Alternate Oscars—1940s

1940

Best Picture of 1940

Fantasia

★ The Grapes Of Wrath

The Great Dictator

His Girl Friday

The Philadelphia Story

Pinocchio

✔ Rebecca

The Shop Around The Corner

The Thief Of Bagdad

The Three Stooges Comedy Shorts (You Nazty Spy!; A Plumbing We Will Go; Nutty But Nice; How High Is Up?; From Nurse To Worse; No Census, No Feeling; Cookoo Cavaliers; and Boobs In Arms)

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Best Actor of 1940

Brian Donlevy (The Great McGinty)

★ Henry Fonda (The Grapes Of Wrath)

Cary Grant (His Girl Friday, My Favorite Wife and The Philadelphia Story)

✔ James Stewart (Destry Rides Again, The Shop Around The Corner and The Philadelphia Story)

The Three Stooges (You Nazty Spy; A Plumbing We Will Go; Nutty But Nice; How High Is Up?; From Nurse To Worse; No Census, No Feeling; Cookoo Cavaliers; and Boobs In Arms)

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Best Actress of 1940

Bette Davis (All This, And Heaven Too and The Letter)

Joan Fontaine (Rebecca)

Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)

★ Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday)

Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around The Corner)

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Best Director of 1940

Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator)

George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story)

★ ✔ John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)

Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday)

Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1940

Ralph Bellamy (His Girl Friday)

★ ✔ Walter Brennan (The Westerner)

Felix Bressart (The Shop Around the Corner, Edison, the Man and Comrade X)

Jack Oakie (The Great Dictator)

John Qualen (His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath and The Long Voyage Home)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1940

★ Judith Anderson (Rebecca)

✔ Jane Darwell (The Grapes Of Wrath)

Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story)

Ida Lupino (They Drive By Night)

Virginia Weidler (The Philadelphia Story)

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Special Award

The Three Stooges (lifetime achievement)

Curly Howard (A Plumbing We Will Go) (worst remodel ever) (bathroom edition)

George Barnes (Rebecca) (cinematography)

Lodge Cunningham (His Girl Friday) (sound)

"When You Wish Upon A Star" (Pinocchio) music by Leigh Harline; lyrics by Ned Washington (song)

Donald Ogden Stewart, from the play by Philip Barry (The Philadelphia Story) (screenplay)

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1941

Best Picture of 1941

Ball Of Fire

★ Citizen Kane

Dumbo

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

High Sierra

✔ How Green Was My Valley

The Lady Eve

The Little Foxes

The Maltese Falcon

Sergeant York

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Best Actor of 1941

Humphrey Bogart (High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon)

✔ ★ Gary Cooper (Meet John Doe, Ball Of Fire and Sergeant York)

Henry Fonda (The Lady Eve)

Robert Montgomery (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)

Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

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Best Actress of 1941

Bette Davis (The Little Foxes and The Great Lie)

Deanna Durbin (It Started With Eve)

✔ Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)

Vivien Leigh (That Hamilton Woman)

★ Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve, Meet John Doe and Ball Of Fire)

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Best Director of 1941

✔ John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)

John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)

Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve)

★ Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

William Wyler (The Little Foxes)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1941

Charles Coburn (The Lady Eve and The Devil And Miss Jones)

Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane)

James Gleason (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)

★ Sydney Greenstreet (The Maltese Falcon)

Peter Lorre (The Maltese Falcon)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1941

★ ✔ Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon and The Great Lie)

Patricia Collinge (The Little Foxes)

Dorothy Comingore (Citizen Kane)

Rita Hayworth (The Strawberry Blonde and Blood And Sand)

Teresa Wright (The Little Foxes)

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Special Award

The Maltese Falcon (best movie of 1941 not named Citizen Kane)

John Huston, from the novel by Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) (adapted screenplay)

Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane) (original screenplay)

Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane) (cinematography)

Perry Ferguson and Van Nest Polglase; Al Fields and Darrell Silvera (Citizen Kane) (art direction-set decoration)

Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane) (score)

Robert Wise (Citizen Kane) (film editing)

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" (Buck Privates) music by Hugh Prince; lyrics by Don Raye (song)

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1942

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

Jack Benny (To Be Or Not To Be)

★ ✔ James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

Alan Ladd (This Gun For Hire and The Glass Key)

Joel McCrea (Sullivan's Travels and The Palm Beach Story)

Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came To Dinner)

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Best Actress of 1942

★ Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)

✔ Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest)

Katharine Hepburn (Woman Of The Year)

Veronica Lake (Sullivan's Travels, This Gun For Hire, The Glass Key and I Married A Witch)

Carole Lombard (To Be Or Not To Be)

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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

✔ Van Heflin (Johnny Eager)

Paul Henreid (Now, Voyager)

Walter Huston (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

Ronald Reagan (Kings Row)

★ Sig Ruman (To Be Or Not To Be)

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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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1943

Best Picture of 1943

Cabin In The Sky

★ ✔ Casablanca

Day Of Wrath

Heaven Can Wait

I Walked With A Zombie

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp

Ossessione

The Ox-Bow Incident

Sahara

Shadow Of A Doubt

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Best Actor of 1943

Don Ameche (Heaven Can Wait)

★ Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca and Sahara)

Joseph Cotten (Shadow Of A Doubt)

Roger Livesey (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp)

✔ Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)

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Best Actress of 1943

Jean Arthur (The More The Merrier)

★ Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca and For Whom The Bell Tolls)

✔ Jennifer Jones (The Song Of Bernadette)

Ethel Waters (Cabin In The Sky)

Teresa Wright (Shadow Of A Doubt)

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Best Director of 1943

★ ✔ Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)

Alfred Hitchcock (Shadow Of A Doubt)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp)

Luchino Visconti (Ossessione)

William A. Wellman (The Ox-Bow Incident)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1943

✔ Charles Coburn (The More The Merrier and Heaven Can Wait)

Rex Ingram (Cabin in the Sky and Sahara)

★ Claude Rains (Casablanca)

Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)

Dooley Wilson (Casablanca and Stormy Weather)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1943

★ Lena Horne (Cabin In The Sky and Stormy Weather)

Veronica Lake (So Proudly We Hail!)

Deborah Kerr (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp)

Marjorie Main (Heaven Can Wait)

✔ Katina Paxinou (For Whom The Bell Tolls)

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Special Award

"Pal" (Lassie Come Home) (best gender-bending performance) (dog category)

Jane Russell (The Outlaw) (best gravity-defying bosom)

Red Hot Riding Hood (short subject: cartoon)

Meshes of the Afternoon (short subject: one-reel)

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, from the play "Everybody Comes To Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison (Casablanca) (adapted screeenplay)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp) (original screenplay)

"Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Cabin in the Sky) music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E.Y. Harburg (song)

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1944

Best Picture of 1944

Arsenic And Old Lace

★ Double Indemnity

Gaslight

✔ Going My Way

Hail The Conquering Hero

Henry V

Laura

Lifeboat

Meet Me In St. Louis

The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek

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Best Actor of 1944

★ Charles Boyer (Gaslight)

Eddie Bracken (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero)

✔ Bing Crosby (Going My Way)

Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity)

Laurence Olivier (Henry V)

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Best Actress of 1944

Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat)

✔ Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)

Judy Garland (Meet Me In St. Louis)

Betty Hutton (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek)

★ Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity)

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Best Director of 1944

George Cukor (Gaslight)

Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me In St. Louis)

Otto Preminger (Laura)

Preston Sturges (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero)

★ Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1944

William Bendix (Lifeboat)

William Demarest (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero)

✔ Barry Fitzgerald (Going My Way)

Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity)

★ Clifton Webb (Laura)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1944

✔ Ethel Barrymore (None But The Lonely Heart)

Josephine Hull (Arsenic and Old Lace)

Angela Lansbury (Gaslight)

Diana Lynn (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek)

★ Margaret O'Brien (Meet Me In St. Louis)

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Special Award

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Meet Me In St. Louis) music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane (song)

John F. Seitz (Double Indemnity) (cinematography)

David Raksin (Laura) (score)

Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, from the novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity) (adapted screenplay)

Preston Sturges (The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero) (original screenplay)

"Tootie" Smith (Meet Me In St. Louis) (child most likely to become serial killer or United States senator)

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1945

Best Picture of 1945

Brief Encounter

Children Of Paradise

I Know Where I'm Going!

✔ The Lost Weekend

Mildred Pierce

Murder, My Sweet

Rome, Open City

They Were Expendable

★ To Have And Have Not

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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Best Actor of 1945

Humphrey Bogart (To Have And Have Not)

Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter)

★ ✔ Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)

Dick Powell (Murder, My Sweet)

Edward G. Robinson (The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street)

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Best Actress of 1945

Lauren Bacall (To Have And Have Not)

Joan Bennett (The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street)

★ ✔ Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)

Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)

Gene Tierney (Leave Her To Heaven)

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Best Director of 1945

Marcel Carné (Children Of Paradise)

John Ford (They Were Expendable)

★ Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not)

David Lean (Brief Encounter)

✔ Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1945

Jack Carson (Mildred Pierce)

✔ James Dunn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

Dan Duryea (The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street)

★ Boris Karloff (The Body Snatcher)

S.Z. Sakall (Christmas in Connecticut)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1945

Eve Arden (Mildred Pierce)

Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce)

María Casares (Children of Paradise)

✔ Anne Revere (National Velvet)

★ Margaret Rutherford (Blithe Spirit)

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Special Award

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (The Naughty Nineties) (best comedy routine) ("Who's On First?")

Peggy Anne Garner (A Tree Grows In Brooklyn) (juvenile Oscar)

Gene Kelly and Jerry the Mouse (Anchors Aweigh) (best dance sequence)

Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, from the novel by Ernest Hemingway (To Have And Have Not) (best adapted screenplay)

Val Lewton (lifetime achievement)

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1946

Best Picture of 1946

Beauty And The Beast

✔ The Best Years Of Our Lives

The Big Sleep

Gilda

Great Expectations

★ It's A Wonderful Life

A Matter Of Life and Death (Stairway To Heaven)

My Darling Clementine

Notorious

The Postman Always Rings Twice

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Best Actor of 1946

Dana Andrews (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

Henry Fonda (My Darling Clementine)

Cary Grant (Notorious)

✔ Fredric March (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

★ James Stewart (It's A Wonderful Life)

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Best Actress of 1946

Lauren Bacall (The Big Sleep)

Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)

✔ Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own and The Dark Mirror)

★ Rita Hayworth (Gilda)

Dorothy McGuire (The Spiral Staircase)

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Best Director of 1946

Frank Capra (It's A Wonderful Life)

Jean Cocteau (Beauty And The Beast)

John Ford (My Darling Clementine)

Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious)

★ ✔ William Wyler (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1946

Walter Brennan (My Darling Clementine)

George Macready (Gilda)

★ Claude Rains (Notorious)

✔ Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)

Henry Travers (It's a Wonderful Life)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1946

✔ Anne Baxter (The Razor's Edge)

Martita Hunt (Great Expectations)

Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)

★ Myrna Loy (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

Teresa Wright (The Best Years Of Our Lives)

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Special Award

Robert E. Sherwood, from the novella Glory For Me by MacKinlay Kantor based on a Time magazine article (The Best Years Of Our Lives) (adapted screenplay)

Gregg Toland (The Best Years of Our Lives) (cinematography)

Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O'Connell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell (The Best Years Of Our Lives) (ensemble cast)

Christian Berard, Lucien Carre and Rene Moulaert (Beauty And The Beast) (art direction-set decoration)

Ben Hecht (Notorious) (original screenplay)

Bugs Bunny and the sneaker-wearing monster (Hair-Raising Hare) (best manicure)

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1947

Best Picture of 1947

Black Narcissus

Body And Soul

Crossfire

✔ Gentleman's Agreement

The Ghost And Mrs. Muir

Miracle On 34th Street

Monsieur Verdoux

Nightmare Alley

Odd Man Out

★ Out Of The Past

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Best Actor of 1947

John Garfield (Body and Soul)

Rex Harrison (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

James Mason (Odd Man Out)

★ Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past)

Tyrone Power (Nightmare Alley)

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Best Actress of 1947

Jane Greer (Out of the Past)

Susan Hayward (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman)

★ Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)

Gene Tierney (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

✔ Loretta Young (The Bishop's Wife and The Farmer's Daughter)

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Best Director of 1947

Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire)

★ Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Black Narcissus)

Carol Reed (Odd Man Out)

George Seaton (Miracle On 34th Street)

Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1947

★ ✔ Edmund Gwenn (Miracle On 34th Street)

Gene Lockhart (Miracle On 34th Street)

Victor Moore (It Happened On 5th Avenue)

Robert Ryan (Crossfire)

Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1947

★ Kathleen Byron (Black Narcissus)

Gloria Grahame (Crossfire)

✔ Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement)

Martha Raye (Monsieur Verdoux)

Anne Revere (Body and Soul and Gentleman's Agreement)

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Special Award

George Seaton, from a story by Valentine Davies (Miracle On 34th Street) (original screenplay)

Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) from his novel Build My Gallows High (Out of the Past) (adapted screenplay)

Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus) (cinematography)

Alfred Junge (Black Narcissus) (art direction - set decoration)

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" (Song of the South) music by Allie Wrubel; lyrics by Ray Gilbert (song)

Gentleman's Agreement and Crossfire (everything old is new again) (prejudice category)

William Frawley ("Charlie Halloran") (Miracle On 34th Street) (best legal advice) (existence of Santa Claus category)

Fred Gailey's apartment (Miracle On 34th Street) (least likely place you'd allow a seven year old girl to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade)

Porter Hall ("Mr. Sawyer") (Miracle On 34th Street) (worst co-worker)

Jerome Cowan ("Thomas Mara") (Miracle On 34th Street) (most hapless district attorney)

Robert Hyatt ("Thomas Mara Jr.") (Miracle On 34th Street) (most devastating surprise witness)

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1948

Best Picture of 1948

ƒ Bicycle Thieves

The Fallen Idol

ƒ Germany Year Zero

✔ Hamlet

Key Largo

The Lady From Shanghai

Letter From An Unknown Woman

Red River

The Red Shoes

★ The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

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Best Actor of 1948

Richard Attenborough (Brighton Rock)

Humphrey Bogart (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre and Key Largo)

★ ✔ Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)

Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes)

John Wayne (Red River)

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Best Actress of 1948

Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit)

Marlene Dietrich (A Foreign Affair)

★ Joan Fontaine (Letter From An Unknown Woman)

Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)

✔ Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)

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Best Director of 1948

Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves)

Howard Hawks (Red River)

★ ✔ John Huston (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes)

Orson Welles (The Lady From Shanghai)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1948

Thomas Gomez (Force Of Evil and Key Largo)

Tim Holt (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

★ ✔ Walter Huston (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre)

Edward G. Robinson (Key Largo)

Everett Sloane (The Lady From Shanghai)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1948

Mary Astor (Act of Violence)

Hermione Baddeley (Brighton Rock)

Barbara Bel Geddes (I Remember Mama)

Elsa Lanchester (The Big Clock)

★ ✔ Claire Trevor (Key Largo)

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Special Award

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (most dysfunctional relationship) (sisters category)

"We don't need no stinkin' badges" (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (most iconic misquoted line)

John Huston, based on the novel by B. Traven (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (adapted screenplay)

Max Steiner (The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) (score)

Borden Chase and Charles Schnee, from the short story by Borden Chase (Red River) (original screenplay)

Robert Helpmann (The Red Shoes) (choreography)

Charles Lawton, Jr. (The Lady From Shanghai) (cinematography)

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1949

Best Picture of 1949

✔ All The King's Men

Battleground

The Heiress

Kind Hearts And Coronets

Late Spring

On The Town

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

★ The Third Man

Twelve O'Clock High

White Heat

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Best Actor of 1949

James Cagney (White Heat)

✔ Broderick Crawford (All The King's Men)

Kirk Douglas (Champion)

★ Gregory Peck (Twelve O'Clock High)

Dennis Price (Kind Hearts and Coronets)

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Best Actress of 1949

★ ✔ Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)

Setsuko Hara (Late Spring)

Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice)

Ann Sheridan (I Was A Male War Bride)

Alida Valli (The Third Man)

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Best Director of 1949

Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets)

Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring)

★ Carol Reed (The Third Man)

Raoul Walsh (White Heat)

William Wyler (The Heiress)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1949

Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets)

Arthur Kennedy (Champion)

Ralph Richardson (The Heiress)

Orson Welles (The Third Man)

★ James Whitmore (Battleground)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1949

Linda Darnell (A Letter To Three Wives)

Joan Greenwood (Kind Hearts and Coronets and Whisky Galore!)

★ ✔ Mercedes McCambridge (All The King's Men)

Elizabeth Patterson (Intruder in the Dust)

Margaret Wycherly (White Heat)

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Special Award

Graham Greene (The Third Man) (original screenplay)

Anton Karas (The Third Man) (score)

Robert Krasker (The Third Man) (cinematography)

Vienna's sewer system (The Third Man) (least likely location for a classic chase sequence)

Robert Hamer and John Dighton, from the novel by Roy Horniman (Kind Hearts and Coronets) (adapted screenplay)

Ray Harryhausen, Linwood G. Dunn, Willis H. O'Brien, Harold E. Stein, Herb Willis and Bert Willis (Mighty Joe Young) (special effects)

"New York, New York" (On The Town) (best song and dance)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

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