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19th Academy Awards

FieldValue
number19
awardAcademy Awards
dateMarch 13, 1947
image19th Academy Awards.jpg
captionOfficial pamphlet cover
siteShrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA
hostJack Benny
best_picture*The Best Years of Our Lives*
most_wins*The Best Years of Our Lives* (7)
most_nominations*The Best Years of Our Lives* (8)
last18th
next20th

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.

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."

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

Winners and nominees

Awards

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

Special Awards

  • To Laurence Olivier for his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen.
  • To Harold Russell for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives.
  • To Ernst Lubitsch for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture.
  • To Claude Jarman, Jr., outstanding child actor of 1946.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

  • Samuel Goldwyn

Presenters and performers

Presenters

(in order of appearance)

  • Jean Hersholt (Presenter: Academy Honorary Award to Laurence Olivier)
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Presenter: Short Subject & Scientific & Technical Awards)
  • Rex Harrison (Presenter: Production Awards)
  • Lana Turner (Presenter: Scoring Awards)
  • Greer Garson (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration)
  • Ann Sheridan (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
  • Van Johnson (Presenter: Best Original Song)
  • Robert Montgomery (Presenter: Writing Awards)
  • Shirley Temple (Presenter: Academy Juvenile Award to Claude Jarman Jr. and Academy Honorary Award to Harold Russell)
  • Mervyn LeRoy (Presenter: Academy Honorary Award to Ernst Lubitsch)
  • Ronald Reagan (Presenter: Academy Cavalcade of Past Oscar Winners and Academy Parade of Stars)
  • Billy Wilder (Presenter: Best Director)
  • Eric Johnston (Presenter: Best Motion Picture)
  • Donald Nelson (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Samuel Goldwyn)
  • Anne Revere (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
  • Lionel Barrymore (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
  • Joan Fontaine (Presenter: Best Actor)
  • Ray Milland (Presenter: Best Actress)

Performers

  • Hoagy Carmichael (who was accidentally introduced by Sam Goldwyn as Hugo Carmicheal)
  • Dick Haymes
  • Andy Russell
  • Dinah Shore

Multiple nominations and awards

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*
AwardsFilm
7*The Best Years of Our Lives*
2*Anna and the King of Siam*
*The Jolson Story*
*The Yearling*

References

References

  1. "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org.
  2. "19th Academy Awards Winners | Oscar Legacy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences".
  3. (May 29, 2020). "Academy Award Ceremony 1947". SuperNoava.
  4. (January 8, 2018). "Jack Benny - JB 1947-03-16 Jack's New Quartet".
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