The 19th Academy Awards were held on March 13, 1947, honoring the films of 1946. The top awards portion of the ceremony was hosted by Jack Benny.

19th Academy Awards
DateMarch 13, 1947
SiteShrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hosted byJack Benny
Highlights
Best PictureThe Best Years of Our Lives
Most awardsThe Best Years of Our Lives (7)
Most nominationsThe Best Years of Our Lives (8)

The Best Years of Our Lives won seven of its eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and both male acting Oscars. The Academy awarded Harold Russell—a World War II veteran who had lost both hands in the war—an Honorary Academy Award for "bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans" for his role as Homer Parrish, believing that, as a non-actor, he would not win the Best Supporting Actor award for which he was nominated. Russell also won the competitive award, making him the only person in Academy history to receive two Oscars for the same performance.

When Olivia de Havilland won the Best Actress Oscar, her sister, Joan Fontaine, attempted to shake her hand, but she refused the handshake, saying "I don't know why she does that when she knows how I feel."[1]

This was the first time since the 2nd Academy Awards that every category had, at most, five nominations.

Winners and nominees edit

Samuel Goldwyn; Best Picture winner
William Wyler; Best Director winner
Fredric March; Best Actor winner
Olivia de Havilland; Best Actress winner
Harold Russell; Best Supporting Actor winner and Honorary Academy Award recipient
Anne Baxter; Best Supporting Actress winner
Robert E. Sherwood; Best Screenplay winner
Winifred Ashton (as Clemence Dane); Best Story winner
Johnny Mercer; Best Original Song co-winner
Cedric Gibbons; Best Art Direction, Color co-winner
Charles Rosher; Best Cinematography, Color co-winner
Laurence Olivier; Honorary Academy Award recipient
Ernst Lubitsch; Honorary Academy Award recipient

Awards edit

Nominees were announced on February 9, 1947. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[2]

Best Motion Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Screenplay
Best Motion Picture Story Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel
Best Short Subject – Cartoons Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture Best Original Song
Best Sound Recording Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Color Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Cinematography, Color Best Film Editing
Best Special Effects

Academy Honorary Awards edit

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award edit

Academy Juvenile Award edit

Presenters and performers edit

Presenters edit

(in order of appearance)[4]

  • Jean Hersholt (Presenter: Academy Honorary Award to Laurence Olivier)
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Presenter: Best Documentary Short Subject, Best Live Action Short Subject-One-Reel, Best Live Action Short Subject-Two-Reel, Best Short Subject-Cartoons, and Scientific & Technical Awards)
  • Rex Harrison (Presenter: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Recording, and Best Special Effects)
  • Lana Turner (Presenter: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
  • Greer Garson (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration-Black-and-White and Best Art Direction–Interior Decoration-Color)
  • Ann Sheridan (Presenter: Best Cinematography-Black-and-White and Best Cinematography-Color)
  • Van Johnson (Presenter: Best Original Song)
  • Robert Montgomery (Presenter: Best Motion Picture Story, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Screenplay)
  • Shirley Temple (Presenter: Academy Juvenile Award to Claude Jarman Jr. and Academy Honorary Award to Harold Russell)
  • Mervyn LeRoy (Presenter: Academy Honorary Award to Ernst Lubitsch)
  • Ronald Reagan (Presenter: Academy Cavalcade of Past Oscar Winners and Academy Parade of Stars)
  • Billy Wilder (Presenter: Best Director)
  • Eric Johnston (Presenter: Best Motion Picture)
  • Donald Nelson (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Samuel Goldwyn)
  • Anne Revere (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
  • Lionel Barrymore (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
  • Joan Fontaine (Presenter: Best Actor)
  • Ray Milland (Presenter: Best Actress)

Performers edit

Multiple nominations and awards edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 837. ISBN 0-385-04060-1.
  2. ^ "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  3. ^ "19th Academy Awards Winners | Oscar Legacy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2015. Open City on 19th Oscars website
  4. ^ "Academy Award Ceremony 1947". YouTube. SuperNoava. May 29, 2020. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  5. ^ Jack Benny - JB 1947-03-16 Jack's New Quartet, retrieved April 9, 2023