20th Academy Awards

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The 20th Academy Awards was the 1948 ceremony honoring the best films of 1947, notable for milestones such as the introduction of the Honorary Academy Award.

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instanceOf Academy Awards ceremony
film awards ceremony
alsoKnownAs 1948 Academy Awards
awardForYear 1947 in film
bestActorFilm A Double Life
bestActorWinner Ronald Colman
bestActressFilm The Farmer’s Daughter
bestActressWinner Loretta Young
bestArtDirectionBlackAndWhiteWinner Great Expectations
bestArtDirectionColorWinner Black Narcissus
bestCinematographyBlackAndWhiteWinner Great Expectations
bestCinematographyColorWinner Black Narcissus
bestDirectorFilm Gentleman's Agreement
surface form: Gentleman’s Agreement
bestDirectorWinner Elia Kazan
bestDocumentaryFeatureWinner Design for Death
bestDocumentaryShortSubjectWinner First Steps
bestFilmEditingWinner Body and Soul
bestForeignLanguageFilmSpecialAwardRecipient Shoe-Shine
bestLiveActionShortSubjectOneReelWinner Goodbye, Miss Turlock
bestLiveActionShortSubjectTwoReelWinner Climbing the Matterhorn
bestOriginalScreenplayWinner Miracle on 34th Street (1947 film)
surface form: Miracle on 34th Street
bestOriginalScreenplayWriter George Seaton
bestPictureWinner Gentleman's Agreement
surface form: Gentleman’s Agreement
bestScoringOfADramaticOrComedyPictureWinner Life with Father
bestScoringOfAMusicalPictureWinner Mother Wore Tights
bestScreenplayWinner Miracle on 34th Street (1947 film)
surface form: Miracle on 34th Street
bestScreenplayWriter George Seaton
bestShortSubjectCartoonWinner Tweety
surface form: Tweetie Pie
bestSongFilm Song of the South
bestSongWinner Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
bestSoundRecordingWinner The Bishop's Wife
surface form: The Bishop’s Wife
bestSupportingActorFilm Miracle on 34th Street (1947 film)
surface form: Miracle on 34th Street
bestSupportingActorWinner Edmund Gwenn
bestSupportingActressFilm Gentleman's Agreement
surface form: Gentleman’s Agreement
bestSupportingActressWinner Celeste Holm
broadcastOnRadioBy ABC
ceremonyYear 1948
country United States of America
surface form: United States
countryOfCeremony United States of America
surface form: United States
fiscalYearOfFilmsHonored 1947
followedBy 21st Academy Awards
follows 19th Academy Awards
honoraryAwardRecipient Bill and Coo
James Baskett
host Agnes Moorehead
Dick Powell
irvingGThalbergMemorialAwardRecipient Samuel Goldwyn
jeanHersholtHumanitarianAwardRecipient none
location Los Angeles
Shrine Auditorium
notableFor introduction of the Honorary Academy Award as a regular category of special awards
presentedBy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
sequenceNumber 20
state California, United States
surface form: California

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Honorary Academy Award firstPresentedAt 20th Academy Awards
The Farmer’s Daughter AcademyAwardsEdition 20th Academy Awards
21st Academy Awards precededBy 20th Academy Awards