1946 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
RKO; Samuel Goldwyn
THE BIG SLEEP
Warner Bros; Howard Hawks
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Rank / Cineguild; Anthony Havelock-Allan
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
RKO / Liberty; Frank Capra
THE KILLERS
Universal; Mark Hellinger
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
Rank / Archers; Michael Powell & Emeric
Pressburger
NOTORIOUS
RKO; Alfred Hitchcock
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
20th Century Fox; Darryl F. Zanuck
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
RKO; Dore Schary
THE YEARLING
MGM; Sidney Franklin
Also Considered:
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM (Louis D. Lighton); DUEL IN
THE SUN (David O. Selznick); GILDA (Virginia Van Upp); THE JOLSON STORY (Sidney Skolksy); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Samuel G. Engel); THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (Carey Wilson); SHOESHINE
(Paolo William Tamburella); SONG OF THE SOUTH (Walt Disney); THE STRANGER (Sam Spiegel); TO EACH HIS OWN (Charles Brackett)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Humphrey Bogart as "Philip Marlowe" - THE BIG
SLEEP
Henry Fonda as "Wyatt Earp" - MY DARLING
CLEMENTINE
Glenn Ford as "Johnny Farrell" -
GILDA
John Garfield as "Frank Chambers" - THE POSTMAN ALWAYS
RINGS TWICE
Cary Grant as "T.R. Devlin" -
NOTORIOUS
Fredric March as "Al Stephenson" - THE BEST YEARS OF
OUR LIVES
David Niven as "Peter Carter" - A MATTER OF LIFE &
DEATH
Larry Parks as "Al Jolson" - THE JOLSON
STORY
Gregory Peck as "Penny Baxter" - THE
YEARLING
James Stewart as "George Bailey" - IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Also Considered:
Dana Andrews (THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES); Fred Astaire
(BLUE SKIES); Joseph Cotten (DUEL IN THE SUN); Rex Harrison (ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM); Burt Lancaster (THE KILLERS); John Mills (GREAT EXPECTATIONS); Paul Muni (ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER);
Gregory Peck (DUEL IN THE SUN); Michael Redgrave (THE CAPTIVE HEART); Orson Welles (THE STRANGER)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Lauren Bacall as "Vivien Rutledge" - THE BIG SLEEP
Ingrid Bergman as "Alicia Huberman" -
NOTORIOUS
Olivia de Havilland as "Josephine Norris" - TO
EACH HIS OWN
Rita Hayworth as "Gilda Mundson" -
GILDA
Kim Hunter as "June" - A MATTER OF LIFE &
DEATH
Jennifer Jones as "Pearl Chavez" - DUEL IN THE
SUN
Dorothy McGuire as "Helen" - THE SPIRAL
STAIRCASE
Rosalind Russell as "Elizabeth Kenny" - SISTER
KENNY
Lana Turner as "Cora Smith" - THE POSTMAN
ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
Jane Wyman as "Orry Baxter" - THE
YEARLING
Also Considered:
Jeannie Crain (MARGIE); Joan Crawford
(HUMORESQUE); Olivia de Havilland (THE DARK MIRROR); Irene Dunne (ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM); Judy Garland (THE HARVEY GIRLS); Jennifer Jones (CLUNY BROWN); Ida Lupino (DEVOTION);
Michele Morgan (PASTORAL SYMPHONY); Barbara Stanwyck (THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS); Gene Tierney (THE RAZOR'S EDGE)
BEST DIRECTOR
Clarence Brown - THE YEARLING
Frank Capra - IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
John Ford - MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Edmund Goulding - THE RAZOR'S EDGE
Howard Hawks - THE BIG SLEEP
Alfred Hitchcock - NOTORIOUS
David Lean - GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - A MATTER OF LIFE
& DEATH
Robert Siodmak - THE KILLERS
William Wyler - THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Also Considered:
Jean Cocteau (BEAUTY & THE BEAST); Vittorio de Sica
(SHOESHINE); Tay Garnett (THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE); Alfred Green & Joseph Lewis (THE JOLSON STORY); Mitchell Liesen (TO EACH HIS OWN); Ernst Lubitsch (CLUNY BROWN); Roberto
Rossellini (PAISAN); Robert Siodmak (THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE); King Vidor (DUEL IN THE SUN); Orson Welles (THE STRANGER)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
James Baskette as "Uncle Remus" - SONG OF THE
SOUTH
Charles Coburn as "Alexander Gow" - THE GREEN
YEARS
William Demerest as "Steve Martin" - THE JOLSON
STORY
Claude Jarman, Jr. as "Jody Baxter" - THE
YEARLING
Roger Livesey as "Dr. Reeves" - A MATTER OF LIFE &
DEATH
Victor Mature as "Doc Holliday" - MY DARLING
CLEMENTINE
Claude Rains as "Alexander Sebastian" -
NOTORIOUS
Harold Russell as "Homer Parrish" - THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Jack Warner as "Cpl. Horsfall" - THE CAPTIVE
HEART
Clifton Webb as "Elliott Templeton" - THE RAZOR'S
EDGE
Also Considered:
Joseph Calleia (GILDA); Hoagy Carmichael (THE BEST YEARS
OF OUR LIVES); Steve Geray (GILDA); Alec Guinness (GREAT EXPECTATIONS); Richard Haydn (CLUNY BROWN); Oscar Levant (HUMORESQUE); Peter Lorre (THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS); George Macready
(GILDA); Claure Rains (ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER); Henry Travers (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ethel Barrymore as "Mrs. Warren" - THE SPIRAL
STAIRCASE
Anne Baxter as "Sophie MacDonald" - THE RAZOR'S EDGE
Ava Gardner as "Kitty Collins" - THE
KILLERS
Lillian Gish as "Laura Belle McCanles" - DUEL IN
THE SUN
Myrna Loy as "Milly Stephenson" - THE BEST YEARS
OF OUR LIVES
Una O'Connor as "Mrs. Wilson" - CLUNY
BROWN
Donna Reed as "Mary Hatch" - IT'S A WONDERFUL
LIFE
Gale Sondergaard as "Lady Thiang" - ANNA & THE
KING OF SIAM
Martha Vickers as "Carmen Sternwood" - THE BIG
SLEEP
Teresa Wright as "Peggy Stephenson" - THE BEST
YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Also Considered:
Lucille Ball (EASY TO WED); Constance Bennett (CENTENNIAL
SUMMER); Martita Hunt (GREAT EXPECTATIONS); Evelyn Keyes (THE JOLSON STORY); Virginia Mayo (THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES); Flora Robson (SARATOGA TRUNK); Jean Simmons (GREAT EXPECTATIONS);
Lisette Verea (A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA); Helen Walker (CLUNY BROWN); Jane Wyman (NIGHT & DAY)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
THE BIG SLEEP
GILDA
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
THE KILLERS
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
NOTORIOUS
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
THE YEARLING
Also Considered:
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM; CLUNY BROWN; DUEL IN THE SUN; HUMORESQUE; THE JOLSON STORY; A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH; THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE; THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE; THE STRANGER; TO EACH HIS OWN
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM
Talbot Jennings & Sally Benson
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Robert Sherwood
THE BIG SLEEP
William Faulkener, Leigh Brackett & Jules
Furthman
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Ronald Neame, David Lean & Anthony
Havelock-Allan
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra & Jo
Swerling
THE KILLERS
Anthony Veiller
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Samuel G. Engel & Winston Miller
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
Harry Ruskin & Niven Busch
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
Lamar Trotti
THE YEARLING
Paul Osborn
Also Considered:
CLUNY BROWN (Samuel Hoffenstein & Elizabeth
Reinhardt); DUEL IN THE SUN (Oliver H.P. Garrett); THE
GREEN YEARS (Robert Ardrey & Sonya Levien); THE HARVEY GIRLS (Edmund Beloin, Nathaniel Curtis, Harry Crane, James O'Hanlon & Samson Raphaelson); HUMORESQUE (Clifford Odets &
Zachary Gold); MARGIE (F. Hugh Herbert); SARATOGA TRUNK (Casey Robinson); THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (Mel
Dinelli); TERROR
BY NIGHT (Frank Gruber); A WALK IN THE SUN (Robert Rossen)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
THE BLUE DAHLIA
Raymond Chandler
GILDA
Marion Parsonnet & E.A. Ellington
HUE & CRY
T.E.B. Clarke
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
NOTORIOUS
Ben Hecht
PAISAN
Federico Fellini & Roberto Rossellini
ROAD TO UTOPIA
Norman Panama & Melvin Frank
SHOESHINE
Sergio Amedei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Guilio Viola & Cesare
Zavattini
THE STRANGER
Anthony Veiller
TO EACH HIS OWN
Charles Brackett & Jacques Théry
Also Considered:
ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER (Harry Segall & Roland Kibbee);
BLUE SKIES (Arthur Sheekman); THE CAPTIVE HEART (Angus MacPhail & Guy Morgan); THE DARK MIRROR (Nunnally Johnson); DEVOTION (Keith Winter); THE JOLSON STORY (Stephen Longstreet, Harry Chandler &
Andrew Solt); A NIGHT IN
CASABLANCA (Joseph Fields & Roland Kibbee); THE OVERLANDERS (Harry Watts); THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (Robert Rossen & John Patrick); THREE STRANGERS (John Huston & Howard
Koch)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
THE CAT CONCERTO
Frederick Quimby
CHOPIN'S MUSICAL MOMENTS
Walter Lantz
JOHN HENRY & INKY POO
George Pal
MAKE MINE MUSIC
Bob Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske &
Joshua Meador
RHAPSODY RABBIT
Friz Freleng
Also Considered:
THE MILKY WAIF (Frederick Quimby); SONG OF THE SOUTH (Walt
Disney); SPRINGTIME FOR THOMAS (Frederick Quimby); SQUATTER'S RIGHTS (Walt Disney); WALKY TALKY HAWKY (Edward Selzer)
BEST ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM
Lyle Wheeler & William S. Darling; Thomas Little &
Frank E. Hughes
DUEL IN THE SUN
J. McMillan Johnson & James Basevi
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
John Bryan & Wilfred Shingleton
THE HARVEY GIRLS
Cedric Gibbons & William Ferrari; Edwin B.
Willis
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Jack Okey; Emile Kuri
THE JOLSON STORY
Stephen Goosson & Walter Holscher; Louis Diage &
William Kiernan
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
Alfred Junge
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
Richard Day & Nathan Juran; Thomas Little & Paul S.
Fox
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
Albert D'Agostino & Jack Okey; Darrell
Silvera
THE YEARLING
Cedric Gibbons & Paul Groesse; Edwin B.
Willis
Also Considered:
BEAUTY & THE BEAST (Christian Bérard; Lucien Carré
& Rene Moulaert); THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Perry Ferguson & George Jenkins; Julia Heron); THE BIG SLEEP (Carl Jules Weyl; Fred MacLean); BLUE SKIES (Hans Dreier & Hal
Pereira; Sam Comer & Maurice Goodman); THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Eugene Lourie; Julia Heron); THE DOLLY SISTERS (Leland Fuller & Lyle Wheeler; Thomas Little & Walter M. Scott);
GILDA (Stephen Goosson & Van Nest Polglase; Robert Priestley); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (James Basevi & Lyle Wheeler; Thomas Little); NOTORIOUS (Carroll Clark & Albert D'Agostino;
Claude a Carpenter & Darrell Silvera); TO EACH HIS OWN (Roland Anderson & Hans Dreier; Sam Comer & James M. Walters)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM
Arthur Miller
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Henri Alekan
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Gregg Toland
DUEL IN THE SUN
Lee Garmes, Harold Rosson & Ray Rennahan
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Guy Green
THE GREEN YEARS
George J. Folsey
THE KILLERS
Elwood Bredell
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
Jack Cardiff
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
Nicholas Musuraca
THE YEARLING
Leonard Smith, Charles Rosher & Arthur
Arling
Also Considered:
THE BIG SLEEP (Sid Hickox); THE DOLLY SISTERS (Ernest
Palmer); GILDA (Rudolph Mate); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Joseph Walker & Joseph Biroc); THE
JOLSON STORY (Joseph Walker); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Joseph MacDonald); NOTORIOUS (Ted Tetzlaff); THE OVERLANDERS (Osmond Borradaile); THE RAZOR'S EDGE (Arthur Miller); THE STRANGER (Russell
Metty)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM
Bonnie Cashin
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Marcel Escoffier & Antonio Castillo
THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID
Laure Lourié
DUEL IN THE SUN
Walter Plunkett
GILDA
Jean Louis
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Sophia Harris
THE HARVEY GIRLS
Helen Rose
THE JOLSON STORY
Jean Louis
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
Hein Heckroth
THE YEARLING
Valles
Also Considered:
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Irene Sharaff); THE BIG SLEEP
(Leah Rhodes); BLUE SKIES (Waldo Angelo, Edith Head & Barbara Karinska); DEVOTION (Milo Anderson); THE DOLLY SISTERS (Orry-Kelly); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Edward Stevenson); MY DARLING
CLEMENTINE (Rene Hubert); THE RAZOR'S EDGE (Charles LeMaire & Oleg Cassini); THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (Edward Stevenson); TO EACH HIS OWN (Edith Head)
BEST FILM EDITING
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Daniel Mandell
THE BIG SLEEP
Christian Nyby
COURAGE OF LASSIE
Conrad A. Nervig
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
William Hornbeck
THE JOLSON STORY
William Lyon
THE KILLERS
Arthur Hilton
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Dorothy Spencer
NOTORIOUS
Theron Warth
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
Harry Marker & Harry Gerstad
THE YEARLING
Harold F. Kress
Also Considered:
BLACK BEAUTY (Martin Cole); THE BLUE DAHLIA (Arthur
Schmidt); GILDA (Charles Nelson); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Jack Murray); A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH (Reginald Mills); THE
OVERLANDERS (Inman Hunter); THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (George White); THE RAZOR'S EDGE (J. Watson Webb); SONG OF THE SOUTH (William Morgan); TO EACH HIS OWN (Alma Macrorie)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
France; Jean Cocteau
NEECHA NAGAR
India; Chetan Anand
PAISAN
Italy; Roberto Rossellini
PANIQUE
France; Julian Duvivier
SHOESHINE
Italy; Vittorio de Sica
Also Considered:
THE LAST CHANCE (Switzerland; Leopold Lindtberg); THE
MURDERERS ARE AMONG US (Germany; Wolfgang Staudte); NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH (Japan; Akira Kurosawa); PASTORAL SYMPHONY (France; Jean Delannoy); UTAMARO & HIS FIVE WOMEN (Japan; Kenji
Mizoguchi)
BEST MAKEUP
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM
Ben Nye
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Hagop Arakelian
THE JOLSON STORY
Clay Campbell
Also Considered:
THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Otis Malcolm); IT'S A WONDERFUL
LIFE (Gordon Bau); A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH (George Blackler)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
ANNA & THE KING OF SIAM
Bernard Herrmann
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Hugo Friedhofer
THE BIG SLEEP
Max Steiner
DUEL IN THE SUN
Dimitri Tiomkin
HUMORESQUE
Franz Waxman
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Dimitri Tiomkin
THE KILLERS
Miklos Rozsa
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
Allan Gray
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
Alfred Newman
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
Roy Webb
Also Considered:
BEAUTY & THE BEAST (Georges Auric); BLACK BEAUTY
(Dimitri Tiomkin); DECEPTION (Erich Wolfgang Korngold); GILDA (Hugo Friedhofer); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Cyril Mockridge); NOTORIOUS (Roy Webb); SHOESHINE (Alessandro Cicognini); THE STRANGER
(Bronislau Kaper); TO EACH HIS OWN (Victor Young); THE YEARLING (Herbert Stothart)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER
Dimitri Tiomkin
BLUE SKIES
Robert Emmett Dolan
CENTENNIAL SUMMER
Alfred Newman
THE HARVEY GIRLS
Lennie Hayton
HUE & CRY
Georges Auric
THE JOLSON STORY
Morris Stoloff
MAKE MINE MUSIC
Charles Wolcott
NIGHT & DAY
Ray Heindorf & Max Steiner)
A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA
Werner Janssen
SONG OF THE SOUTH
Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith & Charles
Wolcott
Also Considered:
CLUNY BROWN (Cyril Mockridge & Emil Newman) THE DOLLY
SISTERS (David Buttolph, Charles Henderson, Cyril Mockridge & Alfred Newman); EASY TO WED (Johnny Green); FREDDIE STEPS OUT (Edward Kay); THE GREAT MORGAN (Max Terr); THE KID FROM
BROOKLYN (Carmen Dragon); LOVE LAUGHS AT ANDY HARDY (David Snell); ROAD TO UTOPIA (Leigh Harline); THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (Mack Gordon & Josef Myrow); TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (Conrad
Salinger)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"All Through The Day" - CENTENNIAL
SUMMER
Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II
"The Anniversary Song" - THE JOLSON
STORY
Saul Chaplin & Al Jolson
"I Can't Begin To Tell You" - THE DOLLY
SISTERS
James Monaco & Mack Gordon
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" - CANYON PASSAGE
Hoagy Carmichael & Jack Brooks
"On The Aitcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe" - THE
HARVEY GIRLS
Hoagy Carmichael & Jack Brooks
"Personality" - ROAD TO UTOPIA
Jimmy Van Burke & Johnny Burke
"Put The Blame On Mame" - GILDA
Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher
"You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" - BLUE
SKIES
Irving Berlin
"You Make Me Feel So Young" - THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN
BLUE
Josef Myrow & Mack Gordon
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" - SONG OF THE SOUTH
Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert
Also Considered:
"Amado Mio" - GILDA (Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher);
"Blue Skies" - BLUE SKIES (Irving Berlin); "Everybody's Got A Laughing Place" - SONG OF THE SOUTH (Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert); "Give Me The Simple Life" - WAKE UP & DREAM (Harry Ruby
& Rube Bloom); "If I'm Lucky" - IF I'M LUCKY (Josef Myrow & Eddie DeLange); "In Love In Vain" - CENTENNIAL SUMMER (Jerome Kern & Leo Robin); "In The Valley (Where The Evenin' Sun
Goes Down)" - THE HARVEY GIRLS (Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer); "Oh, But I Do" - THE TIME, THE PLACE & THE GIRL (Arthur Schwartz & Leo Robin); "On The Boardwalk At Atlantic City" -
THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (Josef Myrow & Mack Gordon); "Welcome To My Dream" - ROAD TO UTOPIA (James Van Heusen & Johnny Burke)
BEST SOUND
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Gordon E. Sawyer
DUEL IN THE SUN
James G. Stewart
GILDA
Lambert E. Day & Russell Malmgren
THE HARVEY GIRLS
Douglas Shearer
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
John Aalberg
THE JOLSON STORY
John P. Livardary
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
C.C. Stevens
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Eugene Grossman & Roger Heman
SONG OF THE SOUTH
C.O. Slyfield
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
John L. Cass & Terry Kellum
Also Considered:
BEAUTY & THE BEAST (Jacques Carrere & Jacques
Lebreton); THE BIG SLEEP (Robert B. Lee); BLACK BEAUTY (John Carter); CUBAN PETE (Bernard B. Brown); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Stanley Lambourne & Gordon K. McCallum); THE KILLERS (Bernard B.
Brown); NOTORIOUS (John E. Trippy); A STOLEN LIFE (Nathan Levinson); TO EACH HIS OWN (John Cope & Don McKay); THE YEARLING (Douglas Shearer)
BEST SPECIAL SOUND EFFECTS
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Rouzenat
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Gordon E. Sawyer
DUEL IN THE SUN
Charles L. Freeman
Also Considered:
THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (Gerald W. Alexander & Robert
G. Wayne); THE BIG SLEEP (Gerald W. Alexander & Robert G. Wayne); SONG OF THE SOUTH (Gloria Gottschalk)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS
Hans F. Koenecamp & William McCann
A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
Stanley Grant, Henry Harris & Douglas Woolsey
SONG OF THE SOUTH
Ub Iwerks, Joshua Meador, Blaine Gibson, Brad Case &
George Rowley
A STOLEN LIFE
William C. McCann
Also Considered:
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (John Fulton); DUEL IN THE SUN
(Jack Cosgrove & Clarence Slifer); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Les Bowie & Douglas Woolsey); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Russell A. Cully & Russell Shearman)
Most Wins:
6 - The Best Years of our Lives
2 - It's A Wonderful Life; The Jolson Story
1 - Beauty & The Beast; The Big Sleep; The Cat Concerto; Gilda; Great Expectations; The Killers; A Matter of Life & Death; Notorious; The Razor's Edge; Shoeshine; Song of the South; The Spiral Staircase
Most Nominations:
13 - The Best Years of our Lives
12 - A Matter of Life & Death
11 - The Yearling
10 - It's A Wonderful Life
9 - The Big Sleep; The Jolson Story
8 - Duel in the Sun; The Killers; Notorious; The Razor's Edge; The Spiral Staircase
7 - Anna & The King of Siam; Gilda; Great Expectations; My Darling Clementine
5 - Beauty & The Beast; The Harvey Girls; Song of the South
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