15th Academy Awards

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Outstanding Motion Picture}}

• Mrs. Miniver – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer{{double dagger}}
• 49th Parallel – Michael Powell for Ortus
• Kings Row – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros.
• The Magnificent Ambersons – Orson Welles for Mercury and RKO Radio
• The Pied Piper – Nunnally Johnson for 20th Century Fox
• The Pride of the Yankees – Samuel Goldwyn for Samuel Goldwyn Productions and RKO Radio
• Random Harvest – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• The Talk of the Town – George Stevens for Columbia
• Wake Island – Joseph Sistrom for Paramount
• Yankee Doodle Dandy – Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, and William Cagney for Warner Bros.

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Directing}}

• William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver{{double dagger}}
• Sam Wood – Kings Row
• Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest
• John Farrow – Wake Island
• Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actor}}

• James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan{{double dagger}}
• Ronald Colman – Random Harvest as Charles Rainier
• Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig
• Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver
• Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper as Howard

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actress}}

• Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver as Kay Miniver{{double dagger}}
• Bette Davis – Now, Voyager as Charlotte Vale
• Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year as Tess Harding
• Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen as Ruth Sherwood
• Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees as Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actor in a Supporting Role}}

• Van Heflin – Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett{{double dagger}}
• William Bendix – Wake Island as Private Aloysius K. Randall
• Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy as Jerry Cohan
• Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat as The Pirate
• Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver as James Ballard

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Actress in a Supporting Role}}

• Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon{{double dagger}}
• Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager as Windle Vale
• Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons as Fanny Minafer
• Susan Peters – Random Harvest as Kitty Chilcet
• Dame May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver as Lady Beldon

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Writing (Original Screenplay)}}

• Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.{{double dagger}}
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• Road to Morocco – Frank Butler and Don Hartman
• Wake Island – W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler
• The War Against Mrs. Hadley – George Oppenheimer

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Writing (Screenplay)}}

• Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the Mrs. Miniver newspaper columns by Jan Struther{{double dagger}}
• 49th Parallel – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, based on a story by Emeric Pressburger
• The Pride of the Yankees – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling, based on a story by Paul Gallico
• Random Harvest – George Froeschel, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the novel by James Hilton
• The Talk of the Town – Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw, based on a story by Sidney Harmon

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Writing (Original Motion Picture Story)}}

• 49th Parallel – Emeric Pressburger{{double dagger}}
• Holiday Inn – Irving Berlin
• The Pride of the Yankees – Paul Gallico
• The Talk of the Town – Sidney Harmon
• Yankee Doodle Dandy – Robert Buckner

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Documentary}}

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

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Short Subject (One-Reel)}}

• Speaking of Animals and Their Families – Paramount{{double dagger}}
• Desert Wonderland – 20th Century Fox
• Marines in the Making – Pete Smith
• United States Marine Band – Warner Bros.

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)}}

• Beyond the Line of Duty – Warner Bros.{{double dagger}}
• Don't Talk – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Private Smith of the U.S.A. – RKO Radio

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Short Subject (Cartoon)}}

• Der Fuehrer's Face – Walt Disney{{double dagger}}
• 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

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)}}

• Now, Voyager – Max Steiner{{double dagger}}
• Arabian Nights – Frank Skinner
• Bambi – Frank Churchill (posthumous nomination) and Edward H. Plumb
• The Black Swan – Alfred Newman
• The Corsican Brothers – Dimitri Tiomkin
• Flying Tigers – Victor Young
• The Gold Rush – Max Terr
• I Married a Witch – Roy Webb
• Joan of Paris – Roy Webb
• Jungle Book – Miklós Rózsa
• Klondike Fury – Edward J. Kay
• The Pride of the Yankees – Leigh Harline
• Random Harvest – Herbert Stothart
• The Shanghai Gesture – Richard Hageman
• Silver Queen – Victor Young
• Take a Letter, Darling – Victor Young
• The Talk of the Town – Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff
• To Be or Not to Be – Werner R. Heymann

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)}}

• Yankee Doodle Dandy – Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld{{double dagger}}
• Flying with Music – Edward Ward
• For Me and My Gal – Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll
• Holiday Inn – Robert E. Dolan
• It Started with Eve – Charles Previn and Hans J. Salter
• Johnny Doughboy – Walter Scharf
• My Gal Sal – Alfred Newman
• You Were Never Lovelier – Leigh Harline

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Music (Song)}}

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

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Sound Recording}}

• Yankee Doodle Dandy – Nathan Levinson{{double dagger}}
• Arabian Nights – Bernard B. Brown
• Bambi – Sam Slyfield
• Flying Tigers – Daniel J. Bloomberg
• Friendly Enemies – Jack Whitney
• The Gold Rush – James L. Fields
• Mrs. Miniver – Douglas Shearer
• Once Upon a Honeymoon – Stephen Dunn
• The Pride of the Yankees – Thomas T. Moulton
• Road to Morocco – Loren L. Ryder
• This Above All – E. H. Hansen
• You Were Never Lovelier – John P. Livadary

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)}}

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

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Art Direction (Color)}}

• My Gal Sal – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little{{double dagger}}
• Arabian Nights – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb
• Captains of the Clouds – Art Direction: Ted Smith; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts
• Jungle Book – Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
• Reap the Wild Wind – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: George Sawley

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)}}

• Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg{{double dagger}}
• Kings Row – James Wong Howe
• The Magnificent Ambersons – Stanley Cortez
• Moontide – Charles G. Clarke
• The Pied Piper – Edward Cronjager
• The Pride of the Yankees – Rudolph Maté
• Take a Letter, Darling – John J. Mescall
• The Talk of the Town – Ted Tetzlaff
• Ten Gentlemen from West Point – Leon Shamroy
• This Above All – Arthur C. Miller

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Cinematography (Color)}}

• The Black Swan – Leon Shamroy{{double dagger}}
• Arabian Nights – Milton Krasner, William V. Skall, and W. Howard Greene
• Captains of the Clouds – Sol Polito
• Jungle Book – W. Howard Greene
• Reap the Wild Wind – Victor Milner and William V. Skall
• To the Shores of Tripoli – Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall

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{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Film Editing}}

• The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell{{double dagger}}
• Mrs. Miniver – Harold F. Kress
• The Talk of the Town – Otto Meyer
• This Above All – Walter A. Thompson
• Yankee Doodle Dandy – George Amy

{{Award category|#F9EFAA|Best Special Effects}}

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

|+ Films with multiple nominations

| Mrs. Miniver

| The Pride of the Yankees

| Yankee Doodle Dandy

| Random Harvest

| Arabian Nights

| Bambi

| Captains of the Clouds

|+ Films with multiple awards

| Mrs. Miniver

| Yankee Doodle Dandy