19th Academy Awards (1947)
Highlights of 19th Academy Awards ceremony
The 19th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1946.
The award ceremony was held on 13th March 1947.
The Best Years of Our Lives won the Best Picture award.
Fredrick March won the Best Actor award for his role in The Best Years of Our Lives.
Olivia de Havilland won the Best Actess award for her role in To Each His Own.
William Wyler won the Best Director award for The Best Years of Our Lives.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Best Years of Our Lives
Best Director
The Best Years of Our Lives
- William Wyler
Best Original Screenplay
The Seventh Veil
- Muriel Box, Sydney Box
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Best Years of Our Lives
- Fredric March
Best Actress in a Leading Role
To Each His Own
- Olivia de Havilland
Best Supporting Actor
The Best Years of Our Lives
- Harold Russell
Best Supporting Actress
The Razor's Edge
- Anne Baxter
Best Documentary Feature
Seeds of Destiny
Best Film Editing
The Best Years of Our Lives
- Daniel Mandell
Best Cinematography, Color
The Yearling
- Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, Arthur Arling
Best Cinematography, Black & White
Anna and the King of Siam
- Arthur Miller
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
The Yearling
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black & White
Anna and the King of Siam
- Lyle Wheeler, William Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes
Best Short Subject - One-reel
Facing Your Danger
- Gordon Hollingshead
Best Short Subject - Two-reel
A Boy and His Dog
- Gordon Hollingshead
Best Short Subject - Cartoon
The Cat Concerto
- Frederick Quimby
Best Music - Song
The Harvey Girls
- Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer
for "On the Atchinson, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Best Years of Our Lives
- Hugo Friedhofer
Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
The Jolson Story
- Morris Stoloff
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
Vacation From Marriage
- Clemence Dane
Best Sound, Recording
The Jolson Story
- John Livadary
Best Effects, Special Effects
Blithe Spirit
- Thomas Howard
Best Writing, Screenplay
The Best Years of Our Lives
- Robert E. Sherwood