THE BLACK SWAN (Robert Bassler); CAT PEOPLE (Val Lewton);
THE MAJOR & THE MINOR (Arthur Hornblow, Jr.); NOW, VOYAGER (Hal B. Wallis); ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger); THE PALM BEACH STORY (Buddy DeSylva);
THE PIED PIPER (Nunnally Johnson); RANDOM HARVEST (Sidney Franklin); SABOTEUR (Frank Lloyd); THE TALK OF THE TOWN (George Stevens)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Ralph Bellamy as "Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold Von
Ragenstein" - THE GREAT IMPERSONATION
Humphrey Bogart as "Rick Blaine" -
CASABLANCA
James Cagney as "George M. Cohan" - YANKEE DOODLE
DANDY
Ronald Colman as "Charles Rainier" - RANDOM
HARVEST
Gary Cooper as "Lou Gehrig" - THE PRIDE OF THE
YANKEES
Joseph Cotten as "Howard Graham" - JOURNEY INTO
FEAR
Errol Flynn as "James J. Corbett" - GENTLEMAN
JIM
Alan Ladd as "Ed Beaumont" - THE GLASS KEY
Walter Pidgeon as "Clem Miniver" - MRS.
MINIVER
Monty Woolley as "John Sidney Howard" - THE PIED
PIPER
Also Considered:
Humphrey Bogart (ACROSS THE PACIFIC); Jack Benny (TO BE OR
NOT TO BE); Tim Holt (THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS); Bob Hope (MY FAVOURITE BLONDE); Fredric March (I MARRIED A WITCH); Joel McCrea (THE PALM BEACH STORY); Ray Milland (THE MAJOR & THE
MINOR); Tyrone Power (THE BLACK SWAN); Michael Redgrave (THUNDER ROCK); Monty Woolley (THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Ingrid Bergman as "Ilsa Lund" -
CASABLANCA
Bette Davis as "Charlotte Vale" - NOW,
VOYAGER
Greer Garson as "Kay Miniver" - MRS. MINIVER
Rita Hayworth as "Sally Elliott" - MY GAL
SAL
Katherine Hepburn as "Tess Harding" - WOMAN OF THE
YEAR
Ginger Rogers as "Roxie Hart" - ROXIE HART
Rosalind Russell as "Ruth Sherwood" - MY SISTER
EILEEN
Ann Sheridan as "Randy Monaghan" - KINGS ROW
Simone Simon as "Irena Dubrovna Reed" - CAT
PEOPLE
Teresa Wright as "Eleanor Gehrig" - THE PRIDE OF THE
YANKEES
Also Considered:
Jean Arthur (THE TALK OF THE TOWN); Lucille Ball (THE BIG
STREET); Madeleine Carroll (MY FAVOURITE BLONDE); Claudette Colbert (THE PALM BEACH STORY); Dolores Costello (THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS); Bette Davis (THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER); Greer
Garson (RANDOM HARVEST); Veronica Lake (I MARRIED A WITCH); Carole Lombard (TO BE OR NOT TO BE); Maureen O'Hara (THE BLACK SWAN)
BEST DIRECTOR
Noel Coward & David Lean - IN WHICH WE SERVE
Michael Curtiz -
CASABLANCA
John Farrow - WAKE ISLAND
Ernst Lubitsch - TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT
IS MISSING
George Stevens - THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jacques Tourneur - CAT PEOPLE
Orson Welles - THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Sam Wood - KINGS ROW
William Wyler - MRS. MINIVER
Also Considered:
Michael Curtiz (YANKEE DOODLE DANDY); Norman Foster &
Orson Welles (JOURNEY INTO FEAR); Alfred Hitchcock (SABOTEUR); Henry King (THE BLACK SWAN); Mervyn LeRoy (RANDOM HARVEST); Irving Pichel (THE PIED PIPER); Irving Rapper (NOW, VOYAGER);
Preston Sturges (THE PALM BEACH STORY); Raoul Walsh (GENTLEMAN JIM); William Wellman (ROXIE HART)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
William Bendix as "Pvt. Aloysius K. Randall" - WAKE
ISLAND
Ward Bond as "John L. Sullivan" - GENTLEMAN
JIM
Ray Collins as "Jack Amberson" - THE MAGNIFICENT
AMBERSONS
Sydney Greenstreet as "Dr. H.F.G. Lorenz" - ACROSS THE
PACIFIC
Van Heflin as "Jeff Hartnett" - JOHNNY EAGER
Walter Huston as "Jerry Cohan" - YANKEE DOODLE
DANDY
Norman Lloyd as "Frank Fry" - SABOTEUR
Frank Morgan as "The Pirate" - TORTILLA FLAT
Claude Rains as "Capt. Louis Renault" -
CASABLANCA
Henry Wilcoxon as "The Vicar" - MRS. MINIVER
Also Considered:
Edgar Buchanan (THE TALK OF THE TOWN); Joseph Cotten (THE
MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS); Laird Cregar (THE BLACK SWAN); Brian Donlevy (THE GLASS KEY); Cecil Kellaway (I MARRIED A WITCH); Otto Preminger (THE PIED PIPER); Lynne Overman (ROXIE HART); Ronald
Reagan (KINGS ROW); Conrad Veidt (CASABLANCA); Dooley Wilson (CASABLANCA)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary Astor as "The Princess Centimillia" - THE PALM BEACH
STORY
Anne Baxter as "Lucy Morgan" - THE MAGNIFICENT
AMBERSONS
Spring Byington as "Mary Sunshine" - ROXIE
HART
Veronica Lake as "Janet Henry" - THE GLASS
KEY
Agnes Moorehead as "Fanny Minafer" - THE MAGNIFICENT
AMBERSONS
Maria Ouspenskaya as "Madame Von Eld" - KINGS
ROW
Susan Peters as "Kitty" - RANDOM HARVEST
Gale Sondergaard as "Stephanie Runick" - MY FAVOURITE
BLONDE
Dame May Whitty as "Lady Beldon" - MRS.
MINIVER
Teresa Wright as "Carol Beldon" - MRS.
MINIVER
Also Considered:
Mary Astor (ACROSS THE PACIFIC); Fay Bainter (WOMAN OF THE
YEAR); Janet Blair (MY SISTER EILEEN); Gladys Cooper (NOW, VOYAGER); Glenda Farrell (THE TALK OF THE TOWN); Betty Hutton (THE FLEET'S IN); Celia Johnson (IN WHICH WE SERVE); Joan Leslie
(YANKEE DOODLE DANDY); Diana Lynn (THE MAJOR & THE MINOR); Ann Sheridan (THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER)
BEST ENSEMBLE
CAST
CASABLANCA
IN WHICH WE SERVE
KINGS ROW
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
MRS. MINIVER
THE PALM BEACH STORY
RANDOM HARVEST
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
Also Considered:
ACROSS THE PACIFIC; GENTLEMAN JIM; I MARRIED A WITCH; JOURNEY
INTO FEAR; THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER; NOW, VOYAGER; THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES; ROXIE HART; WAKE ISLAND; WOMAN OF THE YEAR
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
CASABLANCA
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G.
Epstein & Howard Koch
I MARRIED A WITCH
Robert Pirosh & Marc Connolly
JOURNEY INTO FEAR
Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten
KINGS ROW
Casey Robinson
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Orson Welles
THE MAJOR & THE MINOR
Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett
MRS. MINIVER
Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton & Claudine
West
THE PIED PIPER
Nunnally Johnson
RANDOM HARVEST
Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel & Claudine
West
THIS GUN FOR HIRE
Albert Maltz & W.R. Burnett
Also Considered:
THE BLACK SWAN (Ben Hecht & Seton I. Miller); THE
GLASS KEY (Jonathan Latimer); IN THIS OUR LIFE (Howard Koch); JUNGLE BOOK (Laurence Stallings); LARCENY, INC. (Everett Freeman & Edwin Gilbert); THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (Julius J.
Epstein & Philip G. Epstein); MY GAL SAL (Seton I. Miller, Darrell Ware & Karl Tunberg); NOW, VOYAGER (Casey Robinson); ROXIE HART (Nunnally Johnson); SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE SECRET
WEAPON (Edward T. Lowe, W. Scott Darling & Edmund L. Hartmann); THIS ABOVE ALL (R.C. Sherriff)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
IN WHICH WE SERVE
Noel Coward
MY FAVOURITE BLONDE
Don Hartman, Frank Butler, Melvin Frank & Norman
Panama
ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
THE PALM BEACH STORY
Preston Sturges
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
Jo Swerling & Herman J. Mankiewicz
ROAD TO MOROCCO
Frank Butler & Don Hartman
THE TALK OF THE
TOWN
Irwin Shaw & Sidney
Buchman
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Melchior Lengyel & Edwin Justus Mayer
WAKE ISLAND
W.R. Burnett & Frank Butler
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Ring Lardner, Jr. & Michael Kanin
Also Considered:
CAT PEOPLE (DeWitt Bodeen); FOR ME & MY GAL (Richard
Sherman, Fred Finklehoffe & Sid Silvers); HOLIDAY INN (Irving Berlin, Claude Binyon & Elmer Rice); GENTLEMAN JIM (Vincent Lawrence & Horace McCoy); JOHNNY EAGER (James Edward
Grant & John Lee Mahin); SABOTEUR (Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison & Dorothy Parker); TAKE A LETTER, DARLING (Claude Binyon); TALES OF MANHATTAN (Ben Hecht, Ferenc Molnár, Donald Ogden
Stewart, Samuel Hoffenstein, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, Laszlo Vadnay, Laszlo Gorog, Lamar Trotti & Henry Blankfort); THE WAR AGAINST MRS. HADLEY (George Oppenheimer); YANKEE DOODLE
DANDY (Robert Buckner & Edmund Joseph)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
BAMBI
Walt
Disney
JUKE BOX JAMBOREE
Walter Lantz
A TALE OF TWO KITTIES
Leon Schlesinger
TULIPS SHALL GROW
George Pal
Also Considered:
THE BLITZ WOLF (Tex Avery); DER FUERHER'S FACE (Walt Disney);
DOG TROUBLE (Fred Quimby); DONALD GETS DRAFTED (Walt Disney)
BEST ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
ARABIAN NIGHTS
Alexander Golitzen & Jack Otterson; Russell Gausman &
Ira Webb
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE
Max Parker & Mark-Lee Kirk; Casey Roberts
JUNGLE BOOK
Vincent Korda; Julia Heron
KINGS ROW
William Cameron Menzies & Carl Jules Weyl
THE MAGNIFICENT
AMBERSONS
Albert D'Agostino &
Mark-Lee Kirk; Darrell Silvera
MY GAL SAL
Richard Day & Joseph Wright; Thomas Little
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
William Cameron Menzies & Perry Ferguson; Howard
Bristol
REAP THE WILD WIND
Hans Dreier & Roland Anderson; George Sawley
THIS ABOVE ALL
Richard Day & Joseph Wright; Thomas Little
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Vincent Korda; Julia Heron
Also Considered:
THE BLACK SWAN (James Basevi & Richard Day; Thomas
Little); CAPTAIN OF THE CLOUDS (Ted Smith; Casey Roberts); CASABLANCA (Carl Jules Weyl; George James Hopkins); MRS. MINIVER (Cedric Gibbons; Edwin B. Willis); RANDOM HARVEST (Cedric Gibbons
& Randall Duell; Edwin B. Willis & Jack Moore); ROXIE HART (Richard Day & Wiard B. Ihnen; Thomas Little); THE TALK OF THE TOWN (Lionel Banks; Rudolph Sternad & Fay Babcock);
SILVER QUEEN (Ralph Berger; Emile Kuri); THE SPOILERS (John B. Goodman & Jack Otterson; Russell Gausman & Edward R. Robinson); YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (Carl Jules Weyl)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE BLACK
SWAN
Leon
Shamroy
CASABLANCA
Arthur Edeson
JOURNEY INTO FEAR
Karl Struss
KINGS ROW
James Wong Howe
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Stanley Cortez
MRS. MINIVER
Joseph Ruttenberg
ROXIE HART
Leon Shamroy
THIS GUN FOR HIRE
John F. Seitz
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Rudolph Mate
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
James Wong Howe
Also Considered:
CAPTAIN OF THE CLOUDS (Sol Polito); CAT PEOPLE (Nicholas
Musuraca); JUNGLE BOOK (W. Howard Greene); MOONTIDE (Charles Clarke); THE PIED PIPER (Edward Cronjager); THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (Rudolph Mate); REAP THE WILD WIND (Victor Milner &
William V. Skall); THE TALK OF THE TOWN (Ted Tetzlaff); THIS ABOVE ALL (Arthur Miller); TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI (Edward Cronjager & William V. Skall)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ARABIAN NIGHTS
Vera West
THE BLACK SWAN
Earl Luick
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Edward Stevenson
MRS. MINIVER
Robert Kalloch
MY GAL
SAL
Gwen
Wakeling
NOW, VOYAGER
Orry-Kelly
ROXIE HART
Gwen Wakeling
TEN GENTLEMEN FROM WEST POINT
Dolly Tree
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Irene
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
Milo Anderson
Also Considered:
CASABLANCA (Orry-Kelly); I MARRIED A WITCH (Edith Head);
KINGS ROW (Orry-Kelly); THE MAJOR & THE MINOR (Edith Head); THE PALM BEACH STORY (Irene); RANDOM HARVEST (Robert Kalloch); THE SHANGHAI GESTURE (Oleg Cassini & Royer); THE TALK OF THE
TOWN (Irene); THIS ABOVE ALL (Gwen Wakeling); YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (Irene)
BEST FILM EDITING
CASABLANCA
Owen Marks
CAT PEOPLE
Mark Robson
IN WHICH WE SERVE
Thelma Myers & David Lean
MRS. MINIVER
Harold F. Kress
NOW, VOYAGER
Warren Low
THE PALM BEACH STORY
Stuart Gilmore
PRELUDE TO WAR
William Hornbeck
THE PRIDE OF THE
YANKEES
Daniel
Mandell
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Otto Meyer
THIS ABOVE ALL
Walter Thompson
Also Considered:
THE BLACK SWAN (Barbara McLean); JOURNEY INTO FEAR (Mark
Robson); KINGS ROW (Ralph Dawson); MOONTIDE (William Reynolds); ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING (David Lean); RANDOM HARVEST (Harold F. Kress); REAP THE WILD WIND (Anne Bauchens); THIS GUN FOR
HIRE (Archie Marshek); WAKE ISLAND (Frank Bracht & LeRoy Stone); YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (George Amy)
BEST MAKEUP
THE BLACK SWAN
Guy Pearce
THE GHOST OF
FRANKENSTEIN
Jack
Pierce
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Mel Berns
Also Considered:
CAT PEOPLE (Mel Berns); JUNGLE BOOK (Gordon Bau); YANKEE
DOODLE DANDY (Perc Westmore)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
THE BLACK SWAN
Alfred Newman
CASABLANCA
Max Steiner
CAT PEOPLE
Roy Webb
FLYING TIGERS
Victor Young
JUNGLE BOOK
Miklos Rozsa
KINGS ROW
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Bernard Herrmann
NOW, VOYAGER
Max Steiner
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
Leigh Harline
SABOTEUR
Frank Skinner
Also Considered:
ARABIAN NIGHTS (Frank Skinner); COASTAL COMMAND (Ralph
Vaughan Williams); GENTLEMAN JIM (Heinz Roemheld); JOAN OF PARIS (Roy Webb); JOURNEY INTO FEAR (Roy Webb); KLONDIKE FURY (Edward Kay); MRS. MINIVER (Herbert Stothart); THE PIED PIPER (Alfred
Nemwan); RANDOM HARVEST (Herbert Stothart); SILVER QUEEN (Victor Young)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
BAMBI
Frank Churchill & Edward H. Plumb
FLYING WITH MUSIC
Edward Ward
FOR ME & MY GAL
Roger Edens & Georgie Stoll
THE GOLD RUSH
Max Terr
I MARRIED A WITCH
Roy Webb
MY GAL SAL
Alfred Newman
ROAD TO MOROCCO
Victor Young
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Frederick Hollander & Morris Stoloff
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Werner Heymann
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
Ray Heindorf & Heinz Roemheld
Also Considered:
HOLIDAY INN (Robert Emmett Dolan); JOHNNY DOUGHBOY (Walter
Scharf); THE MAJOR & THE MINOR (Robert Emmett Dolan); MY FAVOURITE BLONDE (David Buttolph); THE PALM BEACH STORY (Victor Young); ROXIE HART (Alfred Newman); SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES
(Charles Henderson & Alfred Newman); TAKE A LETTER, DARLING (Victor Young); WOMAN OF THE YEAR (Franz Waxman); YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (Leigh Harline)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Always In My Heart" - ALWAYS IN MY
HEART
Ernesto Lecuona & Kim Gannon
"At Last" - ORCHESTRA WIVES
Harry Warren & Mack Gordon
"How About You?" - BABES ON BROADWAY
Burton Lane & Ralph Freed
"I Remember You" - THE FLEET'S IN
Victor Schertzinger & Johnny Mercer
"I've Got A Girl In Kalamazoo" - ORCHESTRA
WIVES
Harry Warren & Mack Gordon
"Love Is A Song" - BAMBI
Frank Churchill & Larry Morey
"Pennies From Pennino" - FLYING WITH
MUSIC
Edward Ward, Chet Forrest & Bob Wright
"That Old Black Magic" - STAR SPANGLED
RHYTHM
Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer
"There'll Never Be Another You" -
ICELAND
Harry Warren & Mack Gordon)
"White Christmas" -
HOLIDAY INN
Irving
Berlin
Also Considered:
"Dearly Beloved" - YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (Jerome Kern
& Johnny Mercer); "Happy Holiday" - HOLIDAY INN (Irving Berlin); "Heave Ho" - THE BLACK SWAN (Alfred Newman); "Hit The Road To Dreamland" - STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM (Harold Arlen & Johnny
Mercer); "I Had The Craziest Dream" - SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES (Harry Warren & Mack Gordon); "It Seems I Heard That Song Before" - YOUTH ON PARADE (Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn); "Jingle
Jangle Jingle" - THE FOREST RANGERS (Joseph J. Lilley & Frank Loesser); "Little April Shower" - BAMBI (Frank Churchill & Larry Morey); "Moonlight Becomes You" - ROAD TO MOROCCO (Jimmy
Van Heiden & Johnny Burke); "There's A Breeze On Lake Louise" - THE MAYOR OF 44TH STREET (Harry Revel & Mort Greene)
BEST SOUND
ARABIAN NIGHTS
Bernard Brown
BAMBI
C.O. Slyfield
THE BLACK SWAN
George Leverett & Roger Heman
CASABLANCA
Francis J. Scheid
FLYING TIGERS
Daniel J. Bloomberg
MRS. MINIVER
Douglas Shearer
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
Thomas T. Moulton
ROAD TO MOROCCO
Loren L. Ryder
THIS ABOVE ALL
E.H. Hansen
YANKEE DOODLE
DANDY
Nathan
Levinson
Also Considered:
CAT PEOPLE (John L. Cass); FRIENDLY ENEMIES (Jack
Whitney); THE GOLD RUSH (James Fields); IN WHICH WE SERVE (C.C. Stevens); ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON (Steve Dunn); ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING (A.W. Watkins); ROXIE HART (Alfred Bruzlin &
Roger Heman); SABOTEUR (Bernard B. Brown); WAKE ISLAND (Arnold Braun); YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (John Livardary)
BEST SPECIAL SOUND EFFECTS
THE BLACK SWAN
Roger Heman & George Leverett
FLYING TIGERS
Daniel J. Bloomberg
JUNGLE BOOK
William H. Wilmarth
THE NAVY COMES THROUGH
James G. Stewart
REAP THE WILD
WIND
Louis
Mesenkop
Also Considered:
DESPERATE JOURNEY (Nathan Levinson); INVISIBLE AGENT
(Bernard B. Brown); MRS. MINIVER (Douglas Shearer); ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING (C.C. Stevens); THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (Thomas T. Moulton)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE BLACK SWAN
Fred Sersen
INVISIBLE AGENT
John P. Fulton
JUNGLE
BOOK
Lawrence
Butler
ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING
Ronald Neame
REAP THE WILD WIND
Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings & William L.
Pereira
Also Considered:
DESPERATE JOURNEY (Byron Haskin); FLYING TIGERS (Howard
Lydecker); MRS. MINIVER (A. Arnold Gillespie & Warren Newcombe); THE NAVY COMES THROUGH (Vernon L. Walker); THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (Jack Cosgrove & Ray Binger)
Most Wins:
7 - Casablanca
2 - Bambi
1 - The Black Swan; The Ghost of Frankenstein; Holiday Inn;
Jungle Book; The Magnificent Ambersons; Mrs. Miniver; My Gal Sal; Now, Voyager; The Pride of the Yankees; Reap the Wild Wind; The Talk of the Town; Yankee Doodle Dandy
Most Nominations:
13 - Mrs. Miniver
12 - The Magnificent Ambersons
11 - Casablanca
9 - Kings Row
8 - The Pride of the Yankees; To Be or Not To Be; Yankee
Doodle Dandy
7 - The Black Swan
5 - Bambi; In Which We Serve; The Talk of the
Town
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