Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

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1946 edition

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Fred Quimby

  For the film: Quiet Please!

  Also nominated: Donald's Crime · Eddie Selzer · George Pal · Gypsy Life · Jasper and the Beanstalk · Paul Terry · Rippling Romance · The Poet & Peasant · Life with Feathers · Walt Disney · Walter Lantz

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 Billy Wilder

  For the film: The Lost Weekend

  Also nominated: Alfred Hitchcock · Clarence Brown · Jean Renoir · Leo McCarey · National Velvet · Spellbound · The Bells of St. Mary's · The Southerner

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 Robert J. Kern

  For the film: National Velvet

  Also nominated: A Song to Remember · Charles Nelson · Doane Harrison · The Lost Weekend · George Amy · Harry Marker · Objective, Burma! · The Bells of St. Mary's

• Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

  🏆 Georgie Stoll

  For the film: Anchors Aweigh

  Also nominated: Alfred Newman · Arthur Lange · Belle of the Yukon · Can't Help Singing · Charles E. Henderson · Charles Wolcott · Edward H. Plumb · Edward J. Kay · Hans J. Salter · Hitchhike to Happiness · Incendiary Blonde · Jerome Kern · Louis Forbes · Marlin Skiles · Max Steiner · Morris Stoloff · Paul Smith · Ray Heindorf · Rhapsody in Blue · Robert E. Dolan · State Fair · Sunbonnet Sue · Tonight and Every Night · The Three Caballeros · Walter Greene · Why Girls Leave Home · Wonder Man

• Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

  🏆 Gordon Hollingshead

  For the film: Star in the Night

  Also nominated: A Gun in His Hand · Chester M. Franklin · George Templeton · Jules White · The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round · The Little Witch

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Stephen Dunn

  For the film: The Bells of St. Mary's

  Also nominated: A Song to Remember · Bernard B. Brown · Daniel J. Bloomberg · Douglas Shearer · Flame of Barbary Coast · Gordon E. Sawyer · Jack Whitney · John P. Livadary · Lady on a Train · Leave Her to Heaven · Loren L. Ryder · The Unseen · Nathan Levinson · Rhapsody in Blue · Sam Slyfield · The Southerner · They Were Expendable · Thomas T. Moulton · 3 Is a Family · The Three Caballeros · Wonder Man · W. V. Wolfe

• Academy Award for Best Story

  🏆 Charles G. Booth

  For the film: The House on 92nd Street

  Also nominated: Alvah Bessie · A Morte de uma Ilusão · A Song to Remember · Ernst Marischka · Jack Wagner · John Steinbeck · László Görög · Objective, Burma! · The Affairs of Susan · Thomas Monroe

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 James Dunn

  For the film: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  Also nominated: A Morte de uma Ilusão · J. Carrol Naish · John Dall · Mikhail Chekhov · Robert Mitchum · Spellbound · Story of G.I. Joe · The Corn Is Green

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 Hitler Lives

  Also nominated: Library of Congress

• Academy Award for Best Original Score

  🏆 Miklós Rózsa

  Also nominated: Alexandre Tansman · The Lost Weekend

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 The Lost Weekend

  Also nominated: Anchors Aweigh · Mildred Pierce · Spellbound · The Bells of St. Mary's

• Academy Juvenile Award

  🏆 Peggy Ann Garner

• Special Achievement Academy Award

  🏆 Abel Meeropol

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography

  Also nominated: The Lost Weekend

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