1943 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

97 films were recognised at the 1943 Academy Awards, across 24 categories. 20 of them took home at least one award.

The biggest winner of the year was Mrs. Miniver, with 6 awards, ahead of Yankee Doodle Dandy with 3. The categories below run from Documentary, Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) and Sound Recording to the smaller prizes, and in every one the winner is listed first, followed by the other nominees.

Each title links to the film's full award history at all four awards, and the links at the bottom step to the previous and next ceremony.

Last updated August 12, 2026

Documentary

Kokoda Front Line!(1942)
Australian News & Information Bureau
Winner
Moscow Strikes Back(1942)
Artkino
Winner
Prelude to War(1942)
United States Army Special Services
Winner
The Battle of Midway(1942)
United States Navy
Winner
A Ship Is Born(1942)
United States Merchant Marine
Africa, Prelude to Victory(1942)
The March of Time
Combat Report(1942)
United States Army Signal Corps
Conquer by the Clock(1942)
Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
Henry Browne, Farmer(1942)
United States Department of Agriculture
High Over the Borders(1942)
National Film Board of Canada
High Stakes in the East(1942)
The Netherlands Information Bureau
Inside Fighting China(1942)
National Film Board of Canada
It's Everybody's War(1942)
United States Office of War Information
Listen to Britain(1942)
British Ministry of Information
Little Belgium(1942)
Belgian Ministry of Information
Little Isles of Freedom(1942)
Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew, Producers
Mr. Blabbermouth!(1942)
United States Office of War Information
Mr. Gardenia Jones(1942)
United States Office of War Information
The Grain That Built a Hemisphere(1943)
Walt Disney, Producer
The New Spirit(1942)
Walt Disney, Producer
The Price of Victory(1942)
William H. Pine, Producer
The White Eagle(1942)
Concanen Films
Twenty-One Miles(1942)
British Ministry of Information
We Refuse to Die(1942)
William C. Thomas, Producer
Winning Your Wings(1942)
United States Army Air Force

Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

Now, Voyager(1942)
Max Steiner
Winner
Arabian Nights(1942)
Frank Skinner
Bambi(1942)
Frank Churchill, Edward Plumb
Flying Tigers(1942)
Victor Young
I Married a Witch(1942)
Roy Webb
Joan of Paris(1942)
Roy Webb
Jungle Book(1942)
Miklos Rozsa
Klondike Fury(1942)
Edward Kay
Random Harvest(1942)
Herbert Stothart
Silver Queen(1942)
Victor Young
Take a Letter, Darling(1942)
Victor Young
The Black Swan(1942)
Alfred Newman
The Corsican Brothers(1941)
Dimitri Tiomkin
The Gold Rush(1925)
Max Terr
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Leigh Harline
The Shanghai Gesture(1941)
Richard Hageman
The Talk of the Town(1942)
Frederick Hollander, Morris Stoloff
To Be or Not to Be(1942)
Werner Heymann

Sound Recording

Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
Winner
Arabian Nights(1942)
Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director
Bambi(1942)
Walt Disney Studio Sound Department, Sam Slyfield, Sound Director
Flying Tigers(1942)
Republic Studio Sound Department, Daniel Bloomberg, Sound Director
Friendly Enemies(1942)
Sound Service, Inc., Jack Whitney, Sound Director
Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
Once Upon a Honeymoon(1942)
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Steve Dunn, Sound Director
Road to Morocco(1942)
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren Ryder, Sound Director
The Gold Rush(1925)
RCA Sound, James Fields, Sound Director
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
This Above All(1942)
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director
You Were Never Lovelier(1942)
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director

Best Picture

Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Winner
49th Parallel (The Invaders)(1941)
Ortus
49th Parallel (The Invaders)(1941)
The Invaders
Kings Row(1942)
Warner Bros.
Random Harvest(1942)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)
Mercury
The Pied Piper(1942)
20th Century-Fox
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
The Talk of the Town(1942)
Columbia
Wake Island(1942)
Paramount
Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)
Warner Bros.

Art Direction (Black-and-White)

This Above All(1942)
Art Direction: Richard Day, Joseph Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
Winner
George Washington Slept Here(1942)
Art Direction: Max Parker, Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts
Random Harvest(1942)
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack Moore
Silver Queen(1942)
Art Direction: Ralph Berger; Interior Decoration: Emile Kuri
Take a Letter, Darling(1942)
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer
The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)
Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Al Fields
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol
The Shanghai Gesture(1941)
Art Direction: Boris Leven; Interior Decoration: Boris Leven
The Spoilers(1942)
Art Direction: Jack Otterson, John B. Goodman; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Edward R. Robinson
The Talk of the Town(1942)
Art Direction: Lionel Banks, Rudolph Sternad; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock

Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Joseph Ruttenberg
Winner
Kings Row(1942)
James Wong Howe
Moontide(1942)
Charles Clarke
Take a Letter, Darling(1942)
John Mescall
Ten Gentlemen from West Point(1942)
Leon Shamroy
The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)
Stanley Cortez
The Pied Piper(1942)
Edward Cronjager
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
"The Pride of the Yankees" Rudolph Maté
The Talk of the Town(1942)
Ted Tetzlaff
This Above All(1942)
Arthur Miller

Music (Song)

Holiday Inn(1942)
White Christmas in "Holiday Inn" Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Winner
Always in My Heart(1942)
Always In My Heart in "Always in My Heart" Music by Ernesto Lecuona; Lyrics by Kim Gannon
Babes on Broadway(1941)
How About You? in "Babes on Broadway" Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Ralph Freed
Bambi(1942)
Love Is A Song in "Bambi" Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Larry Morey
Flying with Music(1942)
Pennies For Peppino in "Flying with Music" Music by Edward Ward; Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright
Hellzapoppin'(1941)
Pig Foot Pete in "Hellzapoppin'" Music by Gene de Paul; Lyrics by Don Raye
Orchestra Wives(1942)
I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo in "Orchestra Wives" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
The Mayor of 44th Street(1942)
There's A Breeze On Lake Louise in "The Mayor of 44th Street" Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Mort Greene
You Were Never Lovelier(1942)
Dearly Beloved in "You Were Never Lovelier" Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Youth on Parade(1942)
It Seems I Heard That Song Before in "Youth on Parade" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Special Effects

Reap the Wild Wind(1942)
Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart, William L. Pereira; Sound Effects by Louis Mesenkop
Winner
Desperate Journey(1942)
Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson
Flying Tigers(1942)
Photographic Effects by Howard Lydecker; Sound Effects by Daniel J. Bloomberg
Invisible Agent(1942)
Photographic Effects by John Fulton; Sound Effects by Bernard B. Brown
Jungle Book(1942)
Photographic Effects by Lawrence Butler; Sound Effects by William H. Wilmarth
Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects by Douglas Shearer
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing(1942)
Photographic Effects by Ronald Neame; Sound Effects by C. C. Stevens
The Black Swan(1942)
Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by Roger Heman, George Leverett
The Navy Comes Through(1942)
Photographic Effects by Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects by James G. Stewart
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Photographic Effects by Jack Cosgrove, Ray Binger; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton

Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)
Ray Heindorf, Heinz Roemheld
Winner
Flying with Music(1942)
Edward Ward
For Me and My Gal(1942)
Roger Edens, Georgie Stoll
Holiday Inn(1942)
Robert Emmett Dolan
It Started with Eve(1941)
Hans Salter, Charles Previn
Johnny Doughboy(1942)
Walter Scharf
My Gal Sal(1942)
Alfred Newman
You Were Never Lovelier(1942)
Leigh Harline

Cinematography (Color)

The Black Swan(1942)
Leon Shamroy
Winner
Arabian Nights(1942)
Milton Krasner, William V. Skall, W. Howard Greene
Captains of the Clouds(1942)
Sol Polito
Jungle Book(1942)
W. Howard Greene
Reap the Wild Wind(1942)
Victor Milner, William V. Skall
To the Shores of Tripoli(1942)
Edward Cronjager, William V. Skall

Short Subject (Cartoon)

Der Fuehrer's Face(1943)
Walt Disney, Producer
Winner
All Out for 'V'(1942)
20th Century-Fox
Blitz Wolf(1942)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Juke Box Jamboree(1942)
Walter Lantz, Producer
Pigs in a Polka(1943)
Leon Schlesinger, Producer
Tulips Shall Grow(1942)
George Pal, Producer

Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)

49th Parallel (The Invaders)(1941)
Emeric Pressburger
Winner
49th Parallel (The Invaders)(1941)
The Invaders
Winner
Holiday Inn(1942)
Irving Berlin
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Paul Gallico
The Talk of the Town(1942)
Sidney Harmon
Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)
Robert Buckner

Writing (Screenplay)

Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West
Winner
49th Parallel (The Invaders)(1941)
Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger
49th Parallel (The Invaders)(1941)
The Invaders
Random Harvest(1942)
Claudine West, George Froeschel, Arthur Wimperis
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz
The Talk of the Town(1942)
Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman

Actor

Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)
James Cagney
Winner
Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Walter Pidgeon
Random Harvest(1942)
Ronald Colman
The Pied Piper(1942)
Monty Woolley
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Gary Cooper

Actor in a Supporting Role

Johnny Eager(1941)
Van Heflin
Winner
Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Henry Travers
Tortilla Flat(1942)
Frank Morgan
Wake Island(1942)
William Bendix
Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)
Walter Huston

Actress

Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Greer Garson
Winner
My Sister Eileen(1942)
Rosalind Russell
Now, Voyager(1942)
Bette Davis
The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
Teresa Wright
Woman of the Year(1942)
Katharine Hepburn

Actress in a Supporting Role

Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Teresa Wright
Winner
Mrs. Miniver(1942)
Dame May Whitty
Now, Voyager(1942)
Gladys Cooper
Random Harvest(1942)
Susan Peters
The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)
Agnes Moorehead

Art Direction (Color)

My Gal Sal(1942)
Art Direction: Richard Day, Joseph Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
Winner
Arabian Nights(1942)
Art Direction: Jack Otterson, Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb
Captains of the Clouds(1942)
Art Direction: Ted Smith; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts
Jungle Book(1942)
Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
Reap the Wild Wind(1942)
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: George Sawley