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1947 (20th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1947 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

Winner markerGentleman’s Agreement, 20th Century-Fox.

Best Actor

Winner markerRonald Colman in A Double Life, Kanin Productions; Universal-International.

Best Actress

Winner markerLoretta Young in The Farmer’s Daughter, RKO Radio.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner markerEdmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street, 20th Century-Fox.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner markerCeleste Holm in Gentleman’s Agreement, 20th Century-Fox.

Directing

Winner markerGentleman’s Agreement, 20th Century-Fox. Elia Kazan.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerGreat Expectations, J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild; Universal-International. (UK) Art direction by John Bryan; set decoration by Wilfred Shingleton.

(Color)

Winner markerBlack Narcissus, J. Arthur Rank-Archers; Universal-International. (UK) Art direction by Alfred Junge; set decoration by Alfred Junge.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Winner markerGreat Expectations, J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild; Universal-International. (UK) Guy Green.

(Color)

Winner markerBlack Narcissus, J. Arthur Rank-Archers; Universal-International. (UK) Jack Cardiff.

Documentary

(Feature)

Winner markerDesign for Death, RKO Radio. Sid Rogell, Executive Producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, Producers.

(Short Subject)

Winner markerFirst Steps, United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information. (Canada)

Film Editing

Winner markerBody and Soul, Enterprise Productions; United Artists. Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Winner markerA Double Life, Kanin Productions; Universal-International. Dr. Miklos Rozsa.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Winner markerMother Wore Tights, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.

(Song)

Winner markerZip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. Music by Allie Wrubel; lyrics by Ray Gilbert.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Winner markerTweetie Pie, Warner Bros. [Merrie Melodies Series] Edward Selzer, Producer.

(One-reel)

Winner markerGood-Bye Miss Turlock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [John Nesbitt Passing Parade Series] Herbert Moulton, Producer.

(Two-reel)

Winner markerClimbing the Matterhorn, Monogram. [Color Series] Irving Allen, Producer.

Sound Recording

Winner markerThe Bishop’s Wife, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Winner markerGreen Dolphin Street, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Special visual effects by A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; special audible effects by Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore.

Writing

(Motion Picture Story)

Winner markerMiracle on 34th Street, 20th Century-Fox. Valentine Davies.

(Original Screenplay)

Winner markerThe Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, RKO Radio. Sidney Sheldon.

(Screenplay)

Winner markerMiracle on 34th Street, 20th Century-Fox. George Seaton.

Special Award

Winner markerTo 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. [ [Statuette]]
Winner markerTo Bill and Coo, Republic., in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures. [ [Plaque]]
Winner markerTo Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat, and George K. Spoor (one of) the small group of pioneers whose belief in the 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. [ [Statuette]]

(Foreign Language Film)

Winner markerTo Shoe-Shine, A.L.F.A. Cinematografica; Lopert Films. (Italy) – 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. [ [Statuette]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

Winner markerTo C. C. Davis and Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Company for the development and application of an improved film drive filter mechanism.
Winner markerTo C. R. Daily, the Paramount Studio Film Laboratory, the Paramount Studio Still Department and the Paramount Studio Engineering Department 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.

(Class III)

Winner markerTo Nathan Levinson and the Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department for the design and construction of a constant-speed sound editing machine.
Winner markerTo Farciot Edouart, C. R. Daily, Hal Corl, H. G. Cartwright, the Paramount Studio Transparency Department and the Paramount Studio Engineering Department for the first application of a special anti-solarizing glass to high-intensity background and spot arc projectors.
Winner markerTo Fred Ponedel of Warner Bros. Studio for pioneering the fabrication and practical application to motion picture color photography of large translucent photographic backgrounds.
Winner markerTo Kurt Singer and the RCA Victor Division of Radio Corporation of America for the design and development of a continuously variable band-elimination filter.
Winner markerTo James Gibbons of Warner Bros. Studio for the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography.