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1946 Academy Awards — 101 nominations across 24 categories.

Best Picture

★ The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Henry V IMDB — J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
It's a Wonderful Life IMDB — Liberty Films
The Razor's Edge IMDB — 20th Century-Fox
The Yearling IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

★ The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB — Fredric March
Henry V IMDB — Laurence Olivier
The Jolson Story IMDB — Larry Parks
The Yearling IMDB — Gregory Peck
It's a Wonderful Life IMDB — James Stewart

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

★ The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB — Harold Russell
The Green Years IMDB — Charles Coburn
The Jolson Story IMDB — William Demarest
Notorious IMDB — Claude Rains
The Razor's Edge IMDB — Clifton Webb

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

★ To Each His Own IMDB — Olivia de Havilland
Brief Encounter IMDB — Celia Johnson
Duel in the Sun IMDB — Jennifer Jones
Sister Kenny IMDB — Rosalind Russell
The Yearling IMDB — Jane Wyman

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

★ The Razor's Edge IMDB — Anne Baxter
The Spiral Staircase IMDB — Ethel Barrymore
Duel in the Sun IMDB — Lillian Gish
Saratoga Trunk IMDB — Flora Robson
Anna and the King of Siam IMDB — Gale Sondergaard

ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)

ART DIRECTION (Color)

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)

★ Anna and the King of Siam IMDB — Arthur Miller
The Green Years IMDB — George Folsey

CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)

★ The Yearling IMDB — Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, Arthur Arling
The Jolson Story IMDB — Joseph Walker

DIRECTING

★ The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB — William Wyler
Brief Encounter IMDB — David Lean
It's a Wonderful Life IMDB — Frank Capra
The Killers IMDB — Robert Siodmak
The Yearling IMDB — Clarence Brown

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

FILM EDITING

★ The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB — Daniel Mandell
It's a Wonderful Life IMDB — William Hornbeck
The Jolson Story IMDB — William Lyon
The Killers IMDB — Arthur Hilton
The Yearling IMDB — Harold Kress

MUSIC (Original Score)

★ The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB — Hugo Friedhofer
Anna and the King of Siam IMDB — Bernard Herrmann
Henry V IMDB — William Walton
Humoresque IMDB — Franz Waxman
The Killers IMDB — Miklos Rozsa

MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)

★ The Jolson Story IMDB — Morris Stoloff
Blue Skies IMDB — Robert Emmett Dolan
Centennial Summer IMDB — Alfred Newman
The Harvey Girls IMDB — Lennie Hayton
Night and Day IMDB — Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner

MUSIC (Original Song)

SHORT FILM (Animated)

SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel)

★ Facing Your Danger IMDB — Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Dive-Hi Champs IMDB — Jack Eaton, Producer
Golden Horses IMDB — Edmund Reek, Producer
Smart as a Fox IMDB — Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Sure Cures IMDB — Pete Smith, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel)

SOUND RECORDING

SPECIAL AWARD

★ Henry V IMDB
★ The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB

VISUAL EFFECTS

WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)

WRITING (Original Screenplay)

★ The Seventh Veil IMDB — Muriel Box, Sydney Box
The Blue Dahlia IMDB — Raymond Chandler
Children of Paradise IMDB — Jacques Prevert
Notorious IMDB — Ben Hecht
Road to Utopia IMDB — Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

WRITING (Original Story)

★ Vacation from Marriage IMDB — Clemence Dane
The Dark Mirror IMDB — Vladimir Pozner
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers IMDB — Jack Patrick
The Stranger IMDB — Victor Trivas
To Each His Own IMDB — Charles Brackett