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- "Casablanca," a Warner Brothers production, was chosen the best movie of the year. Miss Jones of Tulsa, Okla., won the sixteenth annual motion-picture Academy award for the first appearance she ever made on the screen.
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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 nearly six minutes, considered to be the longest Oscars acceptance speech.
The Best Picture-nominated film The Ox-Bow Incident was a deserved honor, but none of the cast, including Henry Fonda, was nominated. Ernst Lubitsch's nomination for Best Director for the Best Picture nominee Heaven Can Wait was doomed to lose.
The 15th Academy Awards | 1943. Skip to main content. Menu. Search form. Search this site . Members Login ... Outstanding Motion Picture. Winner. Mrs. Miniver. Metro ...
Academy Honorary Awards: 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.” Noël Coward – “for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve.”
The 16th Academy Awards were held on March 2, 1944, to honor the films of 1943. This was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and the first ceremony without a banquet as part of the festivities. The ceremony was broadcast locally on KFWB, and internationally by CBS Radio via shortwave.
Miss Jones of Tulsa, Okla., won the sixteenth annual motion-picture Academy award for the first appearance she ever made on the screen. She bit her lip, as if to hold back the tears, when...