20th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1948)
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- Date of Ceremony: Saturday, March 20, 1948
- For films released in: 1947
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 20th Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Motion Picture
- The Bishop's Wife
Samuel Goldwyn Productions - Crossfire
RKO Radio - Gentleman's Agreement
20th Century-Fox - Great Expectations
J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild - Miracle on 34th Street
20th Century-Fox
Best Directing
- The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster - Crossfire
Edward Dmytryk - A Double Life
George Cukor - Gentleman's Agreement
Elia Kazan - Great Expectations
David Lean
Best Actor
- Body and Soul
John Garfield - A Double Life
Ronald Colman - Gentleman's Agreement
Gregory Peck - Life with Father
William Powell - Mourning Becomes Electra
Michael Redgrave
Best Actress
- The Farmer's Daughter
Loretta Young - Gentleman's Agreement
Dorothy McGuire - Mourning Becomes Electra
Rosalind Russell - Possessed
Joan Crawford - Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman
Susan Hayward
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Crossfire
Robert Ryan - The Farmer's Daughter
Charles Bickford - Kiss of Death
Richard Widmark - Miracle on 34th Street
Edmund Gwenn - Ride the Pink Horse
Thomas Gomez
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Crossfire
Gloria Grahame - The Egg and I
Marjorie Main - Gentleman's Agreement
Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
Anne Revere - The Paradine Case
Ethel Barrymore
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- The Foxes of Harrow
Lyle Wheeler [Art Direction], Maurice Ransford [Art Direction], Thomas Little [Set Decoration] and Paul S. Fox [Set Decoration] - Great Expectations
John Bryan [Art Direction] and Wilfred Shingleton [Set Decoration]
Best Art Direction (Color)
- Black Narcissus
Alfred Junge [Art and Set Direction] - Life with Father
Robert M. Haas [Art Direction] and George James Hopkins [Set Decoration]
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Charles B. Lang Jr. - Great Expectations
Guy Green - Green Dolphin Street
George Folsey
Best Cinematography (Color)
- Black Narcissus
Jack Cardiff - Life with Father
Peverell Marley and William V. Skall - Mother Wore Tights
Harry Jackson
Best Documentary (Feature)
- Design for Death
Sid Rogell [Executive Producer], Theron Warth [Executive Producer] and Richard O. Fleischer [Executive Producer] - Journey into Medicine
United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange - The World Is Rich
Paul Rotha
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- First Steps
United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information - Passport to Nowhere
Frederic Ullman Jr. - School in the Mailbox
Australian News & Information Bureau
Best Film Editing
- The Bishop's Wife
Monica Collingwood - Body and Soul
Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish - Gentleman's Agreement
Harmon Jones - Green Dolphin Street
George White - Odd Man Out
Fergus McDonell
Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)
- The Bishop's Wife
Hugo Friedhofer - Captain from Castile
Alfred Newman - A Double Life
Dr. Miklos Rozsa - Forever Amber
David Raksin - Life with Father
Max Steiner
Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
- Fiesta
Johnny Green - Mother Wore Tights
Alfred Newman - My Wild Irish Rose
Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner - Road to Rio
Robert Emmett Dolan - Song of the South
Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott
Best Music (Song)
- Good News "Pass That Peace Pipe"
Ralph Blane [Music and Lyrics by], Roger Edens [Music and Lyrics by] and Hugh Martin [Music and Lyrics by] - Mother Wore Tights "You Do"
Josef Myrow [Music by] and Mack Gordon [Lyrics by] - The Perils of Pauline "I Wish I Didn't Love You So"
Frank Loesser [Music and Lyrics by] - Song of the South "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
Allie Wrubel [Music by] and Ray Gilbert [Lyrics by] - The Time, the Place and the Girl "A Gal in Calico"
Arthur Schwartz [Music by] and Leo Robin [Lyrics by]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
- Chip An' Dale
Walt Disney - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
Frederick Quimby - Pluto's Blue Note
Walt Disney - Tubby the Tuba
George Pal - Tweetie Pie
Edward Selzer
Best Short Subject (One-reel)
- Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Thomas Mead - Good-bye Miss Turlock
Herbert Moulton - Moon Rockets
Jerry Fairbanks - Now You See It
Pete Smith - So You Want to Be in Pictures
Gordon Hollingshead
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)
- Champagne for Two
Harry Grey - Climbing the Matterhorn
Irving Allen - 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 Sound Recording
- The Bishop's Wife
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Gordon Sawyer [Sound Director] - Green Dolphin Street
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director] - T-Men
Sound Service Inc. and Jack R. Whitney [Sound Director]
Best Special Effects
- Green Dolphin Street
A. Arnold Gillespie [Special Visual Effects by], Warren Newcombe [Special Visual Effects by], Douglas Shearer [Special Audible Effects by] and Michael Steinore [Special Audible Effects by] - Unconquered
Farciot Edouart [Special Visual Effects by], Devereux Jennings [Special Visual Effects by], Gordon Jennings [Special Visual Effects by], Wallace Kelley [Special Visual Effects by], Paul Lerpae [Special Visual Effects by] and George Dutton [Special Audible Effects by]
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Sidney Sheldon - Body and Soul
Abraham Polonsky - A Double Life
Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin - Monsieur Verdoux
Charles Chaplin - Shoe-Shine
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C.G. Viola and Cesare Zavattini
Best Writing (Screenplay)
- Boomerang!
Richard Murphy - Crossfire
John Paxton - Gentleman's Agreement
Moss Hart - Great Expectations
David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame - Miracle on 34th Street
George Seaton
Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)
- A Cage of Nightingales
Georges Chaperot and Rene Wheeler - It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani - Kiss of Death
Eleazar Lipsky - Miracle on 34th Street
Valentine Davies - Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman
Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett