1943 Oscars 15th Academy Awards |
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1943 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Outstanding Motion Picture: Mrs. Miniver – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (WINNER) 49th Parallel – Michael Powell for Ortus Kings Row – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros. The Magnificent Ambersons – Orson Welles for Mercury and RKO Radio The Pied Piper – Nunnally Johnson for 20th Century Fox The Pride of the Yankees – Samuel Goldwyn for Samuel Goldwyn Productions and RKO Radio Random Harvest – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Talk of the Town – George Stevens for Columbia Wake Island – Joseph Sistrom for Paramount Yankee Doodle Dandy – Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, and William Cagney for Warner Bros. |
| Best Director: William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver (WINNER) Sam Wood – Kings Row Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest John Farrow – Wake Island Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Best Actor: James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan (WINNER) Ronald Colman – Random Harvest as Charles Rainier Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper as Howard |
| Best Actress: Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver as Kay Miniver (WINNER) Bette Davis – Now, Voyager as Charlotte Vale Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year as Tess Harding Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen as Ruth Sherwood Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees as Eleanor Gehrig |
| Best Supporting Actor: Van Heflin – Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett (WINNER) William Bendix – Wake Island as Private Aloysius K. Randall Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy as Jerry Cohan Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat as The Pirate Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver as James Ballard |
| Best Supporting Actress: Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon (WINNER) Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager as Windle Vale Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons as Fanny Minafer Susan Peters – Random Harvest as Kitty Chilcet Dame May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver as Lady Beldon |
| Best Original Screenplay: Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (WINNER) One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Road to Morocco – Frank Butler and Don Hartman Wake Island – W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler The War Against Mrs. Hadley – George Oppenheimer |
| Best Screenplay: Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the Mrs. Miniver newspaper columns by Jan Struther (WINNER) 49th Parallel – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, based on a story by Emeric Pressburger The Pride of the Yankees – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling, based on a story by Paul Gallico Random Harvest – George Froeschel, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the novel by James Hilton The Talk of the Town – Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw, based on a story by Sidney Harmon |
| Best Original Motion Picture Story: 49th Parallel – Emeric Pressburger (WINNER) Holiday Inn – Irving Berlin The Pride of the Yankees – Paul Gallico The Talk of the Town – Sidney Harmon Yankee Doodle Dandy – Robert Buckner |
| Best Documentary: The Battle of Midway – United States Navy (WINNER) Kokoda Front Line! – Australian News and Information Bureau (WINNER) Moscow Strikes Back – Artkino (WINNER) Prelude to War – United States Army Special Services (WINNER) Africa, Prelude to Victory – The March of Time Combat Report – United States Army Signal Corps Conquer by the Clock – Frederic Ullman Jr. The Grain That Built a Hemisphere – Walt Disney 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 Mr. Blabbermouth! – United States Office of War Information Mr. Gardenia Jones – United States Office of War Information The New Spirit – Walt Disney The Price of Victory – William H. Pine A Ship Is Born – United States Merchant Marine Twenty-One Miles – British Ministry of Information We Refuse to Die – William C. Thomas White Eagle – Concanen Films Winning Your Wings – United States Army Air Force |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel: Speaking of Animals and Their Families – Paramount (WINNER) Desert Wonderland – 20th Century Fox Marines in the Making – Pete Smith United States Marine Band – Warner Bros. |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel: Beyond the Line of Duty – Warner Bros. (WINNER) Don’t Talk – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Private Smith of the U.S.A. – RKO Radio |
| Best Short Subjects – Cartoons: Der Fuehrer’s Face – Walt Disney (WINNER) All Out for V – Paul Terry Blitz Wolf – Fred Quimby Juke Box Jamboree – Walter Lantz Pigs in a Polka – Leon Schlesinger Tulips Shall Grow – George Pal |
| Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Now, Voyager – Max Steiner (WINNER) Arabian Nights – Frank Skinner Bambi – Frank Churchill (posthumous nomination) and Edward H. 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 – Miklós Rózsa Klondike Fury – Edward J. 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 and Morris Stoloff To Be or Not to Be – Werner R. Heymann |
| Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: Yankee Doodle Dandy – Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld (WINNER) Flying with Music – Edward Ward For Me and My Gal – Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll Holiday Inn – Robert E. Dolan It Started with Eve – Charles Previn and Hans J. Salter Johnny Doughboy – Walter Scharf My Gal Sal – Alfred Newman You Were Never Lovelier – Leigh Harline |
| Best Original Song: “White Christmas” from Holiday Inn – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin (WINNER) “Always in My Heart” from Always in My Heart – Music by Ernesto Lecuona; Lyrics by Kim Gannon “Dearly Beloved” from You Were Never Lovelier – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “How About You?” from Babes on Broadway – Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Ralph Freed “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo” from Orchestra Wives – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon “I’ve Heard That Song Before” from Youth on Parade – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn “Love Is a Song” from Bambi – Music by Frank Churchill (posthumous nomination); Lyrics by Larry Morey “Pennies for Peppino” from Flying with Music – Music by Edward Ward; Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright “Pig Foot Pete” from Hellzapoppin’ – Music by Gene de Paul; Lyrics by Don Raye “There’s a Breeze on Lake Louise” from The Mayor of 44th Street – Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Mort Greene |
| Best Sound Recording: Yankee Doodle Dandy – Nathan Levinson (WINNER) Arabian Nights – Bernard B. Brown Bambi – Sam Slyfield Flying Tigers – Daniel J. Bloomberg Friendly Enemies – Jack Whitney The Gold Rush – James L. Fields Mrs. Miniver – Douglas Shearer Once Upon a Honeymoon – Stephen Dunn The Pride of the Yankees – Thomas T. Moulton Road to Morocco – Loren L. Ryder This Above All – E. H. Hansen You Were Never Lovelier – John P. Livadary |
| Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Black-and-White: This Above All – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little (WINNER) George Washington Slept Here – Art Direction: Max Parker and Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts The Magnificent Ambersons – Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino; Interior Decoration: Al Fields and Darrell Silvera The Pride of the Yankees – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol Random Harvest – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore The Shanghai Gesture – Art Direction and Interior Decoration: Boris Leven Silver Queen – Art Direction: Ralph Berger; Interior Decoration: Emile Kuri The Spoilers – Art Direction: Jack Otterson and John B. Goodman; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Edward R. Robinson Take a Letter, Darling – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: Samuel M. Comer The Talk of the Town – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock |
| Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Color: My Gal Sal – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little (WINNER) Arabian Nights – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and 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 and Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: George Sawley |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg (WINNER) Kings Row – James Wong Howe The Magnificent Ambersons – Stanley Cortez Moontide – Charles G. Clarke The Pied Piper – Edward Cronjager The Pride of the Yankees – Rudolph Maté Take a Letter, Darling – John J. Mescall The Talk of the Town – Ted Tetzlaff Ten Gentlemen from West Point – Leon Shamroy This Above All – Arthur C. Miller |
| Best Cinematography, Color: The Black Swan – Leon Shamroy (WINNER) Arabian Nights – Milton Krasner, William V. Skall, and W. Howard Greene Captains of the Clouds – Sol Polito Jungle Book – W. Howard Greene Reap the Wild Wind – Victor Milner and William V. Skall To the Shores of Tripoli – Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall |
| Best Film Editing: The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell (WINNER) Mrs. Miniver – Harold F. Kress The Talk of the Town – Otto Meyer This Above All – Walter A. Thompson Yankee Doodle Dandy – George Amy |
| Best Special Effects: Reap the Wild Wind – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William Pereira; Sound Effects: Louis Mesenkop (WINNER) The Black Swan – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman, Sr. and George Leverett Desperate Journey – Photographic Effects: Byron Haskin; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson Flying Tigers – Photographic Effects: Howard Lydecker; Sound Effects: Daniel J. Bloomberg Invisible Agent – Photographic Effects: John P. Fulton; Sound Effects: Bernard B. Brown Jungle Book – Photographic Effects: Lawrence W. Butler; Sound Effects: William H. Wilmarth Mrs. Miniver – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects: Douglas Shearer The Navy Comes Through – Photographic Effects: Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects: James G. Stewart One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Photographic Effects: Ronald Neame; Sound Effects: C. C. Stevens The Pride of the Yankees – Photographic Effects: Jack Cosgrove and Ray Binger; Sound Effects: Thomas T. Moulton |
Academy Honorary Awards: Noël Coward – “for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – “for its achievement in representing the American Way of Life in the production of the Andy Hardy series of films.” |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Sidney Franklin |
