14th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy AwardsB
name = "14th"
caption = "Best Picture, 1941"
date = February 26, 1942
site = Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
host = Bob Hope
last = 13th
next = 15thThe 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous as "Citizen Kane" did not win Best Picture. John Ford won his third Oscar for Directing Best Picture of the year "How Green Was My Valley", the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times.

Most public attention was focused on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Suspicion" and Olivia de Havilland for "Hold Back the Dawn". Fontaine’s victory was the only time an actor won for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.

This was also the first year when documentaries were included. The first Oscar for a documentary went to "Churchill's Island".

Award Winners

Best Picture : "How Green Was My Valley"

Best Director : John Ford, "How Green Was My Valley"

Best Actor : Gary Cooper, "Sergeant York"

Best Supporting Actor : Donald Crisp, "How Green Was My Valley"

Best Actress : Joan Fontaine, "Suspicion"

Best Supporting Actress : Mary Astor, "The Great Lie"

Best Original Screenplay : Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles, "Citizen Kane

Best Original Story : Harry Segall and Hans Szekely, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"

Best Screenplay : Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"

Best Art Direction (Black and White) : Richard Day, Nathan H. Juran, and Thomas Little, "How Green Was My Valley"

Best Art Direction (Color) : Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, and Edwin B. Willis, "Blossoms in the Dust"

Best Cinematography (Black and White) : Arthur C. Miller, "How Green Was My Valley"

Best Cinematography (Color) : Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan, "Blood and Sand"

Best Documentary (Short Subject) : "Churchill's Island"

Best Film Editing : William Holmes, "Sergeant York"

Best Music Score of a Dramatic Picture : Bernard Herrmann, "The Devil and Daniel Webster"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture : Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace, "Dumbo"

Best Song : Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from "Lady Be Good"

Best Short Subject (Cartoon) : Walt Disney (Producer), "Lend a Paw"

Best Short Subject (One-Reel) : "Of Pups and Puzzles"

Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) : "Main Street on the March!"

Best Sound Recording : Jack Whitney (Sound Director, General Service Sound Department), "That Hamilton Woman"

Best Special Effects : Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, and Louis Mesenkop, "I Wanted Wings"