20TH ACADEMY AWARDS March 20, 1948
MOTION PICTURE “The Bishop’s Wife” “Crossfire” “Gentleman’s Agreement” “Great Expectations” “Miracle on 34th Street”
DIRECTOR George Cukor – “A Double Life” Edward Dmytryk – “Crossfire” Elia Kazan – “Gentleman’s Agreement” Henry Koster – “The Bishop’s Wife” David Lean – “Great Expectations”
ACTOR Ronald Colman – “A Double Life” John Garfield – “Body and Soul” Gregory Peck – “Gentleman’s Agreement” William Powell – “Life with Father” Michael Redgrave – “Mourning Becomes Electra”
ACTRESS Joan Crawford – “Possessed” Susan Hayward – “Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman” Dorothy McGuire – “Gentleman’s Agreement” Rosalind Russell – “Mourning Becomes Electra” Loretta Young – “The Farmer’s Daughter”
SUPPORTING ACTOR Charles Bickford – “The Farmer’s Daughter” Thomas Gomez – “Ride the Pink Horse” Edmund Gwenn – “Miracle on 34th Street” Robert Ryan – “Crossfire” Richard Widmark – “Kiss of Death”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Ethel Barrymore – “The Paradine Case” Gloria Grahame – “Crossfire” Celeste Holm – “Gentleman’s Agreement” Marjorie Main – “The Egg and I” Anne Revere – “Gentleman’s Agreement”
ART DIRECTION (BLACK & WHITE) “The Foxes of Harrow” “Great Expectations”
ART DIRECTION (COLOR) “Black Narcissus” “Life with Father”
CINEMATOGRAPHY (BLACK & WHITE) “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” – Charles Lang “Great Expectations” – Guy Green “Green Dolphin Street” – George J. Folsey
CINEMATOGRAPHY (COLOR) “Black Narcissus” – Jack Cardiff “Life with Father” – Peverell Marley and William V. Skall “Mother Wore Tights” – Harry Jackson
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE) “Design for Death” “Journey into Medicine” “The World Is Rich”
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) “First Steps” “Passport to Nowhere” “School in the Mailbox”
FILM EDITING “The Bishop’s Wife” – Monica Collingwood “Body and Soul” – Francis D. Lyon and Robert Parrish “Gentleman’s Agreement” – Harmon Jones “Green Dolphin Street” – George White “Odd Man Out” – Fergus McDonell
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON) “Chip an’ Dale” – Walt Disney “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse” – Fred Quimby “Pluto’s Blue Note” – Walt Disney “Tubby the Tuba” – George Pal “Tweetie Pie” – Edward Selzer
LIVE ACTION SHORT SUBJECT (ONE-REEL) “Brooklyn, U.S.A.” – Thomas Mead “Goodbye, Miss Turlock” – Herbert Moulton “Moon Rockets” – Jerry Fairbanks “Now You See It” – Pete Smith “So You Want to Be in Pictures” – Gordon Hollingshead
LIVE ACTION 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
Scoring of a Dramatic or comedy Picture “The Bishop’s Wife” – Hugo Friedhofer “Captain from Castile” – Alfred Newman “A Double Life” – Miklós Rózsa “Forever Amber” – David Raksin “Life with Father” – Max Steiner
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
SONG “Pass That Peace Pipe” from “Good News” “You Do” from “Mother Wore Tights” “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” from “The Perils of Pauline” “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” from “Song of the South” “A Gal in Calico” from “The Time, the Place and the Girl”
SOUND RECORDING “The Bishop’s Wife” – Gordon E. Sawyer “Green Dolphin Street” – Douglas Shearer “T-Men” – Jack Whitney
SPECIAL EFFECTS “Green Dolphin Street” A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects: Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore “Unconquered”
WRITING (ADAPTATION) “Boomerang!” – Richard Murphy “Crossfire” – John Paxton “Gentleman’s Agreement” – Moss Hart “Great Expectations” – David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan “Miracle on 34th Street” – George Seaton
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” – Charlie Chaplin “Shoeshine” – Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola and Cesare Zavattini
WRITING (ORIGINAL STORY) “A Cage of Nightingales” – Georges Chaperot and René 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
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD 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”
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD Bill and Coo“in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures”
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor“the small group of pioneers whose belief in a 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”
“Anna and the King of Siam” “The Best Years of Our Lives” “The Blue Dahlia” “Blue Skies” “Brief Encounter” “Caesar and Cleopatra” “Canyon Passage” “Centennial Summer” “Children of Paradise” “The Dark Mirror” “The Dolly Sisters” “Duel in the Sun” “The Green Years” “The Harvey Girls” “Henry V” “It’s a Wonderful Life” “The Jolson Story” “The Killers” “Kitty” “Night and Day” “Notorious” “The Razor’s Edge” “Road to Utopia” “Rome, Open City” “Saratoga Trunk” “The Seventh Veil” “Sister Kenny” “The Spiral Staircase” “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” “The Stranger” “To Each His Own” “Vacation From Marriage” “The Yearling” DOCUMENTARY “Design for Death” “Journey into Medicine” “The World Is Rich” SHORT FILMS “Champagne for Two” “Chip an’ Dale” “Climbing the Matterhorn” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse” “Fight of the Wild Stallions” “First Steps” “Give Us the Earth” “Goodbye, Miss Turlock” “Brooklyn, U.S.A.” “Moon Rockets” “Now You See It” “Passport to Nowhere” “Pluto’s Blue Note” “School in the Mailbox” “So You Want to Be in Pictures” “Tubby the Tuba” “Tweetie Pie” “A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni”
