1943 (16th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1943 (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

Casablanca, Warner Bros.

Best Actor

Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine, Warner Bros.

Best Actress

Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette, 20th Century-Fox.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier, Columbia.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Katina Paxinou in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Paramount.

Directing

Casablanca, Warner Bros. Michael Curtiz.

Art Direction-Interior Decoration

(Black-and-White)

The Song of Bernadette, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by James Basevi and William Darling; interior decoration by Thomas Little.

(Color)

Phantom of the Opera, Universal. Art direction by John B. Goodman and Alexander Golitzen; interior decoration by Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb.

Cinematography

(Black-and-White)

The Song of Bernadette, 20th Century-Fox. Arthur Miller.

(Color)

Phantom of the Opera, Universal. Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene.

Documentary

(Feature)

Desert Victory, British Ministry of Information; 20th Century-Fox.

(Short Subject)

December 7th, United States Navy; United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau.

Film Editing

Air Force, Warner Bros. George Amy.

Music

(Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture)

The Song of Bernadette, 20th Century-Fox. Alfred Newman.

(Scoring of a Musical Picture)

This Is the Army, Warner Bros. Ray Heindorf.

(Song)

You’ll Never Know from Hello, Frisco, Hello, 20th Century-Fox. Music by Harry Warren; lyrics by Mack Gordon.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Yankee Doodle Mouse, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Tom & Jerry Series] Frederick Quimby, Producer.

(One-reel)

Amphibious Fighters, Paramount. [Grantland Rice Sportlights Series] Grantland Rice, Producer.

(Two-reel)

Heavenly Music, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Jerry Bresler and Sam Coslow, Producers.

Sound Recording

This Land Is Mine, RKO Radio. RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Stephen Dunn, Sound Director.

Special Effects

Crash Dive, 20th Century-Fox. Photographic effects by Fred Sersen; sound effects by Roger Heman.

Writing

(Original Motion Picture Story)

The Human Comedy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. William Saroyan.

(Original Screenplay)

Princess O’Rourke, Warner Bros. Norman Krasna.

(Screenplay)

Casablanca, Warner Bros. Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch.

Special Award

To George Pal for the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons. [Plaque]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Hal B. Wallis

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Farciot Edouart, Earle Morgan, Barton Thompson, the Paramount Studio Engineering Department and the Paramount Studio Transparency Department for the development and practical application to motion picture production of a method of duplicating and enlarging natural color photographs, transferring the image emulsions to glass plates and projecting these slides by especially designed stereopticon equipment.

To Photo Products Department, E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co., Inc. for the development of fine-grain motion picture films.

(Class III)

To Daniel J. Bloomberg and the Republic Studio Sound Department for the design and development of an inexpensive method of converting Moviolas to Class B push-pull reproduction.

To Charles Galloway Clarke and the 20th Century-Fox Studio Camera Department for the development and practical application of a device for composing artificial clouds into motion picture scenes during production photography.

To Farciot Edouart and the Paramount Studio Transparency Department for an automatic electric transparency cueing timer.

To Willard H. Turner and the RKO Radio Studio Sound Department for the design and construction of the phono-cue starter.