The 19th Academy Awards (1946): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
8 7 6 5 5 4 4 4 3	The Best Years of Our Lives The Yearling The Jolson Story Anna and the King of Siam It's a Wonderful Life Henry V The Killers The Razor's Edge Brief Encounter	7 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	The Best Years of Our Lives Anna and the King of Siam The Jolson Story The Yearling Blithe Spirit A Boy and His Dog The Cat Concerto Facing Your Danger The Harvey Girls The Razor's Edge Seeds of Destiny The Seventh Veil Vacation from Marriage
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Motion Picture)

• The Best Years of Our Lives - Samuel Goldwyn Productions
• Henry V - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
• It's a Wonderful Life - Liberty Films
• The Razor's Edge - 20th Century-Fox
• The Yearling - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

DIRECTING

• The Best Years of Our Lives - William Wyler
• Brief Encounter - David Lean
• It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra
• The Killers - Robert Siodmak
• The Yearling - Clarence Brown

ACTOR

• Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
• Laurence Olivier - Henry V
• Larry Parks - The Jolson Story
• Gregory Peck - The Yearling
• James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life

ACTRESS

• Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own
• Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter
• Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun
• Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny
• Jane Wyman - The Yearling

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Charles Coburn - The Green Years
• William Demarest - The Jolson Story
• Claude Rains - Notorious
• Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
• Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase
• Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge
• Lillian Gish - Duel in the Sun
• Flora Robson - Saratoga Trunk
• Gale Sondergaard - Anna and the King of Siam

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• The Blue Dahlia - Raymond Chandler
• Children of Paradise - Jacques Prevert
• Notorious - Ben Hecht
• Road to Utopia - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
• The Seventh Veil - Muriel Box, Sydney Box

SCREENPLAY

• Anna and the King of Siam - Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson
• The Best Years of Our Lives - Robert E. Sherwood
• Brief Encounter - David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
• The Killers - Anthony Veiller
• Open City - Sergio Amidei, F. Fellini

ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE STORY

• The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Jack Patrick
• The Stranger - Victor Trivas
• To Each His Own - Charles Brackett
• Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane

SONG

• "All Through the Day" - Centennial Summer - Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
• "I Can't Begin to Tell You" - The Dolly Sisters - Music by James Monaco; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
• "Ole Buttermilk Sky" - Canyon Passage - Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Lyrics by Jack Brooks
• "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" - The Harvey Girls - Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
• "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" - Blue Skies - Music, Lyrics by Irving Berlin

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• Anna and the King of Siam - Bernard Herrmann
• The Best Years of Our Lives - Hugo Friedhofer
• Henry V - William Walton
• Humoresque - Franz Waxman
• The Killers - Miklos Rozsa

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

• Blue Skies - Robert Emmett Dolan
• Centennial Summer - Alfred Newman
• The Harvey Girls - Lennie Hayton
• The Jolson Story - Morris Stoloff
• Night and Day - Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner

FILM EDITING

• The Best Years of Our Lives - Daniel Mandell
• It's a Wonderful Life - William Hornbeck
• The Jolson Story - William Lyon
• The Killers - Arthur Hilton
• The Yearling - Harold Kress

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

• Anna and the King of Siam - Arthur Miller
• The Green Years - George Folsey

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

• The Jolson Story - Joseph Walker
• The Yearling - Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, Arthur Arling

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

• Anna and the King of Siam - Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, William Darling; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
• Kitty - Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer
• The Razor's Edge - Art Direction: Richard Day, Nathan Juran; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox

ART DIRECTION (Color)

• Caesar and Cleopatra - John Bryan
• Henry V - Art Direction: Paul Sheriff, Carmen Dillon
• The Yearling - Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis

SOUND RECORDING

• The Best Years of Our Lives - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer (Sound Director)
• It's a Wonderful Life - RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg (Sound Director)
• The Jolson Story - Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary (Sound Director)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Blithe Spirit - Special Visual Effects by Thomas Howard
• A Stolen Life - Special Visual Effects by William McGann; Special Audible Effects by Nathan Levinson

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Atomic Power - The March of Time
• Life at the Zoo - Artkino
• Paramount News Issue #37 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue! 1927.....1947) - Paramount
• Seeds of Destiny - United States Department of War
• Traffic with the Devil - Herbert Morgan

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• The Cat Concerto - Frederick Quimby
• Chopin's Musical Moments - Walter Lantz
• John Henry and the Inky Poo - George Pal
• Squatter's Rights - Walt Disney
• Walky Talky Hawky - Edward Selzer

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

• Dive-Hi Champs - Jack Eaton
• Facing Your Danger - Gordon Hollingshead
• Golden Horses - Edmund Reek
• Smart as a Fox - Gordon Hollingshead
• Sure Cures - Pete Smith

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

• A Boy and His Dog - Gordon Hollingshead
• College Queen - George B. Templeton
• Hiss and Yell - Jules White
• The Luckiest Guy in the World - Jerry Bresler

SPECIAL AWARDS

• To Claude Jarman Jr., outstanding child actor of 1946.
• To Ernst Lubitsch for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture.
• To Harold Russell for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives.
• To Laurence Olivier for his outstanding achievement as actor and director in bringing Henry V to the screen.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

• Samuel Goldwyn

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To HARLAN L. BAUMBACH and the PARAMOUNT WEST COAST LABORATORY for an improved method for the quantitative determination of hydroquinone and metol in photographic developing baths. [Laboratory]
• To BURTON F. MILLER and the WARNER BROS. STUDIO SOUND and ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENTS for the design and construction of a motion picture arc lighting generator filter. [Lighting]
• To the MOLE-RICHARDSON COMPANY for the Type 450 super high intensity carbon arc lamp. [Lighting]
• To ARTHUR F. BLINN, ROBERT O. COOK, C. O. SLYFIELD and the WALT DISNEY STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and development of an audio finder and track viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks. [Sound]
• To BURTON F. MILLER and the WARNER BROS. STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and application of an equalizer to eliminate relative spectral energy distortion in electronic compressors. [Sound]
• To CARL FAULKNER of the 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department for the reversed bias method, including a double bias method for light valve and galvonometer density recording. [Sound]
• To HAROLD NYE and the WARNER BROS. STUDIO ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT for the development of the electronically controlled fire and gaslight effect. [Stage Operations]
• To HERBERT E. BRITT for the development and application of formulas and equipment for producing cloud and smoke effects. [Stage Operations]
• To MARTY MARTIN and HAL ADKINS of the RKO Radio Studio Miniature Department for the design and construction of equipment providing visual bullet effects. [Stage Operations]