Date: February 26, 1942
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Gary Cooper for Sergeant York
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Joan Fontaine for Suspicion
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Donald Crisp for How Green Was My Valley
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Mary Astor for The Great Lie
Best Director
- John Ford for How Green Was My Valley
Best Original Screenplay
- Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
Best Original Story
- Harry Segall for Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Best Screenplay
- Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller for Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Best Cinematography, Colour
- Ernest Palmer & Ray Rennahan for Blood and Sand
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Arthur C. Miller for How Green Was My Valley
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
- Richard Day, Nathan Juran, & Thomas Little for How Green Was My Valley
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour
- Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, & Edwin B. Willis for Blossoms in the Dust
Best Sound, Recording
- Jack Whitney for The Hamilton Woman
Best Film Editing
- William Holmes for Sergeant York
Best Special Effects
- Franciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, & Louis Mesenkop for I Wanted Wings
Best Original Song
- Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II for “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from Lady Be Good
Best Original Scoring of a Dramatic Picture
- Bernard Hermann for The Devil and Daniel Webster
Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
- Frank Churchill & Oliver Wallace for Dumbo
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- Main Street on the March
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- Of Pups and Puzzles
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Walt Disney for Lend a Paw
Best Documentary
- Churchill’s Island
Honorary Award
- Rey Scott for ‘Kukan’: The Battle Cry of China
