The 20th Cinema Awards for 1947 took place on March 20, 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium , Los Angeles , California .
| 20th Academy Award Ceremony | |
|---|---|
 Ronald Coleman , Edmund Gwenn , Loretta Young , Elia Kazan and Celeste Holm | |
| General information | |
| date | March 20, 1948 |
| Location | Shrine Auditorium , Los Angeles , USA |
| Leading | Agnes Moorhead and Dick Powell |
Content
Winners and Nominees
List of films that received several nominations:
| List of films that have received several awards:
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Winners are highlighted in a separate color.
| Categories | Laureates and nominees |
|---|---|
| Best movie | Gentlemen's Agreement - 20th Century Fox |
| Great Expectations - J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild | |
| Bishop 's Wife - Samuel Goldwyn Productions | |
| Crossfire - RKO Radio | |
| Miracle on 34th Street - 20th Century Fox | |
| Best Director | Elia Kazan - The Gentlemen's Agreement |
| George Cukor - Double Life | |
| Edward Dmitryk - Crossfire | |
| Henry Coster - “ The Bishop 's Wife ” | |
| David Lin - Great Expectations | |
| Best Actor | Ronald Coleman - Double Life |
| John Garfield - Body and Soul | |
| Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement | |
| William Powell - Life with a Father | |
| Michael Redgrave - “ Mourning for Electra ” | |
| Best Actress | Loretta Young - Farmer 's Daughter |
| Joan Crawford - " Obsessed " | |
| Susan Hayward - “ Disaster: A Woman's Story ” | |
| Dorothy McGuire - The Gentlemen's Agreement | |
| Rosalind Russell - " Mourning for Electra " | |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Edmund Gwenn - “The Miracle on 34th Street ” |
| Robert Ryan - Crossfire | |
| Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death | |
| Thomas Gomez - The Pink Horse | |
| Charles Bickford - Farmer 's Daughter | |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Celeste Holm - The Gentlemen's Agreement |
| Ethel Barrymore - The Paradine Affair | |
| Gloria Graham - Crossfire | |
| Marjorie Maine - Loser and Me | |
| Ann Revere - The Gentlemen's Agreement | |
| Best screenplay | “ Miracle on 34th Street ” - George Seaton |
| Great Expectations - David Lin , Ronald Nimes , Anthony Havelock-Allan | |
| “ Boomerang! »- Richard Murphy | |
| Gentlemen's Agreement - Moss Hart | |
| Crossfire - John Paxton | |
| Best original script | “The Bachelor and the Girl ” - Sidney Sheldon |
| Double Life - Ruth Gordon , Garson Kanin | |
| " Monsieur Verdu " - Charles Chaplin | |
| “ Body and Soul ” - Abraham Polonsky | |
| “ Shusha ” - Sergio Amidei , Adolfo Franchi, Cesare Guido Viola, Cesare Zavattini | |
| The best literary source | “ Miracle on 34th Street ” - Valentine Davis |
| “ The Nightingale 's Cage ” - Georges Chapro, Renee Wheeler | |
| “ Disaster: A Woman's Story ” - Dorothy Parker , Frank Cavett | |
| “ Kiss of Death ” - Eliazar Lipsky | |
| “ It Happened on Fifth Avenue ” - Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephanie | |
| Best Drama Music or comedy movie | " Double Life " - Miklos Rozha |
| Amber Forever - David Raxin | |
| “ Bishop 's Wife ” - Hugo Friedhofer | |
| Life with Father - Max Steiner | |
| “ Captain of Castilla ” - Alfred Newman | |
| Best Music Movie Music | “ Mom Was in Tights ” - Alfred Newman |
| The Road to Rio - Robert Emmett Dolan | |
| “ My Wild Irish Rose ” - Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner | |
| “ Song of the South ” - Daniel Amphitheater , Paul Smith, Charles Walcott | |
| Fiesta - Johnny Green | |
| Best Movie Song | “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” - “ Song of the South ”, music: Ellie Vrubel, lyrics: Ray Gilbert |
| “A Gal in Calico” - “ Time, Place and Girl ”, music: Arthur Schwartz, lyrics: Leo Robin | |
| “I Wish I Didn't Love You So” - “ Pauline ’s Misadventures ”, music and lyrics: Frank Lawsser | |
| “Pass That Peace Pipe” - “ Good News ”, music and lyrics: Ralph Blaine, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens | |
| “You Do” - “ Mom Was in Tights ”, music: Joseph Mirow, lyrics: Mack Gordon | |
| Best Cinematography in a Black and White Movie | Great Expectations - Guy Green |
| Green Dolphin Street - George Falsey | |
| The Phantom and Mrs. Muir - Charles Lang | |
| Best Cinematography in a Color Movie | Black Daffodil - Jack Cardiff |
| “ Mom Was in Tights ” - Harry Jackson | |
| “ Life with Father ” - J. Peverell Marley , William W. Skoll | |
| The best work of a production designer in a black and white film | Great Expectations - John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton |
| Harrow Foxes - Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox | |
| The best work of a production designer in color film | Black Daffodil - Alfred Jung |
| Life with a Father - Robert M. Haas, George James Hopkins | |
| Best installation | Body and Soul - Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish |
| Out of the Game Fergus McDonell | |
| The Gentlemen's Agreement - Harmon Jones | |
| “ Bishop 's Wife ” - Monica Collingwood | |
| Green Dolphin Street - George White | |
| Best sound | Bishop 's Wife - Gordon Sawyer , Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department |
| T-Men - Jack Whitney, Sound Service, Inc. | |
| Green Dolphin Street - Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department | |
| Top visual effects | Green Dolphin Street - Arnold Gilespie, Warren Newcom, Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinor |
| Undefeated - Fazio Edouard, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings , Wallace Kelly, Paul Lerpe, George Dutton | |
| The best fiction short film shot on one reel | “Good-Bye Miss Turlock” - Herbert Multon |
| Brooklyn, USA - Thomas Mead | |
| Moon Rockets - Jerry Fairbanks | |
| “Now You See It” - Pete Smith | |
| “So You Want to Be in Pictures” - Gordon Hollingshead | |
| The best fiction short film shot on two bobbins | “Climbing the Matterhorn” - Irving Allen |
| Champagne for Two - Harry Gray | |
| Fight of the Wild Stallions - Thomas Mead | |
| “Give Us the Earth” - Herbert Morgan | |
| “A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni” - Ben Blake | |
| Best Documentary Feature Film | “ Design for Death ” - Sid Rogell, Theron Worth, Richard Fleisher |
| Journey Into Medicine - United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange | |
| “ The World Is Rich ” - Paul Roth | |
| Best Documentary Short | "First Steps" |
| "Passport to Nowhere" | |
| "School in the Mailbox" | |
| Best animated short film | Tweetie Pie - Eddie Seltzer |
| " Chip An 'Dale " - Walt Disney | |
| " Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse ”- Fred Quimby | |
| Pluto's Blue Note - Walt Disney | |
| Tubby the Tuba - George Pal |
Special Awards
- Best Foreign Language Film - “ Shusha ” - Director Vittorio De Sica , Italy
- Distinguished Service Award
- Bill and coo
- James Baskett - for the kind-hearted image of Uncle Remus , skillfully recreated in the film “ Song of the South ”;
- Thomas Armat , William Nicholas Selig , Albert Edward Smith , George Kirk Spur
Scientific and Technical Achievement Award
Class II Award
- C.K. Davis and Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Company
- C. R. Daily and Paramount Studio Film Laboratory, Still and Engineering Departments
Class III Award
- Nathan Levinson and Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
- Fazio Edouard, C. R. Daily, Hal Corle, H. G. Cartwright and Paramount Studio Transparency and Engineering Departments
- Fred Poundel of Warner Bros. Studio
- Kurt Singer and RCA Victor Division of Radio Corporation of America
- James Gibbons of Warner Bros. Studio
Notes
Links
- The official website for the Academy Award . Archived February 16, 2012.
- Database of all nominees and winners (English) (inaccessible link) . Archived February 16, 2012.
- Oscar Film Award on the Internet Movie Database