1947 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1947

Black Narcissus

Body And Soul

Crossfire

✔ Gentleman's Agreement

The Ghost And Mrs. Muir

Miracle On 34th Street

Monsieur Verdoux

Nightmare Alley

Odd Man Out

★ Out Of The Past

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Best Actor of 1947

John Garfield (Body and Soul)

Rex Harrison (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

James Mason (Odd Man Out)

★ Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past)

Tyrone Power (Nightmare Alley)

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Best Actress of 1947

Jane Greer (Out of the Past)

Susan Hayward (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman)

★ Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)

Gene Tierney (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

✔ Loretta Young (The Bishop's Wife and The Farmer's Daughter)

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Best Director of 1947

Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire)

★ Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Black Narcissus)

Carol Reed (Odd Man Out)

George Seaton (Miracle On 34th Street)

Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1947

★ ✔ Edmund Gwenn (Miracle On 34th Street)

Gene Lockhart (Miracle On 34th Street)

Victor Moore (It Happened On 5th Avenue)

Robert Ryan (Crossfire)

Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1947

★ Kathleen Byron (Black Narcissus)

Gloria Grahame (Crossfire)

✔ Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement)

Martha Raye (Monsieur Verdoux)

Anne Revere (Body and Soul and Gentleman's Agreement)

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Special Award

George Seaton, from a story by Valentine Davies (Miracle On 34th Street) (original screenplay)

Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) from his novel Build My Gallows High (Out of the Past) (adapted screenplay)

Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus) (cinematography)

Alfred Junge (Black Narcissus) (art direction - set decoration)

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" (Song of the South) music by Allie Wrubel; lyrics by Ray Gilbert (song)

Gentleman's Agreement and Crossfire (everything old is new again) (prejudice category)

William Frawley ("Charlie Halloran") (Miracle On 34th Street) (best legal advice) (existence of Santa Claus category)

Fred Gailey's apartment (Miracle On 34th Street) (least likely place you'd allow a seven year old girl to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade)

Porter Hall ("Mr. Sawyer") (Miracle On 34th Street) (worst co-worker)

Jerome Cowan ("Thomas Mara") (Miracle On 34th Street) (most hapless district attorney)

Robert Hyatt ("Thomas Mara Jr.") (Miracle On 34th Street) (most devastating surprise witness)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.