The Complete Oscar Quest: 20th Academy Awards (1947)
1947
Best Picture
- The Bishop’s Wife
- Crossfire
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- Great Expectations
- Miracle on 34th Street
Best Director
- George Cukor, A Double Life
- Edward Dmytryk, Crossfire
- Elia Kazan, Gentleman’s Agreement
- Henry Koster, The Bishop’s Wife
- David Lean, Great Expectations
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
Best Supporting Actor
- 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
Best Supporting Actress
- Ethel Barrymore, The Paradine Case
- Gloria Grahame, Crossfire
- Celeste Holm, Gentleman’s Agreement
- Marjorie Main, The Egg and I
- Anne Revere, Gentleman’s Agreement
Best Original Screenplay
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- Body and Soul
- A Double Life
- Monsieur Verdoux
- Shoeshine
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Boomerang!
- Crossfire
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- Great Expectations
- Miracle on 34th Street
Best Story
- A Cage of Nightingales
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- Kiss of Death
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
Best Editing
- The Bishop’s Wife
- Body and Soul
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- Green Dolphin Street
- Odd Man Out
Best Cinematography, Black and White
- Great Expectations
- Green Dolphin Street
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Best Cinematography, Color
- Black Narcissus
- Life with Father
- Mother Wore Tights
Best Dramatic or Comedy Score
- The Bishop’s Wife
- Captain from Castile
- A Double Life
- Forever Amber
- Life with Father
Best Musical Score
- Fiesta
- Mother Wore Tights
- My Wild Irish Rose
- Road to Rio
- Song of the South
Best Original Song
- “A Gal in Calico,” from The Time, the Place and the Girl
- “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So,” from The Perils of Pauline
- “Pass That Peace Pipe,” from Good News
- “You Do,” from Mother Wore Tights
- “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” from Song of the South
Best Art Direction, Black and White
- The Foxes of Harrow
- Great Expectations
Best Art Direction, Color
- Black Narcissus
- Life with Father
Best Special Effects
- Green Dolphin Street
- Unconquered
Best Sound Recording
- The Bishop’s Wife
- Green Dolphin Street
- T-Men
Best Documentary
- Design for Death
- Journey Into Medicine
- The World Is Rich
Best Documentary Short
- First Steps
- Passport to Nowhere
- School in the Mailbox
Best Live-Action Short, One-Reel
- Brooklyn, U.S.A.
- Goodbye Miss Turlock
- Moon Rockets
- Now You See It
- So You Want to Be in Pictures
Best Live-Action Short, Two-Reel
- Champagne for Two
- Climbing the Matterhorn
- Fight of the Wild Stallions
- Give Us the Earth
- A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni
Best Animated Short
- Chip an’ Dale
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
- Pluto’s Blue Note
- Tubby the Tuba
- Tweetie Pie
Total List of Films Nominated:
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- The Bishop’s Wife
- Black Narcissus
- Body and Soul
- Boomerang!
- A Cage of Nightingales
- Captain from Castile
- Crossfire
- A Double Life
- The Egg and I
- The Farmer’s Daughter
- Fiesta
- Forever Amber
- The Foxes of Harrow
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- Good News
- Great Expectations
- Green Dolphin Street
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- Kiss of Death
- Life with Father
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Mother Wore Tights
- Monsieur Verdoux
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- My Wild Irish Rose
- Odd Man Out
- The Paradine Case
- The Perils of Pauline
- Possessed
- Ride the Pink Horse
- Road to Rio
- Shoeshine
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
- Song of the South
- The Time, the Place and the Girl
- T-Men
- Unconquered
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