1940-49 — Years in Review
The Fritz Golden Superlatives

1949

1. The Heiress (dir: William Wyler)

2. Late Spring (dir: Yasujiro Ozu)

3. Bicycle Thieves (dir: Vittorio De Sica; US release date)

4. The Passionate Friends (dir: David Lean)

5. Beyond the Forest (dir: King Vidor)

6. The Set-Up (dir: Robert Wise)

7. The Fallen Idol (dir: Carol Reed; US release date)

8. Thieves' Highway (dir: Jules Dassin)

9. White Heat (dir: Raoul Walsh)

10. Whirlpool (dir: Otto Preminger)

Best Picture: The Heiress
Director: William Wyler Producer: William Wyler
Distributor: Paramount

Best Director: Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring
Second Place: Vittorio De Sica, Bicycle Thieves
Third Place: David Lean, The Passionate Friends

Best Actor: James Cagney, White Heat
Second Place: Ralph Richardson, The Fallen Idol
Third Place: Lamberto Maggioranni, Bicycle Thieves

Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
Second Place: Bette Davis, Beyond the Forest
Third Place: Katharine Hepburn, Adam’s Rib
Fourth Place: Setsuko Hara, Late Spring

Best Supporting Actor: Ralph Richardson, The Heiress
Second Place: Dan Duryea, Criss Cross
Third Place: James Whitmore, Battleground

Best Supporting Actress: Valentina Cortese, Thieves' Highway
Second Place: Miriam Hopkins, The Heiress
Third Place: Judy Holliday, Adam's Rib

Best Original Screenplay: T.E.B. Clarke, Passport to Pimlico
Second Place: Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, White Heat
Third Place: Valentine Davies and Shirley Smith, It Happens Every Spring

Best Adapted Screenplay: David Lean, Eric Ambler, and Stanley Haynes, The Passionate Friends
Second Place: Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz, The Heiress
Third Place: Lenore Coffee, Beyond the Forest

Best Cinematography: Guy Green, The Passionate Friends
Second Place: Paul Burks, Beyond the Forest
Third Place: Leo Tover, The Heiress

Best Film Editing: Roland Gross, The Set-Up
Second Place: Willian Hornbeck, The Heiress
Third Place: Geraldo Da Roma, Bicycle Thieves

Best Original Score: Aaron Copland, The Heiress
Second Place: Miklos Rozsa, Criss Cross
Third Place: Dimitri Tiomkin, Champion

Best Production Design: Edward Carrere and William Kuehl, The Fountainhead
Second Place: Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith, and Edwin B. Willis, Madame Bovary
Third Place: Harry Horner and Emile Kuri, The Heiress

Best Costume Design: Edith Head, The Heiress
Second Place: Anthony Mendleson, Kind Hearts and Coronets
Third Place: Walter Plunkett, Little Women

Best Ensemble Cast: The Set-Up (dir: Robert Wise; in alphabetical order) Alan Baxter, Hal Baylor, David Clarke, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Daryl Hickman, Robert Ryan, George Tobias and Audrey Totter

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Alexander Mackendrick, Whisky Galore!

1948

1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (dir: Max Ophuls)

2. The Red Shoes (dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

3. Unfaithfully Yours (dir: Preston Sturges)

4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir: John Huston)

5. Raw Deal (dir: Anthony Mann)

6. Quai des Ofevres (dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot; US release date)

7. Day of Wrath (dir: Carl Theodore Dreyer; US release date)

8. Berlin Express (dir: Jacques Tourneur)

9. The Yellow Sky (dir: William A. Wellman)

10. They Live by Night (dir: Nicholas Ray)

Best Picture: Letter from an Unknown Woman
Director: Max Ophuls Producers: Nate Blumberg, Joan Fontaine, John Houseman
US Distributor: Universal Pictures

Best Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes
Second Place: Max Ophuls, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Third Place: John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre AND Key Largo

Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Second Place: Edward G. Robinson, Key Largo
Third Place: John Garfield, Force of Evil
Fourth Place: Cary Grant, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Best Actress: Joan Fontaine, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Second Place: Jennifer Jones, Portrait of Jennie
Third Place: Lisbeth Movin, Day of Wrath

Best Supporting Actor: Montgomery Clift, Red River
Second Place: Walter Huston, The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Third Place: Edward G. Robinson, Key Largo

Best Supporting Actress: Marsha Hunt, Raw Deal
Second Place: Jean Simmons, Hamlet
Third Place: Claire Trevor, Key Largo

Best Original Screenplay: Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours
Second Place: Roberto Rossellini, Carlo Lizzani, Max Colpert, Germany Year Zero
Third Place: Malvin Wald and Albert Mantz, The Naked City

Best Adapted Screenplay: Howard Koch, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Second Place: John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Third Place: Borden Chase and Charles Schnee, Red River
Fourth Place: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Poal Knudson and Mogans Skot-Hansen, Day of Wrath

Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff, The Red Shoes
Second Place: Franz Planer, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Third Place: George E. Diskant, They Live by Night

Best Film Editing: Owen Marks, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Second Place: Reginald Mills, The Red Shoes
Third Place: Christian Nyby, Red River

Best Original Score: Brian Easdale, The Red Shoes
Second Place: Max Steiner, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Third Place: Dimitri Tiomkin, Red River

Best Production Design: Hein Heckroth and Arthur Lawson, The Red Shoes
Second Place: Alexander Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman and Ruby R. Levitt, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Third Place: Vincent Korda and James Sawyer, The Fallen Idol

Best Costume Design: Hein Heckroth, The Red Shoes
Second Place: Travis Banton, Letter from an Unknown Woman
Third Place: Margaret Furse, Oliver Twist

Best Ensemble Cast: Key Largo (dir: John Huston; in alphabetical order) Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Humphrey Bogart, Thomas Gomez, Mark Lawrence, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Edward G. Robinson, and Claire Trevor

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Nicholas Ray, They Live By Night

 1947

1. Out of the Past (dir: Jacques Tourneur)

2. Ivan the Terrible (dir: Sergei Eisenstein; US Release Date)

3. Monsieur Verdoux (dir: Charles Chaplin)

4. Black Narcissus (dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

5. Shoeshine (dir: Vittorio De Sica; US release date)

6. Brute Force (dir: Jules Dassin)

7. Ride the Pink Horse (dir: Robert Montgomery)

8. Crossfire (dir: Edward Dmytryck)

9. Nightmare Alley (dir: Edmond Goulding)

10. Beauty and the Beast (dir: Jean Cocteau; US release date)

Best Picture: Out of the Past
Director: Jacques Tourneur Producer: Warren Duff
US Distributor: RKO Pictures

Best Director: Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past
Second Place: Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible
Third Place: Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux

Best Actor: Nikolay Cherkasov, Ivan the Terrible
Second Place: John Garfield, Body and Soul
Third Place: Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past

Best Actress: Joan Crawford, Possessed
Second Place: Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus
Third Place: Claire Trevor, Born to Kill

Best Supporting Actor: Hume Cronyn, Brute Force
Second Place: Robert Ryan, Crossfire
Third Place: Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death

Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame, Crossfire
Second Place: Jean Simmons, Great Expectations
Third Place: Jane Greer, Out of the Past

Best Original Screenplay: Charles Chaplin and Orson Welles, Monsieur Verdoux
Second Place: Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, and Cesare Zavattini, Shoeshine
Third Place: F.L. Green and R.C. Sheriff, Odd Man Out

Best Adapted Screenplay: Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer, Ride the Pink Horse
Second Place: Jules Furthman, Nightmare Alley
Third Place: Daniel Mainwaring, James M. Cain, and Frank Fenton, Out of the Past

Best Cinematography: Eduard Tisse and Andrey Moskvin, Ivan the Terrible
Second Place: Charles Lawton Jr., Rudolph Mate and Joseph Walker, The Lady from Shanghai
Third Place: Nicholas Musuraca, Out of the Past
Fourth Place: Henri Alekan, Beauty and the Beast
Fifth Place: Guy Green, Great Expectations

Best Film Editing: Samuel E. Beetley, Out of the Past
Second Place: Edward Curtiss, Brute Force
Third Place: Reginald Mills, Black Narcissus

Best Original Score: Miklos Rozsa, Brute Force
Second Place: Franz Waxman, Possessed
Third Place: Roy Webb, Out of the Past

Best Production Design: Christian Bérard, Lucien Carré, and René Moulaert, Beauty and the Beast
Second Place: Iosif Shpinel, Ivan the Terrible
Third Place: John Beckman, Monsieur Verdoux
Fourth Place: Lyle Wheeler, J. Russell Spencer and Thomas Little, Nightmare Alley

Best Costume Design: Anthony Castillo, Marcelo Escoffier and Christian Berard, Beauty and the Beast
Second Place: Leonid Naumov and Nadezhda Buzina, Ivan the Terrible
Third Place: Drew Tetrick, Monsieur Verdoux
Fourth Place: Hein Heckroth, Black Narcissus

Best Ensemble Cast: Nightmare Alley (dir: Edmond Goulding; in alphabetical order) Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Taylor Holmes, Ian Keith, Mike Mazurki, Tyrone Power and Helen Walker

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Robert Montgomery, Ride the Pink Horse

1946

1. Children of Paradise (dir: Marcel Carné; US release date)

2. My Darling Clementine (dir: John Ford)

3. The Big Sleep (dir: Howard Hawks)

4. Cluny Brown (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

5. Brief Encounter (dir: David Lean; US release date)

6. Notorious (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

7. The Postman Always Rings Twice (dir: Tay Garrett)

8. Gilda (dir: Charles Vidor)

9. A Matter of Life and Death (dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; US release date)

10. It’s a Wonderful Life (dir: Frank Capra)

Best Picture: Children of Paradise
Director: Marcel Carné Producers: Raymond Borderie and Adrien Remaugé
US Distributor: Tricolore

Best Director: John Ford, My Darling Clementine
Second Place: Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep
Third Place: Marcel Carné, Children of Paradise

Best Actor: John Garfield, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Second Place: Henry Fonda, My Darling Clementine
Third Place: James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life

Best Actress: Jennifer Jones, Cluny Brown
Second Place: Olivia de Havilland, To Each Their Own
Third Place: Lana Turner, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Fourth Place: Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter
Fifth Place: Ingrid Bergman, Notorious

Best Supporting Actor: Clifton Webb, The Razor's Edge
Second Place: Roger Livesey, A Matter of Life and Death
Third Place: Claude Rains, Notorious

Best Supporting Actress: Lillian Gish, Duel in the Sun
Second Place: Dorothy Malone, The Big Sleep
Third Place: Linda Darnell, My Darling Clementine

Best Original Screenplay: Jacques Prévert, Children of Paradise
Second Place: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Jo Swerling, Philip Van Doren Stern, and Frank Capra, It’s a Wonderful Life
Third Place: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death

Best Adapted Screenplay: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep
Second Place: Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt, Cluny Brown
Third Place: John Huston, Anthony Veiller and Richard Brooks, The Killers
Fourth Place: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame, Brief Encounter

Best Cinematography: Jack Cardiff, A Matter of Life and Death
Second Place: Joe MacDonald, My Darling Clementine
Third Place: Rudolph Maté, Gilda

Best Film Editing: Christian Nyby, The Big Sleep
Second Place: Arthur Hilton, The Killers
Third Place: George White, The Postman Always Rings Twice

Best Original Score: Dimitri Tiomkin, Duel in the Sun
Second Place: Cyril Mockridge, My Darling Clementine
Third Place: Georges Auric, Beauty and the Beast

Best Production Design:  Alfred Junge, A Matter of Life and Death
Second Place: John Bryan and Wilfred Shingleton, Great Expectations
Third Place: J. McMillan Johnson and JamesBasevi, Duel in the Sun

Best Costume Design: Bonnie Cashin, Anna and the King of Siam
Second Place: Fred Valles, The Yearling
Third Place: Jean Louis, Gilda

Best Ensemble Cast: My Darling Clementine (dir: John Ford; in alphabetical order) Ward Bond, Walter Brennan, Linda Darnell, Cathy Downs, Henry Fonda, John Ireland, Tim Holt, Victor Mature, Alan Mowbray and Roy Roberts

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Josheph L. Mankiewicz, Dragonwyck

1945

1. Leave Her to Heaven (dir: John M. Stahl)

2. Scarlet Street (dir: Fritz Lang)

3. The Clock (dir: Vincente Minnelli)

4. The Body Snatcher (dir: Robert Wise)

5. Mildred Pierce (dir: Michael Curtiz)

6. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; US release date)

7. The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir: Albert Lewin)

8. Spellbound (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

9. They Were Expendable (dir: John Ford)

Best Picture: Leave Her to Heaven
Directors: John M. Stahl Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
US Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Best Director: Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street
Second Place: John M. Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven
Third Place: Vincente Minnelli, The Clock

Best Actor: Boris Karloff, The Body Snatcher
Second Place: Roger Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Third Place:

Best Actress: Joan Bennett, Scarlet Street
Second Place: Gene Tierney, Leave Her to Heaven
Third Place: Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce

Best Supporting Actor: Dan Duryea, Scarlet Street
Second Place: Michael Redgrave, Dead of Night
Third Place: George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Second Place: Ann Blyth, Mildred Pierce
Third Place: Eve Arden, Mildred Pierce

Best Original Screenplay: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Second Place: Robert Nathan, Joseph Schrank, Paul Gallico, and Pauline Gallico, The Clock
Third Place: Martin Goldsmith, Detour

Best Adapted Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, Scarlet Street
Second Place: Ranald McDougall, Mildred Pierce
Third Place: Jo Swerling, Leave Her to Heaven

Best Cinematography: Leon Shamroy, Leave Her to Heaven
Second Place: John F. Seitz, The Lost Weekend
Third Place: Milton Krasner, Scarlet Street

Best Film Editing: George White, The Clock
Second Place: Arthur Hilton, Scarlet Street
Third Place: J.R. Whittredge, The Body Snatcher

Best Original Score: George Bassman, The Clock
Second Place: Miklos Rosza, The Lost Weekend
Third Place: Miklos Rosza, Spellbound

Best Production Design: Maurice Ransford, Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little and Ernest Lansing, Leave Her to Heaven
Second Place: Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters and Edwin B. Willis, The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Third Place: Anton Grot and George James Hopkins, Mildred Pierce

Best Costume Design: Kay Nelson, Leave Her to Heaven
Second Place:
Third Place: Bonnie Cashin, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Best Ensemble Cast: Mildred Pierce (dir: Michael Curtiz; in alphabetical order) Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett, Ann Blyth (pictured), Veda Ann Borg, Jack Carson, Joan Crawford (pictured), Jo Ann Marlowe, Monori Olsen, Lee Patrick, and Zachary Scott

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Elia Kazan, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1944

1. Hail the Conquering Hero (dir: Preston Sturges) 

2. Lifeboat (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

3. Double Indemnity (dir: Billy Wilder)

4. Meet Me in St. Louis (dir: Vincente Minnelli)

5. Laura (dir: Otto Preminger)

6. Ministry of Fear (dir: Fritz Lang)

7. The Woman in the Window (dir: Fritz Lang)

8. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (dir: Preston Sturges)

9. Gaslight (dir: George Cukor)

10. To Have and Have Not (dir: Howard Hawks)

Best Picture: Hail the Conquering Hero
Director: Preston Sturges Producers: Buddy G. DeSylva, Preston Sturges
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Best Director: Preston Sturges, Hail the Conquering Hero AND The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek
Second Place: Alfred Hitchcock, Lifeboat
Third Place: Fritz Lang, Ministry of Fear AND The Woman in the Window

Best Actor: Edward G. Robinson, The Woman in the Window
Second Place: Cary Grant, Arsenic and Old Lace
Third Place: Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
Second Place: Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
Third Place: Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat Joan Bennet, The Woman in the Window

Best Supporting Actor: William Demarest, Hail the Conquering Hero
Second Place: William Demarest, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Third Place: Dan Duryea, The Woman in the Window

Best Supporting Actress: Diana Lynn, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Second Place: Hillary Brooke, Ministry of Fear
Third Place: Josephine Hull, Arsenic and Old Lace

Best Original Screenplay: Preston Sturges, Hail the Conquering Hero
Second Place: John Steinbeck and Jo Swirling, Lifeboat
Third Place: Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Best Adapted Screenplay: Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity
Second Place: Jay Dratler, Betty Reinhardt and Samuel Hoffenstein, Laura
Third Place: Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, Mr. Skeffington

Best Cinematography: Henry Sharp, Ministry of Fear
Second Place: Joseph LaShelle, Laura
Third Place: John F. Seitz, Double Indemnity

Best Film Editing: Dorothy Spencer, Lifeboat
Second Place: Marjorie Fowler, Gene Fowler Jr. and Thomas Pratt, The Woman in the Window
Third Place: Stuart Gilmore, Hail the Conquering Hero

Best Original Score: Miklos Rozsa, Double Indemnity
Second Place: David Raksin, Laura
Third Place: Roy Webb, The Curse of the Cat People

Best Production Design: Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Wallis and Paul Huldschinsky, Gaslight
Second Place: Hans Drier, Hal Pereira and Bertram Granger, Ministry of Fear
Third Place: Lemuel Ayers, Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith and Edwin B. Willis, Meet Me in St. Louis

Best Costume Design: Irene Sharaff, Meet Me in St. Louis
Second Place: Orry-Kelly, Mr. Skeffington
Third Place: Edith Head, Ministry of Fear

Best Ensemble Cast: Double Indemnity (dir: Billy Wilder; in alphabetical order): Byron Barr, Fortunio Bonanova, Richard Gaines, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Fred MacMurray (pictured), Tom Powers, Edward G. Robinson and Barbara Stanwyck (pictured)

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Laurence Olivier, Henry V

1943

1. The Ox-Bow Incident (dir: William A. Wellman)

2. Shadow of a Doubt (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

3. I Walked with a Zombie (dir: Jacques Tourneur)

4. Ossessione (dir: Luchano Visconti)

5. Hangmen Also Die! (dir: Fritz Lang)

6. The More the Merrier (dir: George Stevens)

7. The Seventh Victim (dir: Mark Robson) 

8. Sahara (dir: Zoltan Korda)

9. The Leopard Man (dir: Jacques Tourneur)

10. The Human Comedy (dir: Clarence Brown)

Best Picture: The Ox-Bow Incident
Director: William A. Wellman Producer: Lamar Trotti
US Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Best Director: William A. Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident
Second Place: Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt
Third Place: Jacques Tourneur, I Walked with a Zombie

Best Actor: Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt
Second Place: Don Ameche, Heaven Can Wait
Third Place: Joel McCrea, The More the Merrier

Best Actress: Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier
Second Place: Joan Fonatine, The Constant Nymph
Third Place: Teresa Wright, Shadow of a Doubt

Best Supporting Actor: Dana Andrews, The Ox-Bow Incident
Second Place: Alexander Granach, Hangmen Also Die!
Third Place: Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier

Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Collinge, Shadow of a Doubt
Second Place: Marsha Hunt, The Human Comedy
Third Place: Gladys Cooper, The Song of Bernadette

Best Original Screenplay: Sally Benson, Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville, and Gordon McDonell, Shadow of a Doubt
Second Place: Bertold Brecht, Fritz Lang and John Wexley, Hangmen Also Die!
Third Place: Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy and Lewis R. Foster, The More The Merrier

Best Adapted Screenplay: Lamar Trotti, The Ox-Bow Incident
Second Place: Howard Estabrook, The Human Comedy
Third Place:Samson Raphelson, Heaven Can Wait

Best Cinematography: J. Roy Hunt, I Walked with a Zombie
Second Place: Robert De Grasse, The Leopard Man
Third Place: Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene, Phantom of the Opera

Best Film Editing: Milton Carruth, Shadow of a Doubt
Second Place: George Amy, Air Force
Third Place: Mario Serandrei, Ossessione

Best Original Score: Roy Webb, I Walked with a Zombie
Second Place: Hanns Eisler, Hangmen Also Die!
Third Place: Alfred Newman, The Song of Bernadette

Best Production Design: John B. Goodman and R.A. Gausman, Shadow of a Doubt
Second Place: Erik Aes and Lis Fribet, Day of Wrath
Third Place: Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell Gausman and Ira Webb, Phantom of the Opera

Best Costume Design Rene Hubert, Heaven Can Wait
Second Place: Vera West, Phantom of the Opera
Third Place: Orry Kelly, The Constant Nymph

Best Ensemble Cast: The Human Comedy (dir: Clarence Brown; in alphabetical order): Katharine Alexander, Ann Ayers, Fay Bainter, Alan Baxter, Ray Collins, James Craig, John Craven, Darryl Hickman, Marsha Hunt, Jackie Jenkins, Van Johnson, Frank Morgan (pictured), Dorothy Morris, Mary Nash, Henry O’Neill, Donna Reed, Mickey Rooney (pictured)

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Vincente Minnelli, Cabin in the Sky

1942

1. To Be or Not to Be (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

2. Cat People (dir: Jacques Tourneur)

3. The Magnificent Ambersons (dir: Orson Welles)

4. Casablanca (dir: Michael Curtiz)

5. The Talk of the Town (dir: George Stevens)

6. I Married a Witch (dir: Rene Clair)

7. Saboteur (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

8. Now, Voyager (dir: Irving Rapper)

9. The Glass Key (dir: Stuart Heisler)

10. The Palm Beach Story (dir: Preston Sturges)

Best Picture: To Be or Not to Be
Director: Ernst Lubitsch Producers: Alexander Korda, Ernst Lubitsch
US Distributor: United Artists

Best Director: Ernst Lubitsch, To Be or Not to Be
Second Place: Jacques Tourneur, Cat People
Third Place: Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons

Best Actor: Jack Benny, To Be or Not to Be
Second Place: Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
Third Place: Joel McCrea, The Palm Beach Story

Best Actress: Claudette Colbert, The Palm Beach Story
Second Place: Bette Davis, Now, Voyager
Third Place: Carole Lombard, To Be or Not to Be

Best Supporting Actor: William Bendix, The Glass Key
Second Place: Tim Holt, The Magnificent Ambersons
Third Place: Henry Victor, To Be or Not to Be

Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons
Second Place: Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager
Third Place: Simone Simon, Cat People

Best Original Screenplay: Edwin Justus Meyer and Melchior Lengyel, To Be or Not to Be
Second Place: Preston Sturges, The Palm Beach Story
Third Place: Peter Vietrel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker and Alfred Hitchcock, Saboteur

Best Adapted Screenplay: Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein and Howard Koch, Casablanca
Second Place: Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
Third Place: Robert Pirosh and Marc Connelly, I Married a Witch

Best Cinematography: Nicholas Musuraca, Cat People
Second Place: Stanley Cortez, The Magnificent Ambersons
Third Place: Joseph Valentine, Saboteur

Best Film Editing: Mark Robson and Robert Wise, Cat People
Second Place: Owen Marks, Casablanca 
Third Place: Dorothy Spencer, To Be or Not to Be 

Best Original Score: Max Steiner, Casablanca
Second Place: Bernard Herrmann, The Magnificent Ambersons
Third Place: Roy Webb, Cat People

Best Production Design: Alberto S. D'Agostino and Daniel Silvera, The Magnificent Ambersons
Second Place: Carl Jules Weyl and George James Hopkins, Casablanca
Third Place: Vincent Korda, J. McMillan Johnson and Jack Okey, Jungle Book

Best Costume Design: Edward Stevenson, The Magnificent Ambersons
Second Place: Milo Anderson, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Third Place: Edith Head, I Married a Witch

Best Ensemble Cast: Casablanca (dir: Michael Curtiz; in alphabetical order) Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Lenoid Kinskey, Madeleine Lebeau, Peter Lorre, Joy Page, John Qualen, Claude Reins, S.K. Sakall, Conrad Veidt, and Dooley Wilson

** NEW CATEGORY **
Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award: Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Murderer Lives at Number 21

1941

1. Citizen Kane (dir: Orson Welles)

2. Sullivan's Travels (dir: Preston Sturges

3. Ball of Fire (dir: Howard Hawks)

4. The Lady Eve (dir: Preston Sturges)

5. A Woman’s Face (dir: George Cukor)

6. Dumbo (dir: Ben Sharpsteen)

7. 49th Parallel (dir: Michael Powell)

8. How Green Was My Valley (dir: John Ford)

9. The Maltese Falcon (dir: John Huston)

10. Suspicion (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Picture: Citizen Kane
Director: Orson Welles Producer: Orson Welles
US Distributor: RKO Pictures

Best Director: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
Second Place: Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels AND The Lady Eve
Third Place: Howard Hawks, Ball of Fire

Best Actor: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
Second Place: Joel McCrea, Sullivan's Travels
Third Place: Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

Best Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, Ball of Fire AND The Lady Eve
Second Place: Joan Crawford, A Woman’s Face
Third Place: Joan Fontaine, Suspicion

Best Supporting Actor: Peter Lorre, The Maltese Falcon
Second Place: Joseph Cotten, Citizen Kane
Third Place: Sydney Greenstreet, The Maltese Falcon

Best Supporting Actress: Veronica Lake, Sullivan's Travels
Second Place: Teresa Wright, The Little Foxes
Third Place: Maria Ouspenskaya, The Wolf Man

Best Original Screenplay: Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels
Second Place: Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane
Third Place: Preston Sturges and Monckton Hoff, The Lady Eve

Best Adapted Screenplay: John Huston, The Maltese Falcon
Second Place: Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Third Place: Donald Ogden Stewart and Elliot Paul, A Woman’s Face

Best Cinematography: Gregg Toland, Citizen Kane
Second Place: Arthur Miller, Man Hunt
Third Place: Robert Planck, A Woman’s Face

Best Film Editing: Robert Wise, Citizen Kane
Second Place: Stuart Gilmore, Sullivan's Travels
Third Place: Daniel Mandell, Ball of Fire

Best Original Score: Bernard Hermann, Citizen Kane
Second Place: Meredith Willson, The Little Foxes
Third Place: Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace, Dumbo

Best Production Design: Van Nest Polglase and Darrell Silvera, Citizen Kane
Second Place: Richard Day, Nathan Juran and Thomas Little, How Green Was My Valley
Third Place: Lionel Banks, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Best Costume Design: Edith Head, Sullivan's Travels
Second Place: Rene Hubert, The Hamilton Woman
Third Place: Gwen Wakelig, How Green Was My Valley

Best Ensemble Cast: Citizen Kane (dir: Orson Welles; in alphabetical order): William Alland, Georgia Backus, Fortunio Bonanova, Ray Collins, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten (pictured), George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Everett Sloane, Paul Stewart, Philip Van Zandt, Ruth Warrick, and Orson Welles (pictured)

1940

1. The Thief of Bagdad (dir: Michael Powell, William Cameron Menzie and Zoltan Korda)

2. The Philadelphia Story (dir: George Cukor)

3. His Girl Friday (dir: Howard Hawks)

4. La Bête Humaine (dir: Jean Renoir; US release date)

5. The Shop Around the Corner (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

6. The Grapes of Wrath (dir: John Ford)

7. Fantasia (dir: Walt Disney)

8. Pinocchio (dir: Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen)

9. The Baker’s Wife (dir: Marcel Pagnol; US release date)

10. Remember the Night (dir: Mitchell Leisen)

Best Picture: The Thief of Bagdad
Directors: Michael Powell, William Carlos Menzies, Zoltan Korda Producer: Alexander Korda
US Distributor: United Artists

Best Director:
1. George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story
2. Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday
3. Jean Renoir, La Bête Humaine
4. John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
5. Walt Disney, Fantasia

Best Actor:
1. Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath
2. James Cagney, City for Conquest
3. Raimu, The Baker’s Wife
4. Cary Grant, His Girl Friday
5. James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story

Best Actress:
1. Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
2. Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
3. Margaret Sullivan, The Shop Around the Corner
4. Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
5. Barbara Stanwyck, Remember the Night

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Rex Ingram, The Thief of Bagdad
2. John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath
3. Akim Tamiroff, The Great McGinty
4. Anthony Quinn, City for Conquest
5. Arthur Kennedy, City for Conquest

Best Supporting Actress:
1. Ida Lupino, They Drive by Night
2. Judith Anderson, Rebecca
3. Virginia Weidler, The Philadelphia Story

Best Original Screenplay: Preston Sturges, Remember the Night
Second Place: Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
Third Place: W.C. Fields, The Bank Dick
Fourth Place: Preston Sturges, Christmas in July

Best Adapted Screenplay: Charles Lederer, His Girl Friday
Second Place: Nunnally Johnson, The Grapes of Wrath
Third Place: Donald Ogden Stuart, The Philadelphia Story

Best Cinematography: 
1. Georges Perinal, The Thief of Bagdad
2. Gregg Toland, The Grapes of Wrath
3. James Wong Howe, City for Conquest
4. Arthur Edeson, They Drive by Night

Best Film Editing: Charles Crichton, The Thief of Bagdad
Second Place: Dorothy Spencer, Foreign Correspondent
Third Place: Robert Simpson, The Grapes of Wrath

Best Original Score: Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Ned Washington, Pinocchio
Second Place: Miklos Rozsa, The Thief of Bagdad
Third Place: Alfred Newman, The Mask of Zorro

Best Production Design: Vincent Korda and William Cameron Menzies, The Thief of Bagdad
Second Place: Lyle Wheeler and William Cameron Menzies, Rebecca
Third Place: James Basevi and Julie Heron, The Westerner

Best Costume Design: John Armstrong, Oliver Messel, Marcel Vertes, The Thief of Bagdad
Second Place: Ted Tetrick, The Great Dictator
Third Place: Robert Kollach, His Girl Friday 

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Best Ensemble Cast: The Philadelphia Story (dir: George Cukor; in alphabetical order) Henry Daniell, Cary Grant (pictured), John Halliday, Katharine Hepburn (pictured), John Howard (pictured), Ruth Hussey, Mary Nash, James Stewart (pictured), Virginia Weidler and Roland Young

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