14th Academy Awards
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| 14th Academy Awards | |
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| Date | February 26, 1942 |
| Site | Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Host | Bob Hope |
The 14th Academy Awards may be most famous as the year 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. Indeed, Orson Welles was booed when he picked up Kane’s only Oscar for the night, for Original Screenplay.
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.
[edit] Awards
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
