15th Academy Awards (3-4-43)

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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