1947
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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.*[BEST PICTURE]*
*ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Celeste Holm
*DIRECTING -- Elia Kazan
FILM EDITING -- Harmon Jones
*BEST MOTION PICTURE -- 20th Century-Fox
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Moss Hart - 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.[BEST PICTURE]
*ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Edmund Gwenn
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- 20th Century-Fox
*WRITING (Motion Picture Story) -- Valentine Davies
*WRITING (Screenplay) -- George Seaton - 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.[BEST PICTURE]
*SOUND RECORDING -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director Oscars. - 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?[BEST PICTURE]
Nominated for 5 Oscars. - DirectorIrving ReisStarsCary GrantMyrna LoyShirley TempleA high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.*WRITING (Original Screenplay) -- Sidney Sheldon
- 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.*ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Alfred Junge; Set Decoration: Alfred Junge
*CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Jack Cardiff - DirectorRobert RossenStarsJohn GarfieldLilli PalmerHazel BrooksA talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.ACTOR -- John Garfield
*FILM EDITING - Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
WRITING (Original Screenplay) -- Abraham Polonsky - DirectorIrving AllenStarsWarren DouglasIring Allen was filming High Conquest when he shot this short film. Locale villagers rescue a couple trapped om the mountain.*SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel) -- Irving Allen, Producer
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaTom Cat is a concert pianist who plays beautifully until he is interrupted by Jerry Mouse.*SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon) -- Frederick Quimby, Producer
- 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.*DOCUMENTARY (Feature) -- Sid Rogell, Executive Producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, Producers
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.*ACTOR -- Ronald Colman
*MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Dr. Miklos Rozsa - 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.*ACTRESS -- Loretta Young
- 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.*DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject) -- United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
- 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.*SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Special Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects by Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore
- 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.*MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Alfred Newman
- 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.*SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon) -- Edward Selzer, Producer
- DirectorArne SucksdorffStarsMats BjörneA short impression of Stockholm.*SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel) -- Edmund H. Reek, Producer
- 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 for 4 Oscars.
- 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 for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsSusan HaywardLee BowmanMarsha HuntA successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorDudley NicholsStarsRosalind RussellMichael RedgraveRaymond MasseyEugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- 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 for 1 Oscar.
- 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 for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorArthur CohenStarsTed de CorsiaNarrated by Ted de Corsia, this documentary short tells the life of 1947 Brooklyn, New York, and Coney Island.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerJean PetersCesar RomeroThe invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.Nominated for 1 Oscar.