1942 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Kellens101]

Best Picture: The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Director: Orson Welles for The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Actor: James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Best Actress: Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver
Best Supporting Actor: Rudy Vallee in The Palm Beach Story
Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead in The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Original Screenplay: Sullivan's Travels
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Score: Bambi
Best Art Direction: The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Costume Design: Arabian Nights
Best Cinematography: The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Editing: Sullivan's Travels
Best Sound: Bambi

[Cinemanolis]

PICTURE
Now, Voyager
*To Be or Not to Be
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Palm Beach Story
The Magnificent Ambersons

DIRECTOR
Irvin Rapper – Now, Voyager
Ernst Lubitsch – To Be or Not to Be
William Keighley – The Man Who Came to Dinner
*Preston Sturges – Sullivan’s Travels
Orson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons

ACTOR
James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
*Monty Woolley - The Man Who Came to Dinner
Spencer Tracy – Woman of the Year
Joel McCrea - Sullivan’s Travels
Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees

ACTRESS
Bette Davis - Now, Voyager
*Carole Lombard - To Be or Not to Be
Claudette Colbert - The Palm Beach Story
Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver
Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver
Rudy Vallee - The Palm Beach Story
*Tim Holt - The Magnificent Ambersons
Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy
Van Heflin – Johnny Eager

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Gladys Cooper - Now, Voyager
Dame May Whitty - Mrs. Miniver
Mary Wickes - The Man Who Came to Dinner
Ann Sheridan - The Man Who Came to Dinner
Mary Astor - The Palm Beach Story
*Agnes Moorehead - The Magnificent Ambersons

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
*To Be or Not to Be
The Talk of the Town
Woman of the Year
The Palm Beach Story
Sullivan’s Travels

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
*Now, Voyager
Random Harvest
Mrs. Miniver
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Magnificent Ambersons

[ksrymy]

BEST PICTURE
01. Casablanca (dir. Michael Curtiz)
02. To Be or Not to Be (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
03. Cat People (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
04. I Married a Witch (dir. René Clair)
05. Les Visiteurs du Soir (dir. Marcel Carné)
06. The Palm Beach Story (dir. Preston Sturges)
07. Gentleman Jim (dir. Raoul Walsh)
08. Joan of Paris (dir. Robert Stevenson)
09. The Magnificent Ambersons (dir. Orson Welles)
10. This Gun for Hire (dir. Frank Tuttle)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Ernst Lubitsch, To Be or Not to Be
02. Jacques Tourneur, Cat People
03. Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
04. Marcel Carné, Les Visiteurs du Soir
05. René Clair, I Married a Witch

BEST ACTOR
01. Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
02. Chishu Ryu, There Was a Father
03. George Sanders, The Moon and Sixpence
04. Errol Flynn, Gentleman Jim
05. Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner

BEST ACTRESS
01. Carole Lombard, To Be or Not to Be
02. Bette Davis; Now, Voyager
03. Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch
04. Michèle Morgan, Joan of Paris
05. Arletty, Les Visiteurs du Soir

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Ernest Anderson, In This Our Life
02. Ward Bond, Gentleman Jim
03. Tim Holt, The Magnificent Ambersons
04. Laird Cregar, The Black Swan
05. Jules Berry, Les Visiteurs du Soir

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Googie Withers, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
02. Gladys Cooper; Now, Voyager
03. Mary Astor, The Palm Beach Story
04. Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons
05. May Robson, Joan of Paris

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. To Be or Not to Be (Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer)
02. Casablanca (Julis J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Joan Alison and Murray Bennett)
03. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
04. I Married a Witch (Robert Pirosh, Marc Connelly)
05. This Gun for Hire (Albert Maltz, W. R. Burnett, based on the novel by Graham Greene)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. Saboteur (Otto Ludwig, Edward Curtiss)
02. Desperate Journey (Rudi Fehr)
03. Cat People (Mark Robson)
04. Went the Day Well? (Sidney Cole)
05. In Which We Serve (Thelma Connell, David Lean)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Cat People (Nicholas Musuraca)
02. The Magnificent Ambersons (Stanley Cortez)
03. Joan of Paris (Russell Metty)
04. The Black Swan (Leon Shamroy)
05. Moontide (Charles G. Clarke)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. Les Visiteurs du Soir (Alexandre Trauner)
02. The Magnificent Ambersons (Albert S. D'Agostino)
03. Jungle Book (J. McMillan Johnson, Jack Okey)
04. Kings Row (Carl Jules Weyl)
05. The Black Swan (James Basevi, Richard Day)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. The Black Swan (Earl Luick)
02. Les Visiteurs du Soir (Georges Wakhévitch)
03. The 47 Ronin, Part II (uncredited)
04. Arabian Nights (Vera West)
05. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Milo Anderson)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. Now, Voyager (Max Steiner)
02. Kings Row (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
03. The Black Swan (Alfred Newman)
04. Joan of Paris (Roy Webb)
05. Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (Alfred Newman)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Orchestra Wives ("(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo," music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Mack Gordon, performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra)
02. The Forest Rangers ("Jingle Jangle Jingle," music by Joseph J. Lilley, lyrics by Frank Loesser, performed by Dick Thomas)
03. Road to Morocco ("Moonlight Becomes You," music by Jimmy van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke, performed by Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour)
04. Holiday Inn ("Be Careful, It's My Heart," music and lyrics by Irvin Berlin, performed by Bing Crosby)
05. You Were Never Lovelier ("Dearly Beloved,"music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, performed by Fred Astaire)

BEST SOUND
01. Cat People (John L. Cass)
02. Jungle Book (William A. Wilmarth)
03. Went the Day Well? (Len Page, Eric Williams)
04. The Black Swan (Roger Heman, Sr.; George Leverett)
05. In Which We Serve (C. C. Stevens)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. The Black Swan (Guy Pearce)
02. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Perc Westmore)
03. Now, Voyager (Perc Westmore)
04. The Undying Monster (uncredited)
05. Jungle Book (Gordon Bau)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. Reap the Wild Wind (Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Edward Overstreet, William L. Pereira, Barney Wolff)
02. Flying Tigers (Howard Lydecker)
03. Jungle Book (Lawrence W. Butler)
04. In Which We Serve (Derick Williams, Douglas Woolsey)
05. Desperate Journey (Edwin B. DuPar, Byron Haskin , Nathan Levinson)

FINAL TALLY
7 nominations: The Black Swan (2 wins)
6 nominations: Les Visiteurs du Soir (1 win)
5 nominations: Cat People (2 wins), Joan of Paris, The Magnificent Ambersons
4 nominations: Casablanca (2 wins), I Married a Witch, Jungle Book; Now, Voyager (1 win); To Be or Not to Be (3 wins)
3 nominations: Gentleman Jim, In Which We Serve, The Palm Beach Story
2 nominations: Desperate Journey, This Gun for Hire, Went the Day Well?, Yankee Doodle Dandy
1 nomination: Arabian Nights, Flying Tigers, The Forest Rangers; The 47 Ronin, Part II; Holiday Inn, In This Our Life (1 win), Kings Row, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Moon and Sixpence, Moontide, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1 win), Orchestra Wives (1 win), Reap the Wild Wind (1 win), Road to Morocco, Saboteur (1 win), Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, There Was a Father, The Undying Monster, You Were Never Lovelier

[Reza]

Sullivan's Travels did not open in either New York or Los Angeles until late January, 1942. I don't know where the imdb. got the December, 1941 date from. Sullivan's Travels was one of three major films scheduled to be released in Decemebr, 1941 whose release date was pushed back to 1942 because of the U.S. entry into World War II, and like those other two films was reviewd by Variety in 1941. Maybe that's where the confusion comes in. Besides, I thought you weant by Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide for your release dates. Maltin long ago corrected the date to 1942.

Easy to fix 1941. Removed Sullivan's Travels and substituted The Lady Eve so Preston Sturges stays put.

Added it to the 1942 lineup bumping The Magnificent Ambersons.

[Damien]

Best Supporting Actor
• Ward Bond – Gentleman Jim

I'm glad to see someone else appreciates this lovely performance.

I've often wondered how such an awful person could be such a wonderful actor.

[Big Magilla]

Sullivan's Travels did not open in either New York or Los Angeles until late January, 1942. I don't know where the imdb. got the December, 1941 date from. Sullivan's Travels was one of three major films scheduled to be released in Decemebr, 1941 whose release date was pushed back to 1942 because of the U.S. entry into World War II, and like those other two films was reviewd by Variety in 1941. Maybe that's where the confusion comes in. Besides, I thought you weant by Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide for your release dates. Maltin long ago corrected the date to 1942.

[Reza]

A number of you guys have Sullivan's Travels listed here on your list amongst the best of 1942 while I have this film on my list of 1941. However, IMBd lists it as a December 1941 release. I suppose you will say that it was released in L.A. in 1942 which made it eligible for the 1942 Oscars. Now where do you guys get this bit of information from - the release date for the Oscar qualifying run? Does the IMBd list only the N.Y. release date of a film?

I will have to change a number of my lists going by this criteria.

[Bruce_Lavigne]

Best Picture
• Cat People – pr. Val Lewton
• The Magnificent Ambersons – pr. Orson Welles
• The Palm Beach Story – pr. Paul Jones
• Sullivan's Travels – pr. Preston Sturges
• To Be or Not to Be – pr. Ernst Lubitsch, Alexander Korda

Best Director
• George Stevens – The Talk of the Town
• Preston Sturges – The Palm Beach Story
• Preston Sturges – Sullivan's Travels
• Jacques Tourneur – Cat People
• Orson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons

Best Leading Actor
• James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees
• Errol Flynn – Gentleman Jim
• Spencer Tracy – Woman of the Year
• Monty Woolley – The Man Who Came to Dinner

Best Leading Actress
• Claudette Colbert – The Palm Beach Story
• Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
• Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year
• Carole Lombard – To Be or Not to Be
• Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen

Best Supporting Actor
• Ward Bond – Gentleman Jim
• Van Heflin – Johnny Eager
• Tim Holt – The Magnificent Ambersons
• Claude Rains – Now, Voyager
• Rudy Vallee – The Palm Beach Story

Best Supporting Actress
• Mary Astor – The Palm Beach Story
• Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager
• Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons
• May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver
• Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver

Best Adapted Screenplay
• The Magnificent Ambersons – Orson Welles
• The Major and the Minor – Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett
• The Man Who Came to Dinner – Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
• The Talk of the Town – Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman
• This Gun for Hire – Albert Maltz, W. R. Burnett

Best Original Screenplay
• Cat People – DeWitt Bodeen
• The Palm Beach Story – Preston Sturges
• Saboteur – Dorothy Parker, Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison
• Sullivan's Travels – Preston Sturges
• To Be or Not to Be – Edwin Justus Mayer, Melchior Lengyel

[Reza]

Added Fay Bainter (The War Against Mrs. Hadley) to my best actress lineup.

What an underrated performance!

[Damien]

I don't recall Rick specifically being a Communist, although Howard Koch, who wrote most of the film's political things (the Epstein brothers handled the romantic elements) was a lefty who was later blacklisted. There is reference made of the fact that Rick fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, and most Americans who did so were probably members of the Communist Party, although others were "progressives," socialists and liberals.

[Sabin]

I'm watching Casablanca while TA-ing for my Aesthetics of Cinema class (thank God for wireless), and I came across a small capsule online by Rosenbaum where he posits that Rick used to be a communist before seeking out those Casablancan waters. Is this true?

If so, it would be fitting that he was in Paris for a time. His constant refrain of "I stick my neck out for no one." could indicate more than a broken heart, but broken dreams. He leaves American, a country that will not permit his ideals; he leaves France, a country that reminds him too much of a lost love. He becomes a consummate capitalist in Casablanca.

Incidentally after some 20-odd viewings of this movie (most of them mandatory), I'm inclined to say that it's a movie I can slip back into again and again without reservation. The only part of the film that my attention wavers from is the flashback to the days of Rick and Ilsa in Paris. Maybe it's that true love pales in comparison to fetishized hopeless romance and cynicism in Rick's.

It also struck me just how quickly Casablanca moves along on the strengths of its pleasures, its atmosphere. Ilsa doesn't show up until almost 25 minutes into the movie and you wouldn't know it.

[Precious Doll]

Best Film

1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. The Pride of the Yankees
3. Random Harvest
4. Now, Voyager
5. The Palm Beach Story

Best Director

1. Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Sam Wood, The Pride of the Yankees
3. Irving Rapper, Now, Voyager
4. Mervyn LeRoy, Random Harvest
5. Preston Sturgess, The Palm Beach Story

Best Actor

1. Gary Cooper, The Pride of the Yankees
2. Ronald Colman, Random Harvest
3. Errol Flynn, Gentleman Jim
4. Tyrone Power, Son of Fury
5. Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner

Best Actress

1. Bette Davis, Now, Voyager
2. Greer Garson, Random Harvest
3. Teresa Wright, The Pride of the Yankees
4. Claudette Colbert, The Palm Beach Story
5. Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver

Best Supporting Actor

1. George Sanders, Son of Fury
2. Ward Bond, Gentleman Jim
3. Claude Rains, Now, Voyager
4. Rudy Vallee, The Palm Beach Story
5. Henry Travers, Mrs. Miniver

Best Supporting Actress

1. Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Mary Astor, The Palm Beach Story
3. Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager
4. May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver
5. Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver

Best Screenplay

1. The Pride of the Yankees
2. The Palm Beach Story
3. There Was a Father
4. Gentleman Jim
5. To Be or Nor to Be

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Random Harvest
3. Now, Voyager
4. Thunder Rock
5. Son of Fury

Best Cinematography

1. Now, Voyager
2. Random Harvest
3. Son of Fury
4. The Pride of the Yankees
5. The Magnificent Ambersons

Best Editing

1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. The Pride of the Yankees
3. Random Harvest
4. The Palm Beach Story
5. Now, Voyager

Best Sound

1. The Pride of the Yankees
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
3. Gentleman Jim
4. Now, Voyager
5. Random Harvest

Best Art Direction

1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Now, Voyager
3. Sound of Fury
4. To Be or Not to Be
5. Mrs. Miniver

Best Costume Design

1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Son of Fury
3. Now, Voyager
4. To Be or Not to Be
5. The Palm Beach Story

Best Music

1. Now, Voyager
2. Son of Fury
3. To Be or Not to Be
4. Random Harvest
5. The Magnificent Ambersons

[MCAR]

Picture:
Bambi
Casablanca
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Palm Beach Story
To Be Or Not To Be

Actor:
Jack Benny – To Be Or Not To Be
Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca
James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
Gary Cooper – The Pride Of The Yankees
Joel McCrea – The Palm Beach Story

Actress:
Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca
Claudette Colbert – The Palm Beach Story
Bette Davis – Now, Voyager
Katharine Hepburn – Woman Of The Year
Carole Lombard – To Be Or Not To Be

Supporting Actor:
Tim Holt – The Magnificent Ambersons
Peter Lorre - Casablanca
Claud Rains – Casablanca
Sig Ruman – To Be Or Not To Be
Rudy Vallee – The Palm Beach Story

Supporting Actress:
Mary Astor – The Palm Beach Story
Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager
Diana Lynn – The Major And The Minor
Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons
Teresa Wright – The Pride Of The Yankees

Director:
Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
David Hand - Bambi
Ernst Lubitsch – To Be Or Not To Be
Preston Sturges – The Palm Beach Story
Orson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons

Original Screenplay:
Buckner, J. Epstein, P. Epstein & Joseph – Yankee Doodle Dandy
P. Gallico, H.J. Mankiewicz & Jo Swerling - Pride Of The Yankees
Michael Kanin & Ring Lardner Jr. - Woman Of The Year
Melchior Lengyel & Edwin Justus Mayer -To Be Or Not To Be
Preston Sturges – The Palm Beach Story

Adapted Screenplay:
Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder – The Major And The Minor
J.J. Epstein, P.G. Epstein & Howard Koch – Casablanca
G. Froeschel, C. West & A. Wimperis - Random Harvest
Larry Morey & Perce Pearce - Bambi
Orson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons

[Reza]

1942
Best Picture
*Casablanca
Mrs. Miniver
The Palm Beach Story
Sullivan's Travels
Random Harvest

Best Actor
*Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ronald Colman, Random Harvest
Joel McCrea, The Palm Beach Story
Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner

Best Actress
Fay Bainter, The War Against Mrs Hadley
Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
Bette Davis, Now, Voyager
*Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
Ginger Rogers, The Major and the Minor

Best Supporting Actor
Van Heflin, Johnny Eager
*Claude Rains, Casablanca
Henry Travers, Mrs. Miniver
Rudy Valee, The Palm Beach Story
Conrad Veidt, Casablanca

Best Supporting Actress
Mary Astor, The Palm Beach Story
*Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager
Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons
Dame May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver
Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver

Best Director
*Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
Preston Sturges, The Palm Beach Story
Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels
Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver

[Big Magilla]

1942

Best Picture
*Casablanca
Mrs. Miniver
The Pride of the Yankees
Random Harvest
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Best Actor
Humphrey Bogart, Casblanca
*James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ronald Colman, Random Harvest
Gary Cooper, The Pride of the Yankees
Spencer Tracy, Woman of the Year

Best Actress
Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
Bette Davis, Now, Voyager
*Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
Katharine Hepburn, Woman of the Year
Rosalind Russell, My Sister Eileen

Best Supporting Actor
*Tim Holt, The Magnificent Ambersons
Walter Huston, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Frank Morgan, Tortilla Flat
Claude Rains, Casablanca
Henry Travers, Mrs. Miniver

Best Supporting Actress
Mary Astor, The Palm Beach Story
Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager
*Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons
Dame May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver
Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver

Best Director
*Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
Mervyn LeRoy, Random Harvest
Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels
Sam Wood, The Pride of the Yankees
William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver