18th Academy Awards (1945)
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- DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.Winner - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for Billy Wilder
Winner - Best Actor for Ray Milland
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for John F. Seitz
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Doane Harrison - DirectorGeorge SidneyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsFrank SinatraKathryn GraysonGene KellyA pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Gene Kelly
Winner - Best Musical Score for Georgie Stoll
Nominated - Best Original Song for "I Fall in Love Too Easily"
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Robert Planck and Charles P. Boyle - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyIngrid BergmanHenry TraversAt a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Leo McCarey
Nominated - Best Actor for Bing Crosby
Nominated - Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Robert Emmett Dolan
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Aren't You Glad You're You"
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Stephen Dunn
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Harry Marker - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJoan CrawfordJack CarsonZachary ScottA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Winner - Best Actress for Joan Crawford
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Eve Arden
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Ann Blyth
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ranald MacDougall
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Ernest Haller - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsIngrid BergmanGregory PeckMichael ChekhovA psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.Nominated - Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Alfred Hitchcock
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Michael Chekhov
Winner - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for George Barnes
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyElizabeth TaylorDonald CrispA jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.Nominated - Best Director for Clarence Brown
Winner - Supporting Actress for Anne Revere
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Leonard Smith
Winner - Best Film Editing for Robert J. Kern - DirectorJean RenoirStarsZachary ScottBetty FieldJ. Carrol NaishThe life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.Nominated - Best Director for Jean Renoir
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Werner Janssen
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Jack Whitney - DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGregory PeckThomas MitchellVincent PriceA young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.Nominated - Best Actor for Gregory Peck
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alfred Newman
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Arthur C. Miller - DirectorCharles VidorStarsPaul MuniMerle OberonCornel WildeBiography of Frederic Chopin.Nominated - Best Actor for Cornel Wilde
Nominated - Best Story for Ernst Marischka
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Miklos Rozsa and Morris Stoloff
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John P. Livadary
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Tony Gaudio and Allen M. Davey
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Charles Nelson - DirectorTay GarnettStarsGreer GarsonGregory PeckDonald CrispAn Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters.Nominated - Best Actress for Greer Garson
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Herbert Stothart - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenAnn RichardsAllen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen...Nominated - Best Actress for Jennifer Jones
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Victor Young
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Love Letters"
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White - DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGene TierneyCornel WildeJeanne CrainA writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.Nominated - Best Actress for Gene Tierney
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Leon Shamroy - DirectorElia KazanStarsDorothy McGuireJoan BlondellJames DunnEncouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for James Dunn
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger - DirectorIrving RapperStarsBette DavisJohn DallNigel BruceA schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for John Dall
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Joan Lorring - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBurgess MeredithRobert MitchumFreddie SteeleAt the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Mitchum
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore and Philip Stevenson
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Louis Applebaum and Ann Ronell
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Linda" - DirectorIrving PichelStarsDorothy LamourArturo de CórdovaJ. Carrol NaishOutcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for J. Carrol Naish
Nominated - Best Story for John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner - DirectorAlbert LewinStarsGeorge SandersHurd HatfieldDonna ReedA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Angela Lansbury
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Harry Stradling - DirectorLeopold LindtbergHermann HallerFranz SchnyderStarsJosiane HeggGermaine TournierHeinrich GretlerAmidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland but is still haunted by the terrors she has witnessed.Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Richard Schweizer
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsMargaret O'BrienJosé IturbiJune AllysonSix year old "Mike" joins her sister Barbara Ainsworth who plays in a classical orchestra during WW II.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Myles Connolly
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsAlan LaddGail RussellWilliam DemarestSalty owes money to Doc Baxter, and he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and Salty both fall in love with Barbara Brooks and, to get even, Johnny considers throwing the horse race.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Milton Holmes
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert WalkerKeenan WynnJean PorterThe further adventures of Hargrove as he and his scheming pals take France by storm during World War 2.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Harry Kurnitz
- DirectorMax NosseckStarsLawrence TierneyEdmund LoweAnne JeffreysJohn Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Philip Yordan
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsJohn GarfieldEleanor ParkerDane ClarkMarine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Albert Maltz
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsWilliam EytheLloyd NolanSigne HassoBill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.Winner - Best Story for Charles G. Booth
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnJames BrownWilliam PrinceA platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.Nominated - Best Story for Alvah Bessie
Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Franz Waxman
Nominated - Best Film Editing for George Amy - DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsJoan FontaineGeorge BrentDennis O'KeefeSusan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl, and the third describes a serious intellectual. Which one is the real Susan?Nominated - Best Story for László Görög and Thomas Monroe
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsBilly BletcherWilliam HannaHarry LangThe bulldog wants to take a nap. Tom wants to chase Jerry around the house. Naps and noise don't mix, and so the bulldog threatens Tom to keep quiet or else.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorJack KingStarsGloria BlondellHarry LangClarence NashDonald has a date with Daisy, but no money. He raids his nephews' piggy bank, but his guilty conscience catches up with him.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsPeggy LeeSara BernerAlvin ChildressThis adaptation of the famous fairy tale finds Jasper trading Scarecrow his jaw harp harmonica for a handful of beans.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancDave BarrySara BernerA love bird's wife has left him. He wants to end it all and tries to force Sylvester to eat him. Sylvester thinks there's something fishy about the situation and refuses to eat the bird.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorConnie RasinskiStarsBetty JaynesTom MorrisonA Mighty Mouse cartoon which sees Mighty Mouse protect a group of gypsy travelling mice from a colony of bats.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorDick LundyStarsWilliam ShawAndy Panda conducts the "Hollywood Washbowl Orchestra" (an ensemble of farm animals, on a farm) in the title tune. After Andy removes a frog from under his wig, he begins. All is well until his shirt gets stuck on a nail; while he's fighting it, the orchestra breaks into a swinging tune. Back under control, a talkative squirrel in the audience annoys the pig sitting next to him; the pig zips the squirrel's mouth shut. A bird lands on Andy's baton; he waves it, and 2, 3, 4, and 5 birds appear (apparently, his baton's become a magic wand). He waves some more, and the birds disappear one by one, finally replaced with a very happy cat. Two ducks dance as ballerinas; then one fox and one duck, but the second duck is not as easily captured.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorBob WickershamStarsHarry LangNominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorGarson KaninCarol ReedStarsDwight D. EisenhowerLeslie BanksWinston ChurchillA documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsReed HadleyArthur KennedyJack KlockDocumentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsKnox ManningJoseph GoebbelsAdolf HitlerThis short propaganda film, produced at the end of World War II, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas of racial hatred, violence and conquest live on in the German people, and in like-minded people in the United States.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorAlexander HammidStarsTheodore RooseveltWoodrow WilsonSonny Terry and Brownie McGheeOne of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau, and intended to show foreign viewers something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the important institution in Washington D.C. which preserves written and other works that have been copyrighted, as part of the country's heritage.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- StarsHarlon BlockJohn H. BradleyRene A. GagnonDocumentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorSammy LeeStarsJohn NesbittHarry CordingLotte Palfi AndorThe story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Phillipe Pinel, whose initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- StarsLowell ThomasThis 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip from Medicine Hat in southern Utah down the rapids of the San Juan River ending with a view of the Rainbow Bridge, hence the title and the use of Tehnicolor.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorRalph StaubStarsCecil B. DeMilleLouella ParsonsWalt DisneyA look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- StarsKnox ManningWe watch the life of a Coast Guard dog, from the dog's point of view, from induction to graduation and then into a jungle to hunt for an enemy sniper. To pass muster, dogs must be of a certain size, then they go through basic training, canine calisthenics, carrying and leaping, attacking and assisting escapes, self-possession under gunfire, and working with various handlers. The handlers, too, learn skills. After graduation, the dog is ready for duty in a jungle across the Pacific. The dog's keen eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell make it an ideal warrior.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorJack EatonStarsTed HusingSkiiing on New Hampshire's Cannon Mountain.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorThomas MeadStarsJack CostelloNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsJ. Carrol NaishDonald WoodsRosina GalliThree cowboys riding across the desert with gifts for no particular recipient see a distant bright light, and find it comes from the Star Auto Court sign where the owners and guests work together to help a young expectant couple.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsTom TroutRichard GainesAnthony CarusoA man joins the police force to learn police procedures with the intention of getting away with crimes.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsBarbara Jo AllenBarton YarboroughVernon DentVera is one of many of a group of jurors who must work together to come up with a decision whether or not a man is guilty of murder.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorGeorge TempletonStarsOlga San JuanBob GrahamAdeline De Walt ReynoldsOlga San Juan is the singing and dancing star of a night club in a South America country,and is in love with Bob Graham, the orchestra leader and vocalist, whose wealthy parents are unaware of his club and musical activities. The parents, when told of the romance, think the girl is after the son's future inheritance. A Paramount "Musical Parade" short.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorSam WoodStarsClaudette ColbertDon AmecheDick ForanA newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Daniele Amfitheatrof
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsJohn WayneAnn DvorakJoseph SchildkrautA cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Dale Butts and Morton Scott
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Daniel J. Bloomberg - DirectorAllan DwanStarsDennis O'KeefeHelen WalkerJune HavocIn order to inherit $7,000,000, an ex-soldier must spend $1,000,000 in two months' time.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Lou Forbes
- DirectorFritz LangStarsEdward G. RobinsonJoan BennettRaymond MasseyWhen a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Hugo Friedhofer and Arthur Lange
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsDave O'BrienKay AldridgeWalter CatlettA hitch-hiking stranger manages a lift from a young woman into the town he's destined for, and she's from. Both land up in jail, twice, as the small town and its leading family slowly unravel the in-plain-sight mystery behind this man.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Karl Hajos
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsCharles LaughtonRandolph ScottBarbara BrittonThe unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Werner Janssen
- DirectorJohn BrahmJohn CromwellAndré De TothStarsAnne BaxterRalph BellamyAline MacMahonA young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Werner Janssen
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsGale StormPeter CooksonArline JudgeThe efforts of a young soldier and his new bride to make their marriage "official" are continually thwarted by a string of army "emergencies".Nominated - Best Dramatic or Original Score for Edward J. Kay
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsMerle OberonCharles KorvinClaude RainsAt a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him--and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they reunite?Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for H. J. Salter
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsConstance BennettGracie FieldsJorge RigaudAmong the terrified refugees jamming the roads out of Paris in 1940 are Kitty de Mornay, a rich American divorced from her French husband, and her companion Emmyline (Emmy) Quayle. A German patrol orders their car back to Paris and, en route, they stop at an inn where they find a wounded RAF flyer, Lieutenant Gray. They hide him in the luggage compartment of their car. While attempting to repair a flat tire, they are accosted by Gestapo Captain Kurt von Webber. He drives them to Emmy's apartment. Later, with the help of Kitty's estranged husband, Andre de Mornay - a member of the French underground movement - Kitty and Emmy smuggle Lt. Gray out of Paris to safety. Since they now have means of getting to unoccupied France, they contact a priest who is harboring many RAF fliers. Funeral processions are allowed across the border unchallenged by the German sentries, and Kitty and Emmy stage one in which their RAF men pose as mourners. Von Weber suspects the women, and he plants a spy in Emmy's flat.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Alexander Tansman
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsDorothy McGuireRobert YoungHerbert MarshallA plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.Nominated - Best Dramatic or Comedy Score for Roy Webb
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsBetty HuttonArturo de CórdovaCharles RugglesThe life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also finds romance and heartbreak.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Robert Emmett Dolan
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoVera-EllenAfter being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Lou Forbes and Ray Heindorf
Nominated - Best Original Song for "So in Love"
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Gordon Sawyer
Winner - Best Special Effects - DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsLola LaneSheldon LeonardPamela BlakeA young woman leaves home to become a night club singer, but her job is nearly fatal when she learns about mobsters' operations, leading to her boss's suicide.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Walter Greene
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Cat and the Canary" - DirectorIrving RapperStarsRobert AldaJoan LeslieAlexis SmithGeorge Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson - DirectorWalter LangStarsJeanne CrainDana AndrewsDick HaymesEach member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Charles Henderson and Alfred Newman
Winner - Best Original Score for "It Might as Well Be Spring" - DirectorRalph MurphyStarsGale StormPhil ReganGeorge ClevelandIt's 1890s New York, and a rich society woman is scandalized that her niece is planning on a show-business career; not only that, but her first engagement is to be singing and dancing in a Bowery saloon. She determines to put a stop to her niece's career path.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Edward J. Kay
- DirectorFrank RyanStarsDeanna DurbinRobert PaigeAkim TamiroffA senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Jerome Kern and H. J. Salter
Nominated - Best Original Song for "More and More" - DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsRandolph ScottGypsy Rose LeeDinah ShoreIn the Yukon mining town of Malemute, saloon owner John Calhoun and an assortment of shady characters are after the bags of gold dust the miners deposit in the new bank managed by Calhoun himself.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Arthur Lange
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Sleighride in July" - DirectorNorman FergusonClyde GeronimiJack KinneyStarsAurora MirandaCarmen MolinaDora LuzDonald receives his birthday gifts, which include traditional gifts and information about Brazil (hosted by Zé Carioca) and Mexico (by Panchito, a Mexican Charro Rooster).Nominated - Best Musical Score for Edward Plumb, Paul J. Smith and Charles Wolcott
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for C. O. Slyfield - DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsAl PearceDale EvansStanley BrownA famous radio singer takes time off from her career and returns to New York City to visit with old friends, who don't know she's a famous singer (she uses a stage name). She falls in love with a struggling songwriter (who also doesn't know she's a famous singer), and sets out to get his songs into a play that some producers want her to be in.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Morton Scott
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsRita HayworthLee BowmanJanet BlairThe theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Marlin Skiles and Morris Stoloff
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Anywhere" - DirectorMark SandrichStarsBing CrosbyBetty HuttonSonny TuftsShow business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Accentuate the Positive"
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsDennis O'KeefeConstance MooreEve ArdenA producer puts an unknown European princess (Constance Moore) in his show, and she falls for its author (Dennis O'Keefe).Nominated - Best Original Song for "Endlessly"
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJack HaleyMarcy McGuireGlen VernonConceited war correspondent Steve Kimball, desperate to get back to the USA from occupied Paris, reluctantly agrees to chaperone a troupe of stranded teenage hepcat entertainers--plus redheaded Bridget, not a real member of the group...just stranded (and the 16th person on 15 tickets). But Steve has a use for her: to sneak his stories past censorship in "love code." Their shipboard dormitory is also shared by adult glamour girl Kay. Can the kids enlist Kay to keep Steve out of their hair? Can all sorts of complications be far behind?Nominated - Best Original Song for "I'll Buy That Dream"
- DirectorDavid ButlerRobert FloreyRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnAlexis SmithS.Z. SakallTough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Some Sunday Morning"
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color - DirectorJohn FordRobert MontgomeryStarsRobert MontgomeryJohn WayneDonna ReedA Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorLewis AllenStarsJoel McCreaGail RussellHerbert MarshallA secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Loren L. Ryder
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsMarjorie ReynoldsCharles RugglesFay BainterRuggles isn't providing enough money to have his family live well. His wife takes over and goes to work.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for W. V. Wolfe
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJames CagneySylvia SidneyPorter HallA dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsHedy LamarrGeorge BrentPaul LukasIn 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJoan FontaineArturo de CórdovaBasil RathboneAn English lady falls madly in love with a French pirate.Winner - Best Art Direction, Color
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEvelyn KeyesPhil SilversAdele JergensTongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsPaul HenreidMaureen O'HaraWalter SlezakAfter being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for George Barnes
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsFred MacMurrayLynn BariCharles BickfordWWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.Nominated - Best Special Effects