Film Data for 1941
1) Gone With the Wind (1939)- 452 votes
2) Sergeant York- 413
3) The Philadelphia Story (1940)- 358
4) Citizen Kane- 341
5) Here Comes Mr. Jordan- 248
6) The Little Foxes- 243
7) Kitty Foyle (1940)- 233
8) The Great Dictator (1940)- 229
9) Meet John Doe- 218
10) Blossoms in the Dust- 153
The Honor Roll:
11) The Long Voyage Home (1940)- 151
12) The Letter (1940)- 92
13) Cheers for Miss Bishop- 89
14) Man Hunt- 82
15) Escape (1940)- 73
16) Dumbo- 71
17) That Hamilton Woman- 67
18) All That Money Can Buy- 63
19) North West Mounted Police (1940)- 62
20) Hold Back the Dawn- 58
21) The Maltese Falcon- 57
22) Major Barbara- 56
23) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- 52
24) Honky Tonk- 50
25) The Great Lie- 49
A Woman's Face- 49
27) The Devil and Miss Jones- 47
28) Penny Serenade- 46
29) The Lady Eve- 43
30) Blood & Sand- 42
31) The Stars Look Down (1940)- 40
11) The Long Voyage Home (1940)- 151
12) The Letter (1940)- 92
13) Cheers for Miss Bishop- 89
14) Man Hunt- 82
15) Escape (1940)- 73
16) Dumbo- 71
17) That Hamilton Woman- 67
18) All That Money Can Buy- 63
19) North West Mounted Police (1940)- 62
20) Hold Back the Dawn- 58
21) The Maltese Falcon- 57
22) Major Barbara- 56
23) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- 52
24) Honky Tonk- 50
25) The Great Lie- 49
A Woman's Face- 49
27) The Devil and Miss Jones- 47
28) Penny Serenade- 46
29) The Lady Eve- 43
30) Blood & Sand- 42
31) The Stars Look Down (1940)- 40
The Film Daily- "Filmdom's Famous Fives" of 1941 (no vote counts given, but I believe The Film Daily listed in order of preference)
Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Gary Cooper in Sergeant York
2) Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
3) Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind (1939)
4) Charles Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
5) Spencer Tracy in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind (1939)
2) Bette Davis in The Letter (1940)
3) Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
4) Greer Garson in Blossoms in the Dust
5) Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)
Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan
2) Walter Brennan in Sergeant York
3) Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator (1940)
4) Walter Brennan in Meet John Doe
5) Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Olivia de Havilland in Gone With the Wind (1939)
2) Margaret Wycherly in Sergeant York
3) Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939)
4) Mary Astor in The Great Lie
5) Patricia Collinge in The Little Foxes
Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Gary Cooper in Sergeant York
2) Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
3) Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind (1939)
4) Charles Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
5) Spencer Tracy in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind (1939)
2) Bette Davis in The Letter (1940)
3) Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
4) Greer Garson in Blossoms in the Dust
5) Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)
Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan
2) Walter Brennan in Sergeant York
3) Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator (1940)
4) Walter Brennan in Meet John Doe
5) Walter Brennan in The Westerner (1940)
Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Olivia de Havilland in Gone With the Wind (1939)
2) Margaret Wycherly in Sergeant York
3) Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939)
4) Mary Astor in The Great Lie
5) Patricia Collinge in The Little Foxes
Best Performances by Juvenile Actors
1) Mickey Rooney in Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
2) Mickey Rooney in Men of Boy's Town
1) Mickey Rooney in Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
3) Roddy McDowall in Man Hunt
4) Dickie Moore in Sergeant York
5) Bobs Watson in Men of Boy's Town
Best Performances by Juvenile Actresses
1) Virginia Weidler in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
2) Carolyn Lee in Virginia
3) Teresa Wright in The Little Foxes
4) Katharine Grayson in Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
5) Deanna Durbin in It Started With Eve
The Year's Outstanding Directors
1) Victor Fleming for Gone With the Wind (1939)
2) Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
3) Howard Hawks in Sergeant York
40 John Ford in The Long Voyage Home (1940)
5) Frank Capra in Meet John Doe
The Year's Outstanding Screenplays
1) Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller for Here Comes Mr. Jordan
2) Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
3) Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston and Howard Koch for Sergeant York
4) Sidney Howard for Gone With the Wind (1939)
5) Donald Ogden Stewart for The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Year's Outstanding Photography
1) Gregg Toland for Citizen Kane
2) Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan for Gone With the Wind (1939)
3) Gregg Toland for The Long Voyage Home (1940)
4) Victor Milner and W. Howard Greene for North West Mounted Police (1940)
5) George Perinal for The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
"Finds of the Year"
1) Gene Tierney
2) Teresa Wright
3) Joan Leslie
4) Orson Welles
5) Veronica Lake
New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 31, 1941. Awards were presented on January 10, 1942, at Leone's restaurant in New York. NBC radio broadcast 15 minutes of the ceremony live nationwide. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993)
Best Picture
Citizen Kane (won on ballot VI with 10 votes)
Runners-up: How Green Was My Valley (7 votes)
Sergeant York, (1 vote)
Lyons notes that on ballot I, York had five votes to four for Kane. On ballot II York and Kane tied with five votes apiece. On ballot V, Kane had 10 votes, Valley 6 votes and York 2 votes.
Best Director
John Ford for How Green Was My Valley (won on ballot VI with 10 votes)
Runner-up: Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (8 votes)
Lyons notes Ford and Welles tied on ballot I with five votes apiece, before Ford gained 10 votes on ballots V and VI.
Best Actor
Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (won on ballot I with 14 votes)
Runner-up: Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (2 votes)
Best Actress
Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (won on ballot VI with 12 votes)
Runner-up: Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn (3 votes).
Lyons notes on early ballots Fontaine and De Havilland were tied.
National Board of Review (Voting results announced on December 20, 1941. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards).
Best Picture
Citizen Kane
Rest of the Top Ten (Listed in order of preference)
How Green Was My Valley
The Little Foxes
The Stars Look Down
Dumbo
High Sierra
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Tom, Dick and Harry
The Road to Zanzibar
The Lady Eve
Best Acting (Listed in alphabetical order)
Sara Algood, How Green Was My Valley
Mary Astor, The Great Lie, The Maltese Falcon
Ingrid Bergman, Rage in Heaven
Humphrey Bogart, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon
Patricia Collinge, The Little Foxes
Gary Cooper, Sergeant York
George Coulouris, Citizen Kane
Donald Crisp, How Green Was My Valley
Bing Crosby, The Road to Zanzibar, Birth of the Blues
Bette Davis, The Little Foxes
Isobel Elsom, Ladies in Retirement
Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
Greta Garbo, Two-Faced Woman
James Gleason, Meet John Doe, Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Walter Huston, All That Money Can Buy
Ida Lupino, High Sierra, Ladies in Retirement
Roddy McDowell, How Green Was My Valley
Robert Montgomery, Rage in Heaven, Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle, Tom, Dick and Harry
James Stephenson, The Letter, Shining Victory
Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
Best Foreign Film
Pepe le Moko (France, 1937- 1941 U.S. release)
Best Documentary
Target for Tonight
The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 2, 1942. Awards were presented on February 26, 1942 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar). (Winners in bold print).
Best Picture
Blossoms in the Dust, MGM. Produced by Irving Asher.
Citizen Kane, RKO Radio. Produced by Orson Welles.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia. Produced by Everett Riskin.
Hold Back the Dawn, Paramount. Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
The Little Foxes, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn.
The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. Produced by Hal B. Wallis.
One Foot in Heaven, Warner Bros. Produced by Hal B. Wallis.
Sergeant York, Warner Bros. Produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Hal B. Wallis.
Suspicion, RKO Radio. Produced by RKO Radio.
Best Director
John Ford for How Green Was My Valley (20th Century-Fox).
Alexander Hall for Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Columbia).
Howard Hawks for Sergeant York (Warner Bros.).
Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (Mercury, RKO Radio).
William Wyler for The Little Foxes (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).
Best Actor
Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (Warner Bros.).
Cary Grant in Penny Serenade (Columbia).
Walter Huston in All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster) (RKO Radio).
Robert Montgomery in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Columbia).
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (Mercury, RKO Radio).
Best Actress
Bette Davis in The Little Foxes (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).
Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn (Paramount).
Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (RKO Radio).
Greer Garson in Blossoms in the Dust (MGM).
Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).
Best Supporting Actor
Walter Brennan in Sergeant York (Warner Bros.).
Charles Colburn in The Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio).
Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (20th Century-Fox).
James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Columbia).
Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon
Best Supporting Actress
Sara Algood in How Green Was My Valley (20th Century-Fox).
Mary Astor in The Great Lie (Warner Bros.).
Patricia Collinge in The Little Foxes (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).
Teresa Wright in The Little Foxes (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).
Margaret Wycherly in Sergeant York (Warner Bros.).
Writing (Original Story)
Ball of Fire, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Thomas Monroe and Billy Wilder.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia. Harry Segall.
The Lady Eve, Paramount. Monckton Hoffe.
Meet John Doe, Warner Bros. Richard Connell and Robert Presnell.
Night Train, 20th Century-Fox (British). Gordon Wellesley.
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Citizen Kane, Mercury, RKO Radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.
The Devil and Miss Jones, RKO Radio. Norman Krasna.
Sergeant York, Warner Bros. Harry Chandler, Abem Finkel, John Huston and Howard Koch.
Tall, Dark and Handsome, 20th Century-Fox. Karl Tunberg and Darrell Ware.
Tom, Dick and Harry, RKO Radio. Paul Jarrico.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia. Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller.
Hold Back the Dawn, Paramount. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.
How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. Phillip Dunne.
The Little Foxes, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Lillian Hellman.
The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. John Huston.
Cinematography (Black-and-White)
The Chocolate Soldier, MGM. Karl Freud.
Citizen Kane, Mercury, RKO Radio. Gregg Toland.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, MGM. Joseph Ruttenberg.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia. Joseph Walker.
Hold Back the Dawn, Paramount. Leo Tover.
How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. Arthur Miller.
Sergeant York, Warner Bros. Sol Polito
Sun Valley Serenade, 20th Century-Fox. Edward Cronjager.
Sundown, Wagner, UA. Charles Lang.
That Hamilton Woman, Korda, UA. Rudolph Mate.
Cinematography (Color)
Aloma of the South Seas, Paramount. Wilfred M. Cline, Karl Struss and William Snyder.
Billy the Kid, MGM. William V. Skall and Leonard Smith.
Blood and Sand, 20th Century-Fox. Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan.
Blossoms in the Dust, MGM. Karl Freund and W. Howard Greene.
Dive Bomber, Warner Bros. Bert Glennon
Louisiana Purchase, Paramount. Harry Hallenberger and Ray Rennahan.
Interior Decoration (Black-and-White)
Citizen Kane, Mercury, RKO Radio. Perry Ferguson and Van Nest Polglase; Al Fields Darrell Silvera.
Flame of New Orleans, Universal. Martin Obzina and Jack Otterson; Russell A. Gausman.
Hold Back the Dawn, Paramount. Hans Dreier and Robert Usher; Sam Comer.
How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. Richard Day and Nathan Juran; Thomas Little.
Ladies in Retirement, Columbia. Lionel Banks, George Montgomery.
The Little Foxes, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Stephen Goosson; Howard Bristol.
Sergeant York, Warner Bros. John Hughes; Fred MacLean.
Son of Monte Cristo, Small, UA. John DuCasse Schulze; Edward G. Boyle.
Sundown, Wagner, UA. Alexander Golitzen; Richard Irvine.
That Hamilton Woman, Korda, UA. Vincent Korda; Julia Heron.
When Ladies Meet, MGM. Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Edwin B. Willis.
Interior Decoration (Color)
Blood and Sand, 20th Century-Fox. Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Thomas Little.
Blossoms in the Dust, MGM. Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary; Edwin B. Willis.
Louisiana Purchase, Paramount. Raoul Pene du Bois; Stephen A. Seymour.
Best Sound Recording
Appointment for Love, Universal. Bernard B. Brown.
Ball of Fire, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Thomas Moulton.
The Chocolate Soldier, MGM. Douglas Shearer.
Citizen Kane, Mercury, RKO Radio. John Aalberg.
The Devil Pays Off, Republic. Charles Lootens.
How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. E.H. Hansen.
The Men in Her Life, Columbia. John Livadary.
Sergeant York, Warner Bros. Nathan Levinson.
Skylark, Paramount. Loren Ryder.
That Hamilton Woman, Korda, UA. Jack Whitney, General Service.
Topper Returns, Roach, UA. Elmer Raguse.
Best Song
"Baby Mine" (Dumbo, Disney, RKO Radio); Music by Frank Churchill. Lyrics by Ned Washington.
"Be Honest With Me" (Ridin' on a Rainbow, Republic); Music and Lyrics by Gene Autry and Fred Rose.
"Blues in the Night' (Blues in the Night, Warner Bros.); Music by Harold Arlen. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" (Buck Privates, Universal); Music by Hugh Prince. Lyrics by Don Raye.
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Sun Valley Serenade, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Mack Gordon.
"Dolores" (Las Vegas Nights, Paramount); Music by Lou Alter. Lyrics by Frank Losser.
"The Last Time I Saw Paris" (Lady Be Good, MGM); Music by Jerome Kern. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
"Out of the Silence" (All American Co-Ed, Roach, UA); Music and Lyrics by Lloyd B. Norlind.
"Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" (You'll Never Get Rich, Columbia); Music and Lyrics Cole Porter.
Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture
All That Money Can Buy, RKO Radio. Bernard Herrmann.
Back Street, Universal. Frank Skinner.
Ball of Fire, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Alfred Newman.
Cheers for Miss Bishop, Rowland, UA. Edward Ward.
Citizen Kane, Mercury, RKO Radio. Bernard Herrmann.
Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, MGM. Franz Waxman.
Hold Back the Dawn, Paramount. Victor Young.
How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.
King of the Zombies, Monogram. Edward Kay.
Ladies in Retirement, Columbia. Morris Stoloff and Ernst Toch.
The Little Foxes, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Meredith Willson.
Lydia, Korda, UA. Miklos Rozsa.
Mercy Island, Republic. Cy Feuer and Walter Scharf.
Sergeant York, Warner Bros. Max Steiner.
So Ends Our Night, Loew-Lewin, UA. Louis Gruenberg.
Sundown, Wagner, UA. Miklos Rozsa.
Suspicion, RKO Radio. Franz Waxman.
Tanks a Million, Roach, UA. Edward Ward.
That Uncertain Feeling, Lubitsch, UA. Werner Heymann.
That Woman Is Mine, Universal. Richard Hageman.
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
All American Co-Ed, Roach, UA. Edward Ward.
Birth of the Blues, Paramount. Robert Emmett Dolan.
Buck Privates, Universal. Charles Previn.
The Chocolate Soldier, MGM. Herbert Stothart and Bronislau Kaper.
Dumbo, Disney, RKO Radio. Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace.
Ice Capades, Republic. Cy Feuer.
The Strawberry Blonde, Warner Bros. Heinz Roemheld.
Sun Valley Serenade, 20th Century-Fox. Emil Newman.
Sunny, RKO Radio. Anthony Collins.
You'll Never Get Rich, Columbia. Morris Stoloff.
Best Film Editing
Citizen Kane, Mercury, RKO Radio. Robert Wise.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, MGM. Harold F. Kress.
How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. James B. Clark.
The Little Foxes, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Daniel Mandrell.
Sergeant York, Warner Bros. William Holmes.
Best Special Effects
Aloma of the South Seas, Paramount. Photographic: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings. Sound: Louis Mesenkop.
Flight Command, MGM. Photographic: A. Arnold Gillespie. Sound: Douglas Shearer.
I Wanted Wings, Paramount. Photographic: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings. Sound: Louis Mesenkop.
The Invisible Woman, Universal. Photographic: John Fulton. Sound: John Hall.
The Sea Wolf, Warner Bros. Photographic: Byron Haskin. Sound: Nathan Levinson.
That Hamilton Woman, Korda, UA. Photographic: Lawrence Butler, Sound: William H. Wilmarth.
Topper Returns, Roach, UA. Photographic: Roy Seawright. Sound: Elmer Raguse.
A Yank in the R.A.F., 20th Century-Fox. Photographic: Fred Sersen. Sound: E.H. Hansen.
Best Short Subject Cartoon
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B, Lantz, Universal.
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, Schlesinger, Warner Bros.
How War Came, Columbia (Raymond Gram Swing Series).
Lend a Paw, Disney, RKO Radio.
The Night Before Christmas, MGM (Tom and Jerry Series).
Rhapsody in Rivets, Schlesinger, Warner Bros.
The Rookie Bear, MGM (Bear Series).
Rhythm in the Ranks, Paramount. (George Pal Puppetoon Series).
Superman No. 1, Paramount.
Truant Officer Donald, Disney, RKO Radio (Donald Duck).
Best Short Subject (One-Reel)
Army Champions, Pete Smith, MGM (Pete Smith Specialties).
Beauty and the Beach, Paramount (Headliner Series).
Down on the Farm, Paramount (Speaking of Animals).
Forty Boys and a Song, Warner Bros. (Melody Master Series).
Kings of the Turf, Warner Bros. (Color Parade Series).
Of Pups and Puzzles, MGM (Passing Parade Series).
Sagebush and Silver, 20th Century-Fox (Magic Carpet Series).
Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)
Alive in the Deep, Woodward Productions, Inc.
Forbidden Passage, MGM (Crime Doesn't Pay).
The Gay Parisian, Warner Bros. (Miniature Featurette Series).
Main Street on the March, MGM (Special).
The Tanks Are Coming, Warner Bros. (National Defense Series).
Best Documentary
Adventures in the Bronx, Film Assocs.
Bomber, U.S. Office for Emergency Management Film Unit.
Christmas Under Fire, British Ministry of Information, Warner Bros.
Churchill's Island, Canadian Film Board, UA.
Letter from Home, British Ministry of Information.
Life of a Thoroughbred, 20th Century-Fox.
Norway in Revolt, March of Time. RKO Radio.
Soldiers of the Sky, 20th Century-Fox.
War Clouds in the Pacific, Canadian Film Board.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Walt Disney.
Special Awards
Rey Scott 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 (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).
Scientific or Technical
Class I (Statuette)
None.
Class II (Plaque)
Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Co., Inc., for the development of the precision integrating sphere densitometer.
RCA Manufacturing Co. for the design and development of the MI-3043 Uni-directional microphone.
Class III (Citation)
Ray Wilkinson and the Paramount Studio Laboratory for pioneering in the use of and for the first practical application to release printing of fine grain positive stock.
Charles Lootens and the Republic Studio Sound Dept. for pioneering the use of and for the first practical application to motion picture production of Class B push-pull variable area recording.
Wilber Silvertooth and the Paramount Studio Engineering Dept. for the design and computation of a relay condenser system application to transparency process projection, delivering considerably more usable light.
Paramount Pictures, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. for the development and first practical application to motion picture production of an automatic scene slating device.
Douglas Shearer and the MGM Studio Sound Dept. and to Loren Ryder and the Paramount Studio Sound Department for pioneering the development of fine grain emulsions for variable density original sound recording in studio production.
Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
Best Italian Film:
La Corona di Ferro, Alessandro Biasseti
Best Foreign Film:
Ohm Kruger, Hans Steinhoff
Best Actor:
Ermete Zacconi, Don Buonaparte
Best Actress:
Luise Ullrich, Annelie
Best Direction:
G.W. Pabst, Komodianten
Cups of the Biennial:
Lettre d'Amore Smarrite
Alter ego
Marianela
Ich klage an
I Mariti
The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
The Lady Eve
Citizen Kane
Major Barbara
Sergeant York
The Stars Look Down (1940)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Target for Tonight
Dumbo
How Green Was My Valley
One Foot in Heaven
The Top Box-Office Hits of 1941 (According to Variety. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg. Totals were not listed.).
1941 films listed on the 1940/41 list:
Aloma of the South Seas
Blood and Sand
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Caught in the Draft
Charley's Aunt
Dive Bomber
Hold That Ghost
I Wanted Wings
The Lady Eve
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Meet John Doe
Road to Zanzibar
The Sea Wolf
The Strawberry Blonde
That Hamilton Woman
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 films listed on the 1941/42 list:
Ball of Fire
Honky Tonk
How Green Was My Valley
Louisiana Purchase
Sergeant York
To the Shores of Tripoli
The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1941 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Mickey Rooney
1) Mickey Rooney
2) Clark Gable
3) Abbott & Costello
4) Bob Hope
5) Spencer Tracy
6) Gene Autry
7) Gary Cooper
8) Bette Davis
9) James Cagney
10) Judy Garland
The Next Fifteen:
11) Tyrone Power
12) Alice Faye
13) James Stewart
14) Errol Flynn
15) Dorothy Lamour
16) Betty Grable
17) Bing Crosby
18) Ginger Rogers
19) Wallace Beery
20) Jack Benny
21) Robert Taylor
22) Don Ameche
23) Cary Grant
24) Deanna Durbin
25) William Powell
The Stars of Tomorrow (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).
1) Laraine Day
2) Rita Hayworth
3) Ruth Hussey
4) Robert Preston
5) Ronald Reagan
6) John Payne
7) Jeffrey Lynn
8) Ann Rutherford
9) Dennis Morgan
10) Jackie Cooper
The Top Ten Western Stars of 1941 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).
1) Gene Autry
2) William Boyd
3) Roy Rogers
4) Charles Starrett
5) Smiley Burnette
6) Tim Holt
7) Johnny Mack Brown
8) Three Mesquiteers
9) Bill Elliot
10) Tex Ritter
The Top Ten Box-Offices Stars of 1941 in Britain (according to The Motion Picture Herald).
British Stars:
1) George Formby
2) Arthur Lucan
3) Arthur Askey
4) Robert Donat
5) Will Hay
6) Conrad Veidt & Gordon Harker (tied)
7) Anna Neagle
8) Gracie Fields
9) Charles Laughton
10) Leslie Howard
The Next Fifteen:
11) Clive Brook
12) Margaret Lockwood
13) Michael Redgrave
14) Wendy Hiller
15) Rex Harrison
16) Emlyn Williams
17) Laurence Olivier
18) Barry K. Barnes
19) The Crazy Gang
20) Diana Wynyard
21) Will Fyffe
22) Vivien Leigh
23) Frank Randle and Harry Korris
24) Wilfrid Lawson
25) John Clements
International Stars:
1) Mickey Rooney
2) Deanna Durbin
3) Spencer Tracy
4) George Formby
5) Jeanette MacDonald
6) Errol Flynn
7) Nelson Eddy
8) Gary Cooper
9) James Cagney
10) Bing Crosby
The Next Fifteen:
11) Judy Garland
12) Bette Davis
13) Robert Taylor
14) Charles Boyer
15) Tyrone Power
16) Alice Faye
17) Arthur Lucan
18) Don Ameche
19) Charles Chaplin
20) Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
21) James Stewart
22) Laurence Olivier
23) Dorothy Lamour
24) Clark Gable
25) Vivien Leigh
Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).
Ten Worst Pictures:
Hudson's Bay
Wild Geese Calling
Belle Starr
Navy Blues
Honky Tonk
You Belong to Me
This Woman is Mine
Lady Be Good
Aloma of the South Seas
Smilin' Through
Worst Performer:
Betty Grable
Worst Script:
The Feminine Touch
Worst Discovery:
Veronica Lake
Most Unattractive Actress:
Jeanette MacDonald
Fastest-on-the-Downward-Pass Award
Alice Faye, Nelson Eddy
Greatest Disappointment:
Sundown
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