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1946 Oscars:
The 1946 Academy Awards were presented March 13, 1947 at the Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles.
| Best Motion Picture | The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) |
| Henry V (J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films; United Artists) |
| It's a Wonderful Life (Liberty Films; RKO Radio) |
| The Razor's Edge (Twentieth Century-Fox) | | The Yearling (MGM) |
| Best Actor | Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Laurence Olivier, Henry V |
| Larry Parks, The Jolson Story |
| Gregory Peck, The Yearling |
| James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life | |
| Best Actress | Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own |
| Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter |
| Jennifer Jones, Duel in the Sun |
| Rosalind Russell, Sister Kenny | | Jane Wyman, The Yearling |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Charles Coburn, The Green Years |
| William Demarest, The Jolson Story |
| Claude Rains, Notorious |
| Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives | | Clifton Webb, The Razor's Edge |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Ethel Barrymore, The Spiral Staircase |
| Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge |
| Lilian Gish, Duel in the Sun |
| Flora Robson, Saratoga Trunk | | Gale Sondergaard, Anna and the King of Siam |
| Directing | Clarence Brown, The Yearling |
| Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life |
| David Lean, Brief Encounter |
| Robert Siodmak, The Killers | | William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Writing |
| Original Motion Picture Story | Charles Brackett, To Each His Own |
| Clemence Dane, Vacation From Marriage |
| Jack Patrick, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers |
| Vladimir Pozner, The Dark Mirror | | Victor Trivas, The Stranger |
| Original Screenplay | Muriel Box and Sydney Box, The Seventh Veil |
| Raymond Chandler, The Blue Dahlia |
| Ben Hecht, Notorious |
| Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Road to Utopia | | Jacques Prévert, Children of Paradise |
| Screenplay | Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini, Open City |
| Sally Benson and Talbot Jennings, Anna and the King of Siam |
| Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame, Brief Encounter |
| Robert E. Sherwood, The Best Years of Our Lives | | Anthony Veiller, The Killers | |
| Cinematography |
| Black-and-White | George Folsey, The Green Years | | Arthur Miller, Anna and the King of Siam |
| Color | Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling, The Yearling | | Joseph Walker, The Jolson Story | |
| Art Direction |
| Black-and-White | Richard Day and Nathan Juran, art direction; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox, interior decoration, The Razor's Edge |
| Hans Dreier and Walter Tyler, art direction; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer, interior decoration, Kitty | | Lyle Wheeler and William Darling, art direction; Thomas Little and Frank E. Hughes, interior decoration, Anna and the King of Siam |
| Color | John Bryan, art direction, Caesar and Cleopatra |
| Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse, art direction; Edwin B. Willis, interior decoration, The Yearling | | Paul Sheriff and Carmen Dillon, art direction, Henry V | |
| Sound Recording | Columbia Studio Sound Dept., The Jolson Story |
| RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., It's a Wonderful Life | | Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Music |
| Song | “All Through the Day,” Centennial Summer, Jerome Kern, music; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyrics |
| “I Can't Begin to Tell You,” The Dolly Sisters, James Monaco, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics |
| “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” Canyon Passage, Hoagy Carmichael, music; Jack Brooks, lyrics |
| “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe,” The Harvey Girls, Harry Warren, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics | | “You Keep Coming Back Like a Song,” Blue Skies, Irving Berlin, music and lyrics |
| Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Hugo Friedhofer, The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Bernard Herrmann, Anna and the King of Siam |
| Miklos Rozsa, The Killers |
| William Walton, Henry V | | Franz Waxman, Humoresque |
| Scoring of a Musical Picture | Robert Emmett Dolan, Blue Skies |
| Lennie Hayton, The Harvey Girls |
| Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner, Night and Day |
| Alfred Newman, Centennial Summer | | Morris Stoloff, The Jolson Story | |
| Film Editing | Arthur Hilton, The Killers |
| William Hornbeck, It's a Wonderful Life |
| Harold Kress, The Yearling |
| William Lyon, The Jolson Story | | Daniel Mandell, The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Special Effects | Thomas Howard, visual, Blithe Spirit | | William McGann, visual; Nathan Levinson, audible, A Stolen Life |
| Short Subjects |
| Cartoon | The Cat Concerto (Tom and Jerry Series) (Frederick Quimby, producer; MGM) |
| Chopin's Musical Moments (Musical Miniatures Series) (Walter Lantz, producer; Universal) |
| John Henry and the Inky Poo (George Pal Puppetoon Series) (George Pal, producer; Paramount) |
| Squatter's Rights (Mickey Mouse Series) (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) | | Walky Talky Hawky (Merrie Melodies Series) (Edward Selzer, producer; Warner Bros.) |
| One-Reel | Dive-Hi Champs (Grantland Rice Spotlights Series) (Jack Eaton, producer; Paramount) |
| Facing Your Danger (Sports Parade Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) |
| Golden Horses (Ed Thorgerson's Sports Review Series) (Edmund Reek, producer; Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Smart as a Fox (Vitaphone Varieties Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Sure Cures (Pete Smith Specialty Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM) |
| Two-Reel | A Boy and His Dog (Featurettes Series) (Gordon Hollingshead, producer; Warner Bros.) |
| College Queen (Musical Parade Series) (George B. Templeton, producer; Paramount) |
| Hiss and Yell (All Star Comedies Series) (Jules White, producer; Columbia) | | The Luckiest Guy in the World (Crime Doesn't Pay Series) (Jerry Bresler, producer; MGM) | |
| Documentary |
| Short Subject | Atomic Power (March of Time Series) (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Life at the Zoo (Artkino; Artkino Pictures) |
| Paramount News Issue #37 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue! 1927—1947) (Paramount) |
| Seeds of Destiny (U.S. War Department) | | Traffic With the Devil (Theatre of Life Series) (Herbert Morgan, producer; MGM) | |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Special Awards | To Laurence Olivier for his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen |
| To Harold Russell for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives |
| To Ernst Lubitsch for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture | | To Claude Jarman, Jr., outstanding child actor of 1946 |
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