15th Academy Awards - Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Motion Picture Best Director
  • Mrs. Miniver
    • The Invaders
    • Kings Row
    • The Magnificent Ambersons
    • The Pied Piper
    • The Pride of the Yankees
    • Random Harvest
    • The Talk of the Town
    • Wake Island
    • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver
    • Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy
    • John Farrow – Wake Island
    • Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest
    • Sam Wood – Kings Row
Best Actor Best Actress
  • 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
  • Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
    • Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
    • Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year
    • Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen
    • Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
  • Van Heflin – Johnny Eager
    • William Bendix – Wake Island
    • Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy
    • Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat
    • Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver
  • Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver
    • Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager
    • Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons
    • Susan Peters – Random Harvest
    • Dame May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr.
    • Wake Island – W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler
    • Road to Morocco – Frank Butler and Don Hartman
    • The War Against Mrs. Hadley – George Oppenheimer
    • One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  • Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis
    • The Invaders – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger
    • The Talk of the Town – Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw
    • Random Harvest – George Froeschel, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis
    • The Pride of the Yankees – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling
Best Story Best Documentary
  • The Invaders – Emeric Pressburger
    • Holiday Inn – Irving Berlin
    • Yankee Doodle Dandy – Robert Buckner
    • The Pride of the Yankees – Paul Gallico
    • The Talk of the Town – Sidney Harmon
  • The Battle of Midway
  • Kokoda Front Line!
  • Moscow Strikes Back
  • Prelude to War
    • Africa, Prelude to Victory
    • 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
    • Listen to Britain
    • Little Belgium
    • Little Isles of Freedom
    • Mr. Blabbermouth!
    • Mr. Gardenia Jones
    • The New Spirit
    • The Price of Victory
    • A Ship Is Born
    • Twenty-One Miles
    • We Refuse to Die
    • White Eagle
    • Winning Your Wings
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
  • Speaking of Animals and Their Families
    • Desert Wonderland
    • Marines in the Making
    • United States Marine Band
  • Beyond the Line of Duty
    • Don't Talk
    • Private Smith of the U.S.A.
Best Animated Short Film
  • 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 Dramatic Score Best Musical Score
  • Now, Voyager – Max Steiner
    • Bambi – Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb
    • The Shanghai Gesture – Richard Hageman
    • The Pride of the Yankees – Leigh Harline
    • To Be or Not to Be – Werner Heymann
    • The Talk of the Town – Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff
    • Klondike Fury – Edward Kay
    • The Black Swan – Alfred Newman
    • Jungle Book – Miklos Rozsa
    • Arabian Nights – Frank Skinner
    • Random Harvest – Herbert Stothart
    • The Gold Rush – Max Terr
    • The Corsican Brothers – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • I Married a Witch – Roy Webb
    • Joan of Paris – Roy Webb
    • Flying Tigers – Victor Young
    • Silver Queen – Victor Young
    • Take a Letter, Darling – Victor Young
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy – Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld
    • For Me and My Gal – Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll
    • Holiday Inn – Robert Emmett Dolan
    • You Were Never Lovelier – Leigh Harline
    • My Gal Sal – Alfred Newman
    • It Started With Eve – Charles Previn and Hans Salter
    • Johnny Doughboy – Walter Scharf
    • Flying With Music – Edward Ward
Best Original Song Best Sound Recording
  • "White Christmas" from Holiday Inn – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin
    • "Always in My Heart" from Always in My Heart – Music by Ernesto Lecuona; Lyric by Kim Gannon
    • "Dearly Beloved" from You Were Never Lovelier – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyric by Johnny Mercer
    • "How About You?" from Babes on Broadway – Music by Burton Lane; Lyric by Ralph Freed
    • "It Seems I Heard That Song Before" from Youth on Parade – Music by Jule Styne; Lyric by Sammy Cahn
    • "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" from Orchestra Wives – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Mack Gordon
    • "Love Is a Song" from Bambi – Music by Frank Churchill; Lyric by Larry Morey
    • "Pennies for Peppino" from Flying With Music – Music by Edward Ward; Lyric by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright
    • "Pig Foot Pete" from Hellzapoppin' – Music by Gene de Paul; Lyric by Don Raye
    • "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" from The Mayor of 44th Street – Music by Harry Revel; Lyric by Mort Greene
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
    • You Were Never Lovelier – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department
    • Mrs. Miniver – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department
    • Road to Morocco – Loren Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department
    • The Gold Rush – James L. Fields, RCA Sound
    • Flying Tigers – Daniel Bloomberg, Republic Studio Sound Department
    • Once Upon a Honeymoon – Stephen Dunn, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
    • The Pride of the Yankees – Thomas T. Moulton, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
    • Friendly Enemies – Jack Whitney, Sound Service, Inc.
    • This Above All – E. H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department
    • Arabian Nights – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio Sound Department
    • Bambi – Sam Slyfield, Walt Disney Studio Sound Department
Best Art Direction, Black and White Best Art Direction, Color
  • This Above All – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little
    • The Talk of the Town – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad; Set Decoration: Fay Babcock
    • Silver Queen – Art Direction: Ralph Berger; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri
    • The Magnificent Ambersons – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino; Set Decoration: Al Fields and Darrell Silvera
    • Take a Letter, Darling – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer
    • The Pride of the Yankees – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
    • Random Harvest – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jack Moore
    • The Shanghai Gesture – Art Direction: John B. Goodman and Jack Otterson; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Boris Leven
    • George Washington Slept Here – Art Direction: Max Parker and Mark-Lee Kirk; Set Decoration: Casey Roberts
    • The Spoilers – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Edward R. Robinson
  • My Gal Sal – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little
    • Reap the Wild Wind – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: George Sawley
    • Arabian Nights – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb
    • Jungle Book – Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Set Decoration: Julia Heron
    • Captains of the Clouds – Art Direction: Ted Smith; Set Decoration: Casey Roberts
Best Cinematography, Black and White Best Cinematography, Color
  • Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg
    • Moontide – Charles G. Clarke
    • The Magnificent Ambersons – Stanley Cortez
    • The Pied Piper – Edward Cronjager
    • Kings Row – James Wong Howe
    • The Pride of the Yankees – Rudolph Maté
    • Take a Letter, Darling – John Mescall
    • This Above All – Arthur C. Miller
    • Ten Gentlemen From West Point – Leon Shamroy
    • The Talk of the Town – Ted Tetzlaff
  • The Black Swan – Leon Shamroy
    • To the Shores of Tripoli – Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall
    • Jungle Book – W. Howard Greene
    • Arabian Nights – Milton Krasner, William V. Skall and W. Howard Greene
    • Reap the Wild Wind – Victor Milner and William V. Skall
    • Captains of the Clouds – Sol Polito
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects
  • The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell
    • Yankee Doodle Dandy – George Amy
    • Mrs. Miniver – Harold F. Kress
    • The Talk of the Town – Otto Meyer
    • This Above All – Walter A. Thompson
  • Reap the Wild Wind – Photography: Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira; Sound: Louis Mesenkop
    • Jungle Book – Photography: Lawrence Butler; Sound: William H. Wilmarth,
    • The Pride of the Yankees – Jack Cosgrove and Ray Binger; Sound: Thomas T. Moulton
    • Invisible Agent – Photography: John P. Fulton; Sound: Bernard B. Brown
    • Mrs. Miniver – Photography: A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Sound: Douglas Shearer
    • Desperate Journey – Photography: Byron Haskin; Sound: Nathan Levinson
    • Flying Tigers – Photography: Howard Lydecker; Sound: Daniel J. Bloomberg
    • One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Photography: Ronald Neame; Sound: C. C. Stevens
    • The Black Swan – Photography: Fred Sersen; Sound: Roger Heman and George Leverett
    • The Navy Comes Through – Photography: Vernon L. Walker; Sound: James G. Stewart

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