1947

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1947 (20th)

ACTOR

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Ronald Colman — A Double Life {”Anthony John”}
 

John Garfield — Body and Soul {”Charlie Davis”}
 

Gregory Peck — Gentleman’s Agreement {”Phil Green”}
 

William Powell — Life with Father {”Clarence Day”}
 

Michael Redgrave — Mourning Becomes Electra {”Orin Mannon”}

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 

Charles Bickford — The Farmer’s Daughter {”Clancy”}
 

Thomas Gomez — Ride the Pink Horse {”Pancho”}
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Edmund Gwenn — Miracle on 34th Street {”Kris Kringle”}
 

Robert Ryan — Crossfire {”Montgomery”}
 

Richard Widmark — Kiss of Death {”Tommy Udo”}

ACTRESS

 

Joan Crawford — Possessed {”Louise Howell”}
 

Susan Hayward — Smash-Up–The Story of a Woman {”Angie”}
 

Dorothy McGuire — Gentleman’s Agreement {”Kathy”}
 

Rosalind Russell — Mourning Becomes Electra {”Lavinia Mannon”}
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Loretta Young — The Farmer’s Daughter {”Katrin Holstrom”}

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 

Ethel Barrymore — The Paradine Case {”Lady Sophie Horfield”}
 

Gloria Grahame — Crossfire {”Ginny Tremaine”}
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Celeste Holm — Gentleman’s Agreement {”Anne”}
 

Marjorie Main — The Egg and I {”Ma Kettle”}
 

Anne Revere — Gentleman’s Agreement {”Mrs. Green”}

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

 

The Foxes of Harrow — Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
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Great Expectations — Art Direction: John Bryan; Set Decoration: Wilfred Shingleton

ART DIRECTION (Color)

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Black Narcissus — Art Direction: Alfred Junge; Set Decoration: Alfred Junge
 

Life with Father — Art Direction: Robert M. Haas; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

 

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir — Charles Lang, Jr.
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Great Expectations — Guy Green
 

Green Dolphin Street — George Folsey

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

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Black Narcissus — Jack Cardiff
 

Life with Father — Peverell Marley, William V. Skall
 

Mother Wore Tights — Harry Jackson

DIRECTING

 

The Bishop’s Wife — Henry Koster
 

Crossfire — Edward Dmytryk
 

A Double Life — George Cukor
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Gentleman’s Agreement — Elia Kazan
 

Great Expectations — David Lean

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

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Design for Death — Sid Rogell, Executive Producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, Producers
 

Journey into Medicine — United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange
 

The World Is Rich — Paul Rotha, Producer

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

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First Steps — United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
 

Passport to Nowhere — Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
 

School in the Mailbox — Australian News & Information Bureau

FILM EDITING

 

The Bishop’s Wife — Monica Collingwood
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Body and Soul — Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
 

Gentleman’s Agreement — Harmon Jones
 

Green Dolphin Street — George White
 

Odd Man Out — Fergus McDonell

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

 

The Bishop’s Wife — Hugo Friedhofer
 

Captain from Castile — Alfred Newman
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A Double Life — Dr. Miklos Rozsa
 

Forever Amber — David Raksin
 

Life with Father — Max Steiner

MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

 

Fiesta — Johnny Green
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Mother Wore Tights — Alfred Newman
 

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

MUSIC (Song)

 

“A Gal in Calico” from The Time, the Place and the Girl — Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Leo Robin
 

“I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” from The Perils of Pauline — Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
 

“Pass That Peace Pipe” from Good News — Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Roger Edens and Hugh Martin
 

“You Do” from Mother Wore Tights — Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
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“Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” from Song of the South — Music by Allie Wrubel; Lyrics by Ray Gilbert

BEST MOTION PICTURE

 

The Bishop’s Wife — Samuel Goldwyn Productions
 

Crossfire — RKO Radio
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Gentleman’s Agreement — 20th Century-Fox
 

Great Expectations — J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
 

Miracle on 34th Street — 20th Century-Fox

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

 

Chip An’ Dale — Walt Disney, Producer
 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse — Frederick Quimby, Producer
 

Pluto’s Blue Note — Walt Disney, Producer
 

Tubby the Tuba — George Pal, Producer
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Tweetie Pie — Edward Selzer, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel)

 

Brooklyn, U.S.A. — Thomas Mead, Producer
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Good-bye Miss Turlock — Herbert Moulton, Producer
 

Moon Rockets — Jerry Fairbanks, Producer
 

Now You See It — Pete Smith, Producer
 

So You Want to Be in Pictures — Gordon Hollingshead, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel)

 

Champagne for Two — Harry Grey, Producer
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Climbing the Matterhorn — Irving Allen, Producer
 

Fight of the Wild Stallions — Thomas Mead, Producer
 

Give Us the Earth — Herbert Morgan, Producer
 

A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni — Ben Blake, Producer

SOUND RECORDING

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The Bishop’s Wife — Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
 

Green Dolphin Street — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
 

T-Men — Sound Service, Inc., Jack R. Whitney, Sound Director

SPECIAL EFFECTS

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Green Dolphin Street — Special Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects by Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore
 

Unconquered — Special Visual Effects by Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley, Paul Lerpae; Special Audible Effects by George Dutton

WRITING (Motion Picture Story)

 

A Cage of Nightingales — Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
 

It Happened on Fifth Avenue — Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
 

Kiss of Death — Eleazar Lipsky
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Miracle on 34th Street — Valentine Davies
 

Smash-Up–The Story of a Woman — Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett

WRITING (Original Screenplay)

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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer — Sidney Sheldon
 

Body and Soul — Abraham Polonsky
 

A Double Life — Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
 

Monsieur Verdoux — Charles Chaplin
 

Shoe-Shine — Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini

WRITING (Screenplay)

 

Boomerang! — Richard Murphy
 

Crossfire — John Paxton
 

Gentleman’s Agreement — Moss Hart
 

Great Expectations — David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
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Miracle on 34th Street — George Seaton

SPECIAL AWARD

* To 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.’
* To ‘Bill and Coo,’ in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures.
* To ‘Shoe-Shine’ - the high quality of this 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.
* To Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and 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.

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)

* To C. C. DAVIS and ELECTRICAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS DIVISION OF WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY for the development and application of an improved film drive filter mechanism. [Projection]
* To C. R. DAILY and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO FILM LABORATORY, STILL and ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS for the development and first practical application 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 & Company. [Laboratory]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)

* To NATHAN LEVINSON and the WARNER BROS. STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and construction of a constant-speed sound editing machine. [Sound]
* To FARCIOT EDOUART, C. R. DAILY, HAL CORL, H. G. CARTWRIGHT and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY and ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS for the first application of a special anti-solarizing glass to high-intensity background and spot arc projectors. [Lighting]
* To FRED PONEDEL of Warner Bros. Studio for pioneering the fabrication and practical application to motion picture color photography of large translucent photographic backgrounds. [Special Photographic]
* To KURT SINGER and the RCA VICTOR DIVISION OF RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA for the design and development of a continuously variable band-elimination filter. [Sound]
* To JAMES GIBBONS of Warner Bros. Studio for the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography. [Lighting]