1942 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1942

Bambi

Cat People

The Magnificent Ambersons

✔ Mrs. Miniver

Now, Voyager

The Palm Beach Story

Random Harvest

★ Sullivan's Travels

To Be Or Not To Be

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Best Actor of 1942 (Poll Closed)

• Jack Benny (To Be Or Not To Be)  7.32%  (6 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)  68.29%  (56 votes)  
   
• Ronald Colman (Random Harvest and The Talk Of The Town)  12.2%  (10 votes)  
   
• Alan Ladd (This Gun For Hire and The Glass Key)  2.44%  (2 votes)  
   
• Joel McCrea (Sullivan's Travels and The Palm Beach Story)  9.75%  (8 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 82

 

Best Actress of 1942 (Poll Closed)

• Claudette Colbert (The Palm Beach Story)  3.73%  (6 votes)  
   
• ★ Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)  40.99%  (66 votes)  
   
• ✔ Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest)  34.16%  (55 votes)  
   
• Veronica Lake (Sullivan's Travels, This Gun For Hire, The Glass Key and I Married A Witch)  9.32%  (15 votes)  
   
• Carole Lombard (To Be Or Not To Be)  11.8%  (19 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 161

 

Best Director of 1942

Ernst Lubitsch (To Be Or Not To Be)

★ Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels and The Palm Beach Story)

Jacques Tourneur (Cat People)

Orson Welles (The Magnificent Ambersons)

✔ William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1942 (Poll Closed)

• Felix Bressart (To Be Or Not To Be)  2.86%  (2 votes)  
   
• Walter Huston (Yankee Doodle Dandy)  21.43%  (15 votes)  
   
• Sig Ruman (To Be Or Not To Be)  20%  (14 votes)  
   
• Henry Travers (Mrs. Miniver)  8.57%  (6 votes)  
   
• ★Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came To Dinner)  47.14%  (33 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 70

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1942

Gladys Cooper (Now, Voyager)

Diana Lynn (The Major and the Minor)

★ Agnes Moorehead (The Magnificent Ambersons)

Mary Wickes (The Man Who Came To Dinner)

✔ Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver)

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Special Award

"White Christmas" (Holiday Inn) music and lyrics by Irving Berlin (song)

Nicholas Musuraca (Cat People) (cinematography)

Albert S. D'Agostino; Al Fields and Darrell Silvera (The Magnificent Ambersons) (art direction-set decoration)

Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels) (original screenplay)

Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour (The Road pictures) (lifetime achievement)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

Another great year for actresses, with Bette Davis, Greer Garson, Veronica Lake and Carole Lombard all turning in the best performances of their careers (in my humble opinion). I made my choice, but the final choice, as always, is up to you.