The 1947 Academy Awards were presented March 20, 1948 at the Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles.
| Best Motion Picture | The Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) |
| Crossfire (RKO Radio) |
| Gentleman's Agreement (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Great Expectations (J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild; Universal-International) |
| Miracle on 34th Street (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Best Actor | Ronald Colman, A Double Life |
| John Garfield, Body and Soul |
| Gregory Peck, Gentleman's Agreement |
| William Powell, Life With Father |
| Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra |
| Best Actress | Joan Crawford, Possessed |
| Susan Hayward, Smash Up—The Story of a Woman |
| Dorothy McGuire, Gentleman's Agreement |
| Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra |
| Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter |
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 Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter Archive Photos |
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| Actor in a Supporting Role | Charles Bickford, The Farmer's Daughter |
| Thomas Gomez, Ride the Pink Horse |
| Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street |
| Robert Ryan, Crossfire |
| Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Ethel Barrymore, The Paradine Case |
| Gloria Grahame, Crossfire |
| Celeste Holm, Gentleman's Agreement |
| Marjorie Main, The Egg and I |
| Anne Revere, Gentleman's Agreement |
| Directing | George Cukor, A Double Life |
| Edward Dmytryk, Crossfire |
| Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement |
| Henry Koster, The Bishop's Wife |
| David Lean, Great Expectations |
| Writing | | Original Motion Picture Story | Georges Chaperot and Rene Wheeler, A Cage of Nightingales | | Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani, It Happened on Fifth Avenue | | Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street | | Eleazar Lipsky, Kiss of Death | | Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett, Smash Up—The Story of a Woman | | Original Screenplay | Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola and Cesare Zavattini, Shoeshine | | Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux | | Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, A Double Life | | Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul | | Sidney Sheldon, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | | Screenplay | Moss Hart, Gentleman's Agreement | | David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, Great Expectations | | Richard Murphy, Boomerang! | | John Paxton, Crossfire | | George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | George Folsey, Green Dolphin Street | | Guy Green, Great Expectations | | Charles Lang, Jr., The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | | Color | Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus | | Harry Jackson, Mother Wore Tights | | Peverell Marley and William V. Skall, Life With Father |
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| Art Direction | | Black-and-White | John Bryan, art direction; Wilfred Shingleton, set decoration, Great Expectations | | Lyle Wheeler and Maurice Ransford, art direction; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox, set decoration, The Foxes of Harrow | | Color | Robert M. Haas, art direction; George James Hopkins, set decoration, Life With Father | | Alfred Junge, art direction and set decoration, Black Narcissus |
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| Sound Recording | Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, The Bishop's Wife |
| MGM Studio Sound Department, Green Dolphin Street |
| Sound Service, Inc., T-Men |
| Music | | Song | “A Gal in Calico,” The Time, the Place and the Girl, Arthur Schwartz, music; Leo Robin, lyrics | | “I Wish I Didn't Love You So,” The Perils of Pauline, Frank Loesser, music and lyrics | | “Pass That Peace Pipe,” Good News, Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens, music and lyrics | | “You Do,” Mother Wore Tights, Josef Myrow, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics | | “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” Song of the South, Allie Wrubel, music; Ray Gilbert, lyrics | | Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Hugo Friedhofer, The Bishop's Wife | | Alfred Newman, Captain From Castile | | David Raksin, Forever Amber | | Miklos Rozsa, A Double Life | | Max Steiner, Life With Father | | Scoring of a Musical Picture | Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott, Song of the South | | Robert Emmett Dolan, Road to Rio | | Johnny Green, Fiesta | | Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner, My Wild Irish Rose | | Alfred Newman, Mother Wore Tights |
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| Film Editing | Monica Collingwood, The Bishop's Wife |
| Harmon Jones, Gentleman's Agreement |
| Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish, Body and Soul |
| Fergus McDonnell, Odd Man Out |
| George White, Green Dolphin Street |
| Special Effects | Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae, visual; George Dutton, audible, Unconquered |
| A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe, visual; Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore, audible, Green Dolphin Street |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | Chip an' Dale (Donald Duck Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) | | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM) | | Pluto's Blue Note (Pluto Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) | | Tubby the Tuba (George Pal Puppetoon Series) (George Pal, producer; Paramount) | | Tweetie Pie (Merrie Melodies Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) | | One-Reel | Brooklyn, U.S.A. (Variety View Series) (Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International) | | Goodbye Miss Turlock (John Nesbitt Passing Parade Series) (Herbert Moulton, producer; MGM) | | Moon Rockets (Popular Science Series) (Jerry Fairbanks, producer; Paramount) | | Now You See It (Pete Smith Specialty Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM) | | So You Want to Be in Pictures (Joe McDoakes Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Two-Reel | Champagne for Two (Musical Parade Featurette Series) (Harry Grey, producer; Paramount) | | Climbing the Matterhorn (Color Series) (Irving Allen, producer; Monogram) | | Fight of the Wild Stallions (Featurette Series) (Thomas Mead, producer; Universal-International) | | Give Us the Earth (Herbert Morgan, producer; MGM) | | A Voice Is Born: The Story of Niklos Gafni (Musical Featurette Series) (Ben Blake, producer; Columbia) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | First Steps (United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education) | | Passport to Nowhere (This Is America Series) (Frederic Ullman, Jr., producer; RKO Pathé) | | School in the Mailbox (Australian News and Information Bureau) | | Feature | Design for Death (Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, producers; RKO Radio) | | Journey Into Medicine (U.S. State Department Office of Information and Educational Exchange) | | The World Is Rich (Paul Rotha, producer; British Information Services) |
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| Special Awards | To James Baskett for his able and heartwarming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and storyteller 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 |
| To Shoeshine, the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity. |
| To Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor, 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 worldwide acclaim |
