Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

Since 1929 99 editions in the catalogue Official site

1942 edition

• Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

  🏆 Frank Churchill

  🏆 Oliver Wallace

  For the film: Dumbo

  Also nominated: All-American Co-Ed · Anthony Collins · Bronisław Kaper · Buck Privates · Charles Previn · Cy Feuer · Edward Ward · Emil Newman · Heinz Roemheld · Herbert Stothart · Morris Stoloff · The Chocolate Soldier · Robert E. Dolan · Birth of the Blues · Sunny · Sun Valley Serenade · The Strawberry Blonde · You'll Never Get Rich

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Walt Disney

  For the film: Lend a Paw

  Also nominated: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company "B" · George Pal · How War Came · Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt · Leon Schlesinger · Rhapsody in Rivets · Rhythm in the Ranks · Superman · The Night Before Christmas · The Rookie Bear · Truant Officer Donald · Walter Lantz

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 John Ford

  For the film: How Green Was My Valley

  Also nominated: Alexander Hall · Here Comes Mr. Jordan · Howard Hawks · Orson Welles · The Little Foxes · Sergeant York · William Wyler

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 William Holmes

  For the film: Sergeant York

  Also nominated: Citizen Kane · Daniel Mandell · Harold F. Kress · How Green Was My Valley · James B. Clark · Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · The Little Foxes · Robert Wise

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Jack Whitney

  For the film: That Hamilton Woman

  Also nominated: Appointment for Love · Ball of Fire · Bernard B. Brown · Charles L. Lootens · Citizen Kane · Douglas Shearer · Edmund H. Hansen · Elmer Raguse · How Green Was My Valley · John O. Aalberg · John P. Livadary · Loren L. Ryder · Nathan Levinson · The Chocolate Soldier · Sergeant York · Skylark · Devil Pays Off · The Men in Her Life · Thomas T. Moulton · Topper Returns

• Academy Award for Best Story

  🏆 Harry Segall

  For the film: Here Comes Mr. Jordan

  Also nominated: The Lady Eve · Ball of Fire · Billy Wilder · Gordon Wellesley · Meet John Doe · Monckton Hoffe · Night Train to Munich · Richard Connell · Robert Presnell · Thomas Monroe

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 Donald Crisp

  For the film: How Green Was My Valley

  Also nominated: Charles Coburn · Here Comes Mr. Jordan · James Gleason · The Maltese Falcon · Sergeant York · Sydney Greenstreet · The Devil and Miss Jones · Walter Brennan

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 Churchill's Island

  Also nominated: Adventure in the Bronx · A Letter from Home · A Place to Live · Bomber · Christmas Under Fire · Film Associates · Life of a Thoroughbred · Norway in Revolt · Russian Soil · Soldiers of the Sky · Truman H. Talley · Warclouds in the Pacific

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 How Green Was My Valley

  Also nominated: Citizen Kane · One Foot in Heaven · Blossoms in the Dust · Here Comes Mr. Jordan · Hold Back the Dawn · The Little Foxes · The Maltese Falcon · Sergeant York · Suspicion

• Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

  🏆 Main Street on the March!

  Also nominated: Alive in the Deep · Forbidden Passage · The Gay Parisian · The Tanks Are Coming

• Academy Award for Technical Achievement

  🏆 Daniel J. Bloomberg

• Special Achievement Academy Award

  🏆 J. N. A. Hawkins

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