15th Academy Awards

15th Academy Awards
15th Academy Awards
Date	March 4, 1943
Site	Cocoanut Grove, The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hosted by	Bob Hope
Highlights
Best Picture	Mrs. Miniver
Most awards	Mrs. Miniver (6)
Most nominations	Mrs. Miniver (12)
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The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Best Picture honors went to the film Mrs. Miniver. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by the film’s Oscar-winning actress Greer Garson. Garson’s acceptance speech as Best Actress ran nearly 6 minutes and is generally considered to be the longest acceptance speech at an Academy Awards ceremony.

Mrs. Miniver was the second film (after My Man Godfrey in 1936) to receive nominations in all four acting categories, as well as the first film to garner five acting nominations.

Also notable at the ceremony, Irving Berlin presented the Academy Award for Best Song, which he ended up winning for "White Christmas".

Best Documentary had four winners, something that has not happened before or since.

A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio.^[1]

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[2]

Outstanding Motion Picture	Best Director
Mrs. Miniver The Invaders Kings Row The Magnificent Ambersons The Pied Piper The Pride of the Yankees Random Harvest The Talk of the Town Wake Island Yankee Doodle Dandy	William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy John Farrow – Wake Island Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest Sam Wood – Kings Row
Best Actor	Best Actress
James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy Ronald Colman – Random Harvest Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper	Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver Bette Davis – Now, Voyager Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Van Heflin – Johnny Eager William Bendix – Wake Island Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver	Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons Susan Peters – Random Harvest Dame May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr. Wake Island – W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler Road to Morocco – Frank Butler and Don Hartman The War Against Mrs. Hadley – George Oppenheimer One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis The Invaders – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger The Talk of the Town – Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw Random Harvest – George Froeschel, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis The Pride of the Yankees – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling
Best Story	Best Documentary
The Invaders – Emeric Pressburger Holiday Inn – Irving Berlin Yankee Doodle Dandy – Robert Buckner The Pride of the Yankees – Paul Gallico The Talk of the Town – Sidney Harmon	The Battle of Midway Kokoda Front Line! Moscow Strikes Back Prelude to War Africa, Prelude to Victory Combat Report Conquer by the Clock The Grain That Built a Hemisphere Henry Browne, Farmer High Over the Borders High Stakes in the East Inside Fighting China It's Everybody's War Listen to Britain Little Belgium Little Isles of Freedom Mr. Blabbermouth! Mr. Gardenia Jones The New Spirit The Price of Victory A Ship Is Born Twenty-One Miles We Refuse to Die White Eagle Winning Your Wings
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel	Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
Speaking of Animals and Their Families Desert Wonderland Marines in the Making United States Marine Band	Beyond the Line of Duty Don't Talk Private Smith of the U.S.A.
Best Animated Short Film
Der Fuehrer's Face – Walt Disney All Out for V – Paul Terry Blitz Wolf – Fred Quimby Juke Box Jamboree – Walter Lantz Pigs in a Polka – Leon Schlesinger Tulips Shall Grow – George Pal
Best Dramatic Score	Best Musical Score
Now, Voyager – Max Steiner Bambi – Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb The Shanghai Gesture – Richard Hageman The Pride of the Yankees – Leigh Harline To Be or Not to Be – Werner Heymann The Talk of the Town – Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff Klondike Fury – Edward Kay The Black Swan – Alfred Newman Jungle Book – Miklos Rozsa Arabian Nights – Frank Skinner Random Harvest – Herbert Stothart The Gold Rush – Max Terr The Corsican Brothers – Dimitri Tiomkin I Married a Witch – Roy Webb Joan of Paris – Roy Webb Flying Tigers – Victor Young Silver Queen – Victor Young Take a Letter, Darling – Victor Young	Yankee Doodle Dandy – Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld For Me and My Gal – Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll Holiday Inn – Robert Emmett Dolan You Were Never Lovelier – Leigh Harline My Gal Sal – Alfred Newman It Started With Eve – Charles Previn and Hans Salter Johnny Doughboy – Walter Scharf Flying With Music – Edward Ward
Best Original Song	Best Sound Recording
*"White Christmas" from Holiday Inn* – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin** "Always in My Heart" from Always in My Heart – Music by Ernesto Lecuona; Lyric by Kim Gannon "Dearly Beloved" from You Were Never Lovelier – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyric by Johnny Mercer "How About You?" from Babes on Broadway – Music by Burton Lane; Lyric by Ralph Freed "It Seems I Heard That Song Before" from Youth on Parade – Music by Jule Styne; Lyric by Sammy Cahn "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" from Orchestra Wives – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Mack Gordon "Love Is a Song" from Bambi – Music by Frank Churchill; Lyric by Larry Morey "Pennies for Peppino" from Flying With Music – Music by Edward Ward; Lyric by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright "Pig Foot Pete" from Hellzapoppin' – Music by Gene de Paul; Lyric by Don Raye "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" from The Mayor of 44th Street – Music by Harry Revel; Lyric by Mort Greene	Yankee Doodle Dandy – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department You Were Never Lovelier – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department Mrs. Miniver – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department Road to Morocco – Loren Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department The Gold Rush – James L. Fields, RCA Sound Flying Tigers – Daniel Bloomberg, Republic Studio Sound Department Once Upon a Honeymoon – Stephen Dunn, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department The Pride of the Yankees – Thomas T. Moulton, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department Friendly Enemies – Jack Whitney, Sound Service, Inc. This Above All – E. H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department Arabian Nights – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio Sound Department Bambi – Sam Slyfield, Walt Disney Studio Sound Department
Best Art Direction, Black and White	Best Art Direction, Color
This Above All – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little The Talk of the Town – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad; Set Decoration: Fay Babcock Silver Queen – Art Direction: Ralph Berger; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri The Magnificent Ambersons – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino; Set Decoration: Al Fields and Darrell Silvera Take a Letter, Darling – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Sam Comer The Pride of the Yankees – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol Random Harvest – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jack Moore The Shanghai Gesture – Art Direction: John B. Goodman and Jack Otterson; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Boris Leven George Washington Slept Here – Art Direction: Max Parker and Mark-Lee Kirk; Set Decoration: Casey Roberts The Spoilers – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Edward R. Robinson	My Gal Sal – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little Reap the Wild Wind – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: George Sawley Arabian Nights – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb Jungle Book – Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Set Decoration: Julia Heron Captains of the Clouds – Art Direction: Ted Smith; Set Decoration: Casey Roberts
Best Cinematography, Black and White	Best Cinematography, Color
Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg Moontide – Charles G. Clarke The Magnificent Ambersons – Stanley Cortez The Pied Piper – Edward Cronjager Kings Row – James Wong Howe The Pride of the Yankees – Rudolph Maté Take a Letter, Darling – John Mescall This Above All – Arthur C. Miller Ten Gentlemen From West Point – Leon Shamroy The Talk of the Town – Ted Tetzlaff	The Black Swan – Leon Shamroy To the Shores of Tripoli – Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall Jungle Book – W. Howard Greene Arabian Nights – Milton Krasner, William V. Skall and W. Howard Greene Reap the Wild Wind – Victor Milner and William V. Skall Captains of the Clouds – Sol Polito
Best Film Editing	Best Special Effects
The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell Yankee Doodle Dandy – George Amy Mrs. Miniver – Harold F. Kress The Talk of the Town – Otto Meyer This Above All – Walter A. Thompson	Reap the Wild Wind – Photography: Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira; Sound: Louis Mesenkop Jungle Book – Photography: Lawrence W. Butler; Sound: William H. Wilmarth The Pride of the Yankees – Jack Cosgrove and Ray Binger; Sound: Thomas T. Moulton Invisible Agent – Photography: John P. Fulton; Sound: Bernard B. Brown Mrs. Miniver – Photography: A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Sound: Douglas Shearer Desperate Journey – Photography: Byron Haskin; Sound: Nathan Levinson Flying Tigers – Photography: Howard Lydecker; Sound: Daniel J. Bloomberg One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Photography: Ronald Neame; Sound: C. C. Stevens The Black Swan – Photography: Fred Sersen; Sound: Roger Heman Sr. and George Leverett The Navy Comes Through – Photography: Vernon L. Walker; Sound: James G. Stewart

Academy Honorary Award

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."
Noël Coward – "for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve."
MGM – "for its achievement in representing the American Way of Life in the production of the "Andy Hardy" series of films."

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Sidney Franklin

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

12 nominations: Mrs. Miniver
11 nominations: The Pride of the Yankees
8 nominations: Yankee Doodle Dandy
7 nominations: Random Harvest, The Talk of the Town
4 nominations: Arabian Nights, Jungle Book, The Magnificent Ambersons, This Above All, Wake Island
3 nominations: Bambi, The Black Swan, Flying Tigers, Holiday Inn, The Invaders, Kings Row, Now, Voyager, The Pied Piper, Reap the Wild Wind, Take a Letter, Darling, You Were Never Lovelier
2 nominations: Captains of the Clouds, Flying With Music, The Gold Rush, My Gal Sal, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, Road to Morocco, The Shanghai Gesture, Silver Queen, Woman of the Year

The following films received multiple awards.

6 wins: Mrs. Miniver
3 wins: Yankee Doodle Dandy

References

^ Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
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[Dunning-1] Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.

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Awards

Academy Honorary Award

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Multiple nominations and awards

See also

References