14th Academy Awards

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14th Academy Awards
Date February 26, 1942
Site Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Host Bob Hope

The 14th Academy Awards may be most famous as the year Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. John Ford won his third Oscar for Directing Best Picture of the year How Green Was My Valley, the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times.

Most public attention was focused on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion and Olivia de Havilland for Hold Back the Dawn. Fontaine’s victory was the only time an actor won for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.

This was also the first year when documentaries were included. The first Oscar for a documentary went to Churchill's Island.

[edit] Award Winners

Best Picture : How Green Was My Valley

Best Director : John Ford, How Green Was My Valley

Best Actor : Gary Cooper, Sergeant York

Best Supporting Actor : Donald Crisp, How Green Was My Valley

Best Actress : Joan Fontaine, Suspicion

Best Supporting Actress : Mary Astor, The Great Lie

Best Original Screenplay : Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

Best Original Story : Harry Segall and Hans Szekely, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Best Screenplay : Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Best Art Direction (Black and White) : Richard Day, Nathan H. Juran, and Thomas Little, How Green Was My Valley

Best Art Direction (Color) : Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, and Edwin B. Willis, Blossoms in the Dust

Best Cinematography (Black and White) : Arthur C. Miller, How Green Was My Valley

Best Cinematography (Color) : Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan, Blood and Sand

Best Documentary (Short Subject) : Churchill's Island

Best Film Editing : William Holmes, Sergeant York

Best Music Score of a Dramatic Picture : Bernard Herrmann, The Devil and Daniel Webster

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture : Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace, Dumbo

Best Song : Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good

Best Short Subject (Cartoon) : Walt Disney (Producer), Lend a Paw

Best Short Subject (One-Reel) : Of Pups and Puzzles

Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) : Main Street on the March!

Best Sound Recording : Jack Whitney (Sound Director, General Service Sound Department), That Hamilton Woman

Best Special Effects : Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, and Louis Mesenkop, I Wanted Wings

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