14th Annual Academy Awards Results and Commentary (1942)
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- Date of Ceremony: Thursday, February 26, 1942
- For films released in: 1941
- Host(s): Bob Hope
With America now a part of World War II, the Academy decided to go ahead with the 14th Academy Awards ceremony on Thursday, February 26, 1942. However, the mood was a little more subdued. The celebrities were asked not to wear formal attire and the evening was referred to as a “dinner” rather than a “banquet.”
The big winner for the night was How Green Was My Valley which was nominated for 10 Oscars® and went home with five including Best Picture and Best Director.
Citizen Kane’s Orson Welles was nominated in four categories and won Best Writing (Original Screenplay) alongside Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Results
Outstanding Motion Picture
- How Green Was My Valley
20th Century-Fox
Best Directing
- How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
Best Actor
- Sergeant York
Gary Cooper
Best Actress
- Suspicion
Joan Fontaine
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- How Green Was My Valley
Donald Crisp
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- The Great Lie
Mary Astor
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)
- How Green Was My Valley
Richard Day [Art Direction], Nathan Juran [Art Direction] and Thomas Little [Interior Decoration]
Best Art Direction (Color)
- Blossoms in the Dust
Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Urie McCleary [Art Direction] and Edwin B. Willis [Interior Decoration]
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- How Green Was My Valley
Arthur Miller
Best Cinematography (Color)
- Blood and Sand
Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Churchill's Island
National Film Board of Canada
Best Film Editing
- Sergeant York
William Holmes
Best Music (Score of a Dramatic Picture)
- All That Money Can Buy
Bernard Herrmann
Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
- Dumbo
Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace
Best Music (Song)
- Lady Be Good "The Last Time I Saw Paris"
Jerome Kern [Music by] and Oscar Hammerstein II [Lyrics by]
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
- Lend a Paw
Walt Disney
Best Short Subject (One-reel)
- Of Pups and Puzzles
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Short Subject (Two-reel)
- Main Street on the March!
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Sound Recording
- That Hamilton Woman
General Service Sound Department and Jack Whitney [Sound Director]
Best Special Effects
- I Wanted Wings
Farciot Edouart [Photographic Effects by], Gordon Jennings [Photographic Effects by] and Louis Mesenkop [Sound Effects by]
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
- Citizen Kane
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
Best Writing (Screenplay)
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller
Best Writing (Original Story)
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Harry Segall
Special Award
- Rey Scott
Note: …for his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions. - British Ministry of Information
Note: …for its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film, Target for Tonight. - Leopold Stokowski
Note: To Leopold Stokowski and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production, Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form. - Walt Disney, William Garity, John N.A. Hawkins and RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Note: …for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- Walt Disney
Scientific or Technical Award (Class II)
- Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Co. Inc.
Note: …for the development of the precision integrating sphere densitometer. - RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Note: …for the design and development of the MI-3043 Uni-directional microphone.
Scientific or Technical Award (Class III)
- Ray Wilkinson and Paramount Studio Laboratory
Note: …for pioneering in the use of and for the first practical application to release printing of fine grain positive stock. - Charles Lootens and Republic Studio Sound Department
Note: …for pioneering the use of and for the first practical application to motion picture production of CLASS B push-pull variable area recording. - Wilbur Silvertooth and Paramount Studio Engineering Department
Note: …for the design and computation of a relay condenser system applicable to transparency process projection, delivering considerably more usable light. - Paramount Pictures Inc. and 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.
Note: …for the development and first practical application to motion picture production of an automatic scene slating device. - Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Loren Ryder and Paramount Studio Sound Department
Note: …for pioneering the development of fine grain emulsions for variable density original sound recording in studio production.