19th Annual Academy Awards Results and Commentary (1947)

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• Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 13, 1947
• For films released in: 1946
• Host(s): Jack Benny

• Nominations List

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Jack Benny hosted the 19th Academy Awards when they were presented at the Shrine Auditorium on Thursday, March 13, 1947.

Moving to the Shrine allowed tickets to be sold to the public and for the first time the general public will able to witness Hollywood’s biggest night.

The Best Years of Our Lives and its post-war story took home seven of eight awards it was nominated for: Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Film Editing, Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture), and Best Writing (Screenplay).

Results

Best Motion Picture

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Best Directing

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  William Wyler

Best Actor

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Fredric March

Best Actress

• To Each His Own
  Olivia de Havilland

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Harold Russell

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• The Razor's Edge
  Anne Baxter

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Anna and the King of Siam
  Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], William Darling [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Interior Decoration] and Frank E. Hughes [Interior Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• The Yearling
  Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Paul Groesse [Art Direction] and Edwin B. Willis [Interior Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Anna and the King of Siam
  Arthur Miller

Best Cinematography (Color)

• The Yearling
  Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Seeds of Destiny
  United States Department of War

Best Film Editing

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Daniel Mandell

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Hugo Friedhofer

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• The Jolson Story
  Morris Stoloff

Best Music (Song)

• The Harvey Girls "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
  Harry Warren [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• The Cat Concerto
  Frederick Quimby

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Facing Your Danger
  Gordon Hollingshead

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• A Boy and His Dog
  Gordon Hollingshead

Best Sound Recording

• The Jolson Story
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• Blithe Spirit
  Thomas Howard [Special Visual Effects by]

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• The Seventh Veil
  Muriel Box and Sydney Box

Best Writing (Screenplay)

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Robert E. Sherwood

Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

• Vacation from Marriage
  Clemence Dane

Special Award

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

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Samuel Goldwyn

Scientific or Technical Award (Class III)

• Harlan L. Baumbach and Paramount West Coast Laboratory
  Note: …for an improved method for the quantitative determination of hydroquinone and metol in photographic developing baths.
• Herbert E. Britt
  Note: …for the development and application of formulas and equipment for producing cloud and smoke effects.
• Burton F. Miller and Warner Bros. Studio Sound and Electrical Departments
  Note: …for the design and construction of a motion picture arc lighting generator filter.
• Carl W. Faulkner [of 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department]
  Note: …for the reversed bias method, including a double bias method for light valve and galvonometer density recording.
• Mole-Richardson Company
  Note: …for the Type 450 super high intensity carbon arc lamp.
• Arthur F. Blinn, Robert O. Cook, C.O. Slyfield and Walt Disney Studio Sound Department
  Note: …for the design and development of an audio finder and track viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks.
• Burton F. Miller and Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
  Note: …for the design and application of an equalizer to eliminate relative spectral energy distortion in electronic compressors.
• Marty Martin [of the RKO Radio Studio Miniature Department] and Hal Adkins [of the RKO Radio Studio Miniature Department]
  Note: …for the design and construction of equipment providing visual bullet effects.
• Harold Nye and Warner Bros. Studio Electrical Department
  Note: …for the development of the electronically controlled fire and gaslight effect.