Picture: How Green Was My Valley (Fox), produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Director: John Ford, How Green Was My Valley
Actor: Gary Cooper, Sergeant York
Actress: Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
Supporting Actor: Donald Crisp, How Green Was My Valley
Supporting Actress: Mary Astor, The Great Lie
Writing Screenplay: Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller
Writing Original Screenplay: Citizen Kane, Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
Writing Original Story: Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Harry Segall
Cinematography (b/w): How Green Was My Valley, Arthur Miller
Cinematography (color): Blood and Sand, Ernset Palmer and W. Howard Greene
Interior Decoration (b/w): How Green Was My Valley, Richard Day and Nathan Juran; Thomas little
Interior Decoration (color): Blossoms in the Dust, Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary; Edwin B. Willis
Sound Recording: That Hamilton Woman, Jack Whitney
Music Song: “The Last Time I Saw Paris” (Lady Be Good), music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music Scoring of a Dramatic Picture: All That Money Can Buy, Bernard Hermann
Music Scoring of a Musical Picture: Dumbo, Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace
Editing: Sergeant York, William Holmes
Special Effects: I Wanted Wings (Paramount), Photographic, Fraciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound: Louis Mesenkop
Short Subjects: Cartoons: Lend a Pow (Disney, RKO Radio)
Short Subjects: One-Reel: Of Pupps and Puzzles (MGM)
Short Subjects: Two-Reel: Main Street on the March (MGM)
Documentary: Churchill’s Island (Canadian Film Board, UA)
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Walt Disney
Special Awards:
Rey Scott for extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China’s struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult conditions (Certificate).
The British Ministry of Information for its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film, Target for Tonight (Certificate)
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 (Certificate).
Walt Disney, William Garity, John N.A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company, for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia (Certificates).
