Best Picture Winner
Gentleman's Agreement
Best Picture
Director: Elia Kazan
Studio: 20th Century Fox
A journalist poses as Jewish to expose anti-Semitism in post-World War II America.
All Categories (27)
Best Motion Picture
Gentleman's Agreement— 20th Century-Fox
Winner
Crossfire— RKO Radio
Great Expectations— J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
Miracle on 34th Street— 20th Century-Fox
The Bishop's Wife— Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Actor
Gregory Peck— Gentleman's Agreement {"Phil Green"}
John Garfield— Body and Soul {"Charlie Davis"}
Michael Redgrave— Mourning Becomes Electra {"Orin Mannon"}
William Powell— Life with Father {"Clarence Day"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Charles Bickford— The Farmer's Daughter {"Clancy"}
Richard Widmark— Kiss of Death {"Tommy Udo"}
Robert Ryan— Crossfire {"Montgomery"}
Thomas Gomez— Ride the Pink Horse {"Pancho"}
Actress
Dorothy McGuire— Gentleman's Agreement {"Kathy"}
Joan Crawford— Possessed {"Louise Howell"}
Rosalind Russell— Mourning Becomes Electra {"Lavinia Mannon"}
Susan Hayward— Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman {"Angie"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Anne Revere— Gentleman's Agreement {"Mrs. Green"}
Ethel Barrymore— The Paradine Case {"Lady Sophie Horfield"}
Gloria Grahame— Crossfire {"Ginny Tremaine"}
Marjorie Main— The Egg and I {"Ma Kettle"}
Directing
A Double Life— George Cukor
Crossfire— Edward Dmytryk
Great Expectations— David Lean
The Bishop's Wife— Henry Koster
Writing (Motion Picture Story)
Miracle on 34th Street— Valentine Davies
Winner
A Cage of Nightingales— Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
It Happened on Fifth Avenue— Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
Kiss of Death— Eleazar Lipsky
Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman— Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer— Sidney Sheldon
Winner
A Double Life— Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Body and Soul— Abraham Polonsky
Monsieur Verdoux— Charles Chaplin
Shoe-Shine— Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola, Cesare Zavattini
Writing (Screenplay)
Miracle on 34th Street— George Seaton
Winner
Boomerang!— Richard Murphy
Crossfire— John Paxton
Gentleman's Agreement— Moss Hart
Great Expectations— David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
Cinematography (Black-And-White)
Great Expectations— Guy Green
Winner
Green Dolphin Street— George Folsey
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir— Charles Lang, Jr.
Cinematography (Color)
Black Narcissus— Jack Cardiff
Winner
Life with Father— Peverell Marley, William V. Skall
Mother Wore Tights— Harry Jackson
Music (Music Score Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture)
A Double Life— Dr. Miklos Rozsa
Winner
Captain from Castile— Alfred Newman
Forever Amber— David Raksin
Life with Father— Max Steiner
The Bishop's Wife— Hugo Friedhofer
Music (Scoring Of A Musical Picture)
Mother Wore Tights— Alfred Newman
Winner
Fiesta— Johnny Green
My Wild Irish Rose— Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner
Road to Rio— Robert Emmett Dolan
Song of the South— Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott
Art Direction (Black-And-White)
Great Expectations— Art Direction: John Bryan; Set Decoration: Wilfred Shingleton
Winner
The Foxes of Harrow— Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Art Direction (Color)
Black Narcissus— Art Direction: Alfred Junge; Set Decoration: Alfred Junge
Winner
Life with Father— Art Direction: Robert M. Haas; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
Special Effects
Green Dolphin Street— Special Visual Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects by Douglas Shearer, Michael Steinore
Winner
Unconquered— Special Visual Effects by Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley, Paul Lerpae; Special Audible Effects by George Dutton
Film Editing
Body and Soul— Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
Winner
Gentleman's Agreement— Harmon Jones
Green Dolphin Street— George White
Odd Man Out— Fergus McDonell
The Bishop's Wife— Monica Collingwood
Sound Recording
The Bishop's Wife— Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
Winner
Green Dolphin Street— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
T-Men— Sound Service, Inc., Jack R. Whitney, Sound Director
Documentary (Feature)
Design for Death— Sid Rogell, Executive Producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, Producers
Winner
Journey into Medicine— United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange
The World Is Rich— Paul Rotha, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
First Steps— United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
Winner
Passport to Nowhere— Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
School in the Mailbox— Australian News & Information Bureau
Special Award
To James Baskett for his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to the children of the world in Walt Disney's Song of the South.
Winner
To Bill and Coo, in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures.
To Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor (one of) the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium, and whose contributions to its development, blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to world-wide acclaim.
To Shoe-Shine - the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity.
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class II)
To C. C. DAVIS and ELECTRICAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS DIVISION OF WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY for the development and application of an improved film drive filter mechanism. [Projection]
Winner
To C. R. DAILY and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO FILM LABORATORY, STILL and ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS for the development and first practical application to motion picture and still photography of a method of increasing film speed as first suggested to the industry by E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company. [Laboratory]
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class III)
To NATHAN LEVINSON and the WARNER BROS. STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design and construction of a constant-speed sound editing machine. [Sound]
Winner
To FARCIOT EDOUART, C. R. DAILY, HAL CORL, H. G. CARTWRIGHT and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY and ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS for the first application of a special anti-solarizing glass to high-intensity background and spot arc projectors. [Lighting]
To FRED PONEDEL of Warner Bros. Studio for pioneering the fabrication and practical application to motion picture color photography of large translucent photographic backgrounds. [Special Photographic]
To JAMES GIBBONS of Warner Bros. Studio for the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography. [Lighting]
To KURT SINGER and the RCA VICTOR DIVISION OF RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA for the design and development of a continuously variable band-elimination filter. [Sound]
Music (Song)
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South— Music by Allie Wrubel; Lyrics by Ray Gilbert
Winner
"A Gal In Calico" from The Time, the Place and the Girl— Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Leo Robin
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" from The Perils of Pauline— Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
"Pass That Peace Pipe" from Good News— Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Roger Edens and Hugh Martin
"You Do" from Mother Wore Tights— Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Tweetie Pie— Edward Selzer, Producer
Winner
Chip An' Dale— Walt Disney, Producer
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse— Frederick Quimby, Producer
Pluto's Blue Note— Walt Disney, Producer
Tubby the Tuba— George Pal, Producer
Short Subject (One-Reel)
Good-bye Miss Turlock— Herbert Moulton, Producer
Winner
Brooklyn, U.S.A.— Thomas Mead, Producer
Moon Rockets— Jerry Fairbanks, Producer
Now You See It— Pete Smith, Producer
So You Want to Be in Pictures— Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Short Subject (Two-Reel)
Climbing the Matterhorn— Irving Allen, Producer
Winner
A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni— Ben Blake, Producer
Champagne for Two— Harry Grey, Producer
Fight of the Wild Stallions— Thomas Mead, Producer
Give Us the Earth— Herbert Morgan, Producer