Best Picture Winner
How Green Was My Valley
Best Picture
Director: John Ford
Studio: 20th Century Fox
At the turn of the century, a Welsh mining family weathers hardship and heartbreak as the community changes around them.
From the Worthy Podcast
The setting and design of a film. Location, location, location
“Location, location, location” is a common phrase that can be applied to a large number of things in life. For film though, it is one of the most crucial aspects. A setting within a film can be the spark in the audience's imaginations that brings them into the story. It gives context and history to the characters to make you believe that the setting lives within reality.
That setting can be the backlot of a Hollywood studio made to look like the oceans in the midst of an epic sea battle or the farms of New Zealand transformed into the rolling hills of the Shire or the never ending deserts of Tunisia that place you on a planet in a galaxy far, far away.
Having the right setting and location of a film is the basis for the style, look and creative feel of a film that allows the filmmakers to utilize that specific space in order to tell that story
So my first question is what is a setting within any film that immediately pulled you into the story?
Examples:
All Categories (26)
Outstanding Motion Picture
How Green Was My Valley— 20th Century-Fox
Winner
Blossoms in the Dust— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Citizen Kane— Mercury
Here Comes Mr. Jordan— Columbia
Hold Back the Dawn— Paramount
One Foot in Heaven— Warner Bros.
Sergeant York— Warner Bros.
Suspicion— RKO Radio
The Little Foxes— Samuel Goldwyn Productions
The Maltese Falcon— Warner Bros.
Actor
Cary Grant— Penny Serenade {"Roger Adams"}
Orson Welles— Citizen Kane {"Charles Foster Kane"}
Robert Montgomery— Here Comes Mr. Jordan {"Joe Pendleton"}
Walter Huston— All That Money Can Buy {"Mr. Scratch"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Charles Coburn— The Devil and Miss Jones {"John P. Merrick"}
James Gleason— Here Comes Mr. Jordan {"Max Corkle"}
Sydney Greenstreet— The Maltese Falcon {"Kaspar Gutman"}
Walter Brennan— Sergeant York {"Pastor Posier Pile"}
Actress
Barbara Stanwyck— Ball of Fire {"Sugarpuss O'Shea"}
Bette Davis— The Little Foxes {"Regina Hubbard Giddens"}
Greer Garson— Blossoms in the Dust {"Edna Gladney"}
Olivia de Havilland— Hold Back the Dawn {"Emmy Brown"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Margaret Wycherly— Sergeant York {"Mother York"}
Patricia Collinge— The Little Foxes {"Birdie Hubbard"}
Sara Allgood— How Green Was My Valley {"Mrs. Morgan"}
Teresa Wright— The Little Foxes {"Alexandra Giddens"}
Directing
Citizen Kane— Orson Welles
Here Comes Mr. Jordan— Alexander Hall
Sergeant York— Howard Hawks
The Little Foxes— William Wyler
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Citizen Kane— Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
Winner
Sergeant York— Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston
Tall, Dark and Handsome— Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware
The Devil and Miss Jones— Norman Krasna
Tom, Dick and Harry— Paul Jarrico
Writing (Original Story)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan— Harry Segall
Winner
Ball of Fire— Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe
Meet John Doe— Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
Night Train— Gordon Wellesley
The Lady Eve— Monckton Hoffe
Writing (Screenplay)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan— Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller
Winner
Hold Back the Dawn— Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
How Green Was My Valley— Philip Dunne
The Little Foxes— Lillian Hellman
The Maltese Falcon— John Huston
Cinematography (Black-And-White)
How Green Was My Valley— Arthur Miller
Winner
Citizen Kane— Gregg Toland
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde— Joseph Ruttenberg
Here Comes Mr. Jordan— Joseph Walker
Hold Back the Dawn— Leo Tover
Sergeant York— Sol Polito
Sun Valley Serenade— Edward Cronjager
Sundown— Charles Lang
That Hamilton Woman— Rudolph Maté
The Chocolate Soldier— Karl Freund
Cinematography (Color)
Blood and Sand— Ernest Palmer, Ray Rennahan
Winner
Aloma of the South Seas— Wilfred M. Cline, Karl Struss, William Snyder
Billy the Kid— William V. Skall, Leonard Smith
Blossoms in the Dust— Karl Freund, W. Howard Greene
Dive Bomber— Bert Glennon
Louisiana Purchase— Harry Hallenberger, Ray Rennahan
Music (Music Score Of A Dramatic Picture)
All That Money Can Buy— Bernard Herrmann
Winner
Back Street— Frank Skinner
Ball of Fire— Alfred Newman
Cheers for Miss Bishop— Edward Ward
Citizen Kane— Bernard Herrmann
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde— Franz Waxman
Hold Back the Dawn— Victor Young
How Green Was My Valley— Alfred Newman
King of the Zombies— Edward Kay
Ladies in Retirement— Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch
Lydia— Miklos Rozsa
Mercy Island— Cy Feuer, Walter Scharf
Sergeant York— Max Steiner
So Ends Our Night— Louis Gruenberg
Sundown— Miklos Rozsa
Suspicion— Franz Waxman
Tanks a Million— Edward Ward
That Uncertain Feeling— Werner Heymann
The Little Foxes— Meredith Willson
This Woman Is Mine— Richard Hageman
Music (Scoring Of A Musical Picture)
Dumbo— Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace
Winner
All-American Co-Ed— Edward Ward
Birth of the Blues— Robert Emmett Dolan
Buck Privates— Charles Previn
Ice-Capades— Cy Feuer
Sun Valley Serenade— Emil Newman
Sunny— Anthony Collins
The Chocolate Soldier— Herbert Stothart, Bronislau Kaper
The Strawberry Blonde— Heinz Roemheld
You'll Never Get Rich— Morris Stoloff
Art Direction (Black-And-White)
How Green Was My Valley— Art Direction: Richard Day, Nathan Juran; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
Winner
Citizen Kane— Art Direction: Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase; Interior Decoration: Al Fields, Darrell Silvera
Hold Back the Dawn— Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Robert Usher; Interior Decoration: Sam Comer
Ladies in Retirement— Art Direction: Lionel Banks; Interior Decoration: George Montgomery
Sergeant York— Art Direction: John Hughes; Interior Decoration: Fred MacLean
Sis Hopkins
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Nomination withdrawn by Republic Studios.
Sundown— Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen; Interior Decoration: Richard Irvine
That Hamilton Woman— Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
The Flame of New Orleans— Art Direction: Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman
The Little Foxes— Art Direction: Stephen Goosson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol
The Son of Monte Cristo— Art Direction: John DuCasse Schulze; Interior Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
When Ladies Meet— Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis
Art Direction (Color)
Blossoms in the Dust— Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis
Winner
Blood and Sand— Art Direction: Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
Louisiana Purchase— Art Direction: Raoul Pene du Bois; Interior Decoration: Stephen A. Seymour
Special Effects
I Wanted Wings— Photographic Effects by Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects by Louis Mesenkop
Winner
A Yank in the R.A.F.— Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by E. H. Hansen
Aloma of the South Seas— Photographic Effects by Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects by Louis Mesenkop
Dive Bomber— Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Originally announced as a nominee on February 9, 1942, but sometime between the 10th and the 19th of February, this title was dropped and replaced by another Warner Bros. production, The Sea Wolf, with the same people credited for the nomination. There is no explanation in the files as to why this replacement was made.
Flight Command— Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Sound Effects by Douglas Shearer
That Hamilton Woman— Photographic Effects by Lawrence Butler; Sound Effects by William H. Wilmarth
The Invisible Woman— Photographic Effects by John Fulton; Sound Effects by John Hall
The Sea Wolf— Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson
Not originally one of the nominees announced on February 9, 1942. Dive Bomber, another Warner Bros. production, was on the list, but sometime between the 10th and 19th of February, the Dive Bomber nomination was replaced by The Sea Wolf, with the same people credited for the achievement. There is no explanation in the files as to why the replacement was made.
Topper Returns— Photographic Effects by Roy Seawright; Sound Effects by Elmer Raguse
Film Editing
Sergeant York— William Holmes
Winner
Citizen Kane— Robert Wise
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde— Harold F. Kress
How Green Was My Valley— James B. Clark
The Little Foxes— Daniel Mandell
Sound Recording
That Hamilton Woman— General Service Sound Department, Jack Whitney, Sound Director
Winner
Appointment for Love— Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director
Ball of Fire— Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
Citizen Kane— RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director
How Green Was My Valley— 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director
Sergeant York— Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
Skylark— Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren Ryder, Sound Director
The Chocolate Soldier— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
The Devil Pays Off— Republic Studio Sound Department, Charles Lootens, Sound Director
The Men in Her Life— Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
Topper Returns— Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer Raguse, Sound Director
Documentary (Short Subject)
Churchill's Island— National Film Board of Canada
Winner
A Place to Live— Philadelphia Housing Association
Adventure in the Bronx— Film Associates
Bomber— United States Office for Emergency Management Film Unit
Christmas under Fire— British Ministry of Information
Letter from Home— British Ministry of Information
Life of a Thoroughbred— Truman Talley, Producer
Norway in Revolt— The March of Time
Russian Soil— Amkino
Soldiers of the Sky— Truman Talley, Producer
War Clouds in the Pacific— National Film Board of Canada
Special Award
To Rey Scott 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
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
To 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.
To The British Ministry of Information for its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film, Target for Tonight.
To Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia.
Walt Disney
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class II)
To ELECTRICAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS DIVISION OF WESTERN ELECTRIC CO., INC., for the development of the precision integrating sphere densitometer. [Laboratory]
Winner
To RCA MANUFACTURING COMPANY for the design and development of the MI-3043 Uni-directional microphone. [Sound]
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class III)
To RAY WILKINSON and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO LABORATORY for pioneering in the use of and for the first practical application to release printing of fine grain positive stock. [Film]
Winner
To CHARLES LOOTENS and the 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. [Sound]
To DOUGLAS SHEARER and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT, and to LOREN RYDER and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for pioneering the development of fine grain emulsions for variable density original sound recording in studio production. [Sound]
To PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC., and 20TH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP. for the development and first practical application to motion picture production of an automatic scene slating device. [Stage Operations]
To WILBUR SILVERTOOTH and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT for the design and computation of a relay condenser system applicable to transparency process projection, delivering considerably more usable light. [Special Photographic]
Music (Song)
"The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good— Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Winner
"Baby Mine" from Dumbo— Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Ned Washington
"Be Honest With Me" from Ridin' on a Rainbow— Music and Lyrics by Gene Autry and Fred Rose
"Blues In The Night" from Blues in the Night— Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B" from Buck Privates— Music by Hugh Prince; Lyrics by Don Raye
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" from Sun Valley Serenade— Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon
"Dolores" from Las Vegas Nights— Music by Lou Alter; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
"Out Of The Silence" from All-American Co-Ed— Music and Lyrics by Lloyd B. Norlind
"Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" from You'll Never Get Rich— Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Lend a Paw— Walt Disney, Producer
Winner
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B— Walter Lantz, Producer
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt— Leon Schlesinger, Producer
How War Came— Columbia
Rhapsody in Rivets— Leon Schlesinger, Producer
Rhythm in the Ranks— George Pal, Producer
Superman— Max Fleischer, Producer
The Night before Christmas— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Rookie Bear— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Truant Officer Donald— Walt Disney, Producer
Short Subject (One-Reel)
Of Pups and Puzzles— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Winner
Army Champions— Pete Smith, Producer
Beauty and the Beach— Paramount
Down on the Farm— Paramount
Forty Boys and a Song— Warner Bros.
Kings of the Turf— Warner Bros.
Sagebrush and Silver— 20th Century-Fox
Short Subject (Two-Reel)
Main Street on the March!— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Winner
Alive in the Deep— Woodard Productions, Inc.
Forbidden Passage— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Gay Parisian— Warner Bros.
The Tanks Are Coming— United States Army