Film Data for 1942

The Film Daily's Ten Best Pictures of 1942 (poll of film critics and reviewers- from the Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures 1943)

1) Mrs. Miniver- 555 votes

2) How Green Was My Valley (1941)- 500 votes

3) Kings Row- 269 votes 

4) Wake Island- 260 votes 

5) Pride of the Yankees- 241 votes

6) The Man Who Came to Dinner- 238 votes

7) One Foot in Heaven (1941)- 197 votes

    Suspicion (1941)- 197 votes

9) Woman of the Year- 185 votes

10) The Pied Piper- 176 votes

The Honor Roll

11) Fantasia (1940)- 168 votes

12) Reap the Wild Wind- 162 votes

13) My Sister Eileen- 152 votes

14) Holiday Inn- 126 votes

      Tortilla Flat- 126 votes

16) This Above All- 115 votes

17) The Talk of the Town- 112 votes

18) The Major and the Minor- 110 votes

19) Now, Voyager- 109 votes

      Tales of Manhattan- 109 votes

21) Bambi- 103 votes

22) Hold Back the Dawn (1941)- 93 votes

23) H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)- 84 votes

24) The Magnificent Ambersons- 77 votes

25) Take a Letter, Darling- 60 votes

26) Joe Smith, American- 49 votes

27) Ball of Fire (1941)- 48 votes

28) The Male Animal- 45 votes

      In This Our Life- 45 votes

30) The Moon and Sixpence- 44 votes

31) The Gold Rush (1925-reissue)- 39 votes

32) Sullivan's Travels (1941)- 38 votes

33) Louisiana Purchase (1941)- 37 votes

34) Desperate Journey- 34 votes

      Moontide- 34 votes

36) My Gal Sal- 32 votes

      Saboteur- 32 votes

     This Gun for Hire- 32 votes

39) Mister V- 30 votes

      The War Against Mrs. Hadley- 30 votes

41) Babes on Broadway (1941)- 29 votes

      The Gay Sisters- 29 votes

43) The Great Man's Lady- 26 votes

      My Favorite Blonde- 26 votes

      Remember the Day (1941)- 26 votes

46) Johnny Eager (1941)- 24 votes

      To Be or Not to Be (1942)- 24 votes

48) Joan of Paris (1942)- 23 votes

      Target for Tonight (1941)- 23 votes

50) Captains of the Clouds- 22 votes

      Somewhere I'll Find You- 22 votes

      To the Shores of Tripoli (1941)- 22 votes

53) One of Our Aircraft is Missing- 21 votes

      The Remarkable Andrew- 21 votes

55) Across the Pacific- 19 votes

      George Washington Slept Here- 19 votes

57) The Fleet's In- 18 votes

      Moscow Strikes Back- 18 votes

59) Swamp Water (1941)- 17 votes

      The Vanishing Virginian- 17 votes

61) The Invaders (1941)- 16 votes

62) Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book- 15 votes

63) Roxie Hart- 14 votes

64) Birth of the Blues (1941)- 13 votes

      They Died with Their Boots On (1941)- 13 votes

66) The Chocolate Soldier (1941)- 11 votes

      Flying Tigers- 11 votes

      I Wake Up Screaming- 11 votes

69) Ten Gentlemen from West Point- 11 votes

70) Crossroads- 10 votes

      Son of Fury- 10 votes

The Film Daily- "Filmdom's Famous Fives" of 1941 (no vote counts given, but I believe The Film Daily listed in order of preference)

Five Best Performances by Male Stars

1) Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees

2) Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941)

3) Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver

4) Monty Woolley in The Man Who Came to Dinner

5) Fredric March in One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Five Best Performances by Feminine Stars

1) Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver

2) Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (1941)

3) Bette Davis in Now, Voyager

4) Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year

5) Teresa Wright in The Pride of the Yankees

Five Best Performances by Supporting Actors

1) Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)

2) Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat

3) Van Heflin in Johnny Eager 

4) William Bendix in Wake Island

5) Laird Cregar in I Wake Up Screaming (tied with)

    Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire

Five Best Performances by Supporting Actresses

1) Teresa Wright in Mrs. Miniver

2) Sara Algood in How Green Was My Valley (1941)

3) Betty Field in King's Row

4) Dame May Whitty in Mrs. Miniver

5) Agnes Moorehead in The Magnificent Ambersons

Five Best Performances by Juvenile Actors

1) Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley (1941)

2) Roddy McDowall in The Pied Piper

3) Mickey Rooney in Babes on Broadway (1941)

4) Richard Ney in Mrs. Miniver (tied with)

    Mickey Rooney in A Yank at Eton

    Mickey Rooney in The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Five Best Performances by Juvenile Actresses

1) Diana Lynn in The Major and the Minor

2) Virginia Weidler in Babes on Broadway (1941)

3) Judy Garland in Babes on Broadway (1941)

4) Shirley Temple in Miss Annie Rooney

5) Gloria Warren in Always in My Heart

Best Direction

1) William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver

2) John Ford for How Green Was My Valley (1941)

3) Cecil B. DeMille for Reap the Wild Wind

4) Sam Wood for King's Row

5) Orson Welles for The Magnificent Ambersons

Five Outstanding Screenplays

1) Mrs. Miniver (Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West)

2) How Green Was My Valley (1941) (Philip Dunne)

3) King's Row (Casey Robinson)

4) Tales of Manhattan (Ben Hecht, Ferenc Molnar, Donald Ogden Stewart, Samuel Hoffenstein, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, L. Vadnai, L. Georog, Lamar Trotti, Henry Blankfort

5) Woman of the Year (Ring Lardner, Michael Kanin)

Outstanding Photography

1) How Green Was My Valley (1941) (Arthur Miller)

2) The Magnificent Ambersons (Stanley Cortez)

3) Reap the Wild Wind (Technicolor) (Victor Milner)

4) Wake Island (Theodor Sparkuhl)

5) Fantasia (1940) (Technicolor)

Five "Finds" of the Year

1) Teresa Wright- Samuel Goldwyn

2) Alan Ladd- Paramount

3) Janet Blair- Columbia

4) Van Heflin- MGM

5) Paul Henreid- Warner Bros.

Ten Big Pictures of 1942 (Source: Box Office Digest 1943 Annual, with estimated gross listed):

1) Mrs. Miniver- $5,000,000

2) Yankee Doodle Dandy- $4,500,000

3) Road to Morocco- $3,750,000

4) Reap the Wild Wind- $3,500,000

5) The Black Swan- $3,000,000

6) Somewhere I'll Find You- $2,500,000

7) Holiday Inn- $2,225,000

8) Eagle Squadron- $2,100,000

9) Louisiana Purchase- $2,100,000

10) Pride of the Yankees- No amount listed.

New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 26, 1942. Awards were presented on January 3, 1943, at the Barberry Room of the Berkshire Hotel 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

In Which We Serve (won on ballot V with 12 votes)

Runner-up: Wake Island (7 votes)

Best Director

John Farrow for Wake Island (won on ballot IV with 12 votes)

Runner-up: David Lean and Noel Coward for In Which We Serve (6 votes)

Lyons notes on Ballot I, Farrow and Lean and Coward were tied with 5 votes apiece.

Best Actor

James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy (13 votes on Ballot I)

Runner-up: Humphrey Bogart for Casablanca and Across the Pacific

Best Actress

Agnes Moorehead in The Magnificent Ambersons (won on Ballot VI with 11 votes)

Runner-up: Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (7 votes)

Lyons mentions on Ballot I, Garson had seven votes to three each for Katharine Hepburn (Woman of the Year) and Moorehead. On Ballot III, Moorehead lead with 8 votes, to 6 for Garson and 4 for Hepburn. On Ballot IV, it was Moorehead, 9 votes, Garson, 6 votes and Hepburn, 3 votes. On Ballot V, Moorehead had 11, Garson 6 and Hepburn 1 vote.

Best War Fact Film

Moscow Strikes Back

National Board of Review (Voting results announced on December 24, 1942. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards).

Best Film

In Which We Serve

Rest of the Top Ten (Listed in order of preference)

One of Aircraft Is Missing

Mrs. Miniver

Journey for Margaret

Wake Island

The Male Animal

The Major and the Minor

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Best Acting (Listed in alphabetical order)

Ernest Anderson, In This Our Life

Florence Bates, The Moon and Sixpence

James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

Jack Carson, The Male Animal

Charles Coburn, H.M. Pulham, Esq.; In This Our Life; King's Row

Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver; Random Harvest

Sidney Greenstreet, Across the Pacific

William Holden, The Remarkable Andrew

Tim Holt, The Magnificent Ambersons

Glynis Johns, The Invaders

Gene Kelly, For Me and My Gal

Ida Lupino, Moontide

Diana Lynn, The Major and the Minor

Hattie McDaniel, In This Our Life

Bernard Miles, In Which We Serve

John Mills, In Which We Serve

Thomas Mitchell, Moontide

Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons

Margaret O'Brien, Journey for Margaret

Susan Peters, Random Harvest

Edward G. Robinson, Tales of Manhattan

Ginger Rogers, Roxie Hart, The Major and the Minor

George Sanders, The Moon and Sixpence

William Severn, Journey for Margaret

Ann Sheridan, King's Row

Rudy Vallee, The Palm Beach Story

Anton Walbrook, The Invaders

Googie Withers, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Monty Woolley, The Pied Piper

Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver

Robert Young, H.M. Pulham, Esq.; Joe Smith, American; Journey for Margaret

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 8, 1943. Awards were presented on March 4, 1943 at the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador 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 

The Invaders, Ortus, Columbia (British). Produced by Michael Powell

Kings Row, Warner Bros. Produced Hal B. Wallis

The Magnificent Ambersons, Mercury, RKO Radio. Produced by Orson Welles.

Mrs. Miniver, MGM. Produced by Sidney Franklin.

The Pied Piper, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Nunnally Johnson.

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn.

Random Harvest, MGM. Produced by Sidney Franklin.

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Produced by George Stevens.

Wake Island, Paramount. Produced by Joseph Sistrom.

Yankee Doodle Dandy, Warner Bros. Produced by Jack Warner and Hal B. Wallis, with William Cagney. 

Best Director 

Michael Curtiz for Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros.).

John Farrow for Wake Island (Paramount).

Mervyn LeRoy for Random Harvest (MGM).

Sam Wood for Kings Row (Warner Bros.).

William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver (MGM).

Best Actor 

James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros.).

Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (MGM).

Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).

Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver (MGM). 

Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper (20th Century-Fox).

Best Actress 

Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (Warner Bros.).

Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver (MGM).

Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year (MGM).

Rosalind Russell in My Sister Eileen (Columbia).

Teresa Wright in The Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn, RKO Radio).

Best Supporting Actor 

William Bendix in Wake Island (Paramount).

Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (MGM).

Walter Huston in Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros.).

Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat (MGM).

Henry Travers in Mrs. Miniver (MGM).

Best Supporting Actress 

Gladys Cooper in Now, Voyager (Warner Bros.).

Agnes Moorehead in The Magnificent Ambersons (Mercury, RKO Radio).

Susan Peters in Random Harvest (MGM).

Dame May Whitty in Mrs. Miniver (MGM).

Teresa Wright in Mrs. Miniver (MGM).

Writing- Best Original Story 

Holiday Inn, Paramount. Irving Berlin.

The Invaders, Ortus, Columbia (British). Emeric Pressburger.

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Paul Gallico.

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Sidney Harmon. 

Yankee Doodle Dandy, Warner Bros. Robert Buckner.

Best Original Screenplay

One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Powell, UA (British). Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

The Road to Morocco, Paramount. Frank Butler and Don Hartman.

Wake Island, Paramount. W.R. Burnett and Frank Butler. 

The War Against Mrs. Hadley, MGM. George Oppenheimer.

Woman of the Year, MGM. Michael Kanin and Ring Larder, Jr.

Best Screenplay

The Invaders, Ortus, Columbia (British). Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger.

Mrs. Miniver, MGM. George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis.

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling.

Random Harvest, MGM. George Froeschel, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis.

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw.

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

King's Row, Warner Bros. James Wong Howe.

The Magnificent Ambersons, Mercury, RKO Radio. Stanley Cortez.

Mrs. Miniver, MGM. Joseph Ruttenberg.

Moontide, 20th Century-Fox. Charles Clarke.

The Pied Piper, 20th Century-Fox. Edward Cronjager.

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Rudolph Mate.

Take a Letter, Darling, Paramount. John Mescall.

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Ted Tetzlaff.

Ten Gentlemen from West Point, 20th Century-Fox. Leon Shamroy.

This Above All, 20th Century-Fox. Arthur Miller.

Best Cinematography (Color)

Arabian Knights, Wagner, Universal. Milton Krasner, William V. Skall and W. Howard Greene.

The Black Swan, 20th Century-Fox. Leon Shamroy.

Captains of the Clouds, Warner Bros. Sol Polito.

Jungle Book, Korda, UA. W. Howard Greene.

Reap the Wild Wind, DeMille, Paramount. Victor Milner and William V. Skall.

To the Shores of Tripoli, 20th Century-Fox. Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall.

Best Interior Decoration (Black-and-White)

George Washington Slept Here, Warner Bros. Max Parker and Mark-Le Kirk; Casey Roberts.

The Magnificent Ambersons, Mercury, RKO Radio. Albert S. D'Agostino; Al Fields and Darrell Silvera.

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Perry Ferguson; Howard Bristol.

Random Harvest, MGM. Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Edwin B. Willis and Jack Moore.

The Shanghai Gesture, Arnold, UA. Boris Leven.

Silver Queen, Sherman, UA. Ralph Berger; Emile Kuri.

The Spoilers, Universal. John B. Goodman and Jack Otterson; Russell A. Gausman and Edward R. Robinson.

Take a Letter, Darling, Paramount. Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Sam Comer.

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad; Fay Babcock.

This Above All, 20th Century-Fox. Richard Day and Joseph Wright; Thomas Little.

Best Interior Decoration (Color)

Arabian Knights, Wagner, Universal. Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson; Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb.

Captains of the Clouds, Warner Bros. Ted Smith; Casey Roberts. 

Jungle Book, Korda, UA. Vincent Korda; Julia Heron

My Gal Sal, 20th Century-Fox. Richard Day and Joseph Wright; Thomas Little. 

Reap the Wild Wind, DeMille, Paramount. Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; George Sawley.

Best Sound Recording

Arabian Knights, Wagner, Universal. Bernard Brown.

Bambi, Disney, RKO Radio. Sam Slyfield.

Flying Tigers, Republic. Daniel Bloomberg.

Friendly Enemies, Small, UA. Jack Whitney, Sound Service, Inc.

The Gold Rush, Chaplin, UA. James Fields, RCA Sound.

Mrs. Miniver, MGM. Douglas Shearer.

Once Upon a Honeymoon, RKO Radio. Steve Dunn

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Thomas Moulton.

Road to Morocco, Paramount. Loren Ryder.

This Above All, 20th Century-Fox. E.H. Hansen. 

Yankee Doodle Dandy, Warner Bros. John Livadary.

Best Song

"Always in My Heart" (Always in My Heart, Warner Bros.); Music by Ernesto Lecuona. Lyrics by Kim Gannon.

"Dearly Beloved" (You Were Never Lovelier, Columbia); Music by Jerome Kern. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

"How About You?" (Babes on Broadway, MGM); Music by Burton Lane. Lyrics by Ralph Freed.

"It Seems I Heard That Song Before" (Youth on Parade, Republic); Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

"I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" (Orchestra Wives, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Mack Gordon.

"Love is a Song" (Bambi, Disney, RKO Radio); Music by Frank Churchill. Lyrics by Larry Morey.

"Pennies for Peppino" (Flying with Music, Roach, UA); Music by Edward Ward. Lyrics by Bob Wright.

"Pig Foot Pete" (Hellzapoppin', Universal); Music by Gene de Paul. Lyrics by Don Raye.

"There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" (The Mayor of 44th Street, RKO Radio); Music by Harry Revel. Lyrics by Mort Greene.

"White Christmas" (Holiday Inn, Paramount); Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin. 

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

Arabian Knights, Universal. Frank Skinner.

Bambi, Disney, RKO Radio. Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb.

The Black Swan, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.

The Corsican Brother, Small, UA. Dimitri Tiomkin.

Flying Tigers, Republic. Victor Young.

The Gold Rush, Chaplin, UA. Max Terr.

I Married a Witch, Cinema Guild, UA. Roy Webb.

Joan of Paris, RKO Radio. Roy Webb.

Jungle Book, Korda, UA. Miklos Rozsa.

Klondike Fury, Monogram. Edward Kay.

Now, Voyager, Warner Bros. Max Steiner.

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Leigh Harline.

Random Harvest, MGM. Herbert Stothart.

The Shanghai Gesture, Arnold, UA. Richard Hageman.

Silver Queen, Sherman, UA. Victor Young.

Take a Letter, Darling, Paramount. Victor Young. 

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff.

To Be or Not to Be, Lubitsch, UA. Werner Heymann.

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

Flying with Music, Roach, UA. Edward Ward.

For Me and My Gal, MGM. Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll.

Holiday Inn, Paramount. Robert Emmett Dolan.

It Started with Eve, Universal. Charles Previn and Hans Salter.

Johnny Doughboy, Republic. Walter Scharf.

My Gal Sal, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.

Yankee Doodle Dandy, Warner Bros. Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld.

You Were Never Lovelier, Columbia. Leigh Harline.

Best Film Editing

Mrs. Miniver, MGM. Harold F. Kress.

The Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Daniel Mandell.

The Talk of the Town, Columbia. Otto Meyer.

This Above All, 20th Century-Fox. Walter Thompson.

Yankee Doodle Dandy, Warner Bros. George Amy.

Best Special Effects

The Black Swan, 20th Century-Fox. Photographic: Fred Sersen. Sound: Roger Heman and George Leverett.

Desperate Journey, Warner Bros. Photographic: Byron Haskin. Sound: Nathan Levinson.

Flying Tigers, Republic. Photographic: Howard Lydecker. Sound: Daniel J. Bloomberg.

Invisible Agent, Universal. Photographic: John Fulton. Sound: Bernard B. brown.

Jungle Book, Korda, UA. Photographic: Lawrence Butler. Sound: William H. Wilmarth.

Mrs. Miniver, MGM. Photographic: A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe. Sound: Douglas Shearer.

The Navy Comes Through, RKO Radio. Photographic: Vernon L. Walker. Sound: James G. Stewart.

One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Powell, UA (British). Photographic: Ronald Neame. Sound: C. C. Stevens.

Pride of the Yankees, Goldwyn, RKO Radio. Photographic: Jack Cosgrove and Ray Blinger. Sound: Thomas T. Moulton.

Reap the Wild Wind, DeMille, Paramount. Photographic: Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira. Sound: Louis Mesenkop.

Best Short Subject Cartoon

All Out for V, 20th Century-Fox.

The Blitz Wolf, MGM.

Der Fuehrer's Face, Disney, RKO Radio.

Juke Box Jamboree, Lantz, Universal.

Pigs in a Polka, Schlesinger, Warner Bros.

Tulips Shall Grow, Paramount (George Pal Puppetoon).

Best Short Subject (One-Reel)

Desert Wonderland, 20th Century-Fox (Magic Carpet Series).

Marines in the Making, MGM (Pete Smith Specialties). 

Speaking of Animals and Thier Families, Paramount (Speaking of Animals).

United States Marine Band, Warner Bros. (Melody Master Bands).

Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)

Beyond the Line of Duty, Warner Bros. (Broadway Brevities).

Don't Talk, MGM (Two-reel Special).

Private Smith of the U.S.A., RKO Radio (This is America Series).

Best Documentary

A Ship is Born, U.S. Merchant Marines, Warner Bros.

Africa, Prelude to Victory, March of Time, 20th Century-Fox.

Battle of Midway, U.S. Navy, 20th Century-Fox.

Combat Report, U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Conquer by the Clock, Office of War Information, RKO Pathe. Frederic Ullman, Jr.

The Grain that Built a Hemisphere, Coordinator's Office, Motion Picture Society for the Americas. Walt Disney.

Henry Browne, Farmer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Republic.

High Over the Borders, Canadian National Film Board.

High Stakes in the East, Netherlands Information Bureau.

Inside Fighting China, Canadian National Film Board.

It's Everybody's War, Office of War Information, 20th Century-Fox.

Kokoda Front Line, Australian News Information Film Board.

Listen to Britain, British Ministry of Information.

Little Belgium, British Ministry of Information.

Little Isles of Freedom, Warner Bros. Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew.

Moscow Strikes Back, Artkino (Russian).

Mr. Blabbermouth, Office of War Information, MGM.

Mr. Gardenia Jones, Office of War Information, MGM.

New Spirit, U.S. Treasury Department. Walt Disney.

Prelude to War, U.S. Army Special Services.

The Price of Victory, Office of War Information, Paramount. Pine-Thomas.

Twenty-one Miles, British Ministry of Information.

We Refuse to Die, Office of War Information, Paramount. William C. Thomas.

White Eagle, Cocanen Films.

Winning Your Wings, U.S. Army Air Force, Warner Bros. 

Note: There were four cowinners for Best Documentary, which must be an Oscar record for a single category, along with the 25 films nominated therein.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Sidney Franklin.

Special Awards

Charles Boyer for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference for the Hollywood motion picture industry (certificate).

Noel Coward for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve (certificate).

MGM Studio for its achievement in representing the American way of life in the production of the Andy Hardy series of films (certificate). 

Scientific or Technical

Class I (Statuette)

None.

Class II (Plaque)

Carroll Clark, F. Thomas Thompson and the RKO Radio Studio Art and Miniature Departments for the design and construction of a moving cloud and horizon machine.

Daniel B. Clark and the 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. for the development of a lens calibration system and the application of this system to exposure control in cinematography.

Class III (Citation)

Robert Henderson and the Paramount Studio Engineering and Transparency Departments for the design and construction of adjustable light bridges and screen frames for transparency process photography.

Daniel J. Bloomberg and the Republic Studio Sound Department for the design and application to motion picture production of a device for marking action negatives for pre-selection purposes. 

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

 

Best Italian Film:

Bengasi, Augusto Genina

Best Foreign Film:

Der grosse Konig, Veit Farlan

Best Actor:

Fosco Glachetti, Un colpo di postola; Bengasi; Noi vivi 

Best Actress:

Kristina Soderbaum, Der grosse Konig; Die goldene Stadt

International Chamber Color Prize:

Die goldene Stadt

International Film Chamber Technique Prize:

Alfa Tan

Best Documentaries:

Comacchio (Italy)

Musica nel Tempo (Germany)

Der Seeadler (Germany)

Bunter Reigen (Germany)

La Drapeau de l'Humanite (Switzerland)

Soil of Rome (Rumania)

A Kis Katu (Hungary)

Rocciatori ed Aquile (Italy)

Erde auf Gewaltmarschen (Germany)

Mounting Guard on the Drina (Croatia)

Life and Death of Istvan Horthy (Hungary)

Best Animated Cartoons:

Anacleto e la Faina

Nel Paese dei Ranocchi

The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg).

In Which We Serve

Journey for Margaret

Casablanca

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Wake Island

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Mrs. Miniver

The Gold Rush

Woman of the Year

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1942 (According to Variety. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg. Totals were not listed.).

1942 films listed on the 1941/42 list:

Captain of the Clouds

Eagle Squadron

Holiday Inn

In This Our Life

King's Row

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Mrs. Miniver

My Favorite Blonde

My Gal Sal

Pride of the Yankees

Reap the Wild Wind

Somewhere I'll Find You

This Above All

Woman of the Year

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 films listed on the 1942/43 list:

Casablanca

Commandos Strike at Dawn

In Which We Serve

Keeper of the Flame

Lucky Jordan

Now, Voyager

Random Harvest

Road to Morocco

Star Spangled Rhythm

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1942 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Abbott & Costello

2) Clark Gable

3) Gary Cooper

4) Mickey Rooney

5) Bob Hope

6) James Cagney

7) Gene Autry

8) Betty Grable

9) Greer Garson

10) Spencer Tracy

The Next Fifteen:

11) Dorothy Lamour

12) Bing Crosby

13) Tyrone Power

14) Walter Pidgeon

15) Bette Davis

16) Ann Sheridan

17) Errol Flynn

18) Wallace Berry

19) Judy Garland

20) Red Skelton

21) John Payne

22) Rita Hayworth

23) Lana Turner

24) Cary Grant

25) Humphrey Bogart

The Stars of Tomorrow (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).

1) Van Heflin

2) Eddie Bracken

3) Jane Wyman

4) John Carroll

5) Alan Ladd

6) Lynn Bari

7) Nancy Kelly

8) Donna Reed

9) Betty Hutton

10) Teresa Wright

The Top Ten Western Stars of 1942 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors).

1) Gene Autry

2) Roy Rogers

3) William Boyd

4) Smiley Burnette

5) Charles Starrett

6) Johnny Mack Brown

7) Bill Elliot

8) Tim Holt

9) Don "Red" Barry

10) Three Mesquiteers

The Top Ten Box-Offices Stars of 1942 in Britain (according to The Motion Picture Herald).

British Stars:

1) George Formby

2) Leslie Howard

3) Arthur Lucan

4) Will Hay

5) Arthur Askey

6) Robert Donat

7) Deborah Kerr

8) Robert Newton

9) Eric Portman

10) Michael Redgrave

International Stars:

1) Mickey Rooney

2) Abbott & Costello

3) Spencer Tracy

4) Deanna Durbin

5) Jeanette MacDonald

6) George Formby

7) Bette Davis

8) Leslie Howard

9) Gary Cooper

10) Dorothy Lamour