1941 (14th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1941 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Motion Picture

How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox.

Best Actor

Gary Cooper in Sergeant York, Warner Bros.

Best Actress

Joan Fontaine in Suspicion, RKO Radio.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Mary Astor in The Great Lie, Warner Bros.

Directing

How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. John Ford.

Art Direction-Interior Decoration

(Black-and-White)

How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Richard Day and Nathan Juran; interior decoration by Thomas Little.

(Color)

Blossoms in the Dust, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary; interior decoration by Edwin B. Willis.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox. Arthur Miller.

(Color)

Blood and Sand, 20th Century-Fox. Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan.

Documentary

(Short Subject)

Churchill’s Island, National Film Board of Canada; United Artists.

Film Editing

Sergeant York, Warner Bros. William Holmes.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic Picture)

All That Money Can Buy, William Dieterle; RKO Radio. Bernard Herrmann.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

Dumbo, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace.

(Song)

The Last Time I Saw Paris from Lady Be Good, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Lend a Paw, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [Mickey Mouse Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

(One-reel)

Of Pups and Puzzles, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Passing Parade Series]

(Two-reel)

Main Street on the March!, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Two-reel Special Series]

Sound Recording

That Hamilton Woman, Alexander Korda; United Artists. General Service Sound Department, Jack Whitney, Sound Director.

Special Effects

I Wanted Wings, Paramount. Photographic effects by Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; sound effects by Louis Mesenkop.

Writing

(Original Screenplay)

Citizen Kane, Mercury; RKO Radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.

(Original Story)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia. Harry Segall.

(Screenplay)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia. Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller.

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. [Certificate]

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. [Certificate]

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. [Certificate]

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. [Certificate]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

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.

To RCA Manufacturing Company for the design and development of the MI-3043 Uni-directional microphone.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.