19th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1947)

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• Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 13, 1947
• For films released in: 1946

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 19th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Samuel Goldwyn Productions
• Henry V
  J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
• It's a Wonderful Life
  Liberty Films
• The Razor's Edge
  20th Century-Fox
• The Yearling
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Directing

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  William Wyler
• Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• It's a Wonderful Life
  Frank Capra
• The Killers
  Robert Siodmak
• The Yearling
  Clarence Brown

Best Actor

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Fredric March
• Henry V
  Laurence Olivier
• It's a Wonderful Life
  James Stewart
• The Jolson Story
  Larry Parks
• The Yearling
  Gregory Peck

Best Actress

• Brief Encounter
  Celia Johnson
• Duel in the Sun
  Jennifer Jones
• Sister Kenny
  Rosalind Russell
• To Each His Own
  Olivia de Havilland
• The Yearling
  Jane Wyman

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Harold Russell
• The Green Years
  Charles Coburn
• The Jolson Story
  William Demarest
• Notorious
  Claude Rains
• The Razor's Edge
  Clifton Webb

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Anna and the King of Siam
  Gale Sondergaard
• Duel in the Sun
  Lillian Gish
• The Razor's Edge
  Anne Baxter
• Saratoga Trunk
  Flora Robson
• The Spiral Staircase
  Ethel Barrymore

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]
• Kitty
  Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Walter Tyler [Art Direction], Sam Comer [Interior Decoration] and Ray Moyer [Interior Decoration]
• The Razor's Edge
  Richard Day [Art Direction], Nathan Juran [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Interior Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Interior Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Caesar and Cleopatra
  John Bryan
• Henry V
  Paul Sheriff [Art Direction] and Carmen Dillon [Art Direction]
• 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
• The Green Years
  George Folsey

Best Cinematography (Color)

• The Jolson Story
  Joseph Walker
• The Yearling
  Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Atomic Power
  The March of Time
• Life at the Zoo
  Artkino
• Paramount News Issue #37 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue! 1927.....1947)
  Paramount
• Seeds of Destiny
  United States Department of War
• Traffic with the Devil
  Herbert Morgan

Best Film Editing

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Daniel Mandell
• It's a Wonderful Life
  William Hornbeck
• The Jolson Story
  William Lyon
• The Killers
  Arthur Hilton
• The Yearling
  Harold Kress

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

• Anna and the King of Siam
  Bernard Herrmann
• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Hugo Friedhofer
• Henry V
  William Walton
• Humoresque
  Franz Waxman
• The Killers
  Miklos Rozsa

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• Blue Skies
  Robert Emmett Dolan
• Centennial Summer
  Alfred Newman
• The Harvey Girls
  Lennie Hayton
• The Jolson Story
  Morris Stoloff
• Night and Day
  Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner

Best Music (Song)

• Blue Skies "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song"
  Irving Berlin [Music and Lyrics by]
• Canyon Passage "Ole Buttermilk Sky"
  Hoagy Carmichael [Music by] and Jack Brooks [Lyrics by]
• Centennial Summer "All Through the Day"
  Jerome Kern [Music by] and Oscar Hammerstein II [Lyrics by]
• The Dolly Sisters "I Can't Begin to Tell You"
  James Monaco [Music by] and Mack Gordon [Lyrics by]
• 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
• Chopin's Musical Moments
  Walter Lantz
• John Henry and the Inky Poo
  George Pal
• Squatter's Rights
  Walt Disney
• Walky Talky Hawky
  Edward Selzer

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Dive-Hi Champs
  Jack Eaton
• Facing Your Danger
  Gordon Hollingshead
• Golden Horses
  Edmund Reek
• Smart as a Fox
  Gordon Hollingshead
• Sure Cures
  Pete Smith

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• A Boy and His Dog
  Gordon Hollingshead
• College Queen
  George B. Templeton
• Hiss and Yell
  Jules White
• The Luckiest Guy in the World
  Jerry Bresler

Best Sound Recording

• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon Sawyer [Sound Director]
• It's a Wonderful Life
  RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and John Aalberg [Sound Director]
• The Jolson Story
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• Blithe Spirit
  Thomas Howard [Special Visual Effects by]
• A Stolen Life
  William McGann [Special Visual Effects by] and Nathan Levinson [Special Audible Effects by]

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• The Blue Dahlia
  Raymond Chandler
• Children of Paradise
  Jacques Prevert
• Notorious
  Ben Hecht
• Road to Utopia
  Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
• The Seventh Veil
  Muriel Box and Sydney Box

Best Writing (Screenplay)

• Anna and the King of Siam
  Talbot Jennings and Sally Benson
• The Best Years of Our Lives
  Robert E. Sherwood
• Brief Encounter
  David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame
• The Killers
  Anthony Veiller
• Open City
  Sergio Amidei and F. Fellini

Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

• The Dark Mirror
  Vladimir Pozner
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
  Jack Patrick
• The Stranger
  Victor Trivas
• To Each His Own
  Charles Brackett
• Vacation from Marriage
  Clemence Dane