15th Academy Awards
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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.Winner - Outstanding Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for William Wyler
Nominated - Best Actor for Walter Pidgeon
Winner - Best Actress for Greer Garson
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Henry Travers
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Teresa Wright
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Dame May Whitty
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Joseph Ruttenberg
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Harold F. Kress
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie HowardLaurence OlivierRichard GeorgeA World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger
Winner - Best Story for Emeric Pressburger - DirectorSam WoodStarsAnn SheridanRobert CummingsRonald ReaganThe dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Sam Wood
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for James Wong Howe - DirectorOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores CostelloThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Agnes Moorehead
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Stanley Cortez - DirectorIrving PichelStarsMonty WoolleyRoddy McDowallAnne BaxterWhile traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Monty Woolley
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Edward Cronjager - DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperTeresa WrightBabe RuthThe story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Gary Cooper
Nominated - Best Actress for Teresa Wright
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling
Nominated - Best Story for Paul Gallico
Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Leigh Harline
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Rudolph Maté
Winner - Best Film Editing for Daniel Mandell
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRonald ColmanGreer GarsonPhilip DornAn amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Mervyn LeRoy
Nominated - Best Actor for Ronald Colman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Susan Peters
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for George Froeschel, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis
Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Herbert Stothart
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantJean ArthurRonald ColmanAn escaped prisoner has to prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with the help of a spirited school teacher.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw
Nominated - Best Story for Sidney Harmon
Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Ted Tetzlaff
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Otto Meyer - DirectorJohn FarrowStarsBrian DonlevyRobert PrestonMacdonald CareyDecember, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for John Farrow
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for William Bendix
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Michael Curtiz
Winner - Best Actor for James Cagney
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Walter Huston
Nominated - Best Story for Robert Buckner
Winner - Best Musical Score for Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
Nominated - Best Film Editing for George Amy - DirectorIrving RapperStarsBette DavisPaul HenreidClaude RainsA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.Nominated - Best Actress for Bette Davis
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Gladys Cooper
Winner - Best Dramatic Score for Max Steiner - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnFay BainterRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.Nominated - Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr. - DirectorAlexander HallStarsRosalind RussellBrian AherneJanet BlairTwo sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.Nominated - Best Actress for Rosalind Russell
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRobert TaylorLana TurnerEdward ArnoldThe step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Van Heflin
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyHedy LamarrJohn GarfieldDanny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Frank Morgan
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Frank Butler and Don Hartman
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Loren Ryder - DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsEdward ArnoldFay BainterRichard NeyA Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for George Oppenheimer
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsGodfrey TearleEric PortmanHugh WilliamsDuring a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorMark SandrichRobert AllenStarsBing CrosbyFred AstaireMarjorie ReynoldsAt an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.Nominated - Best Story for Irving Berlin
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Robert Emmett Dolan
Winner - Best Original Song for "White Christmas" - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellLogan RamseyThe Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.Winner - Best Documentary
- StarsPeter BathurstDamien ParerCameraman Damien Parer has just returned from the front in New Guinea, where he's documented Australian troops in action. He explains this to us in a prolog. We then see air drops of supplies, wounded men being carried on stretchers by native porters, and men leaving camp to go to the front. There's a tiny bit of possibly staged combat footage. A narrator explains that the Japanese soldiers are expert at disguise, and how important support from the home front is.Winner - Best Documentary
- DirectorIlya KopalinLeonid VarlamovStarsN. DubravinEdward G. RobinsonJoseph StalinA number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.Winner - Best Documentary
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsWalter HustonVictor Bulwer-LyttonKai-Shek ChiangThe official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.Winner - Best Documentary
- DirectorLouis De RochemontStarsWestbrook Van VoorhisThe reason for the hard Nazi-resistance to the Allied invasion of Tunis has been revealed to officials of the MARCH of TIME,whose film "Africa- Prelude to Victory (V. 09, No. 5, December 4, 1942) covers both the planning and execution of the great Allied Military Maneuver in North Africa. It is this: Nazis captured by the United Nations forces express the greatest shock at being fed decent food.These prisoners are arrogant and domineering. Their first shock comes when they learn the United States citizens are not starving, as they had been told by their officers and Berlin propaganda. When they hear that Stalingrad has not fallen they refuse to believe it as they have been told. But they learn. They learn.Nominated - Best Documentary
- StarsWalter HustonFollows the crew of a Mitchell bomber from the 2nd BG as they fight submarines.Nominated - Best Documentary