21st Academy Awards

21st Academy Awards
DateMarch 24, 1949
SiteThe Academy Theater, Hollywood, California, USA
Hosted byRobert Montgomery
Highlights
Best PictureHamlet
Most awardsHamlet (4)
Most nominationsJohnny Belinda (12)

The 21st Academy Awards were held on March 24, 1949, honoring the films of 1948. The ceremony was moved from the Shrine Auditorium to the Academy's own theater, primarily because the major Hollywood studios had withdrawn their financial support in order to address rumors that they had been trying to influence voters. This year marked the first time a non-Hollywood production (Laurence Olivier's Hamlet) won Best Picture, and the first time an individual (Olivier) directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance.

The Academy Award for Best Costume Design was introduced this year. Like Best Cinematography and Best Set Decoration, it was split into Color and Black & White categories.

John Huston directed his father, Walter Huston, to the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a unique accomplishment. The Huston family won three Oscars that evening (John won for Best Director and Best Screenplay, both for the same film). Humphrey Bogart's lack of a nomination for Best Actor has been since considered one of the Academy's greatest slights.

Joan of Arc set a record by receiving seven nominations without being nominated for Best Picture; this stood until They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) received nine nominations at the 42nd Academy Awards without one for Best Picture.

Hamlet became the fifth film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination; the next to do so would be The Sound of Music at the 38th Academy Awards. Jane Wyman became the first performer since the silent era to win an Oscar for a performance with no lines; Johnny Belinda was the fourth film to receive nominations in all four acting categories.

I Remember Mama received four acting nominations but not one for Best Picture, tying the record set by My Man Godfrey in 1936. Two more films to date have tied this record: Othello (1965) and Doubt (2008).

Awards

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Laurence Olivier; Best Picture and Best Actor winner
John Huston; Best Director and Best Screenplay winner
Jane Wyman; Best Actress winner
Walter Huston; Best Supporting Actor winner
Claire Trevor; Best Supporting Actress winner
Walt Disney; Best Live Action Short Subject, Two Reel winner
Barbara Karinska; Best Costume Design, Color co-winner
Paul Eagler; Best Special Effects co-winner

Nominees were announced on February 10, 1949. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Motion Picture Story Best Screenplay
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel
Best Short Subject – Cartoons Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture Best Original Song
Best Sound Recording Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-and-White
Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Color Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Cinematography, Color Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
Best Costume Design, Color Best Film Editing
Best Special Effects

Academy Honorary Awards

  • Sid Grauman "master showman, who raised the standard of exhibition of motion pictures".
  • Adolph Zukor "a man who has been called the father of the feature film in America, for his services to the industry over a period of forty years".
  • Walter Wanger "for distinguished service to the industry in adding to its moral stature in the world community by his production of the picture Joan of Arc".

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Juvenile Award

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Scientific or Technical

Class II

  • Victor Caccialanza, Maurice Ayers and the Paramount Studio Set Construction Department for the development and the application of "Paralite", a new lightweight plaster process for set construction
  • Nick Kalten, Louis J. Witt and the Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Mechanical Effects Department for a process of preserving and flame-proofing foliage

Class III

  • Marty Martin, Jack Lannon, Russell Shearman and the RKO Radio Studio Special Effects Department; A.J. Moran and the Warner Bros. Studio Electrical Department

Presenters

Performers

Multiple nominations and awards

See also


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