Oscars Rematch: 1946
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- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Best Picture!
Winner: It's a Wonderful Life!
Nominees:
The Best Years of Our Lives
Henry V
The Razor's Edge
The Yearling - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Best Director!
Winner: Frank Capra!
Nominees:
William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
Laurence Olivier - Henry V
Robert Siodmark - The Killers
Clarence Brown - The Yearling - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Best Actor!
Winner: James Stewart!
Nominees:
Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
Laurence Olivier - Henry V
Larry Parks - The Jolson Story
Gregory Peck - The Yearling - DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsOlivia de HavillandJohn LundMary AndersonAn unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.Best Actress!
Winner: Olivia de Havilland!
Nominees:
Ingrid Bergman - Notorious
Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun
Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny
Jane Wyman - The Yearling - DirectorVictor SavilleStarsCharles CoburnTom DrakeBeverly TylerAn orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.Best Supporting Actor!
Winner: Charles Coburn!
Nominees:
William Demarest - The Jolson Story
Claude Rains - Notorious
Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge - DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsTyrone PowerGene TierneyJohn PayneAn adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.Best Supporting Actress!
Winner: Anne Baxter!
Nominees:
Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase
Lillian Gish - Duel in the Sun
Flora Robson - Saratoga Trunk
Gale Sondegaard - Anna and the King of Siam - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Best Original Screenplay!
Winner: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra!
Nominees:
Raymond Chandler - The Blue Dahlia
Ben Hecht - Notorious
Norman Panama and Melvin Frank - Road to Utopia
Muriel Box and Sydney Box - The Seventh Veil - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.Best Adapted Screenplay!
Winner: Robert E. Sherwood!
Nominees:
Sally Benson and Talbot Jennings - Anna and the King of Siam
William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman - The Big Sleep
Anthony Veiller - The Killers
Paul Osborn - The Yearling - DirectorAlexander KordaStarsRobert DonatDeborah KerrGlynis JohnsA dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.Best Story!
Winner: Vacation from Marriage!
Nominees:
The Dark Mirror
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Stranger
To Each His Own - DirectorDavid MillerStarsRalph BellamyPostwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on children. The film surveys the Nazi/Japanese atrocities, post-war devastation and the early relief efforts. This film was responsible for raising over $200,000,000, making it a top moneymaking film.Best Documentary Feature!
Winner: Seeds of Destiny!
Nominees:
Atomic Power
Life at the Zoo
Paramount News Issue#37
Traffic with the Devil - DirectorJack HannahClyde GeronimiStarsDessie FlynnPinto ColvigWalt DisneyChip 'n Dale have set up house in the wood stove of Mickey's cabin. Pluto knows they are there, but Mickey only knows his matches keep going out when he tries to light a fire.Best Animated Short!
Winner: Squatter's Rights!
Nominees:
The Cat Concerto
Chopin's Musical Moments
John Henry and the Inky Poo
Walky Talky Hawky - DirectorEdwin E. OlsenStarsKnox ManningNorman NevillsEdwin E. OlsenPart of the Warner Brothers Sports Parade series, this short film chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. Led by Norman D. Nevills, 9 men undertake a 19-day trip in three specialty-built rowboats through the more than 200 rapids, some of which run at 30 m.p.h. Along the way, they see the remnants of previous expeditions including wrecked boats and even a skeleton. They also visit now-abandoned Pueblo Indian cave dwellings.Best Live Action Short - One-Reel!
Winner: Facing Your Danger!
Nominees:
Dive-Hi Champs
Golden Horses
Smart as a Fox
Sure Cures - DirectorLeRoy PrinzStarsHarry DavenportBilly SheffieldDorothy AdamsEleven year old Davy Allen, whose father recently passed making Davy the proverbial man of the house, has formed a bond with an old hound dog named Buck. Davy believes Buck is mistreated by his owner, Mr. Thornycroft, as Buck is sporting a neck wound from his collar, and he starts choking as his chain gets caught in Thornycroft's fence. Davy also believes Buck should be free to do what hound dogs do, which is hunt in the forest. In freeing Buck from what he would consider his shackles, Davy presents Buck as an ownerless stray who followed him home to his mother, who allows Davy to keep him. The question then becomes what will happen when Thornycroft finds out what happened to Buck, Davy, who, in his still child as opposed to adult's view of the world, won't give up Buck without a fight.Best Live Action Short - Two-Reel!
Winner: A Boy and His Dog!
Nominees:
College Queen
Hiss and Yell
The Luckiest Guy in the World - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.Best Dramatic or Comedy Score!
Winner: The Best Years of Our Lives!
Nominees:
Anna and the King of Siam
Henry V
Humoresque
The Killers - DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsLarry ParksEvelyn KeyesWilliam DemarestThis movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a non-Jewish dancer, and marries her. In the end he chooses success on the stage.Best Musical Score!
Winner: The Jolson Story!
Nominees:
Blue Skies
Centennial Summer
The Harvey Girls
Night and Day - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsJudy GarlandRay BolgerJohn HodiakOn a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.Best Original Song!
Winner: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", The Harvey Girls!
Nominees:
"All Through the Day" - Centennial Summer
"I Can't Begin to Tell You" - The Dolly Sisters
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" - Canyon Passage
"You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" - Blue Skies - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Best Sound Recording!
Winner: It's a Wonderful Life!
Nominees:
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Jolson Story - DirectorJohn CromwellStarsIrene DunneRex HarrisonLinda DarnellIn 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.Best Art Direction - Black and White!
Winner: Anna and the King of Siam!
Nominees:
Kitty
The Razor's Edge - DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierRobert NewtonLeslie BanksIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.Best Art Direction - Color!
Winner: Henry V!
Nominees:
Caesar and Cleopatra
The Yearling - DirectorJohn CromwellStarsIrene DunneRex HarrisonLinda DarnellIn 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.Best Cinematography - Black and White!
Winner: Anna and the King of Siam!
Nominees:
The Green Years - DirectorClarence BrownStarsGregory PeckJane WymanClaude Jarman Jr.A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?Best Cinematography - Color!
Winner: The Yearling!
Nominees:
The Jolson Story - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Best Film Editing!
Winner: It's a Wonderful Life!
Nominees:
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Jolson Story
The Killers
The Yearlings - DirectorDavid LeanStarsRex HarrisonConstance CummingsKay HammondA man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.Best Special Effects!
Winner: Blithe Spirit!
Nominees:
A Stolen Life