20th Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1948 took place on March 20, 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It was the 20th Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the past year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1947.
- 2.1 Honorary Oscar
- 2.2 Scientific and Engineering Award
- 2.3 Technical Achievement Award
Nominations and Winners
Best Picture
Gentleman's Agreement ( Gentleman's Agreement ) - Darryl F. Zanuck
Best Director
Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement ( Gentleman's Agreement )
Best Actor
Ronald Colman - A Double Life (A Double Life )
Best Actress
Loretta Young - The Farmer 's daughter ( The Farmer's Daughter)
Best Supporting Actor
Edmund Gwenn - Miracle of Manhattan ( Miracle on 34th Street)
Best Supporting Actress
Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement ( Gentleman's Agreement )
Best Original Screenplay
Sidney Sheldon - This is the simple love not ( The Bachelor and the Bobby - Soxer )
Best Original Story
Valentine Davies - The Miracle of Manhattan ( Miracle on 34th Street)
Best Adapted Screenplay
George Seaton - Miracle of Manhattan ( Miracle on 34th Street)
Best Cinematography (black & white )
Guy Green - Great Expectations ( Great Expectations )
Best Cinematography ( color film )
Jack Cardiff - Black Narcissus (Black Narcissus)
Best Art Direction (black & white )
John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton - Great Expectations ( Great Expectations )
Best Art Direction (Color film )
Alfred Junge - Black Narcissus (Black Narcissus)
Best Sound
Gordon Sawyer - Every woman needs an angel ( The Bishop's Wife)
Best Editing
Francis D. Lyon, Robert Parrish - chasing million ( Body and Soul )
Best Visual Effects
A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe, Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore - Typhoon ( Green Dolphin Street)
Best Song
Allie Wrubel, Ray Gilbert - "Zip -A -Dee- Doo - Dah " - Uncle Remus' Wonderland ( Song of the South )
Best Score ( Drama / Comedy )
Miklós Rózsa - A Double Life (A Double Life )
Best Original Score ( Music Film )
Alfred Newman - It started in Schneider's Opera House ( Mother Wore Tights )
Best Short Film (1 roll of film )
Goodbye, Miss Turlock - Herbert Moulton
Best Short Film (2 films)
Climbing the Matterhorn - Irving Allen
Best Short Film ( Animation )
So a sweet birdie ( Tweetie Pie ) - Edward Selzer
Best Documentary Short Film
First Steps - United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education
Best Documentary
Design for Death - Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard Fleischer