19th Academy Awards

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19th Academy Awards
DateMarch 13, 1947
Site Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hosted by Jack Benny
Highlights
Best Picture The Best Years of Our Lives
Most awardsThe Best Years of Our Lives (7)
Most nominationsThe Best Years of Our Lives (8)

The 19th Academy Awards were held on March 13, 1947, honoring the films of 1946. The top awards portion of the ceremony was hosted by Jack Benny.

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The Best Years of Our Lives won seven of its eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and both male acting Oscars. The Academy awarded Harold Russell—a World War II veteran who had lost both hands in the war—an Honorary Academy Award for "bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans" for his role as Homer Parrish, believing that, as a non-actor, he would not win the Best Supporting Actor award for which he was nominated. Russell also won the competitive award, making him the only person in Academy history to receive two Oscars for the same performance.

When Olivia de Havilland won the Best Actress Oscar, her sister, Joan Fontaine, attempted to shake her hand, but she refused the handshake, saying "I don't know why she does that when she knows how I feel." [1]

This was the first time since the 2nd Academy Awards that every category had, at most, five nominations.

Winners and nominees

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Samuel Goldwyn; Best Picture winner
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William Wyler; Best Director winner
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Fredric March; Best Actor winner
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Olivia de Havilland; Best Actress winner
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Harold Russell; Best Supporting Actor winner and Honorary Academy Award recipient
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Anne Baxter; Best Supporting Actress winner
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Robert E. Sherwood; Best Screenplay winner
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Winifred Ashton (as Clemence Dane); Best Story winner
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Johnny Mercer; Best Original Song co-winner
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Cedric Gibbons; Best Art Direction, Color co-winner
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Charles Rosher; Best Cinematography, Color co-winner
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Laurence Olivier; Honorary Academy Award recipient
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Ernst Lubitsch; Honorary Academy Award recipient

Awards

Nominees were announced on February 9, 1947. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. [2]

Best Motion Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Screenplay
Best Motion Picture Story Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel
Best Short Subject – Cartoons Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture Best Original Song
Best Sound Recording Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Color Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Cinematography, Color Best Film Editing
Best Special Effects

Academy Honorary Awards

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Academy Juvenile Award

Presenters and performers

Presenters

(in order of appearance) [4]

Performers

Multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
8 The Best Years of Our Lives
7 The Yearling
6 The Jolson Story
5 Anna and the King of Siam
It's a Wonderful Life
4 Henry V
The Killers
The Razor's Edge
3 Brief Encounter
2 Blue Skies
Centennial Summer
Duel in the Sun
The Green Years
The Harvey Girls
Notorious
To Each His Own
Films with multiple awards
AwardsFilm
7 The Best Years of Our Lives
2 Anna and the King of Siam
The Jolson Story
The Yearling

See also

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