1948 Oscars 20th Academy Awards |
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1948 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Best Motion Picture: Gentleman’s Agreement – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox (WINNER) The Bishop’s Wife – Samuel Goldwyn for RKO Radio Pictures Crossfire – Adrian Scott for RKO Radio Pictures Great Expectations – Ronald Neame for Universal Studios and General Film Distributors, Ltd. Miracle on 34th Street – William Perlberg for 20th Century Fox – Miracle on 34th Street |
| Best Director: Elia Kazan – Gentleman’s Agreement (WINNER) Henry Koster – The Bishop’s Wife Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire George Cukor – A Double Life David Lean – Great Expectations |
| Best Actor: Ronald Colman – A Double Life as Anthony John (WINNER) John Garfield – Body and Soul as Charlie Davis Gregory Peck – Gentleman’s Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green William Powell – Life with Father as Clarence Day, Sr. Michael Redgrave – Mourning Becomes Electra as Orin Mannon |
| Best Actress: Loretta Young – The Farmer’s Daughter as Katie Holstrom (WINNER) Joan Crawford – Possessed as Louise Howell Susan Hayward – Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman as Angie Evans Dorothy McGuire – Gentleman’s Agreement as Kathy Lacey Rosalind Russell – Mourning Becomes Electra as Lavinia Mannon |
| Best Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn – Miracle on 34th Street as Kris Kringle (WINNER) Charles Bickford – The Farmer’s Daughter as Joseph Clancy Thomas Gomez – Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho Robert Ryan – Crossfire as Montgomery Richard Widmark – Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo |
| Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm – Gentleman’s Agreement as Anne Dettrey (WINNER) Ethel Barrymore – The Paradine Case as Lady Sophie Horfield Gloria Grahame – Crossfire as Ginny Tremaine Marjorie Main – The Egg and I as Ma Kettle Anne Revere – Gentleman’s Agreement as Mrs Green |
| Best Original Screenplay: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer – Sidney Sheldon (WINNER) Body and Soul – Abraham Polonsky A Double Life – Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin Monsieur Verdoux – Charlie Chaplin Shoeshine – Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola and Cesare Zavattini |
| Best Screenplay: Miracle on 34th Street – George Seaton from a story by Valentine Davies (WINNER) Boomerang! – Richard Murphy from a Reader’s Digest article by Anthony Abbot Crossfire – John Paxton from The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks Gentleman’s Agreement – Moss Hart from Gentleman’s Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson Great Expectations – David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| Best Motion Picture Story: Miracle on 34th Street – Valentine Davies (WINNER) A Cage of Nightingales – Georges Chaperot and René Wheeler It Happened on Fifth Avenue – Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani Kiss of Death – Eleazar Lipsky Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman – Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett |
| Best Short Subject – Cartoons: Tweetie Pie – Edward Selzer (WINNER) Chip an’ Dale – Walt Disney Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse – Fred Quimby Pluto’s Blue Note – Walt Disney Tubby the Tuba – George Pal |
| Best Documentary Feature: Design for Death (WINNER) Journey into Medicine The World Is Rich |
| Best Documentary Short Subject: First Steps (WINNER) Passport to Nowhere School in the Mailbox |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel: Goodbye, Miss Turlock – Herbert Moulton (WINNER) Brooklyn, U.S.A. – Thomas Mead Moon Rockets – Jerry Fairbanks Now You See It – Pete Smith So You Want to Be in Pictures – Gordon Hollingshead |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel: Climbing the Matterhorn – Irving Allen (WINNER) Champagne for Two – Harry Grey Fight of the Wild Stallions – Thomas Mead Give Us the Earth – Herbert Morgan A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni – Ben Blake |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: A Double Life – Miklós Rózsa (WINNER) The Bishop’s Wife – Hugo Friedhofer Captain from Castile – Alfred Newman Forever Amber – David Raksin Life with Father – Max Steiner |
| Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: Mother Wore Tights – Alfred Newman (WINNER) Fiesta – Johnny Green My Wild Irish Rose – Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner Road to Rio – Robert Emmett Dolan Song of the South – Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott |
| Best Original 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, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens “You Do” from Mother Wore Tights – Music by Josef Myrow; Lyrics by Mack Gordon |
| Best Sound Recording: The Bishop’s Wife – Gordon E. Sawyer (WINNER) Green Dolphin Street – Douglas Shearer T-Men – Jack Whitney |
| Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-and-White: Great Expectations – Art Direction: John Bryan; Set Decoration: Wilfred Shingleton (WINNER) The Foxes of Harrow – Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Maurice Ransford; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox |
| Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color: Black Narcissus – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Alfred Junge (WINNER) Life with Father – Art Direction: Robert M. Haas; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: Great Expectations – Guy Green (WINNER) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – Charles Lang Green Dolphin Street – George J. Folsey |
| Best Cinematography, Color: Black Narcissus – Jack Cardiff (WINNER) Life with Father – Peverell Marley and William V. Skall Mother Wore Tights – Harry Jackson |
| Best Film Editing: Body and Soul – Francis D. Lyon and Robert Parrish (WINNER) The Bishop’s Wife – Monica Collingwood Gentleman’s Agreement – Harmon Jones Green Dolphin Street – George White Odd Man Out – Fergus McDonell |
| Best Special Effects: Green Dolphin Street – A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Special Audible Effects: Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore (WINNER) Unconquered – Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae; Special Audible Effects: George Dutton |
| Academy Honorary Awards: 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.” Bill and Coo “in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures.” Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor members 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.” |
| Best Foreign Language Film: Shoeshine (Italy) |
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