| William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver*Sam Wood – Kings Row*Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest*John Farrow – Wake Island*Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan*Ronald Colman – Random Harvest as Charles Rainier*Gary Cooper – The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig*Walter Pidgeon – Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver*Monty Woolley – The Pied Piper as Howard | Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver as Kay Miniver*Bette Davis – Now, Voyager as Charlotte Vale*Katharine Hepburn – Woman of the Year as Tess Harding*Rosalind Russell – My Sister Eileen as Ruth Sherwood*Teresa Wright – The Pride of the Yankees as Eleanor Gehrig |
| Van Heflin – Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett*William Bendix – Wake Island as Private Aloysius K. Randall*Walter Huston – Yankee Doodle Dandy as Jerry Cohan*Frank Morgan – Tortilla Flat as The Pirate*Henry Travers – Mrs. Miniver as James Ballard | Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver as Carol Beldon*Gladys Cooper – Now, Voyager as Windle Vale*Agnes Moorehead – The Magnificent Ambersons as Fanny Minafer*Susan Peters – Random Harvest as Kitty Chilcet*Dame May Whitty – Mrs. Miniver as Lady Beldon |
| Woman of the Year – Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.*One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger*Road to Morocco – Frank Butler and Don Hartman*Wake Island – W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler*The War Against Mrs. Hadley – George Oppenheimer | Mrs. Miniver – George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the Mrs. Miniver newspaper columns by Jan Struther*49th Parallel – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, based on a story by Emeric Pressburger*The Pride of the Yankees – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling, based on a story by Paul Gallico*Random Harvest – George Froeschel, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis, based on the novel by James Hilton*The Talk of the Town – Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw, based on a story by Sidney Harmon |
| 49th Parallel – Emeric Pressburger*Holiday Inn – Irving Berlin*The Pride of the Yankees – Paul Gallico*The Talk of the Town – Sidney Harmon*Yankee Doodle Dandy – Robert Buckner | The Battle of Midway – United States NavyKokoda Front Line! – Australian News and Information BureauMoscow Strikes Back – ArtkinoPrelude to War – United States Army Special Services*Africa, Prelude to Victory – The March of Time*Combat Report – United States Army Signal Corps*Conquer by the Clock – Frederic Ullman Jr.*The Grain That Built a Hemisphere – Walt Disney*Henry Browne, Farmer – United States Department of Agriculture*High Over the Borders – National Film Board of Canada*High Stakes in the East – The Netherlands Information Bureau*Inside Fighting China – National Film Board of Canada*It's Everybody's War – United States Office of War Information*Listen to Britain – British Ministry of Information*Little Belgium – Belgian Ministry of Information*Little Isles of Freedom – Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew*Mr. Blabbermouth! – United States Office of War Information*Mr. Gardenia Jones – United States Office of War Information*The New Spirit – Walt Disney*The Price of Victory – William H. Pine*A Ship Is Born – United States Merchant Marine*Twenty-One Miles – British Ministry of Information*We Refuse to Die – William C. Thomas*White Eagle – Concanen Films*Winning Your Wings – United States Army Air Force |
| Speaking of Animals and Their Families – Paramount*Desert Wonderland – 20th Century Fox*Marines in the Making – Pete Smith*United States Marine Band – Warner Bros. | Beyond the Line of Duty – Warner Bros.*Don't Talk – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer*Private Smith of the U.S.A. – RKO Radio |
| Der Fuehrer's Face – Walt Disney*All Out for V – Paul Terry*Blitz Wolf – Fred Quimby*Juke Box Jamboree – Walter Lantz*Pigs in a Polka – Leon Schlesinger*Tulips Shall Grow – George Pal | Now, Voyager – Max Steiner*Arabian Nights – Frank Skinner*Bambi – Frank Churchill and Edward H. Plumb*The Black Swan – Alfred Newman*The Corsican Brothers – Dimitri Tiomkin*Flying Tigers – Victor Young*The Gold Rush – Max Terr*I Married a Witch – Roy Webb*Joan of Paris – Roy Webb*Jungle Book – Miklós Rózsa*Klondike Fury – Edward J. Kay*The Pride of the Yankees – Leigh Harline*Random Harvest – Herbert Stothart*The Shanghai Gesture – Richard Hageman*Silver Queen – Victor Young*Take a Letter, Darling – Victor Young*The Talk of the Town – Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff*To Be or Not to Be – Werner R. Heymann |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy – Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld*Flying with Music – Edward Ward*For Me and My Gal – Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll*Holiday Inn – Robert E. Dolan*It Started with Eve – Charles Previn and Hans J. Salter*Johnny Doughboy – Walter Scharf*My Gal Sal - Alfred Newman*You Were Never Lovelier – Leigh Harline | "White Christmas" from Holiday Inn – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin*"Always in My Heart" from Always in My Heart – Music by Ernesto Lecuona; Lyrics by Kim Gannon*"Dearly Beloved" from You Were Never Lovelier – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer*"How About You?" from Babes on Broadway – Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Ralph Freed*"I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" from Orchestra Wives – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon*"I've Heard That Song Before" from Youth on Parade – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn*"Love Is a Song" from Bambi – Music by Frank Churchill ; Lyrics by Larry Morey*"Pennies for Peppino" from Flying with Music – Music by Edward Ward; Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright*"Pig Foot Pete" from Hellzapoppin – Music by Gene de Paul; Lyrics by Don Raye*"There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" from The Mayor of 44th Street – Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Mort Greene |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy – Nathan Levinson*Arabian Nights – Bernard B. Brown*Bambi – Sam Slyfield*Flying Tigers – Daniel J. Bloomberg*Friendly Enemies – Jack Whitney*The Gold Rush – James L. Fields*Mrs. Miniver – Douglas Shearer*Once Upon a Honeymoon – Stephen Dunn*The Pride of the Yankees – Thomas T. Moulton*Road to Morocco – Loren L. Ryder*This Above All – E. H. Hansen*You Were Never Lovelier – John P. Livadary | This Above All – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little*George Washington Slept Here – Art Direction: Max Parker and Mark-Lee Kirk; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts*The Magnificent Ambersons – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino; Interior Decoration: Al Fields and Darrell Silvera*The Pride of the Yankees – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol*Random Harvest – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore*The Shanghai Gesture – Art Direction and Interior Decoration: Boris Leven*Silver Queen – Art Direction: Ralph Berger; Interior Decoration: Emile Kuri*The Spoilers – Art Direction: Jack Otterson and John B. Goodman; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Edward R. Robinson*Take a Letter, Darling – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: Samuel M. Comer*The Talk of the Town – Art Direction: Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad; Interior Decoration: Fay Babcock |
| My Gal Sal – Art Direction: Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little*Arabian Nights – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb*Captains of the Clouds – Art Direction: Ted Smith; Interior Decoration: Casey Roberts*Jungle Book – Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron*Reap the Wild Wind – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson; Interior Decoration: George Sawley | Mrs. Miniver – Joseph Ruttenberg*Kings Row – James Wong Howe*The Magnificent Ambersons – Stanley Cortez*Moontide – Charles G. Clarke*The Pied Piper – Edward Cronjager*The Pride of the Yankees – Rudolph Maté*Take a Letter, Darling – John J. Mescall*The Talk of the Town – Ted Tetzlaff*Ten Gentlemen from West Point – Leon Shamroy*This Above All – Arthur C. Miller |
| The Black Swan – Leon Shamroy*Arabian Nights – Milton Krasner, William V. Skall, and W. Howard Greene*Captains of the Clouds – Sol Polito*Jungle Book – W. Howard Greene*Reap the Wild Wind – Victor Milner and William V. Skall*To the Shores of Tripoli – Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall | The Pride of the Yankees – Daniel Mandell*Mrs. Miniver – Harold F. Kress*The Talk of the Town – Otto Meyer*This Above All – Walter A. Thompson*Yankee Doodle Dandy – George Amy |
| Reap the Wild Wind – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William Pereira; Sound Effects: Louis Mesenkop'*The Black Swan – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman, Sr. and George Leverett*Desperate Journey – Photographic Effects: Byron Haskin; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson*Flying Tigers – Photographic Effects: Howard Lydecker; Sound Effects: Daniel J. Bloomberg*Invisible Agent – Photographic Effects: John P. Fulton; Sound Effects: Bernard B. Brown*Jungle Book – Photographic Effects: Lawrence W. Butler; Sound Effects: William H. Wilmarth*Mrs. Miniver – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe; Sound Effects: Douglas Shearer*The Navy Comes Through – Photographic Effects: Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects: James G. Stewart*One of Our Aircraft Is Missing – Photographic Effects: Ronald Neame; Sound Effects: C. C. Stevens*The Pride of the Yankees – Photographic Effects: Jack Cosgrove and Ray Binger; Sound Effects: Thomas T. Moulton | - |
