Who should have won the 19th Academy Awards (1947)?
These were the main awards:
Category | Winner | Nominees |
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Best Picture | The Best Years of Our Lives | Henry V, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Razor’s Edge, The Yearling |
Best Director | William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives) | Clarence Brown (The Yearling), Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life), David Lean (Brief Encounter), Robert Siodmak (The Killers) |
Best Actor | Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives) | Laurence Olivier (Henry V), Gregory Peck (The Yearling), James Stewart (It’s a Wonderful Life), Larry Parks (The Jolson Story) |
Best Actress | Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own) | Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter), Jennifer Jones (Duel in the Sun), Rosalind Russell (Sister Kenny), Jane Wyman (The Yearling) |
Best Supporting Actor | Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives) | Charles Coburn (The Green Years), William Demarest (The Jolson Story), Claude Rains (Notorious), Clifton Webb (The Razor’s Edge) |
Best Supporting Actress | Anne Baxter (The Razor’s Edge) | Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase), Lillian Gish (Duel in the Sun), Flora Robson (Saratoga Trunk), Gale Sondergaard (Anna and the King of Siam) |
Best Original Screenplay | Muriel Box and Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) | Raymond Chandler (The Blue Dahlia), Jacques Prévert (Children of Paradise), Ben Hecht (Notorious), Norman Panama and Melvin Frank (Road to Utopia) |
Best Screenplay | Robert E. Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives) | Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame (Brief Encounter), Sally Benson and Talbot Jennings (Anna and the King of Siam), Anthony Veiller (The Killers), Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini (Rome, Open City) |