Film Data for 1947
1) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)- 352
2) The Jolson Story (1946)- 293
3) Life With Father- 260
4) The Yearling (1946)- 246
5) Miracle on 34th Street- 238
6) Great Expectations (1946)- 236
7) Crossfire- 168
8) Boomerang- 141
9) Brief Encounter (1946)- 121
10) Odd Man Out- 118
11) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)- 116
12) The Farmer's Daughter- 115
13) Dear Ruth- 110
14) The Razor's Edge (1946)- 105
15) Stairway to Heaven (1946)- 91
16) The Egg and I- 88
17) Welcome Stranger- 85
18) Duel in the Sun (1946)- ?3 (no first digit listed- either 83 or 73
19) The Late George Apley- 67
20) The Hucksters- 63
21) Mother Wore Tights- 62
22) Body and Soul- 60
23) Song of the South (1946)- 50
24) Kiss of Death- 45
The Sea of Grass- 45
13 Rue Madeleine- 45
26) It Happened on 5th Avenue- 42
27) Humoresque (1946)- 38
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty- 38
27) Humoresque (1946)- 38
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty- 38
29) Forever Amber- 37
30) Carnegie Hall- 36
Possessed- 36
31) Blue Skies (1946)- 32
Song of Love- 32
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)- 32
34) I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now- 31
35) The Perils of Pauline- 27
36) Lady in the Lake (1946)- 26
37) Monsieur Verdoux- 25
30) Carnegie Hall- 36
Possessed- 36
31) Blue Skies (1946)- 32
Song of Love- 32
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)- 32
34) I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now- 31
35) The Perils of Pauline- 27
36) Lady in the Lake (1946)- 26
37) Monsieur Verdoux- 25
38) The Dark Mirror (1946)- 23
Ride the Pink Horse- 23
40) Nora Prentiss- 22
The Red House- 22
The Roosevelt Story- 22
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)- 22
44) The Macomber Affair- 20
45) The Unfinished Dance- 19
46) Undercurrent- 16
47) Brute Force- 14
Pursued- 14
49) Nightmare Alley- 13
50) The Two Mrs. Carrolls- 12
51) Cynthia- 11
52) The Adventuress (1946)- 10
Dark Passage- 10
Deception (1946)- 10
Desert Fury- 10
Suddenly It's Spring- 10
Ride the Pink Horse- 23
40) Nora Prentiss- 22
The Red House- 22
The Roosevelt Story- 22
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)- 22
44) The Macomber Affair- 20
45) The Unfinished Dance- 19
46) Undercurrent- 16
47) Brute Force- 14
Pursued- 14
49) Nightmare Alley- 13
50) The Two Mrs. Carrolls- 12
51) Cynthia- 11
52) The Adventuress (1946)- 10
Dark Passage- 10
Deception (1946)- 10
Desert Fury- 10
Suddenly It's Spring- 10
Ten Best Directors
1) William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
2) Clarence Brown for The Yearling (1946)
3) Frank Capra for It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
4) Laurence Olivier for Henry V (1944)
5) Alfred E. Green for The Jolson Story (1946)
6) Alfred Hitchcock for Notorious (1946)
7) Robert Siodmak for the Killers (1946)
8) Victor Saville for The Green Years (1946)
9) Mitchell Leisen for To Each His Own (1946)
10) Elia Kazan for Boomerang
Filmdom's Famous Fives
Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
2) Laurence Olivier in Henry V (1944)
3) James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
4) Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946)
5) Rex Harrison in Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Best Performances by Feminine Stars
1) Olivia de Havilland in To Each His Own (1946)
2) Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter (1945)
3) Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter
4) Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
5) Jane Wyman in The Yearling (1946)
Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
2) Clifton Webb in The Razor's Edge (1946)
3) Claude Rains in Deception (1946) and Notorious (1946)
4) Charles Coburn for The Green Years (1946)
5) Lee J. Cobb in Boomerang
Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (1946)
2) Marjorie Main in The Egg and I
3) Ethel Barrymore in The Farmer's Daughter
4) Gale Sondergaard in Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
5) Maria Ouspenskaya in I've Always Loved You (1946)
Best Performances by Juvenile Actors
1) Claude Jarman, Jr. in The Yearling (1946)
2) Dean Stockwell in The Green Years (1946)
3) Bobby Driscoll in Song of the South (1946)
4) Scotty Beckett in The Jolson Story (1946)
5) Lon McCallister in The Red House
Best Performances by Juvenile Actresses
1) Jane Powell in Holiday in Mexico (1946)
2) Elizabeth Taylor in The Courage of Lassie (1946)
3) Ann Carter in The Two Mrs. Carrolls
4) Allene Roberts in The Red House
5) Luana Patten in Song of the South (1946)
Outstanding Cinematographers
1) Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling for Metro's The Yearling (1946)
2) Lee Garmes, Hal Rosson, Ray Rennahan, Charles P. Boyle and Allen Davey for Selznick's Duel in the Sun (1946)
3) Robert Krasner for Two Cities' Henry V (1944), distributed in the U.S. by United Artists.
4) Woody Bredell for Universal's The Killers (1946)
5) Gregg Toland for Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), distributed by RKO Radio (tied with)
Jack Cardiff for J. Arthur Rank's Stairway to Heaven (1946), distributed in the U.S. by Universal
Outstanding Screenplays
1) Robert E. Sherwood for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
2) Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
3) Anthony Veiller for The Killers (1946)
4) Paul Osborn for The Yearling (1946)
5) Stephen Longstreet for The Jolson Story (1946)
Finds of the Year
1) Larry Parks- Columbia's Al Jolson
2) Claude Jarman, Jr.- Metro's Jody
3) Burt Lancaster- Universal Int'l's The Swede
4) Celia Johnson- J. Arthur Rank's Laura Jesson
5) Lili Palmer- United States Pictures' Gina
Best Actress
Best Foreign Film
New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 29, 1947. Awards presented on January 19, 1948, at Leone's restaurant in New York. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993)
Best Picture
Gentlemen's Agreement (won on Ballot VI with 9 votes)
Runner-up: Great Expectations (1946)(7 votes)
Best Director
Elia Kazan for Boomerang and Gentlemen's Agreement (won on Ballot VI with 9 votes)
Runners-up: Edward Dmytryk for Crossfire (3 votes)
John Ford for The Fugitive (2 votes)
Best Actor
William Powell in Life with Father and The Senator was Indiscreet (won on Ballot VI with 10 votes).
Runner-up: John Garfield in Body and Soul (6 votes)
Deborah Kerr for Black Narcissus and The Adventuress/I See a Dark Stranger (1946)(won on Ballot II- no vote count listed)
Runners-up: Celeste Holm in Gentlemen's Agreement, Anne Revere in Gentlemen's Agreement and Martita Hunt in Great Expectations (1946)- no vote count given
Best Foreign Film
To Live in Peace (Italy)
Great Expectations (1946)
National Board of Review (Voting results announced on December 19, 1947. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards).
Best Film
Monsieur Verdoux
Rest of the Top Ten (Listed in order of preference)
Shoeshine (1946- Italy)
Crossfire
Boomerang!
Odd Man Out
Gentlemen's Agreement
To Live in Peace (Italy)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Overlanders (1946)
Best Director
Elai Kazan, Boomerang! and Gentlemen's Agreement
Best Actor
Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra
Best Actress
Celia Johnson, This Happy Breed (1944)
The British Academy Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
Best Film:
Best Film:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Best British Film:
Odd Man Out
Best Documentary:
The World Is Rich
The Golden Globes (Awards were presented on March 10, 1948 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards).
Top Grossers of 1947 (Source: Variety, January, 7, 1948)
From Variety article: "Following are the $2,000,000 (or over) films of 1947. Included are those pictures which, in the U.S. and Canadian markets, earned that much in distributors' rentals or which have played a sufficient number of dates to permit a reasonable estimate that they will bring in $2,000,000 or more. Also included are a few pictures released toward the end of 1946 on which there weren't enough dates at that time to estimate what their total gross would be at the end their releasing company's standard amortization period. Similarly, such late 1947 entries as 20th-Fox's "Gentlemen's Agreement," Metro's "Cass Timberlane" and RKO's "The Bishop's Wife," have been excluded from this list.
1) The Best Years of Our Lives* (RKO- 1946) $11,500,000
2) Duel in the Sun* (SRO- 1946) $10,750,000
3) The Jolson Story (Col- 1946) $8,000,000
Forever Amber* (20th) $8,000,000
5) Unconquered* (Par) $7,500,000
6) Life With Father* (WB) $6,250,000
7) Welcome Stranger (Par) $6,100,000
8) The Egg and I (Univ) $5,750,000
9) The Yearling (MGM- 1946) $5,250,000
10) Green Dolphin Street (MGM) $5,000,000
The Razor's Edge (20th- 1946) $5,000,000
12) The Hucksters (MGM) $4,700,000
13) The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (RKO) $4,500,000
Till the Clouds Roll By (MGM- 1946) $4,500,000
15) Mother Wore Tights (20th) $4,150,000
16) California (Par) $3,900,000
17) Dear Ruth (Par) $3,800,000
The Perils of Pauline (Par) $3,800,000
19) Sea of Grass (MGM) $3,650,000
This Time for Keeps (MGM) $3,650,000
21) Variety Girl (Par) $3,600,000
22) Fiesta (MGM) $3,550,000
23) Song of the South (RKO- 1946) $3,400,000
The Time, the Place and the Girl (WB) $3,400,000
25) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (RKO) $3,350,000
26) The Farmer's Daughter (RKO) $3,300,000
It's a Wonderful Life (RKO- 1946) $3,300,000
28) Body and Soul (UA) $3,250,000
29) I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (20th) $3,200,000
30) Foxes of Harrow (20th) $3,150,000
31) My Favorite Brunette (Par) $3,100,000
Song of Love (MGM) $3,100,000
33) Dark Passage (WB) $3,000,000
The Secret Heart (MGM- 1946) $3,000,000
Where's There's Life (Par) $3,000,000
36) Golden Earrings (Par) $2,950,000
37) Desert Fury (Par) $2,900,000
Pursued (WB) $2,900,000
39) No Leave, No Love (MGM- 1946) $2,850,000
40) Calcutta (RKO) $2,800,000
Sinbad the Sailor (RKO) $2,800,000
The Strange Woman (UA- 1946) $2,800,000
43) Desire Me (MGM) $2,750,000
13 Rue Madeline (20th- 1946) $2,750,000
45) Miracle on 34th Street (20th) $2,650,000
46) Humoresque (WB- 1946) $2,600,000
47) Cheyenne (WB) $2,550,000
High Barbaree (MGM) $2,550,000
Wild Harvest (Par) $2,550,000
50) Crossfire (RKO) $2,500,000
Down to Earth (Col) $2,500,000
Two Mrs. Carrolls (WB) $2,500,000
53) Fun and Fancy Free (RKO) $2,400,000
Nora Prentiss (WB) $2,400,000
Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (Univ) $2,400,000
56) Homestretch (WB) $2,350,000
Stallion Road (WB) $2,350,000
The Next Fifteen:
11) Cary Grant
Best Picture
Gentlemen's Agreement
Best Director
Elia Kazan, Gentlemen's Agreement
Best Actor
Ronald Colman, A Double Life
Best Actress
Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra
Best Supporting Actor
Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street
Best Supporting Actress
Celeste Holm, Gentlemen's Agreement
New Male Star of the Year
Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death
New Female Star of the Year
Lois Maxwell, That Hagen Girl
Best Screenplay
George Seaton, Miracle of 34th Street
Best Cinematography
Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus
Best Music Score
Max Steiner, Life with Father
Special Achievement Awards
Walt Disney, Hindustani version of Bambi
Dean Stockwell, Gentlemen's Agreement (Best Juvenile)
The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 15, 1948. Awards were presented on March 20, 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar). (Winners in bold print).
Best Picture
The Bishop's Wife, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn.
Crossfire, RKO Radio. Produced by Adrian Scott
Gentlemen's Agreement, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Darryl Zanuck.
Great Expectations (1946), Rank-Cineguild, (U-I) (British). Produced by Roland Neame.
Miracle on 34th Street, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by William Perlberg.
Best Director
George Cukor for A Double Life (Kanin, U-I).
Edward Dmytryk for Crossfire (RKO Radio).
Elia Kazan for Gentlemen's Agreement (20th Century-Fox).
Henry Koster for The Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).
David Lean for Great Expectations (1946), Rank-Cineguild, (U-I) (British).
Best Actor
Ronald Colman in A Double Life (Kanin, U-I).
John Garfield in Body and Soul (Enterprise, UA).
Gregory Peck in Gentlemen's Agreement (20th Century-Fox).
William Powell in Life with Father (Warner Bros.).
Michael Redgrave in Mourning Becomes Electra (RKO Radio).
Best Actress
Joan Crawford in Possessed (Warner Bros.).
Susan Hayward in Smash Up- The Story of a Woman (Wanger, U-I).
Dorothy McGuire in Gentlemen's Agreement (20th Century-Fox).
Rosalind Russell in Mourning Becomes Electra (RKO Radio).
Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter (RKO Radio).
Best Supporting Actor
Charles Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter (RKO Radio).
Thomas Gomez in Ride the Pink Horse (U-I).
Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century-Fox).
Robert Ryan in Crossfire (RKO Radio).
Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death (20th Century-Fox).
Best Supporting Actress
Ethel Barrymore in The Paradine Case (Selznick).
Gloria Grahame in Crossfire (RKO Radio).
Celeste Holm in Gentlemen's Agreement (20th Century-Fox).
Marjorie Main in The Egg and I (Universal-International).
Anne Revere in Gentlemen's Agreement (20th Century-Fox).
Writing- Best Original Story
A Cage of Nightingales, Gaumont, Lopert Films (French). Georges Chaperot and Rene Wheeler.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Roy Del Ruth, Allied Artists. Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani.
Kiss of Death, 20th Century-Fox. Eleazar Lipsky.
Miracle on 34th Street, 20th Century-Fox. Valentine Davies.
Smash Up- The Story of a Woman. Wanger, U-I. Dorothy Parker and Frank Cavett.
Best Original Screenplay
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, RKO Radio. Sidney Sheldon.
Body and Soul, Enterprise, UA. Abraham Polonsky.
A Double Life, Kanin Prod., U-I. Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.
Monsieur Verdoux, Chaplin, UA. Charles Chaplin.
Shoeshine, Lopert Films (Italian). Sergio Amidei, Adolofo Franci, C.G. Viola and Cesare Zavattini.
Best Screenplay
Boomerang!, 20th Century-Fox, Richard Murphy.
Crossfire, RKO Radio. John Paxton.
Gentlemen's Agreement, 20th Century-Fox. Moss Hart
Great Expectations, Rank-Cineguild, U-I (British). David Lean, Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan.
Miracle on 34th Street, 20th Century-Fox. George Seaton.
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 20th Century-Fox. Charles Lang, Jr.
Great Expectations, Rank-Cineguild, U-I (British). Guy Green.
Green Dolphin Street, MGM. George Folsey.
Best Cinematography (Color)
Black Narcissus, Rank-Archers, U-I (British). Jack Cardiff.
Life with Father, Warner Bros. Peverell Marley and William V. Skall.
Mother Wore Tights, 20th Century-Fox. Harry Jackson.
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)
The Foxes of Harrow, 20th Century-Fox. Lyle Wheller and Maurice Ransford; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox.
Great Expectations, Rank-Cineguild, U-I (British). John Bryan; Wilfred Shingleton.
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color)
Black Narcissus, Rank-Archers, U-I (British). Alfred Junge.
Life with Father, Warner Bros. Robert M. Haas; George James Hopkins.
Best Sound Recording
The Bishop's Wife, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Goldwyn Sound Department.
Green Dolphin Street, MGM. MGM Sound Department.
T-Men, Reliance Pictures. Eagle-Lion, Sound Services, Inc.
Best Song
"A Gal in Calico" (The Time, the Place and the Girl, Warner Bros.); Music by Arthur Schwartz. Lyrics by Leo Robin.
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" (The Perils of Pauline, Paramount); Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser.
"Pass That Peace Pipe" (Good News, MGM); Music and Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin and Roger Edens.
"You Do" (Mother Wore Tights, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Josef Myrow. Lyrics by Mack Gordon.
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" (Song of the South (1946), Disney-RKO Radio); Music by Allie Wrubel. Lyrics by Ray Gilbert.
Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
The Bishop's Wife, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Hugo Friedhofer.
Captain from Castile, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.
A Double Life, Kanin, U-I. Miklos Rozsa.
Forever Amber, 20th Century-Fox. David Raksin.
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
Fiesta, MGM. Johnny Green
Mother Wore Tights, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.
My Wild Irish Rose, Warner Bros. Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner.
Road to Rio, Hope-Crosby, Paramount. Robert Emmett Dolan.
Song of the South (1946), Disney-RKO Radio. Daniele Amfitheatrif, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott.
Best Film Editing
The Bishop's Wife, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Monica Collingwood.
Body and Soul, Enterprise, UA. Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish.
Gentlemen's Agreement, 20th Century-Fox. Harmon Jones.
Green Dolphin Street, MGM. George White.
Odd Man Out, Rank- Two Cities, U-I (British). Fergus McDonnell.
Best Special Effects
Green Dolphin Street, MGM. Visual: A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe. Audible: Douglas Shearer and Michael Steinore.
Unconquered, Paramount. Visual: Farciot Edouart, Devereux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelley and Paul Lerpae. Audible: George Dutton.
Best Short Subject Cartoon
Chip an' Dale, Walt Disney, RKO Radio (Donald Duck). Walt Disney, producer
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse, MGM (Tom & Jerry). Frederick Quimby, producer.
Pluto's Blue Note, Walt Disney, RKO Radio (Pluto). Walt Disney, producer.
Tubby the Tuba, Paramount (Puppetoon). George Pal, producer.
Tweetie Pie, Warner Bros. (Merrie Melodies). Edward Selzer, producer.
Best Short Subject (One-Reel)
Brooklyn, U.S.A., U-I (Variety Series). Thomas Mead, producer.
Goodbye Miss Turlock, MGM. (John Nesbitt Passing Parade). Herbert Moulton, producer.
Moon Rockets, Paramount (Popular Science). Jerry Fairbanks, producer.
Now You See It, MGM. Pete Smith, producer.
So You Want to Be in Pictures, Warner Bros. (Joe McDoakes). Gordon Hollingshead, producer.
Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)
Champagne for Two, Paramount (Musical Parade Featurette). Harry Grey, producer.
Climbing the Matterhorn, Monogram (Color). Irving Allen, producer.
Fight of the Wild Stallions, U-I (Special). Thomas Mead, producer.
Give Us the Earth, MGM (Special). Herbert Morgan, producer.
A Voice is Born, Columbia (Musical Featurette). Ben Blake, producer.
Best Documentary Short Subject
First Steps, United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education.
Passport to Nowhere, RKO Radio (This is America Series). Frederic Ullman, Jr., producer.
School in the Mailbox, Australian News and Information Bureau.
Best Documentary Feature
Design for Death, RKO Radio. Sid Rogell, executive producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, producers.
Journey into Medicine, U.S. Department of State, Office of Information and Educational Exchange.
The World is Rich, British Information Services, Paul Rotha, producer.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Not given this year.
Special Awards
James Baskett for his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and storyteller to the children of the world (statuette).
Bill and Coo, in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures (plaque).
Shoeshine- 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 (statuette).
Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor, the small group 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 (statuette).
Scientific or Technical
Class I (Statuette)
None.
Class II (Plaque)
C.C. Davis and Electrical Research Products, Division of Western Electric Co., for the development and application of an improved film drive filter mechanism.
C.R. Daily and the 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 & Co.
Class III (Citation)
Nathan Levinson and the 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 and the 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 of Warner Bros. Studio for pioneering the fabrication and practical application to motion picture color photography of large translucent photographic backgrounds.
Kurt Singer and the RCA-Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America for the design and development of a continuously variable band elimination filter.
James Gibbons of Warner Bros. Studio for the development and production of large dyed plastic filters for motion picture photography.
Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
Best Films:
Antoine et Antoinette (Jacques Becker, France)
Les Maudits (Rene Clement, France)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
Dumbo (1941- Walt Disney, USA)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945- Vincente Minnelli, USA)
Best Director:
(not awarded)
Best Actor:
(not awarded)
Best Actress:
(not awarded)
Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
Best Film, International Grand Prize:
Sirena (Karel Stekly, Czechoslovakia)
Best Original Contribution to Film Progress:
La Pera (Emilio Fernandez, Mexico)
Dreams That Money Can Buy (Hans Richter, USA)
Best Direction:
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Quai des Orfevres
Most Original Story
Vesna (Gregorij Alexandrov, USSR)
Best Actress
Anna Magnani, Honorable Angelina
Best Actor
Pierre Fresnay, Monsieur Vincent
Best Music:
E.F. Burian, Sirena
Best Feature Documentary:
On the Trail of the Animals (Boris Dolin, USSR)
Best Short Documentary:
Piazza San Marco (Francisco Pasinetti, Italy)
Special Homage:
Carl Dreyer, Dies irae
Best Italian Film:
Caccia Tragica (Giuseppe De Sanctis)
The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
The Yearling (1946)
Great Expectation (1946)
Miracle on 34th Street
Crossfire
Life with Father
Shoeshine
Gentlemen's Agreement
To Live in Peace
The Bishop's Wife
The Fugitive
Time Magazine Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
Odd Man Out
Boomerang!
Ivan the Terrible (1944- Russian)
Monsieur Verdoux
Great Expectation (1946)
Crossfire
Shoeshine
Gentlemen's Agreement
Man About Town
To Live in Peace
From Variety article: "Following are the $2,000,000 (or over) films of 1947. Included are those pictures which, in the U.S. and Canadian markets, earned that much in distributors' rentals or which have played a sufficient number of dates to permit a reasonable estimate that they will bring in $2,000,000 or more. Also included are a few pictures released toward the end of 1946 on which there weren't enough dates at that time to estimate what their total gross would be at the end their releasing company's standard amortization period. Similarly, such late 1947 entries as 20th-Fox's "Gentlemen's Agreement," Metro's "Cass Timberlane" and RKO's "The Bishop's Wife," have been excluded from this list.
1) The Best Years of Our Lives* (RKO- 1946) $11,500,000
2) Duel in the Sun* (SRO- 1946) $10,750,000
3) The Jolson Story (Col- 1946) $8,000,000
Forever Amber* (20th) $8,000,000
5) Unconquered* (Par) $7,500,000
6) Life With Father* (WB) $6,250,000
7) Welcome Stranger (Par) $6,100,000
8) The Egg and I (Univ) $5,750,000
9) The Yearling (MGM- 1946) $5,250,000
10) Green Dolphin Street (MGM) $5,000,000
The Razor's Edge (20th- 1946) $5,000,000
12) The Hucksters (MGM) $4,700,000
13) The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (RKO) $4,500,000
Till the Clouds Roll By (MGM- 1946) $4,500,000
15) Mother Wore Tights (20th) $4,150,000
16) California (Par) $3,900,000
17) Dear Ruth (Par) $3,800,000
The Perils of Pauline (Par) $3,800,000
19) Sea of Grass (MGM) $3,650,000
This Time for Keeps (MGM) $3,650,000
21) Variety Girl (Par) $3,600,000
22) Fiesta (MGM) $3,550,000
23) Song of the South (RKO- 1946) $3,400,000
The Time, the Place and the Girl (WB) $3,400,000
25) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (RKO) $3,350,000
26) The Farmer's Daughter (RKO) $3,300,000
It's a Wonderful Life (RKO- 1946) $3,300,000
28) Body and Soul (UA) $3,250,000
29) I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (20th) $3,200,000
30) Foxes of Harrow (20th) $3,150,000
Song of Love (MGM) $3,100,000
33) Dark Passage (WB) $3,000,000
The Secret Heart (MGM- 1946) $3,000,000
Where's There's Life (Par) $3,000,000
36) Golden Earrings (Par) $2,950,000
37) Desert Fury (Par) $2,900,000
Pursued (WB) $2,900,000
39) No Leave, No Love (MGM- 1946) $2,850,000
40) Calcutta (RKO) $2,800,000
Sinbad the Sailor (RKO) $2,800,000
The Strange Woman (UA- 1946) $2,800,000
43) Desire Me (MGM) $2,750,000
13 Rue Madeline (20th- 1946) $2,750,000
45) Miracle on 34th Street (20th) $2,650,000
46) Humoresque (WB- 1946) $2,600,000
47) Cheyenne (WB) $2,550,000
High Barbaree (MGM) $2,550,000
Wild Harvest (Par) $2,550,000
50) Crossfire (RKO) $2,500,000
Down to Earth (Col) $2,500,000
Two Mrs. Carrolls (WB) $2,500,000
53) Fun and Fancy Free (RKO) $2,400,000
Nora Prentiss (WB) $2,400,000
Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (Univ) $2,400,000
56) Homestretch (WB) $2,350,000
Stallion Road (WB) $2,350,000
58) Escape Me Never (WB) $2,300,000
Possessed (WB) $2,300,000
60) Boomerang (20th) $2,250,000
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (20th) $2,250,000
Unfaithful (WB) $2,250,000
63) Brute Force (Univ) $2,200,000
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (MGM) $2,200,000
65) It Happened in Brooklyn (MGM) $2,150,000
66) Song of Scheherazade (Univ) $2,100,000
67) Suddenly It's Spring (Par) $2,050,000
68) Buck Privates Come Home (Univ) $2,000,000
Cry Wolf (WB) $2,000,000
Great Expectations (Univ- 1946) $2,000,000
Lady in the Lake (MGM) $2,000,000
Magic Town (RKO) $2,000,000
Slave Girl (Univ) $2,000,000
Smash-Up, the Story of a Women (Univ) $2,000,000
The Unsuspected (WB) $2,000,000
* Upped-admission picture. Estimate based on take of increased price distribution plus first time around in regular release.
Possessed (WB) $2,300,000
60) Boomerang (20th) $2,250,000
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (20th) $2,250,000
Unfaithful (WB) $2,250,000
63) Brute Force (Univ) $2,200,000
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (MGM) $2,200,000
65) It Happened in Brooklyn (MGM) $2,150,000
66) Song of Scheherazade (Univ) $2,100,000
67) Suddenly It's Spring (Par) $2,050,000
68) Buck Privates Come Home (Univ) $2,000,000
Cry Wolf (WB) $2,000,000
Great Expectations (Univ- 1946) $2,000,000
Lady in the Lake (MGM) $2,000,000
Magic Town (RKO) $2,000,000
Slave Girl (Univ) $2,000,000
Smash-Up, the Story of a Women (Univ) $2,000,000
The Unsuspected (WB) $2,000,000
* Upped-admission picture. Estimate based on take of increased price distribution plus first time around in regular release.
Ten Big Pictures of 1947 (Source: Box Office Digest 1948 Annual, with estimated gross listed):
1) Duel in the Sun (1946)- $12,500,000
2) Forever Amber- $8,500,000
3) Unconquered- $8,000,000
4) Road to Rio- $6,500,000
5) Captain from Castile- $6,500,000
6) Life with Father- $6,000,000
7) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer- $5,000,000
8) Welcome Stranger- $4,750,000
9) Gentlemen's Agreement- $4,500,000
10) Green Dolphin Street- $4,500,000
Top Ten Box Office Stars of 1947 (According to Quigley Publications)
1) Bing Crosby
2) Betty Grable
1) Bing Crosby
2) Betty Grable
3) Ingrid Bergman
4) Gary Cooper
5) Humphrey Bogart
6) Bob Hope
7) Clark Gable
8) Gregory Peck
9) Claudette Colbert
10) Alan Ladd
The Next Fifteen:
11) Cary Grant
12) Roy Rogers
13) Van Johnson
14) Spencer Tracy
15) Larry Parks
16) Abbott & Costello
17) Fred MacMurray
18) Rita Hayworth
19) Margaret O'Brien
20) Tyrone Power
21) Joan Crawford
22) Barbara Stanwyck
23) Dana Andrews
24) Esther Williams
25) Cornel Wilde
The Stars of Tomorrow (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).
1) Evelyn Keyes
2) Billy De Wolfe
3) Peter Lawford
4) Janis Paige
5) Elizabeth Taylor
6) Claude Jarmon, Jr.
7) Janet Blair
8) Macdonald Carey
9) Gail Russell
10) Richard Conte
The Top Ten Western Stars of 1947 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).
1) Roy Rogers
2) Gene Autry
3) William Boyd
4) Bill Elliot
5) Gabby Hayes
6) Charles Starrett
7) Smiley Burnette
8) Johnny Mack Brown
9) Dale Evans
10) Eddie Dean
The Top Ten Box-Offices Stars of 1947 in Britain (according to The Motion Picture Herald).
British Stars:
1) James Mason
2) Anna Neagle
3) Margaret Lockwood
4) John Mills
5) Stewart Granger
6) Patricia Roc
7) Michael Wilding
8) Deborah Kerr
9) Robert Newton
10) Trevor Howard
International Stars:
1) Bing Crosby
2) James Mason
3) Anna Neagle
4) Margaret Lockwood
5) Bette Davis
6) John Mills
7) Alan Ladd
8) Humphrey Bogart
9) Ingrid Bergman
10) Bob Hope
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