1943

The 15th Academy Awards | 1943
Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel
Thursday, March 4, 1943
Honoring movies released in 1942
Highlights
Memorable Moments

Nominees

Actor

Winner

James Cagney

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Nominees

Ronald Colman

Random Harvest

Gary Cooper

The Pride of the Yankees

Walter Pidgeon

Mrs. Miniver

Monty Woolley

The Pied Piper

Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner

Van Heflin

Johnny Eager

Nominees

William Bendix

Wake Island

Walter Huston

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Frank Morgan

Tortilla Flat

Henry Travers

Mrs. Miniver

Actress

Winner

Greer Garson

Mrs. Miniver

Nominees

Bette Davis

Now, Voyager

Katharine Hepburn

Woman of the Year

Rosalind Russell

My Sister Eileen

Teresa Wright

The Pride of the Yankees

Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner

Teresa Wright

Mrs. Miniver

Nominees

Gladys Cooper

Now, Voyager

Agnes Moorehead

The Magnificent Ambersons

Susan Peters

Random Harvest

Dame May Whitty

Mrs. Miniver

Art Direction (Black-and-White)

Winner

This above All

Art Direction: Richard Day, Joseph Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little

Nominees

George Washington Slept Here

Art Direction: Max Parker, Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts

The Magnificent Ambersons

Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Al Fields

The Pride of the Yankees

Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol

Random Harvest

Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack Moore

The Shanghai Gesture

Art Direction: Boris Leven; Interior Decoration: Boris Leven

Silver Queen

Art Direction: Ralph Berger; Interior Decoration: Emile Kuri

The Spoilers

Art Direction: Jack Otterson, John B. Goodman; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Edward R. Robinson

Take a Letter, Darling

Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer

The Talk of the Town

Art Direction: Lionel Banks, Rudolph Sternad; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock

Art Direction (Color)

Winner

My Gal Sal

Art Direction: Richard Day, Joseph Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little

Nominees

Arabian Nights

Art Direction: Jack Otterson, Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb

Captains of the Clouds

Art Direction: Ted Smith; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts

Jungle Book

Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron

Reap the Wild Wind

Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: George Sawley

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Winner

Mrs. Miniver

Joseph Ruttenberg

Nominees

Kings Row

James Wong Howe

The Magnificent Ambersons

Stanley Cortez

Moontide

Charles Clarke

The Pied Piper

Edward Cronjager

The Pride of the Yankees

"The Pride of the Yankees" Rudolph Maté

Take a Letter, Darling

John Mescall

The Talk of the Town

Ted Tetzlaff

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Leon Shamroy

This above All

Arthur Miller

Cinematography (Color)

Winner

The Black Swan

Leon Shamroy

Nominees

Arabian Nights

Milton Krasner, William V. Skall, W. Howard Greene

Captains of the Clouds

Sol Polito

Jungle Book

W. Howard Greene

Reap the Wild Wind

Victor Milner, William V. Skall

To the Shores of Tripoli

Edward Cronjager, William V. Skall

Directing

Winner

Mrs. Miniver

William Wyler

Nominees

Kings Row

Sam Wood

Random Harvest

Mervyn LeRoy

Wake Island

John Farrow

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Michael Curtiz

Documentary

Winner

The Battle of Midway

United States Navy

Kokoda Front Line!

Australian News & Information Bureau

Moscow Strikes Back

Artkino

Prelude to War

United States Army Special Services

Nominees

Africa, Prelude to Victory

The March of Time

Combat Report

United States Army Signal Corps

Conquer by the Clock

Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer

The Grain That Built a Hemisphere

Walt Disney, Producer

Henry Browne, Farmer

United States Department of Agriculture

High over the Borders

National Film Board of Canada

High Stakes in the East

The Netherlands Information Bureau

Inside Fighting China

National Film Board of Canada

It's Everybody's War

United States Office of War Information

Listen to Britain

British Ministry of Information

Little Belgium

Belgian Ministry of Information

Little Isles of Freedom

Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew, Producers

Mr. Blabbermouth!

United States Office of War Information

Mr. Gardenia Jones

United States Office of War Information

The New Spirit

Walt Disney, Producer

The Price of Victory

William H. Pine, Producer

A Ship Is Born

United States Merchant Marine

Twenty-One Miles

British Ministry of Information

We Refuse to Die

William C. Thomas, Producer

White Eagle

Concanen Films

Winning Your Wings

United States Army Air Force

Film Editing

Winner

The Pride of the Yankees

Daniel Mandell

Nominees

Mrs. Miniver

Harold F. Kress

The Talk of the Town

Otto Meyer

This above All

Walter Thompson

Yankee Doodle Dandy

George Amy

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Winner

Sidney Franklin

Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Winner

Now, Voyager

Max Steiner

Nominees

Arabian Nights

Frank Skinner

Bambi

Frank Churchill, Edward Plumb

The Black Swan

Alfred Newman

The Corsican Brothers

Dimitri Tiomkin

Flying Tigers

Victor Young

The Gold Rush

Max Terr

I Married a Witch

Roy Webb

Joan of Paris

Roy Webb

Jungle Book

Miklos Rozsa

Klondike Fury

Edward Kay

The Pride of the Yankees

Leigh Harline

Random Harvest

Herbert Stothart

The Shanghai Gesture

Richard Hageman

Silver Queen

Victor Young

Take a Letter, Darling

Victor Young

The Talk of the Town

Frederick Hollander, Morris Stoloff

To Be or Not to Be

Werner Heymann

Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Winner

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Ray Heindorf, Heinz Roemheld

Nominees

Flying with Music

Edward Ward

For Me and My Gal

Roger Edens, Georgie Stoll

Holiday Inn

Robert Emmett Dolan

It Started with Eve

Hans Salter, Charles Previn

Johnny Doughboy

Walter Scharf

My Gal Sal

Alfred Newman

You Were Never Lovelier

Leigh Harline

Music (Song)

Winner

Holiday Inn

White Christmas in "Holiday Inn" Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin

Nominees

Always in My Heart

Always In My Heart in "Always in My Heart" Music by Ernesto Lecuona; Lyrics by Kim Gannon

You Were Never Lovelier

Dearly Beloved in "You Were Never Lovelier" Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Babes on Broadway

How About You? in "Babes on Broadway" Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Ralph Freed

Youth on Parade

It Seems I Heard That Song Before in "Youth on Parade" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Orchestra Wives

I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo in "Orchestra Wives" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon

Bambi

Love Is A Song in "Bambi" Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Larry Morey

Flying with Music

Pennies For Peppino in "Flying with Music" Music by Edward Ward; Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright

Hellzapoppin'

Pig Foot Pete in "Hellzapoppin'" Music by Gene de Paul; Lyrics by Don Raye

The Mayor of 44th Street

There's A Breeze On Lake Louise in "The Mayor of 44th Street" Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Mort Greene

Outstanding Motion Picture

Winner

Mrs. Miniver

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Nominees

The Invaders

Ortus

Kings Row

Warner Bros.

The Magnificent Ambersons

Mercury

The Pied Piper

20th Century-Fox

The Pride of the Yankees

Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Random Harvest

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The Talk of the Town

Columbia

Wake Island

Paramount

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Warner Bros.

Short Subject (Cartoon)

Winner

Der Fuehrer's Face

Walt Disney, Producer

Nominees

All Out for "V"

20th Century-Fox

Blitz Wolf

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Juke Box Jamboree

Walter Lantz, Producer

Pigs in a Polka

Leon Schlesinger, Producer

Tulips Shall Grow

George Pal, Producer

Short Subject (One-reel)

Winner

Speaking of Animals and Their Families

Paramount

Nominees

Desert Wonderland

20th Century-Fox

Marines in the Making

Pete Smith, Producer

United States Marine Band

Warner Bros.

Short Subject (Two-reel)

Winner

Beyond the Line of Duty

Warner Bros.

Nominees

Don't Talk

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Private Smith of the U.S.A.

RKO Radio

Sound Recording

Winner

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director

Nominees

Arabian Nights

Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director

Bambi

Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Sam Slyfield, Sound Director

Flying Tigers

Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel Bloomberg, Sound Director

Friendly Enemies

Sound Service, Inc., Jack Whitney, Sound Director

The Gold Rush

RCA Sound, James Fields, Sound Director

Mrs. Miniver

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director

Once upon a Honeymoon

RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Steve Dunn, Sound Director

The Pride of the Yankees

Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director

Road to Morocco

Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren Ryder, Sound Director

This above All

20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director

You Were Never Lovelier

Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director

Special Award

Winner

In Which We Serve

Special Award

Special Effects

Winner

Reap the Wild Wind

Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart, William L. Pereira; Sound Effects by Louis Mesenkop

Nominees

The Black Swan

Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by Roger Heman, George Leverett

Desperate Journey

Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson

Flying Tigers

Photographic Effects by Howard Lydecker; Sound Effects by Daniel J. Bloomberg

Invisible Agent

Photographic Effects by John Fulton; Sound Effects by Bernard B. Brown

Jungle Book

Photographic Effects by Lawrence Butler; Sound Effects by William H. Wilmarth

Mrs. Miniver

Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects by Douglas Shearer

The Navy Comes Through

Photographic Effects by Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects by James G. Stewart

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Photographic Effects by Ronald Neame; Sound Effects by C. C. Stevens

The Pride of the Yankees

Photographic Effects by Jack Cosgrove, Ray Binger; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton

Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

Winner

The Invaders

Emeric Pressburger

Nominees

Holiday Inn

Irving Berlin

The Pride of the Yankees

Paul Gallico

The Talk of the Town

Sidney Harmon

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Robert Buckner

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Winner

Woman of the Year

Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin

Nominees

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Road to Morocco

Frank Butler, Don Hartman

Wake Island

W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler

The War against Mrs. Hadley

George Oppenheimer

Writing (Screenplay)

Winner

Mrs. Miniver

Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West

Nominees

The Invaders

Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger

The Pride of the Yankees

Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz

Random Harvest

Claudine West, George Froeschel, Arthur Wimperis

The Talk of the Town

Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman
B
Babes on Broadway
1 Nomination
Music (Song) - How About You? in "Babes on Broadway" Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Ralph Freed
Bambi
3 Nominations
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Frank Churchill, Edward Plumb
Music (Song) - Love Is A Song in "Bambi" Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Larry Morey
Sound Recording - Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Sam Slyfield, Sound Director
The Battle of Midway
1 Win, 1 Nomination
* Documentary - United States Navy
Beyond the Line of Duty
1 Win, 1 Nomination
* Short Subject (Two-reel) - Warner Bros.
The Black Swan
3 Nominations, 1 Win
Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Alfred Newman
Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by Roger Heman, George Leverett
* Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy
Blitz Wolf
1 Nomination
Short Subject (Cartoon) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer