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Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) - Max Steiner Outstanding Motion Picture - Warner Bros. Sound Recording - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
Feb 5, 2014 · 15th Academy Awards (1942): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE. The Invaders – Ortus. Kings Row – Warner Bros. The Magnificent Ambersons – Mercury. Mrs. Miniver – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Pied Piper – 20th Century-Fox. The Pride of the Yankees – Samuel Goldwyn Productions.
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
The song Baby Mine was nominated, and the film won the award for Music – Scoring of a Musical Picture. On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into World War II. In consideration of these two tragic events, Academy officials initially decided to cancel the awards ceremony.
The film’s soundtrack was composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Irwin Kostal won the 38th Academy Award for “Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment”.
With America now a part of World War II, the Academy decided to go ahead with the 14th Academy Awards ceremony on Thursday, February 26, 1942. However, the mood was a little more subdued. The celebrities were asked not to wear formal attire and the evening was referred to as a “dinner” rather than a “banquet.”
The 14th Academy Awards honored film achievements in 1941 and were held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was briefly cancelled due to the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
