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Best Films – 1941

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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

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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

ACTRESS

Jean Arthur
The Devil and Miss Jones

Mary Astor
The Great Lie

Joan Crawford
When Ladies Meet

Bette Davis
The Little Foxes

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

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

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

Simone Simon
All That Money Can Buy

Teresa Wright
The Little Foxes

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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