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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.Winner - Outstanding Motion Picture
Winner - Best Director for William Wyler
Nominated - Best Actor for Walter Pidgeon
Winner - Best Actress for Greer Garson
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Henry Travers
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Teresa Wright
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Dame May Whitty
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer
Winner - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Joseph Ruttenberg
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Harold F. Kress
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie HowardLaurence OlivierRichard GeorgeA World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger
Winner - Best Story for Emeric Pressburger - DirectorSam WoodStarsAnn SheridanRobert CummingsRonald ReaganThe dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Sam Wood
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for James Wong Howe - DirectorOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores CostelloThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Agnes Moorehead
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Stanley Cortez - DirectorIrving PichelStarsMonty WoolleyRoddy McDowallAnne BaxterWhile traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Monty Woolley
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Edward Cronjager - DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperTeresa WrightBabe RuthThe story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Gary Cooper
Nominated - Best Actress for Teresa Wright
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling
Nominated - Best Story for Paul Gallico
Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Leigh Harline
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Rudolph Maté
Winner - Best Film Editing for Daniel Mandell
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRonald ColmanGreer GarsonPhilip DornAn amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Mervyn LeRoy
Nominated - Best Actor for Ronald Colman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Susan Peters
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for George Froeschel, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis
Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Herbert Stothart
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantJean ArthurRonald ColmanAn escaped prisoner has to prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with the help of a spirited school teacher.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw
Nominated - Best Story for Sidney Harmon
Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Ted Tetzlaff
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Otto Meyer - DirectorJohn FarrowStarsBrian DonlevyRobert PrestonMacdonald CareyDecember, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for John Farrow
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for William Bendix
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Michael Curtiz
Winner - Best Actor for James Cagney
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Walter Huston
Nominated - Best Story for Robert Buckner
Winner - Best Musical Score for Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
Nominated - Best Film Editing for George Amy - DirectorIrving RapperStarsBette DavisPaul HenreidClaude RainsA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.Nominated - Best Actress for Bette Davis
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Gladys Cooper
Winner - Best Dramatic Score for Max Steiner - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnFay BainterRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.Nominated - Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr. - DirectorAlexander HallStarsRosalind RussellBrian AherneJanet BlairTwo sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.Nominated - Best Actress for Rosalind Russell
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRobert TaylorLana TurnerEdward ArnoldThe step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Van Heflin
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyHedy LamarrJohn GarfieldDanny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Frank Morgan
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Frank Butler and Don Hartman
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Loren Ryder - DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsEdward ArnoldFay BainterRichard NeyA Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for George Oppenheimer
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsGodfrey TearleEric PortmanHugh WilliamsDuring a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorMark SandrichRobert AllenStarsBing CrosbyFred AstaireMarjorie ReynoldsAt an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.Nominated - Best Story for Irving Berlin
Nominated - Best Musical Score for Robert Emmett Dolan
Winner - Best Original Song for "White Christmas" - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellLogan RamseyThe Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.Winner - Best Documentary
- StarsPeter BathurstDamien ParerCameraman Damien Parer has just returned from the front in New Guinea, where he's documented Australian troops in action. He explains this to us in a prolog. We then see air drops of supplies, wounded men being carried on stretchers by native porters, and men leaving camp to go to the front. There's a tiny bit of possibly staged combat footage. A narrator explains that the Japanese soldiers are expert at disguise, and how important support from the home front is.Winner - Best Documentary
- DirectorIlya KopalinLeonid VarlamovStarsN. DubravinEdward G. RobinsonJoseph StalinA number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.Winner - Best Documentary
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsWalter HustonVictor Bulwer-LyttonKai-Shek ChiangThe official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.Winner - Best Documentary
- DirectorLouis De RochemontStarsWestbrook Van VoorhisThe reason for the hard Nazi-resistance to the Allied invasion of Tunis has been revealed to officials of the MARCH of TIME,whose film "Africa- Prelude to Victory (V. 09, No. 5, December 4, 1942) covers both the planning and execution of the great Allied Military Maneuver in North Africa. It is this: Nazis captured by the United Nations forces express the greatest shock at being fed decent food.These prisoners are arrogant and domineering. Their first shock comes when they learn the United States citizens are not starving, as they had been told by their officers and Berlin propaganda. When they hear that Stalingrad has not fallen they refuse to believe it as they have been told. But they learn. They learn.Nominated - Best Documentary
- StarsWalter HustonFollows the crew of a Mitchell bomber from the 2nd BG as they fight submarines.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorJack CuttingDavid HandBill JusticeThis animated documentary outlines the history and importance of corn in North America.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorRoger BarlowStarsCanada LeeDocumentary short film dramatizing the efforts of a black farmer and his family to help the American war effort by increasing production.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorRaymond SpottiswoodeStarsPhil BrownAn Oscar-nominated film describing migration among birds in North America emphasizing the international character of many of the flights of different species.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorJohn FernhoutIn the aftermath of the Allied defeat in the battle for Java, after which the island fell into Japanese hands, this propaganda film made for American audiences shows what has been lost.Nominated - Best Documentary
- StarsKai-Shek ChiangLorne GreeneHirohitoAn Oscar-nominated war-time propaganda film on the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. It followed the government of Chiang Kai-shek as their society changed and they fight back against the now-common enemy (to the US), Japan.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorWill PriceStarsHenry FondaMae MarshWartime documentary propagandizing for greater participation in the U.S. war effort during the Second World War.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStewart McAllisterStarsLeonard BrockingtonJoseph MacleodBud FlanaganA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.Nominated - Best Documentary
- A profile of the more than 2,000 Belgian refugees in the fishing port of Brixham.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorVictor StoloffStarsCharles BoyerNominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorBasil WrangellStarsJohn NesbittKai-Shek ChiangAdolf HitlerFollowing Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsRonald ReaganLaraine DayCharles WinningerDocumentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorWilfred JacksonBen SharpsteenStarsCliff EdwardsClarence NashFred ShieldsAnimated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorWilliam H. PineStarsHenry WallaceVice-President narrates a patriotic, propaganda short designed to boost morale in the the early days of World War II.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsKnox ManningThis Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes story of the building and manning, during World War Two, of the USA supply line to Victory against the Axis powers, the United States Merchant Marine service.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorHarry WattNominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorWilliam H. PineNominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorEugeniusz CekalskiStarsEugeniusz CekalskiZbigniew GrabowskiLeslie HowardAn Oscar-nominated British documentary about the Polish people who escaped Poland and were living in England during World War II, both civilians and soldiers.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorOwen CrumpJohn HustonStarsJames StewartJean AmesLeah BairdInspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces.Nominated - Best Documentary
- DirectorRobert CarlisleJerry FairbanksStarsKen CarpenterGayne WhitmanSara BernerWinner - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorJack KuhneNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorHerbert PolesieStarsPete SmithR.E. 'Dick' HanleyCharles HorvathA look at U.S. Marine Corps combat training during the first year of World War II, including conditioning techniques adapted from athletics, hand-to-hand combat tactics, and traditional drills.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsUnited States Marine BandWilliam F. SantelmannThomas HolcombVarious configurations of the United States Marine Band, including marching band, choir, and symphony orchestra, perform patriotic songs on the National Mall. The performances are intercut with footage of the Marine Corps in training.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsHewitt T. WhelessRonald ReaganFranklin D. RooseveltThis short film in support of the war effort dramatizes the training and missions of Army Air Forces Captain Hewett T. Wheless, a former Texas ranch hand who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in the early days of WWII.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsDonald DouglasGloria HoldenBarry NelsonThis MGM short, part of the Crime does not Pay series, focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a plant, the FBI try to find out how information on the manganese shipment was found out. They get a lead on one of the plotters, Beulah Anderson, who as a waitress in a café gets to pick up all kinds of scuttlebutt from the innocent but loose talking clients. Once they figure out how she is sending the information she gathers, the FBI sets a trap. The moral of the story is: Don't Talk!Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorHarry W. SmithNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorJack KinneyBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigCharles JudelsBilly BletcherDonald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorMannie DavisWhen war is announced, all the forest animals, birds and bugs go into manufacturing of armaments, helmets and the like, with an annoying jingle about the country's instruction to step up production musically repeated.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorTex AveryStarsLeone Le DouxSara BernerPinto ColvigYet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancZedra CondeA mouse, sleeping in the Zowie Cafe, has his sleep disturbed by the jukebox. He crawls into the machine, but the mechanism flings him out the coin return. The mouse lands in a glass of Zowie beverage, which he happily drinks. Bottles tip over, releasing the spirits (both alcoholic and ghostly) within. The ghosts form a band, at first just playing rhythm (with peanuts as maracas). Turtles in the cafe's fountain start dancing. A lobster on a plate does a 'Carmen Miranda' impression. The figures on a lamp dance around the shade. A cactus dances with the mouse. The mouse hits the floor, knocking several mouse ghosts loose; they form a conga line, leading to the mouse's bed, where he falls back to sleep.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsBea BenaderetSara BernerMel BlancThe story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRex IngramVictor JoryA carefree boy and a young girl find their idyllic countryside invaded by an army of mindlessly destructive robots.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongDavid HandStarsHardie AlbrightStan AlexanderBobette AudreyThe story of a young deer growing up in the forest.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Love Is a Song"
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Sam Slyfield - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGene TierneyWalter HustonVictor MatureIn Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Richard Hageman
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsCarole LombardJack BennyRobert StackDuring the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Werner Heymann
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsEdmund LoweLucile FairbanksWilliam HenryA neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. He flees to Alaska, where his plane crashes in the frozen wilderness.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Edward Kay
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerMaureen O'HaraLaird CregarAn ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Alfred Newman
Winner - Best Cinematography, Color for Leon Shamroy
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorZoltan KordaStarsSabuJoseph CalleiaJohn QualenA boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Miklos Rozsa
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for W. Howard Greene
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorJohn RawlinsStarsJon HallMaria MontezSabuThe caliph of Baghdad must go into hiding with a group of traveling performers when his brother usurps the throne. Both brothers desire a beautiful dancing girl, who is torn between power and true love.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Frank Skinner
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Bernard B. Brown
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Milton Krasner, William V. Skall and W. Howard Greene - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainTom MurrayA prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Max Terr
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for James L. Fields - DirectorGregory RatoffStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Ruth WarrickAkim TamiroffAfter their parents are killed, co-joined twin boys are separated, with one raised as a gentleman in Paris and the other in the mountains becoming a bandit.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Dimitri Tiomkin
- DirectorRené ClairStarsFredric MarchVeronica LakeRobert BenchleyA beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Roy Webb
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsMichèle MorganPaul HenreidThomas MitchellAn RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers reach Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest is injured; his wounds need treating and he must stay hidden. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Roy Webb
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsJohn WayneJohn CarrollAnna LeeCapt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Victor Young
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Daniel Bloomberg
Nominated - Best Special Effects - DirectorLloyd BaconStarsGeorge BrentPriscilla LaneBruce CabotA well-known and confident young woman from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Victor Young
Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White - DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsRosalind RussellFred MacMurrayMacdonald CareyA struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.Nominated - Best Dramatic Score for Victor Young
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsJudy GarlandGeorge MurphyGene KellyTwo vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsFred AstaireRita HayworthAdolphe MenjouIn Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Leigh Harline
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Dearly Beloved"
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John Livadary - DirectorIrving CummingsStarsRita HayworthVictor MatureJohn SuttonAt the end of the 19th century, the young Indiana boy Paul Dresser left his hometown for a long adventure that would eventually place him at the pinnacle of American music as a songwriter.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Alfred Newman
Winner - Best Art Direction, Color - DirectorHenry KosterStarsDeanna DurbinCharles LaughtonRobert CummingsIn order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Charles Previn and Hans Salter
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsJane WithersHenry WilcoxonJack BoyleAn arrogant young actress doesn't want to play "young" parts anymore, and runs off. The studio replaces her with the president of her fan club, who just happens to be a lookalike. Meanwhile, some other former child actors, trying to put on a show for the GIs, will be able to do it only if they can get the young actress to be in it, so they set out to persuade her to be in their show--not knowing that she's isn't who they think she is.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Walter Scharf
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsMarjorie WoodworthGeorge GivotWilliam MarshallA man fleeing from a divorce and alimony payments gets a job as a tour guide for five wealthy young women, one of whom is looking to bag a Latin singer she believes is in love with.Nominated - Best Musical Score for Edward Ward
Nominated - Best Original Score for "Pennies for Peppino" - DirectorJo GrahamStarsKay FrancisWalter HustonGloria WarrenAfter many years, MacKenzie Scott is pardoned from prison, but his wife is already involved with another man. Nevertheless, he travels incognito to his family's town. There he befriends his daughter Victoria, who doesn't recognize him, and encourages her musical abilities.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Always in My Heart"
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsMickey RooneyJudy GarlandFay BainterJudy Garland and Mickey Rooney star in a musical directed by Busby Berkeley as two talented teenagers dreaming of success as Babes on Broadway.Nominated - Best Original Song for "How About You?"
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsJohn HubbardRuth TerryMartha O'DriscollGerald Payne, a psychology professor at Cotchatootamee College, irritates the students with a teaching experiment in which all students are referred to as numbers. Payne's system, which attempts to prevent favoritism, requires much hard work and restricts dating, and so the students decide to ruin Payne by creating a false student. They pool their papers and soon their creation, number 79, has won all the academic awards for the semester. Number 79, whom the students have named Patty Flynn, is to receive an award at a school assembly, and the co-eds, led by Sally Carlyle, are chuckling over their victory when they are overheard by Payne's secretary, Agatha Frost. Agatha, who is known as Frosty, tells the girls that Payne will be fired and they will be expelled if their scheme is revealed, and so Sally calls New York, where fellow student Bingo Brown is picking up orchestrations for the music he composed for the upcoming school show. After Sally tells Bingo to hire someone to play Patty, he approaches would-be singer Betty Reilly. At first Patty refuses his proposal, despite his assertion that she could be discovered by Broadway producer Max Hillman, who will be at the school show. Betty changes her mind, however, when her bumbling brother Eddie and his pal, Nick Cramer, reveal that they "borrowed" a race horse, entered it in a race in her name and are now wanted by the police. Betty goes to the college to hide out and arrives at the assembly just in time to collect the award for Patty Flynn. Payne is astonished by Betty's slang-filled speech, and in order to substantiate the charade, Betty convinces him that overwork due to his experimental system has caused her to have a nervous breakdown. She further convinces him that only relaxing his edicts about dating will prevent the other students from suffering a similar fate. Betty arranges for Payne to escort Sally to an upcoming dance, and after he kisses Sally during a rehearsal for the show, they realize that they are in love. Eddie's arrival ruins everything, however, for when he is picked up by the police, he is taken to Payne, to whom he reveals Betty's true identity. Furious about the deception but wanting to protect the kids, Payne resigns without telling Dean Andrew Wharton about their scheme. Payne then breaks up with Sally and castigates the students for their interference. He also tells them that they must stay in college rather than rush to join the military and fight in the war, for gaining knowledge is serving their country as well. The contrite students confess to Wharton, who agrees to reinstate Payne and expel them. When Wharton forbids them to hold the show, Payne and Frosty conspire to distract him while the kids perform. Wharton hears the music, however, and is about to cancel the show when the kids' final number, "You Got to Study, Buddy," wins the approval of two visiting military officials with its theme of staying in school. Wharton signals his approval, Payne and Sally are reconciled and Betty is a success.Nominated - Best Original Song for "It Seems I Heard That Song Before"
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsGeorge MontgomeryAnn RutherfordGlenn Miller and His OrchestraConnie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.Nominated - Best Original Song for "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo"
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsOle OlsenChic JohnsonMartha RayeOlsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Pig Foot Pete"
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsGeorge MurphyAnne ShirleyWilliam GarganJoe Jonathan tries to keep his business on the level after some shady dealings but will his cronies let him?Nominated - Best Original Song for "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise"
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsGinger RogersCary GrantWalter SlezakIn Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Germans seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Stephen Dunn
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsCharles WinningerCharles RugglesJames CraigDuring World War I, two German friends who emigrated to the US and became millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His inflexibility results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Jack Whitney
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsTyrone PowerJoan FontaineThomas MitchellAlthough she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for E. H. Hansen
Winner - Best Art Direction, Black and White
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Arthur C. Miller
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Walter A. Thompson - DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJack BennyAnn SheridanCharles CoburnWhen Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovate it.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsMarlene DietrichRandolph ScottJohn WayneIn Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Black and White
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsRay MillandJohn WaynePaulette GoddardFlorida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Victor Milner and William V. Skall
Winner - Best Special Effects - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyDennis MorganBrenda MarshallInspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.Nominated - Best Art Direction, Color
Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Sol Polito - DirectorArchie MayoFritz LangStarsJean GabinIda LupinoThomas MitchellIn California, Bobo and his mooching pal Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Charles G. Clarke
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGeorge MontgomeryMaureen O'HaraJohn SuttonIn the early 19th century, Congress mulls the idea of re-opening the West Point military training academy that trained officers for the American Revolutionary War.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Black and White for Leon Shamroy
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsJohn PayneMaureen O'HaraRandolph ScottLife at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Nominated - Best Cinematography, Color for Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsIlona MasseyJon HallPeter LorreThe Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.Nominated - Best Special Effects
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnRonald ReaganNancy ColemanWhen the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.Nominated - Best Special Effects
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsPat O'BrienGeorge MurphyJane WyattA U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.Nominated - Best Special Effects