Best Films – 1941

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
FILM
Cheers for Miss Bishop
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron
Citizen Kane
d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
The Devil and Miss Jones
d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna
Dumbo
d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others
The Great Lie
d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
d: Alexander Hall; scr: Seton I. Miller, Sidney Buchman
The Lady Eve
d, scr: Preston Sturges
The Little Foxes
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Manpower
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Richard Macauley, Jerry Wald
The Sea Wolf
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Robert Rossen

Sara Allgood, Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley
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La Fille du puisatier / The Well-Digger’s Daughter
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
How Green Was My Valley
d: John Ford; scr: Philip Dunne
Meet John Doe
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Moon over Miami
d: Walter Lang; scr: Vincent Lawrence, Brown Holmes
Teresa Venerdi
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Vittorio De Sica, Gherardo Gherardi, Margherita Maglione, Franco Riganti
That Hamilton Woman / Lady Hamilton
d: Alexander Korda; scr: Walter Reisch, R. C. Sherriff
Two-Faced Woman
d: George Cukor; scr: S. N. Behrman, George Oppenheimer
ACTOR
Charles Coburn
The Devil and Miss Jones
Gary Cooper
Ball of Fire
Gary Cooper
Meet John Doe
Gary Cooper
Sergeant York
Thomas Mitchell
Flight from Destiny
Robert Montgomery
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Raimu
The Well-Digger’s Daughter
Edward G. Robinson
Manpower
Edward G. Robinson
The Sea Wolf
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane

Bette Davis in The Little Foxes
ACTRESS
Jean Arthur
The Devil and Miss Jones
Mary Astor
The Great Lie
Joan Crawford
When Ladies Meet
Greta Garbo
Two-Faced Woman
Greer Garson
When Ladies Meet
Hedy Lamarr
Come Live with Me
Vivien Leigh
That Hamilton Woman
Martha Scott
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Barbara Stanwyck
The Lady Eve
Barbara Stanwyck
Meet John Doe

Herbert Marshall, Bette Davis in The Little Foxes
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eric Blore
The Lady Eve
Charles Dingle
The Little Foxes
Reginald Gardiner
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Sydney Greenstreet
The Maltese Falcon
Walter Huston
All That Money Can Buy / The Devil and Daniel Webster
Peter Lorre
The Maltese Falcon
Herbert Marshall
The Little Foxes
Robert Morley
Major Barbara
Claude Rains
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Carl Benton Reid
The Little Foxes

Rita Hayworth, Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary Astor
The Maltese Falcon
Constance Bennett
Two-Faced Woman
Spring Byington
The Devil and Miss Jones
Patricia Collinge
The Little Foxes
Rita Hayworth
Blood and Sand
Marie Lohr
Major Barbara
Anna Magnani
Teresa Venerdi
Ann Sheridan
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Simone Simon
All That Money Can Buy
Teresa Wright
The Little Foxes

Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tony Gaudio
The Great Lie
Ernest Haller
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Ray June
Ziegfeld Girl
Arthur C. Miller
How Green Was My Valley
Ernest Palmer, Ray Rennahan
Blood and Sand
Robert Planck
A Woman’s Face
Sol Polito
The Sea Wolf
Gregg Toland
Citizen Kane
Gregg Toland
The Little Foxes
Joseph A. Valentine
The Wolf Man
MUSIC
Bernard Herrmann
Citizen Kane
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Sea Wolf
Edward Ward
Cheers for Miss Bishop
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