Academy Award 1947 (march 13, 1947)

the academy award is the most prestigious and oldest film award, awarded since 1929 by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences (ampas), an honorary professional organization made up of people who have worked in the world of cinema.

Edition number 19 of the event; awards assigned:

Best Motion Picture

poster del film the best years of our lives

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Samuel Goldwyn

nominations for the movie :

it's a wonderful life
Assigned to
Frank Capra

The Razor's Edge

the yearling
Assigned to
Sidney A. Franklin

poster del film The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Assigned to
Laurence Olivier

Best Achievement in Directing

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
William Wyler

nominations for the movie :

it's a wonderful life
Assigned to
Frank Capra

the killers
Assigned to
Robert Siodmak

the yearling
Assigned to
Clarence Brown

Brief Encounter
Assigned to
David Lean

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

for the movie perfect strangers

nominations for the movie :

the dark mirror

to each his own
Assigned to
Charles Brackett

the strange love of martha ivers

The Stranger

Best Original Screenplay

for the movie the seventh veil
Assigned to
Sydney Box, Muriel Box

nominations for the movie :

Children of Paradise
Assigned to
Jacques Prevert

The Blue Dahlia
Assigned to
Raymond Chandler

notorius
Assigned to
Ben Hecht

Road to Utopia
Assigned to
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama

Best Adapted Screenplay

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Robert E. Sherwood

nominations for the movie :

the killers
Assigned to
Anthony Veiller

Rome, Open City
Assigned to
Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini

Brief Encounter
Assigned to
Anthony Havelock allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame

anna and the king of siam
Assigned to
Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings

Best Actor in a Leading Role

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Fredric March

nominations for the movie :

it's a wonderful life
Assigned to
James Stewart

the yearling
Assigned to
Gregory Peck

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Assigned to
Laurence Olivier

the jolson story
Assigned to
Larry Parks

Best Actress in a Leading Role

for the movie to each his own
Assigned to
Olivia De Havilland

nominations for the movie :

the yearling
Assigned to
Jane Wyman

duel in the sun
Assigned to
Jennifer Jones

Brief Encounter
Assigned to
Celia Johnson

sister kenny
Assigned to
Rosalind Russell

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Harold Russell

nominations for the movie :

The Razor's Edge

notorius
Assigned to
Claude Rains

the jolson story
Assigned to
William Demarest

The Green Years
Assigned to
Charles Coburn

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

for the movie The Razor's Edge

nominations for the movie :

the spiral staircase
Assigned to
Ethel Barrymore

duel in the sun
Assigned to
Lillian Gish

anna and the king of siam
Assigned to
Gale Sondergaard

Best Cinematography, Color

for the movie the yearling
Assigned to
Charles Rosher, Arthur E.arling, Leonard M. Smith

nominations for the movie :

the jolson story
Assigned to
Joseph Walker

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

for the movie anna and the king of siam
Assigned to
Arthur Miller

nominations for the movie :

The Green Years
Assigned to
George J. Folsey

Best Music, Original Comedy Score

for the movie the jolson story
Assigned to
Morris Stoloff

nominations for the movie :

centennial summer
Assigned to
Alfred Newman

night and day
Assigned to
Max Steiner, Ray Heindorf

blue skies
Assigned to
Robert Emmett Dolan

the harvey girls
Assigned to
Lennie Hayton

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Hugo Friedhofer

nominations for the movie :

the killers
Assigned to
Miklos Rozsa

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Assigned to
William Walton

anna and the king of siam
Assigned to
Bernard Herrmann

Humoresque
Assigned to
Franz Waxman

Best Editing

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Daniel Mandell

nominations for the movie :

it's a wonderful life
Assigned to
William Hornbeck

the killers
Assigned to
Arthur Hilton

the yearling
Assigned to
Harold F. Kress

the jolson story
Assigned to
William A. Lyon

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

for the movie the yearling
Assigned to
Edwin B. Willis, Paul Groesse, Cedric Gibbons

nominations for the movie :

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Assigned to
Carmen Dillon, Paul Sheriff

caesar and cleopatra
Assigned to
John Bryan

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

for the movie anna and the king of siam
Assigned to
William Darling, Frank E. Hughes, Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little

nominations for the movie :

The Razor's Edge

Kitty
Assigned to
Hans Dreier, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

Best Sound

for the movie the jolson story
Assigned to
John P.livadary

nominations for the movie :

it's a wonderful life
Assigned to
John O.aalberg

the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Gordon E. Sawyer

Best Special Effects

for the movie blithe spirit
Assigned to
Thomas Howard

nominations for the movie :

A Stolen Life
Assigned to
Nathan Levinson, William Mcgann

Best Original Song

for the movie the harvey girls
Assigned to
Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer

nominations for the movie :

centennial summer
Assigned to
Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Jerome Kern

blue skies
Assigned to
Irving Berlin

canyon passage
Assigned to
Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Brooks

the dolly sisters
Assigned to
James V. Monaco, Mack Gordon

Special Award

for the movie the best years of our lives
Assigned to
Harold Russell

for the movie The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Assigned to
Laurence Olivier

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Academy Award 1947 (march 13, 1947)

the academy award is the most prestigious and oldest film award, awarded since 1929 by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences (ampas), an honorary professional organization made up of people who have worked in the world of cinema.

Edition number 19 of the event; awards assigned: