Oscar Nominations and Winners (1942)

Best Picture

• The Invaders
• Kings Row
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Pied Piper
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Random Harvest
• The Talk of the Town
• Wake Island
• Yankee Doodle Dandy

Best Director

• Michael Curtiz (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• John Farrow (Wake Island)
• Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest)
• Sam Wood (Kings Row)
• William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Story

• Holiday Inn (Irving Berlin)
• The Invaders (Emeric Pressburger)
• The Pride of the Yankees (Paul Gallico)
• The Talk of the Town (Sidney Harmon)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (Robert Buckner)

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Original Story and Screenplay

• 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)
• Woman of the Year (Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr.)

Art Direction - Black and White

• George Washington Slept Here
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Random Harvest
• The Shanghai Gesture
• Silver Queen
• The Spoilers
• Take a Letter, Darling
• The Talk of the Town
• This Above All

Art Direction - Color

• Arabian Nights
• Captains of the Clouds
• Jungle Book
• My Gal Sal
• Reap the Wild Wind

Cinematography - Black and White

• Kings Row
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Moontide
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Pied Piper
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Take a Letter, Darling
• The Talk of the Town
• Ten Gentlemen From West Point
• This Above All

Cinematography - Color

• Arabian Knights
• The Black Swan
• Captains of the Clouds
• Jungle Book
• Reap the Wild Wind
• To the Shores of Tripoli

Documentary

• Africa, Prelude to Victory
• The Battle of Midway
• Combat Report
• Conquer by the Clock
• The Grain That Built a Hemisphere
• Henry Browne, Farmer
• High Over the Borders
• High Stakes in the East
• Inside Fighting China
• It's Everybody's War
• Kokoda Front Line!
• Listen to Britain
• Little Belgium
• Little Isles of Freedom
• Moscow Strikes Back
• Mr. Blabbermouth!
• Mr. Gardenia Jones
• The New Spirit
• Prelude to War
• The Price of Victory
• A Ship Is Born
• Twenty-One Miles
• We Refuse to Die
• White Eagle
• Winning Your Wings

Film Editing

• Mrs. Miniver
• The Pride of the Yankees
• The Talk of the Town
• This Above All
• Yankee Doodle Dandy

Original Score For Drama or Comedy

• Arabian Nights (Frank Skinner)
• Bambi (Frank Churchill and Edward 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 (Miklos Rozsa)
• Klondike Fury (Edward Kay)
• Now, Voyager (Max Steiner)
• 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 Heymann)

Original Score For Musical

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

Original Song

• "Always in My Heart" (Always in My Heart) Music by Ernesto Lecuona. Lyrics by Kim Gannon.
• "Dearly Beloved" (You Were Never Lovelier) Music by Jerome Kern. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• "How About You?" (Babes on Broadway) Music by Burton Lane. Lyrics by Ralph Freed.
• "It Seems I Heard That Song Before" (Youth on Parade) Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
• "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" (Orchestra Wives) Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Mack Gordon.
• "Love Is a Song" (Bambi) Music by Frank Churchill. Lyrics by Larry Morey.
• "Pennies for Peppino" (Flying With Music) Music by Edward Ward. Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright.
• "Pig Foot Pete" (Hellzapoppin') Music by Gene de Paul. Lyrics by Don Raye. (NOTE: This song was declared ineligible because it does not appear in Hellzapoppin'. The song did appear in the 1941 film Keep 'Em Flying.)
• "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" (The Mayor of 44th Street) Music by Harry Revel. Lyrics by Mort Greene.
• "White Christmas" (Holiday Inn) Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• All Out for "V"
• Blitz Wolf
• Der Fuehrer's Face
• Juke Box Jamboree
• Pigs in a Polka
• Tulips Shall Grow

Live Action Short Film - One Reel

• Desert Wonderland
• Marines in the Making
• Speaking of Animals and Their Families
• United States Marine Band

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels

• Beyond the Line of Duty
• Don't Talk
• Private Smith of the U.S.A.

Sound

• Arabian Nights
• Bambi
• Flying Tigers
• Friendly Enemies
• The Gold Rush
• Mrs. Miniver
• Once Upon a Honeymoon
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Road to Morocco
• This Above All
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• You Were Never Lovelier

Special Effects

• The Black Swan
• Desperate Journey
• Flying Tigers
• Invisible Agent
• Jungle Book
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Navy Comes Through
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Reap the Wild Wind