Academy Award 1948 (march 20, 1948)

the academy award is the most prestigious and oldest film award, awarded since 1929 by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences (ampas), an honorary professional organization made up of people who have worked in the world of cinema.

Edition number 20 of the event; awards assigned:

Best Motion Picture

for the movie gentleman's agreement
Assigned to
Darryl F. Zanuck

nominations for the movie :

great expectations
Assigned to
Ronald Neame

Miracle on 34th Street
Assigned to
William Perlberg

Crossfire
Assigned to
Adrian Scott

the bishop's wife
Assigned to
Samuel Goldwyn

Best International Feature Film

for the movie Shoeshine

Best Achievement in Directing

for the movie gentleman's agreement
Assigned to
Elia Kazan

nominations for the movie :

great expectations
Assigned to
David Lean

a double life
Assigned to
George Cukor

Crossfire
Assigned to
Edward Dmytryk

the bishop's wife
Assigned to
Henry Koster

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

for the movie Miracle on 34th Street

nominations for the movie :

kiss of death

smash up, the story of a woman

it happened on 5th avenue

A Cage of Nightingales

Best Original Screenplay

poster del film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

for the movie The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Assigned to
Sidney Sheldon

nominations for the movie :

body and soul
Assigned to
Abraham Polonsky

Shoeshine
Assigned to
Cesare Zavattini, Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola

a double life
Assigned to
Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Monsieur Verdoux

Best Adapted Screenplay

for the movie Miracle on 34th Street
Assigned to
George Seaton

nominations for the movie :

boomerang
Assigned to
Richard Murphy

great expectations
Assigned to
Ronald Neame, David Lean, Anthony Havelock allan

Crossfire
Assigned to
John Paxton

gentleman's agreement
Assigned to
Moss Hart

Best Actor in a Leading Role

for the movie a double life
Assigned to
Ronald Colman

nominations for the movie :

body and soul
Assigned to
John Garfield

gentleman's agreement
Assigned to
Gregory Peck

poster del film mourning becomes electra

mourning becomes electra
Assigned to
Michael Redgrave

Life with Father
Assigned to
William Powell

Best Actress in a Leading Role

for the movie the farmer's daughter
Assigned to
Loretta Young

nominations for the movie :

Possessed
Assigned to
Joan Crawford

gentleman's agreement
Assigned to
Dorothy Mcguire

mourning becomes electra
Assigned to
Rosalind Russell

smash up, the story of a woman
Assigned to
Susan Hayward

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

for the movie Miracle on 34th Street
Assigned to
Edmund Gwenn

nominations for the movie :

kiss of death
Assigned to
Richard Widmark

Crossfire
Assigned to
Robert Ryan

the farmer's daughter
Assigned to
Charles Bickford

ride the pink horse
Assigned to
Thomas Gomez

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

for the movie gentleman's agreement
Assigned to
Celeste Holm, Anne Revere

nominations for the movie :

Crossfire
Assigned to
Gloria Grahame

the paradine case
Assigned to
Ethel Barrymore

the egg and i
Assigned to
Marjorie Main

Best Cinematography, Color

for the movie black narcissus
Assigned to
Jack Cardiff

nominations for the movie :

Life with Father
Assigned to
J. Peverell Marley

mother wore tights
Assigned to
Harry Jackson

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

for the movie great expectations
Assigned to
Guy Green

nominations for the movie :

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Assigned to
Charles B.lang

green dolphin street
Assigned to
George J. Folsey

Best Music, Original Comedy Score

for the movie mother wore tights
Assigned to
Alfred Newman

nominations for the movie :

song of the south
Assigned to
Paul J.(musicista) Smith, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Charles Wolcott

Road to Rio
Assigned to
Robert Emmett Dolan

fiesta
Assigned to
Johnny Green

my wild irish rose
Assigned to
Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

for the movie a double life
Assigned to
Miklos Rozsa

nominations for the movie :

forever amber
Assigned to
David Raksin

captain from castille
Assigned to
Alfred Newman

the bishop's wife
Assigned to
Hugo Friedhofer

Life with Father
Assigned to
Max Steiner

Best Editing

for the movie body and soul
Assigned to
Robert Parrish, Francis D. Lyon

nominations for the movie :

gentleman's agreement
Assigned to
Harmon Jones

the bishop's wife
Assigned to
Monica Collingwood

Odd Man Out
Assigned to
Fergus Mcdonnell

green dolphin street
Assigned to
George White

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color

for the movie black narcissus
Assigned to
Alfred Junge

nominations for the movie :

Life with Father
Assigned to
George James Hopkins, Robert M. Haas

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

for the movie great expectations
Assigned to
John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton

nominations for the movie :

the foxes of harrow
Assigned to
Thomas Little, Maurice Ransford, Lyle R. Wheeler, Paul S. Fox

Best Sound

for the movie the bishop's wife
Assigned to
Gordon E. Sawyer

nominations for the movie :

green dolphin street
Assigned to
Douglas G.shearer

t-men
Assigned to
Jack Whitney

Best Special Effects

for the movie green dolphin street
Assigned to
Douglas G.shearer, A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe, Michael Steinore

nominations for the movie :

Unconquered
Assigned to
Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, George Dutton, Devereaux Jennings, Wallace Kelley, Paul K.lerpae

Best Original Song

for the movie song of the south
Assigned to
Allie Wrubel, Ray Gilbert

nominations for the movie :

mother wore tights
Assigned to
Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow

good news
Assigned to
Roger Edens, Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin

the perils of pauline
Assigned to
Frank Loesser

the time place and the girl
Assigned to
Leo Robin, Arthur Schwartz

Special Award

for the movie song of the south
Assigned to
James Baskett

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Academy Award 1948 (march 20, 1948)

the academy award is the most prestigious and oldest film award, awarded since 1929 by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences (ampas), an honorary professional organization made up of people who have worked in the world of cinema.

Edition number 20 of the event; awards assigned: