Oscar Rewrite: 1947

 

Best Picture: Gentleman’s Agreement   Out of the Past

Best Director: Elia Kazan (Gentleman’s Agreement) Orson Welles (The Lady From Shanghai)

Best Actor: Ronald Coleman (A Double Life) Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past)

Best Actress: Loretta Young (The Farmer’s Daughter) Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)

Best Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street) Kirk Douglas (Out of the Past)

Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement)

Best Original Screenplay: Miracle on 34th Street

Best Adapted Screenplay: Gentleman’s Agreement   The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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