Academy Awards®
Awards for 1941


Picture
Irving Asher - Producer, BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST
Orson Welles - Producer, CITIZEN KANE
Everett Riskin - Producer, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
Arthur Hornblow, Jr. - Producer, HOLD BACK THE DAWN
* Darryl F. Zanuck - Producer, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Samuel Goldwyn - Producer, THE LITTLE FOXES
Hal B. Wallis - Producer, THE MALTESE FALCON
Hal B. Wallis - Producer, ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN
Hal B. Wallis - Producer, Jesse L. Lasky - Producer, SERGEANT YORK
RKO Radio - Producer, SUSPICION

Actor
* Gary Cooper, SERGEANT YORK
Cary Grant, PENNY SERENADE
Walter Huston, THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER/ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
Robert Montgomery, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE

Actress
Bette Davis, THE LITTLE FOXES
Olivia de Havilland, HOLD BACK THE DAWN
* Joan Fontaine, SUSPICION
Greer Garson, BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST
Barbara Stanwyck, BALL OF FIRE

Supporting Actor
Walter Brennan, SERGEANT YORK
Charles Coburn, THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES
* Donald Crisp, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
James Gleason, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
Sydney Greenstreet, THE MALTESE FALCON

Supporting Actress
Sara Allgood, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
* Mary Astor, THE GREAT LIE
Patricia Collinge, THE LITTLE FOXES
Teresa Wright, THE LITTLE FOXES
Margaret Wycherly, SERGEANT YORK


Director
* John Ford, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Alexander Hall, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
Howard Hawks, SERGEANT YORK
Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE
William Wyler, THE LITTLE FOXES

Writing - Original Story
Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder, BALL OF FIRE
* Harry Segall, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
Monckton Hoffe, THE LADY EVE
Richard Connell, Robert Presnell, MEET JOHN DOE
Gordon Wellesley, NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH

Writing - Original Screenplay
* Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE
Norman Krasna, THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES
Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard Koch, SERGEANT YORK
Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware, TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME
Paul Jarrico, TOM, DICK AND HARRY

Writing - Screenplay
* Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, HOLD BACK THE DAWN
Philip Dunne, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Lillian Hellman, THE LITTLE FOXES
John Huston, THE MALTESE FALCON

Interior Decoration - Color
Rules changed in 1941: For Interior Decoration, set decorators received certificates of merit while art directors still received awards.
Richard Day - Art Direction, Joseph C. Wright - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Interior Decoration, BLOOD AND SAND
* Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Urie McCleary - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Interior Decoration, BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST
Raoul Pene du Bois - Art Direction, Stephen A. Seymour - Interior Decoration, LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Interior Decoration - Black & White
Rules changed in 1941: For Interior Decoration, set decorators received certificates of merit while art directors still received awards.
Perry Ferguson - Art Direction, Van Nest Polglase - Art Direction, Al Fields - Interior Decoration, Darrell Silvera - Interior Decoration, CITIZEN KANE
Martin Obzina - Art Direction, Jack Otterson - Art Direction, Russell A. Gausman - Interior Decoration, THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS
Hans Dreier - Art Direction, Robert Usher - Art Direction, Sam Comer - Interior Decoration, HOLD BACK THE DAWN
* Richard Day - Art Direction, Nathan Juran - Art Direction, Thomas Little - Interior Decoration, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Lionel Banks - Art Direction, George Montgomery - Interior Decoration, LADIES IN RETIREMENT
Stephen Goosson - Art Direction, Howard Bristol - Interior Decoration, THE LITTLE FOXES
John Hughes - Art Direction, Fred MacLean - Interior Decoration, SERGEANT YORK
John DuCasse Schulze - Art Direction, Edward G. Boyle - Interior Decoration, THE SON OF MONTE CRISTO
Alexander Golitzen - Art Direction, Richard Irvine - Interior Decoration, SUNDOWN
Vincent Korda - Art Direction, Julia Heron - Interior Decoration, THAT HAMILTON WOMAN/LADY HAMILTON
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Randall Duell - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Interior Decoration, WHEN LADIES MEET

Cinematography - Color
Wilfred M. Cline, Karl Struss, William Snyder, ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS
William V. Skall, Leonard Smith, BILLY THE KID
* Ernest G. Palmer, Ray Rennahan, BLOOD AND SAND
Karl Freund, W. Howard Greene, BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST
Bert Glennon, DIVE BOMBER
Harry Hallenberger, Ray Rennahan, LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Cinematography - Black & White
Karl Freund, THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER
Gregg Toland, CITIZEN KANE
Joseph Ruttenberg, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Joseph Walker, HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
Leo Tover, HOLD BACK THE DAWN
* Arthur C. Miller, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Sol Polito, SERGEANT YORK
Edward Cronjager, SUN VALLEY SERENADE
Charles B. Lang, SUNDOWN
Rudolph Maté, THAT HAMILTON WOMAN/LADY HAMILTON

Documentary Feature
This award was instituted in 1941.
Film Assocs., ADVENTURES IN THE BRONX
U.S. Office for Emergency Management Film Unit, BOMBER
British Ministry of Information, Warner Bros., CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE
* Canadian Film Board, UA, CHURCHILL'S ISLAND
British Ministry of Information, LETTER FROM HOME
20th Century-Fox, LIFE OF A THOROUGHBRED
March of Time. RKO Radio, NORWAY IN REVOLT
20th Century Fox, SOLDIERS OF THE SKY
Canadian Film Board, WAR CLOUDS IN THE PACIFIC

Film Editing
Robert Wise, CITIZEN KANE
Harold F. Kress, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
James B. Clark, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Daniel Mandell, THE LITTLE FOXES
* William Holmes, SERGEANT YORK

Music - Scoring of a Dramatic Picture
(formerly Score)
* Bernard Herrmann, ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
Frank Skinner, BACK STREET
Alfred Newman, BALL OF FIRE
Edward Ward, CHEERS FOR MISS BISHOP
Bernard Herrmann, CITIZEN KANE
Franz Waxman, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Victor Young, HOLD BACK THE DAWN
Alfred Newman, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Edward Kay, KING OF THE ZOMBIES
Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch, LADIES IN RETIREMENT
Meredith Willson, THE LITTLE FOXES
Miklos Rozsa, LYDIA
Cy Feuer, Walter Scharf, MERCY ISLAND
Max Steiner, SERGEANT YORK
Louis Gruenberg, SO ENDS OUR NIGHT
Miklos Rozsa, SUNDOWN
Franz Waxman, SUSPICION
Edward Ward, TANKS A MILLION
Werner Heymann, THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING
Richard Hageman, THIS WOMAN IS MINE

Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture
(formerly Original Score)
Edward Ward, ALL AMERICAN CO-ED
Robert Emmett Dolan, BIRTH OF THE BLUES
Charles Previn, BUCK PRIVATES
Herbert Stothart, Bronislau Kaper, THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER
* Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace, DUMBO
Cy Feuer, ICE CAPADES
Heinz Roemheld, THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE
Emil Newman, SUN VALLEY SERENADE
Anthony Collins, SUNNY
Morris Stoloff, YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH

Song
Frank Churchill - Music, Ned Washington - Lyrics, DUMBO
"Baby Mine"
Gene Autry - Music & Lyrics, Fred Rose - Music & Lyrics, RIDIN' ON A RAINBOW
"Be Honest With Me"
Harold Arlen - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyrics, BLUES IN THE NIGHT
"Blues in the Night"
Hugh Prince - Music, Don Raye - Lyrics, BUCK PRIVATES
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B"
Harry Warren - Music, Mack Gordon - Lyrics, SUN VALLEY SERENADE
"Chattanooga Choo Choo"
Lou Alter - Music, Frank Loesser - Lyrics, LAS VEGAS NIGHTS
"Dolores"
* Jerome Kern - Music, Oscar Hammerstein II - Lyrics, LADY BE GOOD
"The Last Time I Saw Paris"
Lloyd B. Norlind - Music, ALL AMERICAN CO-ED
"Out of the Silence"
Cole Porter - Music & Lyrics, YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH
"Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye"

Animated Short
Walter Lantz - Producer, BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY OF COMPANY B
Leon Schlesinger - Producer, HIAWATHA'S RABBIT HUNT
Columbia, HOW WAR CAME
* Walt Disney - Producer, LEND A PAW
MGM, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Leon Schlesinger - Producer, RHAPSODY IN RIVETS
MGM, THE ROOKIE BEAR
Paramount, RHYTHM IN THE RANKS
Paramount, SUPERMAN NO. 1
Walt Disney - Producer, TRUANT OFFICER DONALD

Short Subjects - One-Reel
Pete Smith - Producer, ARMY CHAMPIONS
Paramount, BEAUTY AND THE BEACH
Paramount, DOWN ON THE FARM
Warner Bros., FORTY BOYS AND A SONG
Warner Bros., KINGS OF THE TURF
* MGM, OF PUPS AND PUZZLES
20th Century-Fox, SAGEBRUSH AND SILVER

Short Subjects - Two-Reel
Woodard Productions, Inc., ALIVE IN THE DEEP
MGM, FORBIDDEN PASSAGE
Warner Bros., THE GAY PARISIAN
* MGM, MAIN STREET ON THE MARCH
Warner Bros., THE TANKS ARE COMING

Sound Recording
Bernard B. Brown, APPOINTMENT FOR LOVE
Thomas Moulton, BALL OF FIRE
Douglas Shearer, THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER
John Aalberg, CITIZEN KANE
Charles Lootens, DEVIL PAYS OFF
E.H. Hansen, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
John Livadary, THE MEN IN HER LIFE
Nathan Levinson, SERGEANT YORK
Loren L. Ryder, SKYLARK
* Jack Whitney - General Service, THAT HAMILTON WOMAN/LADY HAMILTON
Elmer Raguse, TOPPER RETURNS

Special Effects
Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings (Photographic), Louis Mesenkop (Sound), ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS
A. Arnold Gillespie (Photographic), Douglas Shearer (Sound), FLIGHT COMMAND
* Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings (Photographic), Louis Mesenkop (Sound), I WANTED WINGS
John Fulton (Photographic), John Hall (Sound), THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Byron Haskin (Photographic), Nathan Levinson (Sound), THE SEA WOLF
Lawrence Butler (Photographic), William H. Wilmarth (Sound), THAT HAMILTON WOMAN/LADY HAMILTON
Roy Seawright (Photographic), Elmer Raguse (Sound), TOPPER RETURNS
Fred Sersen (Photographic), E.H. Hansen (Sound), A YANK IN THE RAF

Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1941.

Class II (Plaque)
* Electrical Research Products Division of Western Electric Company Inc.
For the development of the precision integrating sphere densitometer.
* RCA Manufacturing Company, For the design and development of the MI-3043 Uni-directional microphone.

Class III (Citation)
* Ray Wilkinson, Paramount Studio Laboratory, For pioneering in the use of and for the first practical application to release printing of fine grain positive stock.
* Charles Lootens, Republic Studio Sound Department, For pioneering the use of and for the first practical application to motion picture production of Class B push-pull variable area recording.
* Wilbur Silvertooth, Paramount Studio Engineering Department, For the design and computation of a relay condenser system applicable to transparency process projection, delivering considerable more usable light.
* Paramount Pictures Inc.
20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, For the development and first practical application to motion picture production of an automatic scene slating device.
* Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department, For pioneering the development of fine grain emulsions for variable density original sound recording in studio production.

Honorary and Other Awards
* Rey Scott, KUKAN
For his extraordinary achievement in producing KUKAN, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions. Winner presented a Certificate.
* British Ministry Of Information, TARGET FOR TONIGHT
For its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film, TARGET FOR TONIGHT. Winner presented a Certificate.
* Leopold Stokowski, FANTASIA
Leopold Stokowski and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production FANTASIA, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form. Winner presented a Certificate.
* Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins (RCA Manufacturing Company)
FANTASIA
For their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of FANTASIA. Winners presented Certificates.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
* Walt Disney,