The 20th Academy Awards (1947): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
8 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3	Gentleman's Agreement The Bishop's Wife Crossfire Great Expectations A Double Life Green Dolphin Street Life with Father Miracle on 34th Street Body and Soul Mother Wore Tights	3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Gentleman's Agreement Miracle on 34th Street Black Narcissus A Double Life Great Expectations The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer The Bishop's Wife Body and Soul Climbing the Matterhorn Design for Death The Farmer's Daughter First Steps Good-bye Miss Turlock Green Dolphin Street Mother Wore Tights Song of the South Tweetie Pie
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 Bishop's Wife - Samuel Goldwyn Productions
• Crossfire - RKO Radio
• Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox
• Great Expectations - J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
• Miracle on 34th Street - 20th Century-Fox

DIRECTING

• The Bishop's Wife - Henry Koster
• Crossfire - Edward Dmytryk
• A Double Life - George Cukor
• Gentleman's Agreement - Elia Kazan
• Great Expectations - David Lean

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

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

SUPPORTING ACTOR (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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (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

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• 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

SCREENPLAY

• Boomerang! - Richard Murphy
• Crossfire - John Paxton
• Gentleman's Agreement - Moss Hart
• Great Expectations - David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
• Miracle on 34th Street - George Seaton

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
• Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
• Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman - Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett

SONG

• "A Gal in Calico" - The Time, the Place and the Girl - Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Leo Robin
• "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" - The Perils of Pauline - Music, Lyrics by Frank Loesser
• "Pass That Peace Pipe" - Good News - Music, Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Roger Edens, Hugh Martin
• "You Do" - Mother Wore Tights - Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
• "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" - Song of the South - Music by Allie Wrubel; Lyrics by Ray Gilbert

MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• The Bishop's Wife - Hugo Friedhofer
• Captain from Castile - Alfred Newman
• A Double Life - Dr. Miklos Rozsa
• Forever Amber - David Raksin
• Life with Father - Max Steiner

SCORING OF A MUSICAL PICTURE

• Fiesta - Johnny Green
• 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

FILM EDITING

• The Bishop's Wife - Monica Collingwood
• Body and Soul - Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
• Gentleman's Agreement - Harmon Jones
• Green Dolphin Street - George White
• Odd Man Out - Fergus McDonell

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Charles Lang Jr.
• Great Expectations - Guy Green
• Green Dolphin Street - George Folsey

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

• Black Narcissus - Jack Cardiff
• Life with Father - Peverell Marley, William V. Skall
• Mother Wore Tights - Harry Jackson

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

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

ART DIRECTION (Color)

• Black Narcissus - Art Direction: Alfred Junge; Set Decoration: Alfred Junge
• Life with Father - Art Direction: Robert M. Haas; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins

SOUND RECORDING

• 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

• 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

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Design for Death - Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard O. Fleischer
• Journey into Medicine - United States Department of State Office of Information, Educational Exchange
• The World Is Rich - Paul Rotha

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• First Steps - United Nations Division of Films, Visual Information
• Passport to Nowhere - Frederic Ullman Jr.
• School in the Mailbox - Australian News & Information Bureau

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• Chip An' Dale - Walt Disney
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse - Frederick Quimby
• Pluto's Blue Note - Walt Disney
• Tubby the Tuba - George Pal
• Tweetie Pie - Edward Selzer

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

• Brooklyn, U.S.A. - Thomas Mead
• Good-bye Miss Turlock - Herbert Moulton
• Moon Rockets - Jerry Fairbanks
• Now You See It - Pete Smith
• So You Want to Be in Pictures - Gordon Hollingshead

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

• Champagne for Two - Harry Grey
• Climbing the Matterhorn - Irving Allen
• Fight of the Wild Stallions - Thomas Mead
• Give Us the Earth - Herbert Morgan
• A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni - Ben Blake

SPECIAL AWARDS

• To Bill and Coo, in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures.
• 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.
• 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 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.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• 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]
• 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]

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

• 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 JAMES GIBBONS of Warner Bros. Studio for the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography. [Lighting]
• 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 NATHAN LEVINSON and the WARNER BROS. STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and construction of a constant-speed sound editing machine. [Sound]
• 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]