Academy Awards 1942 Nominations

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Outstanding Motion Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay	Best Writing (Original Story)
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)	Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Best Music Score of a Dramatic Picture
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture	Best Song
Best Sound Recording	Best Art Direction (Color)
Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)	Best Cinematography (Color)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)	Best Film Editing
Best Special Effects

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Outstanding Motion Picture

• Blossoms in the Dust
• Citizen Kane
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• Hold Back the Dawn
• How Green Was My Valley
• One Foot in Heaven
• Sergeant York
• Suspicion
• The Little Foxes
• The Maltese Falcon

Best Director

• Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall)
• How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
• Sergeant York (Howard Hawks)
• The Little Foxes (William Wyler)

Best Actor

• Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Robert Montgomery)
• Penny Serenade (Cary Grant)
• Sergeant York (Gary Cooper)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (Walter Huston)

Best Actress

• Ball of Fire (Barbara Stanwyck)
• Blossoms in the Dust (Greer Garson)
• Hold Back the Dawn (Olivia de Havilland)
• Suspicion (Joan Fontaine)
• The Little Foxes (Bette Davis)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (James Gleason)
• How Green Was My Valley (Donald Crisp)
• Sergeant York (Walter Brennan)
• The Devil and Miss Jones (Charles Coburn)
• The Maltese Falcon (Sydney Greenstreet)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• How Green Was My Valley (Sara Allgood)
• Sergeant York (Margaret Wycherly)
• The Great Lie (Mary Astor)
• The Little Foxes (Patricia Collinge)
• The Little Foxes (Teresa Wright)

Best Original Screenplay

• Citizen Kane
• Sergeant York
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• The Devil and Miss Jones
• Tom, Dick and Harry

Best Writing (Original Story)

• Ball of Fire
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• Meet John Doe
• Night Train to Munich
• The Lady Eve

Best Screenplay

• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• Hold Back the Dawn
• How Green Was My Valley
• The Little Foxes
• The Maltese Falcon

Best Documentary Short

• A Letter from Home
• A Place to Live
• Adventure in the Bronx
• Bomber
• Christmas Under Fire
• Churchill's Island
• Life of a Thoroughbred
• Norway in Revolt
• Russian Soil
• Soldiers of the Sky
• Warclouds in the Pacific

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• Army Champions
• Beauty and the Beach
• Forty Boys and a Song
• Kings of the Turf
• Of Pups and Puzzles
• Sagebrush and Silver
• Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Alive in the Deep
• Forbidden Passage
• Main Street on the March!
• The Gay Parisian
• The Tanks Are Coming

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B'
• Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
• How War Came
• Lend a Paw
• Rhapsody in Rivets
• Rhythm in the Ranks
• Superman
• The Night Before Christmas
• The Rookie Bear
• Truant Officer Donald

Best Music Score of a Dramatic Picture

• Back Street
• Ball of Fire
• Cheers for Miss Bishop
• Citizen Kane
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Hold Back the Dawn
• How Green Was My Valley
• King of the Zombies
• Ladies in Retirement
• Lydia
• Mercy Island
• Sergeant York
• So Ends Our Night
• Sundown
• Suspicion
• Tanks a Million
• That Uncertain Feeling
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
• The Little Foxes
• This Woman Is Mine

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• All-American Co-Ed
• Birth of the Blues
• Buck Privates
• Dumbo
• Ice-Capades
• Sun Valley Serenade
• Sunny
• The Chocolate Soldier
• The Strawberry Blonde
• You'll Never Get Rich

Best Song

• All-American Co-Ed ("Out of the Silence")
• Blues in the Night ("Blues in the Night")
• Buck Privates ("Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B")
• Dumbo ("Baby Mine")
• Lady Be Good ("The Last Time I Saw Paris")
• Las Vegas Nights ("Dolores")
• Ridin' on a Rainbow ("Be Honest with Me")
• Sun Valley Serenade ("Chattanooga Choo Choo")
• You'll Never Get Rich ("Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye")

Best Sound Recording

• Appointment for Love
• Ball of Fire
• Citizen Kane
• How Green Was My Valley
• Sergeant York
• Skylark
• That Hamilton Woman
• The Chocolate Soldier
• The Devil Pays Off
• The Men in Her Life
• Topper Returns

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Blood and Sand
• Blossoms in the Dust
• Louisiana Purchase

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Citizen Kane
• Hold Back the Dawn
• How Green Was My Valley
• Ladies in Retirement
• Sergeant York
• Sis Hopkins
• Sundown
• That Hamilton Woman
• The Flame of New Orleans
• The Little Foxes
• The Son of Monte Cristo
• When Ladies Meet

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Aloma of the South Seas
• Billy the Kid
• Blood and Sand
• Blossoms in the Dust
• Dive Bomber
• Louisiana Purchase

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Citizen Kane
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• Hold Back the Dawn
• How Green Was My Valley
• Sergeant York
• Sun Valley Serenade
• Sundown
• That Hamilton Woman
• The Chocolate Soldier

Best Film Editing

• Citizen Kane
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• How Green Was My Valley
• Sergeant York
• The Little Foxes

Best Special Effects

• A Yank in the R.A.F.
• Aloma of the South Seas
• Flight Command
• I Wanted Wings
• That Hamilton Woman
• The Invisible Woman
• The Sea Wolf
• Topper Returns