20th Academy Awards
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- DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.Winner - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for Elia Kazan
Nominated - Best Actor for Gregory Peck
Nominated - Best Actress for Dorothy McGuire
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Celeste Holm
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Anne Revere
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Moss Hart
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Harmon Jones - DirectorHenry KosterStarsCary GrantLoretta YoungDavid NivenA debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Henry Koster
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Hugo Friedhofer
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Gordon E. Sawyer
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Monica Collingwood - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRobert YoungRobert MitchumRobert RyanA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?Nominated - Best Motion Pictures
Nominated - Best Director for Edward Dmytryk
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Ryan
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Gloria Grahame
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for John Paxton - DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.Nominated - Best Motion Pictures
Nominated - Best Director for David Lean
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for avid Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan
Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White - DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'HaraJohn PayneAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.Nominated - Best Motion Pictures
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Edmund Gwenn
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for George Seaton
Winner - Best Story for Valentine Davies - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.Nominated - Best Director for George Cukor
Winner - Best Actor for Ronald Colman
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin
Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa - DirectorRobert RossenStarsJohn GarfieldLilli PalmerHazel BrooksA talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.Nominated - Best Actor for John Garfield
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Abraham Polonsky
Winner - Best Film Editing for Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellIrene DunneElizabeth TaylorA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.Nominated - Best Actor for William Powell
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Max Steiner
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Peverell Marley and William V. Skall - DirectorDudley NicholsStarsRosalind RussellMichael RedgraveRaymond MasseyEugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.Nominated - Best Actor for Michael Redgrave
Nominated - Best Actress for Rosalind Russell - DirectorH.C. PotterStarsLoretta YoungJoseph CottenEthel BarrymoreAfter leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.Winner - Best Actress for Loretta Young
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Charles Bickford - DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsJoan CrawfordVan HeflinRaymond MasseyAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.Nominated - Best Actress for Joan Crawford
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsSusan HaywardLee BowmanMarsha HuntA successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.Nominated - Best Actress for Susan Hayward
Nominated - Best Story for Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett - DirectorRobert MontgomeryStarsRobert MontgomeryThomas GomezWanda HendrixWW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Thomas Gomez
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsVictor MatureBrian DonlevyColeen GrayA crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Richard Widmark
Nominated - Best Story for Eleazar Lipsky - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsGregory PeckAnn ToddCharles LaughtonA happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Ethel Barrymore
- DirectorChester ErskineStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayMarjorie MainOn their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Marjorie Main
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsCary GrantMyrna LoyShirley TempleA high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Sidney Sheldon
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsRinaldo SmordoniFranco InterlenghiAnnielo MeleTwo shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola and Cesare Zavattini
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMady CorrellAllison RoddanA suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Charlie Chaplin
- DirectorElia KazanStarsDana AndrewsJane WyattLee J. CobbThe true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Richard Murphy
- DirectorJean DrévilleStarsNoël-NoëlMicheline FranceyRené GéninIn France, in 1930, the supervisor of a reformatory for young offenders seeks to awaken in them the love of music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of the institution's director.Nominated - Best Story for Georges Chaperot and René Wheeler
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDon DeForeAnn HardingCharles RugglesTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.Nominated - Best Story for Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetThomas the cat finds Tweety in the snow, warming himself by a cigar butt. Thomas's mistress rescues the little yellow bird before her cat can devour him, but Thomas doesn't give up.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorJack HannahStarsJames MacDonaldDessie FlynnClarence NashDonald needs a log for his fire. Unfortunately, the one he picks is occupied by a couple of chipmunks and their stash of acorns. When he cuts it down, Chip and Dale fall out, but their acorns stay behind, so they work at putting out Donald's fire and retrieving their stash. Donald, of course, takes this as calmly and cheerfully as you would expect.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsWilliam HannaTom, sick of Jerry stealing the milk out of his bowl, poisons it. Instead of killing the mouse, the potion transforms him into a muscular beast.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorCharles NicholsStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigBeatrice HagenPluto wants to sing along with the birds, bee and cricket, but he is tone deaf.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsVictor JoryBilly BletcherIn this puppetoon, the tuba is dissatisfied with his role in an orchestra of self-playing instruments; he meets a bullfrog who gives him some good advice.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsKent SmithHans ConriedAn Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by permission of the Alien Property Custodian in the public interest under License No. LM 979"...and was assembled from hundreds of captured newsreels, historical dramas and propaganda films. While revealing the steps that Japan took that led to Pearl Harbor, it goes back 700 years to the feudal caste system, a peasant revolt suppressed after the Samurai murdered over 40,000 people, to Admiral Perry forcibly opening Japan to foreign trade, to the perversion of converting the Shinto religion of nature-worship to that of a fanatic state creed that preached the Japanese were a Master Race and the Emperor was a sun-god to be blindly obeyed. The film carried no credit for a director, while Richard Fleischer shared the Producer credit with Theron Warth.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorWillard Van DykeMike, a medical student starts at Columbia and then moves into pediatrics at a teaching hospital run by Cornell. He learns how new methods help children live longer. After this he went to Johns Hopkins to work in public health in Baltimore.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorPaul RothaStarsRobert AdamsElizabeth CowellValentine DyallAn examination of the problems of world food distribution following World War II, outlining steps underway to deal with the problems.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLeo SeltzerUnited Nations, 1947 - In this film one crippled child learns to walk: first to move, then to stand, and finally to take his first steps. The film deals with modern techniques of physiotherapy, and the need to develop the whole child - his emotions and his mind as well as his muscles - is stressed. Skilled adult workers offer not only massage and therapy, but also love and understanding, and occupational therapy for children and takes the form of both play and work. Movements learned become part of the daily jobs of feeding and dressing. Early attempts to walk are made with the help of apparatus. Finally the initially hesitant steps on his own are taken. As the film ends the boy walks.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- StarsDwight WeistConcerning the plight of Europe's six million displaced persons. Al but 850,000 who have not yet returned home after the war for fear of reprisals for their political or religious beliefs.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorStanley HawesIn Australia, children live in the Outback, too far from others to travel to any school. The Australian government has a school with no student only teachers that correspond with their pupils and teach those children at their own pace.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJohn NesbittNana BryantFred FisherOscar-winning short film has an adult looking back fondly at his childhood when he was taught in a one-room schoolhouse by Miss Turlock, a stern, but caring and respected teacher.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorArthur CohenStarsTed de CorsiaNarrated by Ted de Corsia, this documentary short tells the life of 1947 Brooklyn, New York, and Coney Island.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorRobert CarlisleStarsGayne WhitmanThis short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showling moon rockets, weighing 30 tons, aflight in the ionosphere, with mounted color cameras recording pictures hundreds of miles above the earth. Coming back to earth, it discourses on modern bathroom fixtures, and then demostrates a one-man hay-bailer.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorRichard L. CassellStarsPete SmithThis Pete Smith Specialty demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny wristwatch, the surface of a cat's tongue, and several insects.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsGeorge O'HanlonArt GilmoreJack CarsonAspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Brothers and must settle for being a stand-in.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorIrving AllenStarsWarren DouglasIring Allen was filming High Conquest when he shot this short film. Locale villagers rescue a couple trapped om the mountain.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorMel EpsteinStarsLita BaronGeorge ReevesGriff BarnettNightclub boss Malone puts off his wedding anniversary trip because an old woman claims to have overheard plans to rob the nightclub. But the old woman, Mrs. Cowdy, has a scheme of her own.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- StarsBen GrauerDesert DustRoy LamoureauxNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorGunther von FritschStarsEmily HatchSpencer HatchThis "Theater of Life" documentary was produced in cooperation with the International Committee, YMCA. It focuses on the work of Dr. Spencer Hatch, as he shows residents of small Mexican villages how to make their land better able to grow food and make them more independent.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorGeorge BlakeStarsMiklos GafniThis Columbia short (part of their "Two-Reel Special" series) tells the story of the Hungarian tenor, Miklos Gafni, who learned to sing while being confined in a Nazi slave-labor/concentration camp during World War II, and who had just made a successful New York City concert-hall debut. Mr. Gafni sings "The Return to Sorrento," "Vesti la Guiba," and an Hungarian love song.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerJean PetersCesar RomeroThe invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alfred Newman
- DirectorOtto PremingerJohn M. StahlStarsLinda DarnellCornel WildeRichard GreeneIn seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for David Raksin
- DirectorWalter LangStarsBetty GrableDan DaileyMona FreemanIn this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Iris are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.Winner - Best Musical Score for Alfred Newman
Nominated - Best Original Song for "You Do"
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Harry Jackson - DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott
Winner - Best Original Song for "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" - DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Robert Emmett Dolan
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsEsther WilliamsAkim TamiroffRicardo MontalbanWhen a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Johnny Green
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDennis MorganAndrea KingArlene DahlThe life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDennis MorganMartha VickersJack CarsonThe stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies man, Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music to the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But once again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.Nominated - Best Original Song for "A Gal in Calico"
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsBetty HuttonJohn LundBilly De WolfeThe real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.Nominated - Best Original Song for "I Wish I Didn't Love You So"
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJune AllysonPeter LawfordPatricia MarshallGolden Globe winner June Allyson and Peter Lawford star in this enjoyable musical about a football hero who falls in love with his French tutor.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Pass That Peace Pipe"
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for George Folsey
Nominated - Best Film Editing for George White
Winner - Best Special Effects - DirectorAnthony MannStarsDennis O'KeefeWallace FordAlfred RyderTwo US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Jack R. Whitney
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsRex HarrisonMaureen O'HaraRichard HaydnIn pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.Winner - Best Art Direction, Color
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Jack Cardiff - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsGene TierneyRex HarrisonGeorge SandersIn 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.Nominated - Best Film Editing for Fergus McDonnell
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperPaulette GoddardHoward Da SilvaIntrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.Nominated - Best Special Effects