1946 (19th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1946 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Motion Picture

The Best Years of Our Lives, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio.

Best Actor

Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio.

Best Actress

Olivia de Havilland in To Each His Own, Paramount.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Anne Baxter in The Razor’s Edge, 20th Century-Fox.

Directing

The Best Years of Our Lives, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio. William Wyler.

Art Direction-Interior Decoration

(Black-and-White)

Anna and the King of Siam, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Lyle Wheeler and William Darling; interior decoration by Thomas Little and Frank E. Hughes.

(Color)

The Yearling, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; interior decoration by Edwin B. Willis.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

Anna and the King of Siam, 20th Century-Fox. Arthur Miller.

(Color)

The Yearling, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling.

Documentary

(Short Subject)

Seeds of Destiny, United States Department of War.

Film Editing

The Best Years of Our Lives, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio. Daniel Mandell.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

The Best Years of Our Lives, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio. Hugo Friedhofer.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

The Jolson Story, Columbia. Morris Stoloff.

(Song)

On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe from The Harvey Girls, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Harry Warren; lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

The Cat Concerto, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Tom & Jerry Series] Frederick Quimby, Producer.

(One-reel)

Facing Your Danger, Warner Bros. [Sports Parade Series] Gordon Hollingshead, Producer.

(Two-reel)

A Boy and His Dog, Warner Bros. [Featurettes Series] Gordon Hollingshead, Producer.

Sound Recording

The Jolson Story, Columbia. Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Blithe Spirit, J. Arthur Rank-Noel Coward-Cineguild; United Artists. (UK) Special visual effects by Thomas Howard.

Writing

(Original Motion Picture Story)

Vacation from Marriage, London Films; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK) Clemence Dane.

(Original Screenplay)

The Seventh Veil, J. Arthur Rank-Sydney Box-Ortus; Universal. (UK) Muriel Box and Sydney Box.

(Screenplay)

The Best Years of Our Lives, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; RKO Radio. Robert E. Sherwood.

Special Award

To Laurence Olivier for his outstanding achievement as an actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen. [ [Statuette]]

To Harold Russell for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives. [ [Statuette]]

To Ernst Lubitsch for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture. [ [Scroll]]

(Juvenile)

To Claude Jarman, Jr., outstanding child actor of 1946. [ [Miniature Statuette]]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Samuel Goldwyn

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class III)

To Harlan L. Baumbach and the Paramount West Coast Laboratory for an improved method for the quantitative determination of hydroquinone and metol photographic development.

To Herbert E. Britt for the development and application of formulas and equipment for producing cloud and smoke effects.

To Burton F. Miller, the Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and the Warner Bros. Studio Electrical Department for the design and construction of a motion picture arc lighting generator filter.

To Carl Faulkner of the 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department for the reversed bias method, including a double bias method for light valve and galvanometer density recording.

To the Mole-Richardson Company for the Type 450 super high density carbon arc lamp.

To Arthur F. Blinn, Robert O. Cook, C. O. Slyfield and the Walt Disney Studio Sound Department for the design and development of an audio finder and track viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks.

To Burton F. Miller and the Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department for the design and application of an equalizer to eliminate relative spectral energy distortion in electronic compressors.

To Marty Martin and Hal Adkins of the RKO Radio Studio Miniature Department for the design and construction of equipment providing visual bullet effects.

To Harold Nye and the Warner Bros. Studio Electrical Department for the development of the electronically controlled fire and gaslight effect.