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Best Picture
 THE BISHOP'S WIFE - Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn
CROSSFIRE - RKO Radio. Produced by Adrian Scott
 GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (Won 3 Awards) - 20th Century-Fox. Produced
by Darryl F. Zanuck
GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Rank-Cineguild, U-I (British). Produced by Ronald Neame
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (Won 3 Awards) - 20th Century-Fox. Produced by William Perlberg
Actor
Ronald Colman in A DOUBLE LIFE
John Garfield in BODY AND SOUL
Gregory Peck in GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
William Powell in LIFE WITH FATHER
Michael Redgrave in MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
Actress
Joan Crawford in POSSESSED
Susan Hayward in SMASH-UP, THE STORY OF A WOMAN
Dorothy McGuire in GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
Rosalind Russell in MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
Loretta Young in THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER
Supporting Actor
Charles Bickford in THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER
Thomas Gomez in RIDE THE PINK HORSE
Edmund Gwenn in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
Robert Ryan in CROSSFIRE
Richard Widmark in KISS OF DEATH
Supporting Actress
Ethel Barrymore in THE PARADINE CASE
Gloria Grahame in CROSSFIRE
Celeste Holm in GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
Marjorie Main in THE EGG AND I
Anne Revere in GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
Director
George Cukor for A DOUBLE LIFE
Edward Dmytryk for CROSSFIRE
Elia Kazan for GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
Henry Koster for THE BISHOP'S WIFE
David Lean for GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Writing: Screenplay
Richard Murphy - BOOMERANG!
John Paxton - CROSSFIRE
Moss Hart - GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
David Lean, Ronald Neame & Anthony Havelock-Allan - GREAT EXPECTATIONS
George Seaton - MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
Writing: Original Story
Georges Chaperot & Rene Wheeler - A CAGE OF NIGHTINGALES (La Cage aux Rossignols)
Herbert Clyde Lewis & Frederick Stephani - IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE
Eleazar Lipsky - KISS OF DEATH
Valentine Davies - MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
Dorothy Parker & Frank Cavett - SMASH-UP, THE STORY OF A WOMAN
Writing: Original Screenplay
Sidney Sheldon - THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER
Abraham Polonsky - BODY AND SOUL
Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin - A DOUBLE LIFE
Charles Chaplin - MONSIEUR VERDOUX
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, C. G. Viola & Cesare Zavattini - SHOESHINE
Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color)
Alfred Junge - Art Direction BLACK NARCISSUS
Robert M. Haas - Art Direction, George James Hopkins - Set Decoration LIFE WITH FATHER
Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black and White)
Lyle Wheeler & Maurice Ransford - Art Direction, Thomas Little & Paul S. Fox - Set Decoration THE FOXES OF HARROW
John Bryan - Art Direction, Wilfred Shingleton - Set Decoration GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Cinematography (Color)
Jack Cardiff - BLACK NARCISSUS
J. Peverell Marley & William V. Skall - LIFE WITH FATHER
Harry Jackson - MOTHER WORE TIGHTS
Cinematography (Black and White)
Charles B. Lang - THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR
Guy Green - GREAT EXPECTATIONS
George Folsey - GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
Documentary (Features)
Sid Rogell - Executive Producer, Theron Warth & Richard Fleischer - Producers DESIGN FOR DEATH
JOURNEY INTO MEDICINE
Paul Rotha - Producer THE WORLD IS RICH
Documentary (Short Subjects)
FIRST STEPS
Frederic Ullman, Jr. - Producer PASSPORT TO NOWHERE
SCHOOL IN THE MAILBOX
Film Editing
Monica Collingwood - THE BISHOP'S WIFE
Francis Lyon & Robert Parrish - BODY AND SOUL
Harmon Jones - GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
George White - GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
Fergus McDonnell - ODD MAN OUT
Music: Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Hugo Friedhofer - THE BISHOP'S WIFE
Alfred Newman - CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE
Miklos Rozsa - A DOUBLE LIFE
David Raksin - FOREVER AMBER
Max Steiner - LIFE WITH FATHER
Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
Johnny Green - FIESTA
Alfred Newman - MOTHER WORE TIGHTS
Ray Heindorf & Max Steiner - MY WILD IRISH ROSE
Robert Emmett Dolan - ROAD TO RIO
Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith & Charles Wolcott - SONG OF THE SOUTH
Music: Song
Arthur Schwartz - Music, Leo Robin - Lyrics THE TIME, THE PLACE AND THE GIRL "A Gal in Calico"
Frank Loesser - Music & Lyrics THE PERILS OF PAULINE "I Wish I Didn't Love You So"
Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin & Roger Edens - Music & Lyrics GOOD NEWS "Pass That Peace Pipe"
Josef Myrow - Music, Mack Gordon - Lyrics MOTHER WORE TIGHTS "You Do"
Allie Wrubel - Music, Ray Gilbert - Lyrics SONG OF THE SOUTH "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" 
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
Walt Disney - Producer CHIP AN' DALE
Frederick Quimby - Producer DR. JEKYLL AND MR. MOUSE
Walt Disney - Producer PLUTO'S BLUE NOTE
George Pal - Producer TUBBY THE TUBA
Edward Selzer - Producer TWEETIE PIE
Short Subjects (One-reel)
Thomas Mead - Producer BROOKLYN, U.S.A.
Herbert Moulton - Producer GOODBYE MISS TURLOCK
Jerry Fairbanks - Producer MOON ROCKETS
Pete Smith - Producer NOW YOU SEE IT
Gordon Hollingshead - Producer SO YOU WANT TO BE IN PICTURES (Joe McDoakes Series)
Short Subjects (Two-reel)
Harry Grey - Producer CHAMPAGNE FOR TWO
Irving Allen - Producer CLIMBING THE MATTERHORN
Thomas Mead - Producer FIGHT OF THE WILD STALLIONS
Herbert Morgan - Producer GIVE US THE EARTH
Ben Blake - Producer A VOICE IS BORN
Sound Recording
Goldwyn Sound Department - THE BISHOP'S WIFE
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sound Department - GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
Sound Services Inc. - T-MEN (Jack Whitney)
Special Effects
A. Arnold Gillespie & Warren Newcombe (Visual), Douglas Shearer & Michael Steinore (Audible) GREEN DOLPHIN STREET
Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings & Gordon Jennings (Visual), Paul Lerpae & George Dutton (Audible) UNCONQUERED
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1947.
Class II (Plaque)
 C. C. Davis, Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Company - For the development and application of an improved film drive filter mechanism.
C. R. Daily (Paramount Studio Film Laboratory Still and Engineering Departments) - For the development and first practical application to motion picture and still photography of a method of increasing film speed as first suggested to the industry by E I duPont de Nemours & Company.
Class III (Citation)
 Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department) - For the design and construction of a constant-speed sound editing machine.
Farciot Edouart, C. R. Daily, Hal Corl & H. G. Cartwright (Paramount Studio Transparency and Engineering Departments) - For the first application of a special anti-solarizing glass to high intensity background and spot arc projectors.
Fred Ponedel (Warner Bros. Studio) - For pioneering the fabrication and practical application to motion picture color photography of large translucent photographic backgrounds.
Kurt Singer, RCA-Victor Division of (Radio Corporation of America) - For the design and development of a continuously variable band elimination filter.
James Gibbons (Warner Bros. Studio) - For the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography.
Special Awards
To James Baskett - "For his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to the children of the world." Winner presented a Statuette.
To BILL AND COO - (Ken Murray, producer) "In which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures." Winner presented a Plaque.
To SHOESHINE (Italy) - (Paolo W. Tamborella, producer) "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." Winner presented a Statuette.
To William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat & George K. Spoor - "One of the small groups 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." Winners presented Statuettes.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1947.
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| FIRSTS
· Italy's Shoeshine was the first foreign film to receive a Special Academy Award.
· Crossfire was the first second-tier (B movie) to be nominated for Best Picture.
RULE CHANGES
Interior Decoration retitled "Art Direction - Set Decoration."
ROLE REVERSALS
Ironically, Rosalind Russell turned down Loretta Young's role in The Farmer's Daughter.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Body and Soul, Black Narcissus, Out of the Past, Monsieur Verdoux
Actor: Robert Mitchum - Out of the Past, Charles Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux
Actress: Deborah Kerr - Black Narcissus
Supporting Actress: Martha Raye - Monsieur Verdoux
Song: "Golden Earrings," "Time After Time"
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID...
"I'll be nominated for an Oscar® again. Maybe not next year. Maybe I'll have to wait until the fifties. But I intend to win someday," said Susan Hayward. (She won an Oscar® for 1958's I'll Cry Tomorrow.)
UNMENTIONABLES
· The curious Best Screenplay winner, The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, was penned by Sidney Sheldon, the pop-fiction novelist.
· In her acceptance speech, Best Supporting Actress winner Celeste Holm said, "Thank you for letting this happen. I'm so happy to be part of an industry that can create so much understanding in a world that needs it so much."
· James Baskett's Special Award for Uncle Remus in Song of the South allowed the Academy its sympathetic pitch for race relations without having to nominate him for Best Actor. Many black organizations were outraged by the recognition of Baskett's role as a happy-go-lucky slave.
· Best Song winner "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" was so popular that Carmen Miranda had included a backwards version of it in her nightclub act entitled "Eedapiz Ooh Dad."
· The odds-on pick for Best Actress was Rosalind Russell, the star of the arty Mourning Becomes Electra. Publicist Henry Rogers, who had masterminded Joan Crawford and Olivia De Havilland's Oscar® victories the previous two years, offered his services to Russell's husband, producer Freddie Brisson, a.k.a. "The Lizard of Roz." Extensive publicity resulted in Russell's Golden Globe Award. Rogers also made sure the actress was portrayed as a workhorse in the gossip columns. And then there were the ads in the trades, quoting critics like one from the New York World-Telegram, who advised Russell to "clear a place on the mantelpiece for the Oscar®."
· Consequently, near the end of the Awards ceremony, with only the Best Actress statuette left on the dais, the audience began a noisy exit. Rosalind Russell was a foregone conclusion. As Fredric March tore open the envelope, Russell confidently leaned forward and began to rise. March was about to announce her name, "Rosalind...", when he did a double take and paused. "The winner is Loretta Young!" The crowd that had already reached the door froze in its tracks. How was this possible? Even Young couldn't believe it. After breathlessly floating to the stage, she checked the envelope herself just to be sure. Rarely had Oscar night packed such a walloping surprise win. Russell, already half out of her seat, led the standing ovation. It may have been a case of follow-through posture over murderous instinct, but it certainly looked classy.
· "Up to now, this occasion for me has been a spectator sport. But I dressed, just in case," said the truly shocked Best Actress winner.
· Russell didn't even mention the 1947 Oscar® race in her memoirs, but said that the "one grace note in the discord" of Mourning Becomes Electra was that she received "a rare, handwritten note from Eugene O'Neill telling me how much he loved my performance as Lavinia."
· Another loser who looked on the bright side was William Powell. The 55-year-old Powell sent a congratulatory telegram to 57-year-old winner Ronald Coleman: "After all, it's a good thing you won instead of me, because you haven't many years left and I have so many ahead of me."
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