15th Academy Awards (3-4-43)

Brooklyn Eagle (February 8, 1943)

Nominations made for Oscars

Established stars win over newcomers; name ten films in Best Picture class

Hollywood, California (UP) –
Film stars of well-established reputation won precedence over Hollywood’s newcomers today in the list of nominations for the motion picture industry’s coveted Oscars.

The nominations were announced last night by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and balloting will begin Feb. 13 in the Academy’s 15th annual presentation of awards for film merit. Awards for acting, directing, writing, photography and technical excellence will be made March 4 at the annual Academy dinner.

Five persons in each classification were nominated for best performances by actors and actresses and supporting players, male and female. Ten films were nominated for the outstanding picture of the year.

Nominations included:
For best performance by an actor:

  • James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Ronald Colman – Random Harvest
  • Gary Cooper – Pride of the Yankees
  • Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver
  • Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper.

The best performance by an actress:

  • Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
  • Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
  • Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year
  • Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen
  • Teresa Wright – Pride of the Yankees.

For 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.

For best supporting actor:

  • William Bendix – Wake Island
  • Van Heflin – Johnny Eager
  • Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat
  • Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver.

Films from among which one will be chosen as best of the year are:

  • The Invaders
  • Kings Row
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Mrs. Miniver
  • The Pied Piper
  • Pride of the Yankees
  • Random Harvest
  • Talk of the Town
  • Wake Island
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy.

The 15th Academy Awards will honor the best in film for 1942. The ceremony (with comedian Bob Hope once again as the host) will be held on March 4, in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

The nominations are listed below:

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Outstanding Motion Picture

  • 49th Parallel – Ortus
  • Kings Row – Warner Bros.
  • Mrs. Miniver – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • The Magnificent Ambersons – Mercury and RKO Radio
  • The Pied Piper – 20th Century Fox
  • The Pride of the Yankees – Samuel Goldwyn Productions and RKO Radio
  • Random Harvest– Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • The Talk of the Town – Columbia
  • Wake Island – Paramount
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy – Warner Bros.

Best Director

  • Sam Wood – Kings Row
  • William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver
  • Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest
  • John Farrow – Wake Island
  • Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy

Best Actor

  • James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
  • 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

  • Bette Davis – Now, Voyager as Charlotte Vale
  • Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver as Kay Miniver
  • 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

  • William Bendix – Wake Island as Pvt. Aloysius K. Randall
  • Van Heflin – Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett
  • 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

  • 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
  • Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon

Best Original Screenplay

  • 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
  • Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.

Best Screenplay

  • 49th Parallel – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, based on a story by Emeric Pressburger
  • Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the Mrs. Miniver newspaper columns by Jan Struther
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kokoda Front Line! – Australian News and Information Bureau
  • Moscow Strikes Back – Artkino
  • Prelude to War – United States Army Special Services
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arabian Nights – Frank Skinner
  • Bambi – Frank Churchill 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

  • 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
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy – Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld
  • You Were Never Lovelier – Leigh Harline

Best Original Song

  • “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
  • “White Christmas” from Holiday Inn – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin

Best Sound Recording

  • 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
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy – Nathan Levinson
  • You Were Never Lovelier – John P. Livadary

Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

  • 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
  • This Above All – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little

Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Color

  • 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
  • My Gal Sal – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
  • Reap the Wild Wind – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: George Sawley

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

  • Kings Row – James Wong Howe
  • The Magnificent Ambersons – Stanley Cortez
  • Moontide – Charles G. Clarke
  • Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg
  • 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

  • Arabian Nights – Milton Krasner, William V. Skall, and W. Howard Greene
  • The Black Swan – Leon Shamroy
  • 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

  • Mrs. Miniver – Harold F. Kress
  • The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell
  • The Talk of the Town – Otto Meyer
  • This Above All – Walter A. Thompson
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy – George Amy

Best Special Effects

  • 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
  • Reap the Wild Wind – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William Pereira; Sound Effects: Louis Mesenkop

The winners are:

Outstanding Motion Picture

Mrs. Miniver – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Director

William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver

Best Actor

James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan

Best Actress

Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver as Kay Miniver

Best Supporting Actor

Van Heflin – Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett

Best Supporting Actress

Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon

Best Original Screenplay

Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.

Best Screenplay

Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the Mrs. Miniver newspaper columns by Jan Struther

Best Original Story

49th Parallel – Emeric Pressburger

Best Documentary

  • The Battle of Midway – United States Navy
  • Kokoda Front Line! – Australian News and Information Bureau
  • Moscow Strikes Back – Artkino
  • Prelude to War – United States Army Special Services

Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel

Speaking of Animals and Their Families – Paramount

Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel

Beyond the Line of Duty – Warner Bros.

Best Short Subjects – Cartoons

Der Fuehrer’s Face – Walt Disney

Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture

Now, Voyager – Max Steiner

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

Yankee Doodle Dandy – Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld

Best Original Song

“White Christmas” from Holiday Inn – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin

Best Sound Recording

Yankee Doodle Dandy – Nathan Levinson

Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

This Above All – Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little

Best Art Direction – Interior Decoration, Color

My Gal Sal – Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg

Best Cinematography, Color

The Black Swan – Leon Shamroy

Best Film Editing

The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell

Best Special Effects

Reap the Wild Wind – Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, William Pereira, Louis Mesenkop

Academy Honorary Award

  • Charles Boyer:

…for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference for the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry.

  • 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

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The Pittsburgh Press (March 5, 1943)

Oscars awarded –
Greer Garson, Cagney chosen

Film Mrs. Miniver takes most of prizes
By Frederick C. Othman, United Press staff writer

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Greer Garson and James Cagney – Mrs. Miniver and Yankee Doodle Dandy clutch gilt Oscars.

Hollywood, California –
A weeping Greer Garson, triumphant on her fourth try, walked off early today with the Motion Picture Academy’s imitation-gold statuette symbolic of her rise to first place among Hollywood’s movie actresses.

The red-haired Irish star sobbed:

I feel – yes, I feel just like Alice in Wonderland.

…as last year’s Academy winner, Joan Fontaine, handed her the coveted statuette, made this year of plastic and painted gold-colored.

Miss Garson received the prize while 1,300 moviemakers bumped elbows in their applause for her role in Mrs. Miniver, a picture which won most of the other Oscars standing on the table in the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove.

The film itself was judged best of 1942. William Wyler, now with the U.S. Air Force in Europe, received the prize for directing it, while Teresa Wright, who played in support of Miss Garson, took the best secondary actress plum. The photographer and the writers of Mrs. Miniver also won awards.

Only non-Miniver prizewinners among the top-notchers were James Cagney, named best actor for his work in Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Van Heflin, who got the statue as best supporting actor for his role in Johnny Eager.

Miss Garson, who’d worked all day before Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s cameras, arrived late at the banquet in a low-cut black evening gown. When Miss Fontaine, wearing the same pink gown in which she won the prize last year, announced the winner, Miss G. planted a kiss on her lips, wept silently for a moment and cried:

This is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me. If I ever win another Oscar, it will not be the same.

Cagney, who won his statue for his work emulating George M. Cohan as a song and dance man, didn’t weep. But when Gary Cooper handed him the prize, he grabbed the latter’s hand and cried:

Pal, don’t leave me.

The dinner established a record for length in the 15 years of Academy banqueting. Guests, jammed into the room so tightly they would hardly eat their food, started with their shrimp cocktails at 8, and were worrying with their squab and wild rice at 10 p.m. when Academy President Walter Wagner opened the proceedings with presentation of a flag indicating that 27,677 men from the movie industry are in the armed services.

Messages and speeches

Then came messages from President Roosevelt, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, and others. There were speeches by numerous dignitaries and along about 11 p.m. when the customers were eating the ice cream on the $11 blue plate special, Bob Hope started the giving away of prizes.

He said he was glad so many men from the picture industry had joined the Army, but that he feared what might happen next if more young men get into the service.

He demanded:

Can you imagine Hedy Lamarr waiting to be kissed while Lewis Stone looks for a place to plug in his heating pad?

Disney gets award

Then he and others started issuing the prizes for numerous technical and artistic triumphs in the films. Walt Disney got a statuette for Der Fuehrer’s Face, one-reeler hit of 1942.

Irving Berlin issued himself a statuette for his song “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.” He said:

The man who won that prize is a good kid. And he deserves it.

Then came more speeches by representatives of Great Britain, Australia and Russia.

Bogus palms droop

The room was full of smoke, the champagne bottles were empty and the bogus palm trees were drooping when Cagney came up, holding onto Cooper, and finally at 1 a.m., Miss Garson rose to get the most coveted award.

After half a dozen false starts and dabbling at her eyes, she made a speech. She said:

I can hardly believe all this is happening to me. I don’t suppose there is a single person who would not like to have such an award. I came here a stranger five years ago, now I’m in love with everybody I have worked with.