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15th Academy Awards

FieldValue
number15
awardAcademy Awards
dateMarch 4, 1943
siteCocoanut Grove, The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
hostBob Hope
best_picture*Mrs. Miniver*
most_wins*Mrs. Miniver* (6)
most_nominations*Mrs. Miniver* (12)
last14th
next16th

The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4, 1943, honoring the films of 1942. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by Greer Garson. Accepting the award for Best Actress, Garson spoke for approximately 5 minutes and 30 seconds, which was the longest acceptance speech in Oscars history until Adrien Brody won for Best Actor in 2025. A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio.

Mrs. Miniver was the second film (after My Man Godfrey in 1936) to receive nominations in all four acting categories, as well as the first film to receive five acting nominations; it won six of its twelve nominations, including Best Picture and William Wyler's first of three Best Director awards.

Irving Berlin presented the Academy Award for Best Original Song, which he ended up winning himself for "White Christmas". There was also a four-way tie for Best Documentary Feature, a unique occurrence.

Winners and nominees

Awards

Nominees were announced on February 8, 1943. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Special Awards

  • To Charles Boyer for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference for the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry.
  • To Noël Coward for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve.
  • To Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for its achievement in representing the American Way of Life in the production of the Andy Hardy series of films.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

  • Sidney Franklin

Multiple nominations and awards

NominationsFilm
12*Mrs. Miniver*
11*The Pride of the Yankees*
8*Yankee Doodle Dandy*
7*Random Harvest*
*The Talk of the Town*
4*Arabian Nights*
*Jungle Book*
*The Magnificent Ambersons*
*This Above All*
*Wake Island*
3*Bambi*
*The Black Swan*
*Flying Tigers*
*[49th Parallel](49th-parallel-film)*
*Holiday Inn*
*Kings Row*
*Now, Voyager*
*The Pied Piper*
*Reap the Wild Wind*
*Take a Letter, Darling*
*You Were Never Lovelier*
2*Captains of the Clouds*
*Flying with Music*
*The Gold Rush*
*My Gal Sal*
*One of Our Aircraft Is Missing*
*Road to Morocco*
*The Shanghai Gesture*
*Silver Queen*
*Woman of the Year*
AwardsFilm
6*Mrs. Miniver*
3*Yankee Doodle Dandy*

Ceremony information

William Wyler was the first person born in 20th century to win the best director. This ceremony was the last to include a banquet as part of the festivities due to increased attendance and the continuance of World War II. Ceremonies would be held in theaters starting with the 16th Academy Awards in 1944. Because of wartime commitments, the usually gold-plated Oscar was made of plaster for this ceremony.

References

References

  1. (March 5, 1943). "FILM 'OSCAR' PRIZE FOR 'MRS. MINIVER'; The MGM Picture, Featuring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, Best for 1942". [[The New York Times]].
  2. (March 11, 2017). "And the Oscar for the longest speech goes to ... Greer Garson". [[Belfast Telegraph]].
  3. Dunning, John. (1998). "On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio". [[Oxford University Press]].
  4. Breznican, Anthony. (March 3, 2018). "Oscar Flashback: 'Mrs. Miniver' won big 75 years ago — and its message of resistance endures".
  5. King, Susan. (September 18, 2022). "Oscars flashback to 1943: Patriotic fare fares well". GoldDerby.
  6. Ciriaco, Andrea. (February 1, 2023). "10 Directors Who Have Won More Than One Directing Oscar". [[Collider (website).
  7. King, Susan. (February 28, 2016). "For Oscars presenter Irving Berlin, the original-song winner was like an old friend". [[Los Angeles Times]].
  8. King, Susan. (January 25, 2023). "Oscars flashback to the first documentary race: 25 nominees and 4 winners in 1943". GoldDerby.
  9. "The 15th Academy Awards (1943) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org.
  10. "History of the Oscars Presentation". Oscars.org.
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