The Academy Awards
1942 (1943 results further below) Best Picture Mrs. Miniver The Invaders Kings Row The Magnificent Ambersons The Pied Piper The Pride of the Yankees Random Harvest The Talk of the Town Wake Island Yankee Doodle Dandy Best Director William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver Sam Wood - Kings Row Mervyn LeRoy - Random Harvest John Farrow - Wake Island Michael Curtiz - Yankee Doodle Dandy 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 Best Actress Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver Bette Davis - Now, Voyager Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year Rosalind Russell - My Sister Eileen Teresa Wright - The Pride of the Yankees Best Supporting Actor Van Heflin - Johnny Eager William Bendix - Wake Island Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver Best Supporting Actress Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons Susan Peters - Random Harvest Dame May Whitty - Mrs. Miniver Best Original Screenplay Woman of the Year One of Our Aircraft Is Missing Road to Morocco Wake Island The War Against Mrs. Hadley Best Adapted Screenplay Mrs. Miniver The Invaders The Pride of the Yankees Random Harvest The Talk of the Town Best Score of a Dramatic Picture Max Steiner - Now, Voyager Frank Skinner - Arabian Nights Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb - Bambi Alfred Newman - The Black Swan Dimitri Tiomkin - The Corsican Brothers Victor Young - Flying Tigers Max Terr - The Gold Rush Roy Webb - I Married a Witch Roy Webb - Joan of Paris Miklos Rozsa - Jungle Book Edward Kay - Klondike Fury Leigh Harline - The Pride of the Yankees Herbert Stothart - Random Harvest Richard Hageman - The Shanghai Gesture Victor Young - Silver Queen Victor Young - Take a Letter, Darling Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff - The Talk of the Town Werner Heymann - To Be or Not To Be Best Original Song “White Christmas” - Holiday Inn “Always in My Heart” - Always in My Heart “Dearly Beloved” - You Were Never Lovelier “How About You?” - Babes on Broadway “It Seems I Heard That Song Before” - Youth on Parade “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo” - Orchestra Wives “Love is a Song” - Bambi “Pennies For Peppino” - Flying with Music “Pig Foot Pete” - Hellzapoppin “There’s a Breeze on Lake Louise” - The Mayor of 44th Street The Academy Awards 1943 Best Picture Casablanca For Whom the Bell Tolls Heaven Can Wait The Human Comedy In Which We Serve Madame Curie The More the Merrier The Ox-Bow Incident The Song of Bernadette Watch on the Rhine Best Director Michael Curtiz - Casablanca Ernst Lubitsch - Heaven Can Wait Clarence Brown - The Human Comedy George Stevens - The More the Merrier Henry King - The Song of Bernadette Best Actor Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy Best Actress Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph Greer Garson - Madame Curie Best Supporting Actor Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette J. Carrol Naish - Sahara Claude Rains - Casablanca Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls Best Supporting Actress Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls Gladys Cooper - The Song of Bernadette Paulette Goddard - So Proudly We Hail! Anne Revere - The Song of Bernadette Lucile Watson - Watch on the Rhine Best Original Screenplay Princess O’Rourke Air Force In Which We Serve The North Star So Proudly We Hail! Best Adapted Screenplay Casablanca Holy Matrimony The More the Merrier The Song of Bernadette Watch on the Rhine Best Score of a Dramatic Picture Alfred Newman - The Song of Bernadette Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner - The Amazing Mrs. Holliday Max Steiner - Casablanca Louis Gruenberg and Morris Stoloff - Commandos Strike at Dawn C. Bakaleinikoff and Roy Webb - The Fallen Sparrow Victor Young - For Whom the Bell Tolls Hanns Eisler - Hangmen Also Die! Philip Boutelje - Hi Diddle Diddle Walter Scharf - In Old Oklahoma Leigh Harline - Johnny Come Lately Gerard Carbonara - The Kansan Arthur Lange - Lady of Burlesque Herbert Stothart - Madame Curie Dimitri Tiomkin - The Moon and Sixpence Aaron Copland - The North Star Edward H. Plump, Paul J. Smith, and Oliver Wallace - Victory Through Air Power Best Original Song “You’ll Never Know” - Hello, Frisco, Hello “A Change of Heart” - Hit Parade of 1943 “Happiness is a Thing Called Joe” - Cabin in the Sky “My Shining Hour” - The Sky’s the Limit “Saludos Amigos” - Saludos Amigos “Say a Pray’r for the Boys Over There” - Hers to Hold “That Old Black Magic” - Star Spangled Rhythm “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old” - Thank Your Lucky Stars “We Mustn’t Say Goodbye” - Stage Door Canteen “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” - Something to Shout About |
The Academy Awards
1942-43 (video presentation here) Best Picture Edge of Darkness Gung Ho! Journey for Margaret Kings Row Now, Voyager The Pied Piper Wake Island Best Director John Farrow - Wake Island Lewis Milestone - Edge of Darkness Ray Enright - Gung Ho! Fritz Lang - Hangmen Also Die! Orson Welles - The Magnificent Ambersons Best Actor Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper Brian Donlevy - A Gentleman After Dark Van Heflin - Tennessee Johnson Tyrone Power - This Above All Robert Young - Joe Smith, American Best Actress Bette Davis - Now, Voyager Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls Ginger Rogers - Tender Comrade Best Supporting Actor Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat Dana Andrews - The Ox-Bow Incident Ward Bond - Gentleman Jim Alexander Granach - Hangmen Also Die! Gene Lockhart - Hangmen Also Die! Best Supporting Actress Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls Mary Astor - The Palm Beach Story Anne Baxter - The Pied Piper Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager Una O’Connor - This Land Is Mine Juvenile Award Margaret O’Brien Best Dramatic Screenplay Gung Ho! Hangmen Also Die! Now, Voyager The Pied Piper Best Comedic Screenplay To Be Or Not to Be Heaven Can Wait Holy Matrimony Larceny, Inc. My Sister Eileen The Palm Beach Story Best Musical Score Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Kings Row Bernard Herrmann - The Magnificent Ambersons Max Steiner - Now, Voyager Best Original Song “You’ll Never Know” - Hello Frisco, Hello “Dearly Beloved” - You Were Never Lovelier “Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe” - Cabin in the Sky “Moonlight Becomes You” - Road to Morocco “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)” - The Sky’s the Limit “White Christmas” - Holiday Inn |
Notes from the Members of the Board:
Movies reflect life, and while the 1930s reflected our nation’s response to the Great Depression, the 1940s have brought a shift in the subject of dramatic films. Escapism films are rare, and there is as much realism as the censors allow. In many war films, the heroes are killed, instilling in the audience that we might not win this war, but we will go down fighting.
Many actors enlisted in the war, and there was a shortage of male actors as a result. We found the talent pool to be so sparse in 1942 and 1943 that we chose to merge the two years so we could be proud of our nominees and winners. As a result, we often wished for ties and triple-ties out of our very talented list of nominees. The realism in Wake Island, Edge of Darkness, and Gung Ho! were so amazing it was as if we were looking at a newsreel. For the first time, every single Best Picture nominee went home with a trophy among the different categories.
Hidden Gem: Gung Ho!
- M.E.
Movies reflect life, and while the 1930s reflected our nation’s response to the Great Depression, the 1940s have brought a shift in the subject of dramatic films. Escapism films are rare, and there is as much realism as the censors allow. In many war films, the heroes are killed, instilling in the audience that we might not win this war, but we will go down fighting.
Many actors enlisted in the war, and there was a shortage of male actors as a result. We found the talent pool to be so sparse in 1942 and 1943 that we chose to merge the two years so we could be proud of our nominees and winners. As a result, we often wished for ties and triple-ties out of our very talented list of nominees. The realism in Wake Island, Edge of Darkness, and Gung Ho! were so amazing it was as if we were looking at a newsreel. For the first time, every single Best Picture nominee went home with a trophy among the different categories.
Hidden Gem: Gung Ho!
- M.E.