcombe (visual), Douglas Shearer (audible), Michael Steinore (audible)

NOMINEE:
Unconquered: Farciot Edouart (visual), Devereaux Jennings (visual), Gordon Jennings (visual), W. Wallace Kelley (visual), Paul K. Lerpae (visual), George Dutton (audible)

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
Song of the South: Allie Wrubel (music), Ray Gilbert (lyrics)
For the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".

NOMINEES:
The Time, the Place and the Girl: Arthur Schwartz (music), Leo Robin (lyrics)
For the song "A Gal in Calico".
The Perils of Pauline: Frank Loesser
For the song "I Wish I Didn't Love You So".
Good News: Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin, Roger Edens
For the song "Pass That Peace Pipe".
Mother Wore Tights: Josef Myrow (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics)
For the song "You Do".

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

WINNER:
Mother Wore Tights: Alfred Newman

NOMINEES:
Fiesta: Johnny Green
My Wild Irish Rose: Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
Road to Rio: Robert Emmett Dolan
Song of the South: Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

WINNER:
A Double Life: Miklós Rózsa

NOMINEES:
The Bishop's Wife: Hugo Friedhofer
Captain from Castile: Alfred Newman
Forever Amber: David Raksin
Life with Father: Max Steiner

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER:
Climbing the Matterhorn: Irving Allen

NOMINEES:
Champagne for Two: Harry Grey
Fight of the Wild Stallions: Thomas Mead
Give Us the Earth!: Herbert Morgan
A Voice Is Born: Ben K. Blake

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER:
Goodbye, Miss Turlock: Herbert Moulton

NOMINEES:
Brooklyn, U.S.A.: Thomas Mead
Moon Rockets: Jerry Fairbanks
Now You See It: Pete Smith
So You Want to Be in Pictures: Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER:
Tweetie Pie: Edward Selzer

NOMINEES:
Chip an' Dale: Walt Disney
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse: Fred Quimby
Pluto's Blue Note: Walt Disney
Tubby the Tuba: George Pal

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
First Steps: (United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education)

NOMINEES:
Passport to Nowhere: Frederic Ullman Jr.
School in the Mailbox: (Australian News and Information Bureau)

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
Design for Death: Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard Fleischer

NOMINEES:
Journey Into Medicine: (U.S. Dept. of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange)
The World Is Rich: Paul Rotha

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
Song of the South: James Baskett
For his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to the children of the world, in Walt Disney's Song of the South.
Bill and Coo
In which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures (plaque).
Shoeshine
Italy. The high quality of this Italian-made motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity.
William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat, George K. Spoor
(One of) the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium, and whose contributions to its development, blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to world-wide acclaim.

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
C.C. Davis (Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Co. Inc.)
For the development and application of an improved film drive filter mechanism.
C.R. Daily (Paramount Studio Film Laboratory, Still and Engineering Departments)
For the development and first practical applications to motion picture and still photography of a method of increasing film speed as first suggested to the industry by E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD)
For the design and construction of a constant-speed sound editing machine.
Farciot Edouart, C.R. Daily, Hal Corl, H.G. Cartwright (Paramount Studio Engineering and Transparency Departments)
For the first application of a special antisolarizing glass to high intensity background and spot arc projectors.
Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Studio)
For pioneering the fabrication and practical application to motion picture color photography of large translucent photographic backgrounds.
Kurt Singer (RCA-Victor Division of the Radio Corp. of America)
For the design and development of a continuously variable band elimination filter.
James Gibbons (Warner Bros. Studios)
For the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography.

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