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1947 Academy Awards

The 1947 Academy Awards were presented March 20, 1948 at the Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles.

Best Motion Picture

The Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio)

Crossfire (RKO Radio)

Gentleman's Agreement (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Great Expectations (J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild; Universal-International)

Miracle on 34th Street (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Best Actor

Ronald Colman, A Double Life

John Garfield, Body and Soul

Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement

William Powell, Life With Father

Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra

Best Actress

Joan Crawford, Possessed

Susan Hayward, Smash Up—The Story of a Woman

Dorothy McGuire, Gentleman's Agreement

Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra

Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter

Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter

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Actor in a Supporting Role

Charles Bickford, The Farmer's Daughter

Thomas Gomez, Ride the Pink Horse

Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street

Robert Ryan, Crossfire

Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death

Actress in a Supporting Role

Ethel Barrymore, The Paradine Case

Gloria Grahame, Crossfire

Celeste Holm, Gentleman's Agreement

Marjorie Main, The Egg and I

Anne Revere, Gentleman's Agreement

Directing

George Cukor, A Double Life

Edward Dmytryk, Crossfire

Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement

Henry Koster, The Bishop's Wife

David Lean, Great Expectations

Writing

Original Motion Picture Story	Georges Chaperot and Rene Wheeler, A Cage of Nightingales
	Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani, It Happened on Fifth Avenue
	Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street
	Eleazar Lipsky, Kiss of Death
	Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett, Smash Up—The Story of a Woman
Original Screenplay	Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola and Cesare Zavattini, Shoeshine
	Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux
	Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, A Double Life
	Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul
	Sidney Sheldon, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Screenplay	Moss Hart, Gentleman's Agreement
	David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, Great Expectations
	Richard Murphy, Boomerang!
	John Paxton, Crossfire
	George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street

Cinematography

Black-and-White	George Folsey, Green Dolphin Street
	Guy Green, Great Expectations
	Charles Lang, Jr., The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Color	Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus
	Harry Jackson, Mother Wore Tights
	Peverell Marley and William V. Skall, Life With Father

Art Direction

Black-and-White	John Bryan, art direction; Wilfred Shingleton, set decoration, Great Expectations
	Lyle Wheeler and Maurice Ransford, art direction; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, The Foxes of Harrow
Color	Robert M. Haas, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Life With Father
	Alfred Junge, art direction and set decoration, Black Narcissus

Sound Recording

Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, The Bishop's Wife

MGM Studio Sound Department, Green Dolphin Street

Sound Service, Inc., T-Men

Music

Song	“A Gal in Calico,” The Time, the Place and the Girl, Arthur Schwartz, music; Leo Robin, lyrics
	“I Wish I Didn't Love You So,” The Perils of Pauline, Frank Loesser, music and lyrics
	“Pass That Peace Pipe,” Good News, Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens, music and lyrics
	“You Do,” Mother Wore Tights, Josef Myrow, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics
	*“Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” Song of the South, Allie Wrubel, music; Ray Gilbert, lyrics*
Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Hugo Friedhofer, The Bishop's Wife
	Alfred Newman, Captain From Castile
	David Raksin, Forever Amber
	Miklos Rozsa, A Double Life
	Max Steiner, Life With Father
Scoring of a Musical Picture	Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott, Song of the South
	Robert Emmett Dolan, Road to Rio
	Johnny Green, Fiesta
	Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner, My Wild Irish Rose
	Alfred Newman, Mother Wore Tights

Film Editing

Monica Collingwood, The Bishop's Wife

Harmon Jones, Gentleman's Agreement

Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish, Body and Soul

Fergus McDonnell, Odd Man Out

George White, Green Dolphin Street

Special Effects

Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae, visual; George Dutton, audible, Unconquered

A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe, visual; Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore, audible, Green Dolphin Street

Short Subjects

Cartoon	Chip an' Dale (Donald Duck Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM)
	Pluto's Blue Note (Pluto Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
	Tubby the Tuba (George Pal Puppetoon Series) (George Pal, producer; Paramount)
	Tweetie Pie (Merrie Melodies Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.)
One-Reel	Brooklyn, U.S.A. (Variety View Series) (Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International)
	Goodbye Miss Turlock (John Nesbitt Passing Parade Series) (Herbert Moulton, producer; MGM)
	Moon Rockets (Popular Science Series) (Jerry Fairbanks, producer; Paramount)
	Now You See It (Pete Smith Specialty Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM)
	So You Want to Be in Pictures (Joe McDoakes Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.)
Two-Reel	Champagne for Two (Musical Parade Featurette Series) (Harry Grey, producer; Paramount)
	Climbing the Matterhorn (Color Series) (Irving Allen, producer; Monogram)
	Fight of the Wild Stallions (Featurette Series) (Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International)
	Give Us the Earth (Herbert Morgan, producer; MGM)
	A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni (Musical Featurette Series) (Ben Blake, producer; Columbia)

Documentary

Short Subject	First Steps (United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education)
	Passport to Nowhere (This Is America Series) (Frederic Ullman, Jr., producer; RKO Pathé)
	School in the Mailbox (Australian News and Information Bureau)
Feature	Design for Death (Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, producers; RKO Radio)
	Journey Into Medicine (U.S. State Department Office of Information and Educational Exchange)
	The World Is Rich (Paul Rotha, producer; British Information Services)

Special Awards

To James Baskett for his able and heartwarming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and storyteller 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 Shoeshine, 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, 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 worldwide acclaim

1948 Academy Awards

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