15th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1943)

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• Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 4, 1943
• For films released in: 1942

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 15th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Motion Picture

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

Best Directing

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• The Magnificent Ambersons
  Agnes Moorehead
• Mrs. Miniver
  Dame May Whitty
• Mrs. Miniver
  Teresa Wright
• Now, Voyager
  Gladys Cooper
• Random Harvest
  Susan Peters

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• George Washington Slept Here
  Max Parker [Art Direction], Mark-Lee Kirk [Art Direction] and Casey Roberts [Interior Decoration]
• The Magnificent Ambersons
  Albert S. D'Agostino [Art Direction], Darrell Silvera [Interior Decoration] and Al Fields [Interior Decoration]
• The Pride of the Yankees
  Perry Ferguson [Art Direction] and Howard Bristol [Interior Decoration]
• Random Harvest
  Cedric Gibbons [Art Direction], Randall Duell [Art Direction], Edwin B. Willis [Interior Decoration] and Jack Moore [Interior Decoration]
• The Shanghai Gesture
  Boris Leven [Art and Interior Direction]
• Silver Queen
  Ralph Berger [Art Direction] and Emile Kuri [Interior Decoration]
• The Spoilers
  Jack Otterson [Art Direction], John B. Goodman [Art Direction], Russell A. Gausman [Interior Decoration] and Edward R. Robinson [Interior Decoration]
• Take a Letter, Darling
  Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Roland Anderson [Art Direction] and Sam Comer [Interior Decoration]
• The Talk of the Town
  Lionel Banks [Art Direction], Rudolph Sternad [Art Direction] and Fay Babcock [Interior Decoration]
• This above All
  Richard Day [Art Direction], Joseph Wright [Art Direction] and Thomas Little [Interior Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Arabian Nights
  Jack Otterson [Art Direction], Alexander Golitzen [Art Direction], Russell A. Gausman [Interior Decoration] and Ira S. Webb [Interior Decoration]
• Captains of the Clouds
  Ted Smith [Art Direction] and Casey Roberts [Interior Decoration]
• Jungle Book
  Vincent Korda [Art Direction] and Julia Heron [Interior Decoration]
• My Gal Sal
  Richard Day [Art Direction], Joseph Wright [Art Direction] and Thomas Little [Interior Decoration]
• Reap the Wild Wind
  Hans Dreier [Art Direction], Roland Anderson [Art Direction] and George Sawley [Interior Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Kings Row
  James Wong Howe
• The Magnificent Ambersons
  Stanley Cortez
• Moontide
  Charles Clarke
• Mrs. Miniver
  Joseph Ruttenberg
• The Pied Piper
  Edward Cronjager
• The Pride of the Yankees
  Rudolph Maté
• Take a Letter, Darling
  John Mescall
• The Talk of the Town
  Ted Tetzlaff
• Ten Gentlemen from West Point
  Leon Shamroy
• This above All
  Arthur 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 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 & 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

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 Thompson
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  George Amy

Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

• Arabian Nights
  Frank Skinner
• Bambi
  Frank Churchill and Edward 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
  Miklos Rozsa
• Klondike Fury
  Edward 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 Heymann

Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

• Flying with Music
  Edward Ward
• For Me and My Gal
  Roger Edens and George Stoll
• Holiday Inn
  Robert Emmett Dolan
• It Started with Eve
  Hans Salter and Charles Previn
• Johnny Doughboy
  Walter Scharf
• My Gal Sal
  Alfred Newman
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld
• You Were Never Lovelier
  Leigh Harline

Best Music (Song)

• Always in My Heart "Always in My Heart"
  Ernesto Lecuona [Music by] and Kim Gannon [Lyrics by]
• Babes on Broadway "How About You?"
  Burton Lane [Music by] and Ralph Freed [Lyrics by]
• Bambi "Love Is a Song"
  Frank Churchill [Music by] and Larry Morey [Lyrics by]
• Flying with Music "Pennies for Peppino"
  Edward Ward [Music by], Chet Forrest [Lyrics by] and Bob Wright [Lyrics by]
• Hellzapoppin' "Pig Foot Pete"
  Gene de Paul [Music by] and Don Raye [Lyrics by]
• Holiday Inn "White Christmas"
  Irving Berlin [Music and Lyrics by]
• The Mayor of 44th Street "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise"
  Harry Revel [Music by] and Mort Greene [Lyrics by]
• Orchestra Wives "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo"
  Harry Warren [Music by] and Mack Gordon [Lyrics by]
• You Were Never Lovelier "Dearly Beloved"
  Jerome Kern [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]
• Youth on Parade "It Seems I Heard That Song Before"
  Jule Styne [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• All Out for 'V'
  20th Century-Fox
• Blitz Wolf
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Der Fuehrer's Face
  Walt Disney
• Juke Box Jamboree
  Walter Lantz
• Pigs in a Polka
  Leon Schlesinger
• Tulips Shall Grow
  George Pal

Best 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.

Best 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 Sound Recording

• Arabian Nights
  Universal Studio Sound Department and Bernard B. Brown [Sound Director]
• Bambi
  Walt Disney Studio Sound Department and Sam Slyfield [Sound Director]
• Flying Tigers
  Republic Studio Sound Department and Daniel Bloomberg [Sound Director]
• Friendly Enemies
  Sound Service Inc. and Jack Whitney [Sound Director]
• The Gold Rush
  RCA Sound and James Fields [Sound Director]
• Mrs. Miniver
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
• Once upon a Honeymoon
  RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and Steve Dunn [Sound Director]
• The Pride of the Yankees
  Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]
• Road to Morocco
  Paramount Studio Sound Department and Loren Ryder [Sound Director]
• This above All
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and E.H. Hansen [Sound Director]
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
• You Were Never Lovelier
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]

Best Special Effects

• The Black Swan
  Fred Sersen [Photographic Effects by], Roger Heman [Sound Effects by] and George Leverett [Sound Effects by]
• Desperate Journey
  Byron Haskin [Photographic Effects by] and Nathan Levinson [Sound Effects by]
• Flying Tigers
  Howard Lydecker [Photographic Effects by] and Daniel J. Bloomberg [Sound Effects by]
• Invisible Agent
  John Fulton [Photographic Effects by] and Bernard B. Brown [Sound Effects by]
• Jungle Book
  Lawrence Butler [Photographic Effects by] and William H. Wilmarth [Sound Effects by]
• Mrs. Miniver
  A. Arnold Gillespie [Photographic Effects by], Warren Newcombe [Photographic Effects by] and Douglas Shearer [Sound Effects by]
• The Navy Comes Through
  Vernon L. Walker [Photographic Effects by] and James G. Stewart [Sound Effects by]
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
  Ronald Neame [Photographic Effects by] and C.C. Stevens [Sound Effects by]
• The Pride of the Yankees
  Jack Cosgrove [Photographic Effects by], Ray Binger [Photographic Effects by] and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Effects by]
• Reap the Wild Wind
  Gordon Jennings [Photographic Effects by], Farciot Edouart [Photographic Effects by], William L. Pereira [Photographic Effects by] and Louis Mesenkop [Sound Effects by]

Best 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
  Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin

Best Writing (Screenplay)

• The Invaders
  Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger
• Mrs. Miniver
  Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton and Claudine West
• The Pride of the Yankees
  Jo Swerling and Herman J. Mankiewicz
• Random Harvest
  Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis
• The Talk of the Town
  Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman

Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

• Holiday Inn
  Irving Berlin
• The Invaders
  Emeric Pressburger
• The Pride of the Yankees
  Paul Gallico
• The Talk of the Town
  Sidney Harmon
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Robert Buckner