19th Academy Awards

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19th Academy Awards
Date	March 13, 1947
Site	Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA
Host	Jack Benny

The 19th Academy Awards continues a trend through the late-1940s of the Oscar voters honoring films about contemporary social issues. The Best Years of Our Lives concerns the lives of three returning veterans from three branches of military service as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II.

The classic film It's a Wonderful Life lost in all categories in which it was nominated. (Picture, Direction, Actor, Sound Recording and Editing.)

[edit] Awards

Best Picture : The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Director : William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Actor : Frederic March, The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Supporting Actor : Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Actress : Olivia De Havilland, To Each His Own

Best Supporting Actress : Anne Baxter, The Razor’s Edge

Best Original Story : Clemence Dane, Vacation From Marriage

Best Original Screenplay : Muriel Box and Sydney Box, The Seventh Veil

Best Screenplay: Sally Benson and Talbot Jennings, Anna and the King of Siam