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The Best Years of Our Lives. Best Picture and Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Samuel Goldwyn, Supporting Actor and Special Award recipient Harold Russell and Best Directing winner William Wyler. Olivia de Havilland.
The 19th Academy Awards | 1947. Shrine Civic Auditorium. Thursday, March 13, 1947. ... Writing (Original Motion Picture Story) Winner. Vacation from Marriage ...
Feb 5, 2014 · 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.
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 Best Years of Our Lives and its post-war story took home seven of eight awards it was nominated for: Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Film Editing, Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture), and Best Writing (Screenplay).
The Best Picture winner was producer Darryl F. Zanuck's Gentleman's Agreement (with a total of eight nominations and three wins - Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director), a serious, preachy melodramatic film by director Elia Kazan.
Paddy Chayefsky and Billy Wilder have also won three screenwriting Oscars: Chayefsky won two for Original Screenplay ( The Hospital and Network) and one for Adapted Screenplay ( Marty ), while Wilder won one for Adapted Screenplay ( The Lost Weekend, shared with Charles Brackett ), and two for Original Screenplay ( Sunset Boulevard, shared with ...
