15TH ACADEMY AWARDS
March 4, 1943
The Ambassador Hotel
Hosted by Bob Hope
OUTSTANDING PICTURE
| “49th Parallel” |
| “Kings Row” |
| “The Magnificent Ambersons” |
| “Mrs. Miniver” |
| “The Pied Piper” |
| “The Pride of the Yankees” |
| “Random Harvest” |
| “The Talk of the Town” |
| “Wake Island” |
| “Yankee Doodle Dandy” |
DIRECTOR
| Michael Curtiz – “Yankee Doodle Dandy” |
| John Farrow – “Wake Island” |
| Mervyn LeRoy – “Random Harvest” |
| Sam Wood – “Kings Row” |
| William Wyler – “Mrs. Miniver” |
ACTOR
| James Cagney – “Yankee Doodle Dandy” |
| Ronald Colman – “Random Harvest” |
| Gary Cooper – “The Pride of the Yankees” |
| Walter Pidgeon – “Mrs. Miniver” |
| Monty Woolley – “The Pied Piper” |
ACTRESS
| Bette Davis – “Now, Voyager” |
| Greer Garson – “Mrs. Miniver” |
| Katharine Hepburn – “Woman of the Year” |
| Rosalind Russell – “My Sister Eileen” |
| Teresa Wright – “The Pride of the Yankees” |
SUPPORTING ACTOR
| William Bendix – “Wake Island” |
| Van Heflin – “Johnny Eager” |
| Walter Huston – “Yankee Doodle Dandy” |
| Frank Morgan – “Tortilla Flat” |
| Henry Travers – “Mrs. Miniver” |
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
| Gladys Cooper – “Now, Voyager” |
| Agnes Moorehead – “The Magnificent Ambersons” |
| Susan Peters – “Random Harvest” |
| Dame May Whitty – “Mrs. Miniver” |
| Teresa Wright – “Mrs. Miniver” |
ART DIRECTION
(BLACK & 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 |
ART DIRECTION
(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 |
CINEMATOGRAPHY
(BLACK & 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 |
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 |
DOCUMENTARY
| “Africa, Prelude to Victory” – The March of Time |
| “The Battle of Midway” – United States Navy |
| “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 |
| “Kokoda Front Line!” – Australian News and Information Bureau |
| “Listen to Britain” – British Ministry of Information |
| “Little Belgium” – Belgian Ministry of Information |
| “Little Isles of Freedom” – Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew |
| “Moscow Strikes Back” – Artkino |
| “Mr. Blabbermouth!” – United States Office of War Information |
| “Mr. Gardenia Jones” – United States Office of War Information |
| “The New Spirit” – Walt Disney |
| “Prelude to War” – United States Army Special Services |
| “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 |
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 |
SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)
| “All Out for V” – Paul Terry |
| “Blitz Wolf” – Fred Quimby |
| “Der Fuehrer’s Face” – Walt Disney |
| “Juke Box Jamboree” – Walter Lantz |
| “Pigs in a Polka” – Leon Schlesinger |
| “Tulips Shall Grow” – George Pal |
LIVE ACTION SHORT SUBJECT
(ONE-REEL)
| “Desert Wonderland” – 20th Century Fox |
| “Marines in the Making” – Pete Smith |
| “Speaking of Animals and Their Families” – Paramount |
| “United States Marine Band” – Warner Bros. |
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 |
Scoring of a Dramatic or comedy Picture
| “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 |
| “Now, Voyager” – Max Steiner |
| “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 |
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 |
SONG
| “Always in My Heart” from “Always in My Heart” Music by Ernesto Lecuona; Lyrics by Kim Gannon |
| “How About You?” from “Babes on Broadway” Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Ralph Freed |
| “Love Is a Song” from “Bambi” Music by Frank Churchill; 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 |
| “White Christmas” from “Holiday Inn” Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin |
| “There’s a Breeze on Lake Louise” from “The Mayor of 44th Street” Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Mort Greene |
| “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 |
| “Dearly Beloved” from “You Were Never Lovelier” Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer |
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 |
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 |
WRITING (ADAPTATION)
| “49th Parallel” – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger |
| “Mrs. Miniver” – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis |
| “The Pride of the Yankees” – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling |
| “Random Harvest” – George Froeschel, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis |
| “The Talk of the Town” – Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw |
WRITING (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. |
WRITING (ORIGINAL 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 |
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” |
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
| Noël Coward “for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve” |
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
| 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 |
- “49th Parallel”
- “Always in My Heart”
- “Arabian Nights”
- “Babes on Broadway”
- “Bambi”
- “The Black Swan”
- “Captains of the Clouds”
- “The Corsican Brothers”
- “Desperate Journey”
- “Flying Tigers”
- “Flying with Music”
- “For Me and My Gal”
- “Friendly Enemies”
- “George Washington Slept Here”
- “The Gold Rush”
- “Hellzapoppin'”
- “Holiday Inn”
- “I Married a Witch”
- “Invisible Agent”
- “It Started with Eve”
- “Joan of Paris”
- “Johnny Doughboy”
- “Johnny Eager”
- “Jungle Book”
- “Kings Row”
- “Klondike Fury”
- “The Magnificent Ambersons”
- “The Mayor of 44th Street”
- “Moontide”
- “Mrs. Miniver”
- “My Gal Sal”
- “My Sister Eileen”
- “The Navy Comes Through”
- “Now, Voyager”
- “One of Our Aircraft Is Missing”
- “Once Upon a Honeymoon”
- “Orchestra Wives”
- “The Pied Piper”
- “The Pride of the Yankees”
- “Random Harvest”
- “Reap the Wild Wind”
- “Road to Morocco”
- “The Shanghai Gesture”
- “Silver Queen”
- “The Spoilers”
- “Take a Letter, Darling”
- “The Talk of the Town”
- “Ten Gentlemen from West Point”
- “This Above All”
- “To Be or Not to Be”
- “Tortilla Flat”
- “To the Shores of Tripoli”
- “Wake Island”
- “The War Against Mrs. Hadley”
- “Woman of the Year”
- “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
- “Youth on Parade”
- “You Were Never Lovelier”
DOCUMENTARY
- “Africa, Prelude to Victory”
- “The Battle of Midway”
- “Combat Report”
- “Conquer by the Clock”
- “The Grain That Built a Hemisphere”
- “Henry Browne, Farmer”
- “High Over the Borders”
- “High Stakes in the East”
- “Inside Fighting China”
- “It’s Everybody’s War”
- “Kokoda Front Line!”
- “Listen to Britain”
- “Little Belgium”
- “Little Isles of Freedom”
- “Moscow Strikes Back”
- “Mr. Blabbermouth!”
- “Mr. Gardenia Jones”
- “The New Spirit”
- “Prelude to War”
- “The Price of Victory”
- “A Ship Is Born”
- “Twenty-One Miles”
- “We Refuse to Die”
- “White Eagle”
- “Winning Your Wings”
SHORT FILMS
- “All Out for V”
- “Beyond the Line of Duty”
- “Blitz Wolf”
- “Der Fuehrer’s Face”
- “Desert Wonderland”
- “Don’t Talk”
- “Juke Box Jamboree”
- “Marines in the Making”
- “Pigs in a Polka”
- “Private Smith of the U.S.A.”
- “Speaking of Animals and Their Families”
- “Tulips Shall Grow”
- “United States Marine Band”
