* Special Award - Special Award * Writing (Screenplay) - Robert E. Sherwood Sound Recording - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director

The 19th Academy Awards were held on March 13, 1947, honoring the films of 1946. The top awards portion of the ceremony was hosted by Jack Benny. The Best Years of Our Lives won seven of its eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and both male acting Oscars.

The two lead performers in the Best Picture winner (Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire) lost in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories respectively, but Celeste Holm, in her third film, did win the Best Supporting Actress award (she defeated her own nominated co-star Anne Revere, who had won the same award two years earlier for National ...

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. To Bill and Coo, in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures.

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