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1942 Academy Awards

The 1942 Academy Awards were presented March 4, 1943 at Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.

Outstanding Motion Picture

The Invaders (Ortus; Columbia)

Kings Row (Warner Bros.)

The Magnificent Ambersons (Mercury; RKO Radio)

Mrs. Miniver (MGM)

The Pied Piper (Twentieth Century-Fox)

The Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn; RKO Radio)

Random Harvest (MGM)

The Talk of the Town (Columbia)

Wake Island (Paramount)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros.)

Best Actor

James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

Ronald Colman, Random Harvest

Gary Cooper, The Pride of the Yankees

Walter Pidgeon, Mrs. Miniver

Monty Woolley, The Pied Piper

James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Best Actress

Bette Davis, Now, Voyager

Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver

Katharine Hepburn, Woman of the Year

Rosalind Russell, My Sister Eileen

Teresa Wright, The Pride of the Yankees

Actor in a Supporting Role

William Bendix, Wake Island

Van Heflin, Johnny Eager

Walter Huston, Yankee Doodle Dandy

Frank Morgan, Tortilla Flat

Henry Travers, Mrs. Miniver

Actress in a Supporting Role

Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager

Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons

Susan Peters, Random Harvest

Dame May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver

Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver

Directing

Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy

John Farrow, Wake Island

Mervyn LeRoy, Random Harvest

Sam Wood, Kings Row

William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver

Writing

Original Motion Picture Story	Irving Berlin, Holiday Inn
	Robert Buckner, Yankee Doodle Dandy
	Paul Gallico, The Pride of the Yankees
	Sidney Harmon, The Talk of the Town
	Emeric Pressburger, The Invaders
Original Screenplay	W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, Wake Island
	Frank Butler and Don Hartman, Road to Morocco
	Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., Woman of the Year
	George Oppenheimer, The War Against Mrs. Hadley
	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Screenplay	Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, The Invaders
	Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw, The Talk of the Town
	George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis, Mrs. Miniver
	George Froeschel, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis, Random Harvest
	Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling, The Pride of the Yankees

Cinematography

Black-and-White	Charles Clarke, Moontide
	Stanley Cortez, The Magnificent Ambersons
	Edward Cronjager, The Pied Piper
	James Wong Howe, Kings Row
	Rudolph Maté, The Pride of the Yankees
	John Mescall, Take a Letter, Darling
	Arthur Miller, This Above All
	Joseph Ruttenberg, Mrs. Miniver
	Leon Shamroy, Ten Gentlemen From West Point
	Ted Tetzlaff, The Talk of the Town
Color	Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall, To the Shores of Tripoli
	W. Howard Greene, Jungle Book
	Milton Krasner, William V. Skall and W. Howard Greene, Arabian Knights
	Victor Milner and William V. Skall, Reap the Wild Wind
	Sol Polito, Captains of the Clouds
	Leon Shamroy, The Black Swan

Art Direction

Black-and-White	Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad, art direction; Fay Babcock, interior decoration, The Talk of the Town
	Ralph Berger, art direction; Emile Kuri, interior decoration, Silver Queen
	Albert S. D'Agostino, art direction; Al Fields and Darrell Silvera, interior decoration, The Magnificent Ambersons
	Richard Day and Joseph Wright, art direction; Thomas Little, interior decoration, This Above All
	Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer, interior decoration, Take a Letter, Darling
	Perry Ferguson, art direction; Howard Bristol, interior decoration, The Pride of the Yankees
	Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Jack Moore, interior decoration, Random Harvest
	John B. Goodman and Jack Otterson, art direction; Russell A. Gausman and Boris Leven, art direction and interior decoration, The Shanghai Gesture
	Max Parker and Mark-Lee Kirk, art direction; Casey Roberts, interior decoration, George Washington Slept Here
	Edward R. Robinson, interior decoration, The Spoilers
Color	Richard Day and Joseph Wright, art direction; Thomas Little, interior decoration, My Gal Sal
	Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson, art direction; George Sawley, interior decoration, Reap the Wild Wind
	Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson, art direction; Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb, interior decoration, Arabian Nights
	Vincent Korda, art direction; Julia Heron, interior decoration, Jungle Book
	Ted Smith, art direction; Casey Roberts, interior decoration, Captains of the Clouds

Sound Recording

Columbia Studio Sound Dept., You Were Never Lovelier

MGM Studio Sound Dept., Mrs. Miniver

Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Road to Morocco

RCA Sound, The Gold Rush

Republic Studio Sound Dept., Flying Tigers

RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., Once Upon a Honeymoon

Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., The Pride of the Yankees

Sound Service, Inc., Friendly Enemies

Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., This Above All

Universal Studio Sound Dept., Arabian Nights

Walt Disney Studio Sound Dept., Bambi

Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Yankee Doodle Dandy

Music

Song	“Always in My Heart,” Always in My Heart, Ernesto Lecuona, music; Kim Gannon, lyrics
	“Dearly Beloved,” You Were Never Lovelier, Jerome Kern, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics
	“How About You?,” Babes on Broadway, Burton Lane, music; Ralph Freed, lyrics
	“It Seems I Heard That Song Before,” Youth on Parade, Jule Styne, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
	“I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo,” Orchestra Wives, Harry Warren, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics
	“Love Is a Song,” Bambi, Frank Churchill, music; Larry Morey, lyrics
	“Pennies for Peppino,” Flying With Music, Edward Ward, music; Chet Forrest and Bob Wright, lyrics
	“Pig Foot Pete,” Hellzapoppin', Gene de Paul, music; Don Raye, lyrics (This song was declared ineligible because it does not appear in Hellzapoppin'. The song did appear in the 1941 film Keep 'Em Flying.)
	“There's a Breeze on Lake Louise,” The Mayor of 44th Street, Harry Revel, music; Mort Greene, lyrics
	*“White Christmas,” Holiday Inn, Irving Berlin, music and lyrics*
Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture	Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb, Bambi
	Richard Hageman, The Shanghai Gesture
	Leigh Harline, The Pride of the Yankees
	Werner Heymann, To Be or Not to Be
	Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff, The Talk of the Town
	Edward Kay, Klondike Fury
	Alfred Newman, The Black Swan
	Miklos Rozsa, Jungle Book
	Frank Skinner, Arabian Nights
	Max Steiner, Now, Voyager
	Herbert Stothart, Random Harvest
	Max Terr, The Gold Rush
	Dimitri Tiomkin, The Corsican Brothers
	Roy Webb, I Married a Witch
	Roy Webb, Joan of Paris
	Victor Young, Flying Tigers
	Victor Young, Silver Queen
	Victor Young, Take a Letter, Darling
Scoring of a Musical Picture	Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll, For Me and My Gal
	Robert Emmett Dolan, Holiday Inn
	Leigh Harline, You Were Never Lovelier
	Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld, Yankee Doodle Dandy
	Alfred Newman, My Gal Sal
	Charles Previn and Hans Salter, It Started With Eve
	Walter Scharf, Johnny Doughboy
	Edward Ward, Flying With Music

Film Editing

George Amy, Yankee Doodle Dandy

Harold F. Kress, Mrs. Miniver

Daniel Mandell, The Pride of the Yankees

Otto Meyer, The Talk of the Town

Walter Thompson, This Above All

Special Effects

Lawrence Butler, photography; William H. Wilmarth, sound, Jungle Book

Jack Cosgrove and Ray Binger, photography; Thomas T. Moulton, sound, The Pride of the Yankees

Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira, photography; Louis Mesenkop, sound, Reap the Wild Wind

John Fulton, photography; Bernard B. Brown, sound, Invisible Agent

A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe, photography; Douglas Shearer, sound, Mrs. Miniver

Byron Haskin, photography; Nathan Levinson, sound, Desperate Journey

Howard Lydecker, photography; Daniel J. Bloomberg, sound, Flying Tigers

Ronald Neame, photography; C. C. Stevens, sound, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Fred Sersen, photography; Roger Heman and George Leverett, sound, The Black Swan

Vernon L. Walker, photography; James G. Stewart, sound, The Navy Comes Through

Short Subjects

Cartoon	All Out for “V” (Terrytoons Series) (Twentieth Century-Fox)
	Blitz Wolf (MGM)
	Der Fuehrer's Face (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
	Juke Box Jamboree (Swing Symphony Series) (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal)
	Pigs in a Polka (Blue Ribbon Series) (Leon Schlesinger, producer; Warner Bros.)
	Tulips Shall Grow (George Pal Puppetoon Series) (George Pal Productions, Paramount)
One-Reel	Desert Wonderland (Magic Carpet Series) (Twentieth Century-Fox)
	Marines in the Making (Pete Smith Specialties Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM)
	Speaking of Animals and Their Families (Speaking of Animals Series) (Paramount)
	United States Marine Band (Melody Master Bands Series) (Warner Bros.)
Two-Reel	Beyond the Line of Duty (Broadway Brevities Series) (U.S. War Department; Warner Bros.)
	Don't Talk (Crime Doesn't Pay Series) (MGM)
	Private Smith of the U.S.A. (This Is America Series) (RKO Radio)

Documentary

Africa, Prelude to Victory (March of Time; Twentieth Century-Fox)

The Battle of Midway (U.S. Navy; Twentieth Century-Fox)

Combat Report (U.S. Army Signal Corps)

Conquer by the Clock (America Speaks Series) (U.S. War Information Office; RKO Pathé)

The Grain That Built a Hemisphere (Walt Disney, producer; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs)

Henry Browne, Farmer (U.S. Department of Agriculture; Republic)

High Over the Borders (National Film Board of Canada)

High Stakes in the East (Netherlands Information Bureau; Netherlands Information Bureau/Service)

Inside Fighting China (World in Action Series) (National Film Board of Canada; United Artists)

It's Everybody's War (U.S. War Information Office; Twentieth Century-Fox)

Kokoda Front Line! (Australian News and Information Bureau)

Listen to Britain (British Ministry of Information)

Little Belgium (Belgian Ministry of Information)

Little Isles of Freedom (Broadway Brevities Series) (Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew, producers; Warner Bros.)

Moscow Strikes Back (Artkino; Republic)

Mr. Blabbermouth! (U.S. War Information Office; MGM)

Mr. Gardenia Jones (U.S. War Information Office; MGM)

The New Spirit (Walt Disney, producer; U.S. Treasury Department)

Prelude to War (U.S. Army Special Services)

The Price of Victory (U.S. War Information Office; Paramount)

A Ship Is Born (U.S. Merchant Marine; Warner Bros.)

Twenty-One Miles (British Ministry of Information)

We Refuse to Die (U.S. War Information Office; Paramount)

White Eagle (Concanen Films)

Winning Your Wings (U.S. Army Air Force; Warner Bros.)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Sidney Franklin

Special Awards

To Charles Boyer for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference for the Hollywood motion picture industry

To Noel Coward for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve

To MGM for its achievement in representing the American way of life in the production of the Andy Hardy series of films

1943 Academy Awards

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