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- DirectorJohn FordStarsWalter PidgeonMaureen O'HaraAnna LeeAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.[*BEST PICTURE*]
*ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Donald Crisp
*ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Richard Day, Nathan Juran; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little
*CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Arthur Miller
*DIRECTING -- John Ford
*OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- 20th Century-Fox - DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanJoan LeslieA Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.[BEST PICTURE]
*ACTOR -- Gary Cooper
*FILM EDITING -- William Holmes - DirectorAlexander HallStarsRobert MontgomeryClaude RainsEvelyn KeyesBoxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.[BEST PICTURE]
*WRITING (Original Story) -- Harry Segall
*WRITING (Screenplay) -- Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'*Top Rated Movies*
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*WRITING (Original Screenplay) -- Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonFelix BressartAfter losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.[BEST PICTURE]
*ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineCedric HardwickeA shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.[BEST PICTURE]
*ACTRESS -- Joan Fontaine - DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie HowardLaurence OlivierRichard GeorgeA World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.[BEST PICTURE]
*WRITING (Original Motion Picture Story) -- Emeric Pressburger - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallTeresa WrightThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.[BEST PICTURE]
Nominated for 9 Oscars. - DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCharles BoyerOlivia de HavillandPaulette GoddardStopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.[BEST PICTURE]
Nominated for 6 Oscars. - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartMary AstorGladys GeorgeSan Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.[BEST PICTURE] *Top Rated Movies*
Nominated for 3 Oscars. - DirectorIrving RapperStarsFredric MarchMartha ScottBeulah BondiEpisodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.[BEST PICTURE]
- DirectorBud PollardStarsNiles WelchStory of China's fight for freedom against Japan during WWII*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. - DirectorSamuel ArmstrongNorman FergusonWilfred JacksonStarsSterling HollowayEdward BrophyHerman BingRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.*MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace
MUSIC (Song) -- "Baby Mine," Music by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Ned Washington - DirectorHarry WattStarsJohn CobbRichard PeirsePercy Charles PickardThe planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.*SPECIAL AWARD*
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. - DirectorAlexander KordaStarsVivien LeighLaurence OlivierAlan MowbrayThe story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.*SOUND RECORDING -- General Service Sound Department, Jack Whitney, Sound Director
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Rudolph Maté
SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Photographic Effects by Lawrence Butler; Sound Effects by William H. Wilmarth - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsEdward ArnoldWalter HustonJane DarwellA nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.*MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) -- Bernard Herrmann
ACTOR -- Walter Huston - DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsBette DavisGeorge BrentMary AstorAfter a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.*ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Mary Astor
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsTyrone PowerLinda DarnellRita HayworthIlliterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.*CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Ernest Palmer, Ray Rennahan
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little - DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsTeddy BarrPinto ColvigJohn DehnerJealous of Mickey's kitten, Pluto's devil-self argues with his angel-self over whether or not to rescue the kitten when it falls into a well.*SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon) -- Walt Disney, Producer
- DirectorStuart LeggStarsLorne GreeneGérard ArthurWinston ChurchillThe people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America.*DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject) -- National Film Board of Canada
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJohn NesbittRaymond Gram SwingNeville ChamberlainThe film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.*SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel) -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodBusby BerkeleyStarsEleanor PowellAnn SothernRobert YoungA composer and his songwriter wife clash as they succeed in working together, writing hit Broadway shows, but fail in their marriage to the point of getting divorced twice.*MUSIC (Song) -- "The Last Time I Saw Paris," Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsJohn NesbittEddy ChandlerMark DanielsThis short film showcases how the war department utilized animals to assist with aptitude testing to match people with suitable jobs in the national defense effort prior to the USA entering World War II.*SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel) -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsRay MillandWilliam HoldenWayne MorrisThe personal and professional lives of three men from different walks of life who join the U.S. Army Air Corps are depicted.*SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Photographic Effects by Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects by Louis Mesenkop
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsRobert TaylorLana TurnerEdward ArnoldThe step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.*ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Van Heflin
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckOscar HomolkaA group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.Nominated for 4 Oscars.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsSonja HenieJohn PayneGlenn MillerAfter Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.Nominated for 3 Oscars.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyIngrid BergmanLana TurnerDr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.Nominated for 3 Oscars.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsNelson EddyRisë StevensNigel BruceMaria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman and attempts to make Maria flirt with him - to test her loyalty to him. As the Russian, Karl makes a vigorous attempt to seduce Maria. For a moment she accepts then rejects him. Karl is left in turmoil.Nominated for 3 Oscars.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGene TierneyBruce CabotGeorge SandersIn 1941, a mysterious Somaliland woman helps the British against the Germans.Nominated for 3 Oscars.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsJean ArthurRobert CummingsCharles CoburnA tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloLee BowmanTwo sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsIda LupinoLouis HaywardEvelyn KeyesThe housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJoan BlondellRoland YoungCarole LandisA fun-loving young woman is murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend. Her ghost seeks aid from Topper to find the murderer.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsFred AstaireRita HayworthRobert BenchleyIn order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsBob HopeVera ZorinaVictor MooreA bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsDorothy LamourJon HallLynne OvermanA young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorLeRoy PrinzStarsFrances LangfordJohnny DownsMarjorie WoodworthAll-girl school Mar Brynn tries to get more pupils and publicity by making fun of the Quincton college. For revenge, the boys there sent Bob Sheppard to Mar Brynn, dressed as a girl, to give them a slight scandal.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnFred MacMurrayRalph BellamyA military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsEdward G. RobinsonIda LupinoJohn GarfieldAfter being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaRudolf IsingStarsThe Boswell SistersConnee BoswellMartha BoswellWell, a mouse *is* stirring... And he's having fun playing with the toys, until he mistakes Tom for a stuffed toy and wakes him up.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles CoburnA trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckEdward ArnoldA penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald catches his nephews swimming on a school day. He thinks he's made an easy catch, but the boys are much more resourceful than that. When he tries to smoke them out of their clubhouse, they put three roast turkeys in their bed and dress one boy as an angel.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyOlivia de HavillandRita HayworthQuick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorDave FleischerSteve MuffatiStarsBud CollyerJoan AlexanderJackson BeckThe Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantIrene DunneBeulah BondiA couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.Nominated for 1 Oscar
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJoyce GrenfellKathleen HarrisonCelia JohnsonNominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorFriz FrelengBuilders construct a building to the tune of Franz Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody".Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorTex AveryLou LillyStarsSara BernerMel BlancBernice HansenPart of Tex Avery's "Speaking of Animals" series of animated shorts. A collection of puns, sight gags and slapstick jokes involving pigs, cows, chickens and other animals on a farm.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsCharles BoyerMargaret SullavanRichard CarlsonFive years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsFredric MarchMargaret SullavanFrances DeeStory about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsPriscilla LaneBetty FieldRichard Whorf"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music. The dedication isn't paying off financially and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend gangster Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that Character is about to have a baby, he returns to her. Jigger tries to make Kay the band's singer and, after this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing but a nervous breakdown. Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him, and plans to take back up with Jigger, who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMerle OberonMelvyn DouglasBurgess MeredithA psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsCesar RomeroVirginia GilmoreMilton BerleRobin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsJudy CanovaBob CrosbyCharles ButterworthA young girl from the "sticks" comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. At first she is the objection of derision and made fun of because of her unsophisticated nature, but it turns out that there's a bit more to her than most of her snooty relatives and their condescending friends think.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs reads "Hiawatha" and winds up being hunted by him.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsLoretta YoungConrad VeidtDean JaggerA circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American, thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return to dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two years old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsMarlene DietrichBruce CabotRoland YoungIn old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsMartha ScottWilliam GarganEdmund GwennDedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsGinger RogersGeorge MurphyAlan MarshalWorking girl Janie is proposed to by a conservative car salesman, a bohemian auto mechanic, and a millionaire playboy and must make a choice.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsMerle OberonJoseph CottenEdna May OliverFour friends reminisce in old age. Each of the men had been in love with the main character, Lydia. The interweaving stories reveal the reason why she never married any of them and, indeed, never married at all.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsBilly BletcherA toy soldier, distracted by a beautiful ice skater, is derelict in his duty and gets discharged. Later, when the screwball army declares war, he lucks into a chance to redeem himself.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsBing CrosbyMary MartinBrian DonlevyJeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louey to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerBetty GrableJohn SuttonAn American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsClaudette ColbertRay MillandBrian AherneAs her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsWilliam TracyJames GleasonNoah Beery Jr.An Army draftee with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsCharles BoyerMargaret SullavanRita JohnsonCharming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly after Jane voices her progressive views on marriage, which include that the two should keep separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous to lure her into his bedroom.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsFrank BingmanPinto ColvigRudolf IsingIn a humorous report, "Strife" magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsGene AutrySmiley BurnetteMary LeeGene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to a showboat, where he finds that teenage singer Patsy's father has been working with the robbers to provide for her future.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJoan CrawfordRobert TaylorGreer GarsonA successful novelist falls in love with her married publisher, to the consternation of her boyfriend, who arranges for her to meet the publisher's wife.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsAddison RichardsWolfgang ZilzerHugh BeaumontThis short film portrays the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to capture a ring of smugglers who prey on desperate immigrants waiting entry by convincing them they have influence with the Immigration Service if they just pay a fee.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsWillie BestDanny WebbHot Breath Harry is a hot trumpeter at a jazz club. He finds himself drafted into the Army, where he's assigned to be the bugler of an African-American company. But everyone hates the bugler, because he blows reveille at the ungodly hour of 5 AM sharp. Sure enough, on his first day, Harry gets pelted with everything imaginable. He lands against a wall, where his trumpet falls on him. He plays a swinging wakeup that segues into the title tune, and nobody minds waking up to this. Everyone swings through the whole day, even when three soldiers march into a lake and two soldiers, followed by a grinning alligator, march out.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorPaul VogelStarsPete SmithThis MGM short, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, focuses on the young men who have signed up to serve their country. Speed, teamwork and accuracy are the hallmark of all army units and this is demonstrated by different army squads - a rifle squad, a machine gun squad, a mortar squad, anti-tank gunners and shore batteries - all of which work with the fluidity of athletes and athletic teams.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorIrving LernerStarsFrieda N. BlankWilliam KesselringBill WattsInner city squalor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the subject of this documentary, which focuses on a child returning from school to his home, a cramped and squalid apartment in a rat-infested slum neighborhood.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsJ. Edward BrombergOsa MassenWilliam WrightChris Waring (William Wright) is a government investigator trying to gather the necessary evidence to convict a shipping magnate, DeBrock (J.Edward Bromberg), of selling his ships to the United States but is suspected of holding up and preventing their delivery because of bribes from foreign powers. DeBrock's conscience, nor his flirty wife, Valerie DeBrock (Osa Massen), give him any peace of mind.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorPaul FennellStarsRaymond Gram SwingMel BlancAn animated documentary describing the involvement of Japan, Italy and Nazi Germany as the aggressors and instigators of World War II.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorDavid MillerFrank BorzageStarsRobert TaylorBrian DonlevyIan HunterIn 1880 New Mexico, during a feud between cattle growers, former childhood friends Billy the Kid and Jim Sherwood end-up working for opposite sides.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsFranchot ToneJohn CarrollWalter BrennanA girl stows away on a ship, and the antics begins.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorStuart LeggStarsLorne GreeneHirohitoPuyiMuch activity is happening in naval yards on the western shores of the Pacific as tensions rise across the ocean with Nazi Germany's support of the Japanese government and military. As such, westerners in Pacific outposts have headed home in case of war in the Pacific. These tensions make it difficult for Japanese-Canadians who have adopted their new homeland as their own. The Japanese learned modern technologies through global trade, and now may use that technology against their western trading partners. There is also much internal tension with Japan itself as it tries to reconcile its feudal history with its new modern self as a potential global power. But one things that may prevent a Pacific base war is the current Sino-Japanese War with which the Japanese must first contend. Regardless, the western powers, including Canada, are militarily prepared.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsGeorge TobiasRichard TravisGig YoungEducational short about the status of battle tanks and tanker training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical army trainee from the Bronx.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsBallet Russe de Monte CarloLéonide MassineMilada MladovaIn a Paris nightclub setting, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performs to the music of Jacques Offenbach.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsTommy DorseyTommy Dorsey & His OrchestraConstance MooreA vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsJames EllisonJerry ColonnaDorothy LewisNewsreel cameraman Bob Clemens, an avowed woman hater, is assigned to cover the Lake Placid exhibition of Karen Vadja, the Swiss ice Queen. He misses his plane and fails to get the footage needed for a newsreel. Deciding that if you've seen one ice skater, you've seen them all, he goes to Central Park to film a skater picked at random. He selects Marie Bergin who is wanted by the immigration people for having over-stayed her visa. Bob does not adjust his newsreel camera for a long shot and she shows very clearly in close-ups. Promoter Larry Herman sees the newsreel and seeing that she is very talented and very pretty, decides to star her in an ice-spectacle to be called the "Ice-Capades." He sends for Karen Vadja's agent, since that is the name the skater is identified as in the newsreel, draws up and signs a contract and invites the press to join him when he meets her. Dismay mildly describes his feeling when he learns that he has obligated himself to build a show around a horse-faced, eccentric woman whose ability to skate is her only saving grace. He calls off the show, and brings suit against the National Newsreel Company for this hoax. The boss, Ellis, blames Bob and his assistant Colonna, who propose that they find her and let Ellis "discover" and star her. She evades them as she thinks they are immigration agents trying to find and deport her, but they find her in the chorus of the ice show they want her to star in. Deportation looms with marriage to an American citizen being the only alternative. Bob, the only woman-hating confirmed bachelor in the cast, becomes the prime candidate.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorIrving AllenStarsThe Robert Mitchell Boy ChoirRobert MitchellKen CarpenterA tribute to the Robert Mitchell Choir School of Hollywood, which trains talented young boys in the musical arts in addition to regular academic studies.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorDel FrazierStarsKnox ManningThis entry in "The Sports Parade" series, shows us how Mortimer, a Standardbred horse, is trained for harness racing.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsDick PurcellJoan WoodburyMantan MorelandOn a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleRay BolgerJohn CarrollThe beautiful Anna Neagle stars as a circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- Documentary short demonstrating the process of building a medium bomber for the United States Army Air Corps.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJoseph KrumgoldStarsJohn KieranMichael O'ConnellYoung Boy Visits the Bronx ZooNominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorWilliam MorganStarsRay MiddletonGloria DicksonOtto KrugerWarren Ramsey (Ray Middleton) is an ambitious young lawyer whose ultimate failure might be traced to his ruthlessness, insanity, or a blow on the head. Marooned on an island with his wife Leslie (Gloria Dickson), his friend Clay Foster (Donald Douglas), and the seaman Captain Love (Forrester Harvey) and the Guide (Bill Shirley) who had led them there. He finds an old man, Doctor Sanderson (Otto Kruger), who had fled there after a pitiful accident, who is unjustly under suspicion of murder. Ramsey's mental state causes him to imagine that Leslie and Clay Foster are having an affair and he has a plan to put an end to that. His decision, for his personal prestige, to bring the innocent Dr. Sanderson back to face trial is contested by the whole party, and finally prevented by fate, design,accident or possibly an angry alligator.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
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- DirectorLeslie M. RoushStarsJohnny LongJohnny Long and His OrchestraHelen YoungThis Paramount Headliner short (in-house number A1-1) was filmed at Jones Beach and features a background of pretty girls, bathing suits and the ocean. Johnny Long and His Orchestra provide the music for five songs, including "Kiss the Boys Goodbye", and Helen Young and Bob Huston provide the vocals.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorTom CummiskeyNominated for 1 Oscar.
- English / American / Norwegian propaganda film. The film was produced in the USA / UK during the war, with participating Norwegians as actors and extras in the most roles.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
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- DirectorFrank HurleyNominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorEarl AllvineStarsPaul DouglasNominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsJohn BurtonHans ConriedJimmy DimeThis short starts with a short biography of Nostradamus and highlights some of his prophecies that came true in his own day (e.g., telling a young priest that many years later he would become Pope Sixtus V). Then we come to the present and learn that Nostradamus' writings foretold WWI. Several of his prophecies are then applied to the events leading to WWII, as well as to current war events.| Nominated for 1 Oscar. |
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGene TierneyWalter HustonVictor MatureIn Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.Nominated for 2 Oscars.