Academy Award Winners - The 1940s
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1949 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
AARON COPLAND for The Heiress
Other Nominees
MAX STEINER for Beyond the Forest
DIMITRI TIOMKIN for Champion
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
ROGER EDENS and LENNIE HAYTON for On the Town
Other Nominees
RAY HEINDORF for Look for the Silver Lining
MORRIS STOLOFF and GEORGE DUNING for Jolson Sings Again
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
FRANK LOESSER for "Baby It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter
Other Nominees
ELLIOT DANIEL and LARRY MOREY for "Lavender Blue" from So Dear To My Heart
ALFRED NEWMAN and MACK DAVID for "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" from Come to the Stable
JULE STYNE and SAMMY CAHN for "It's a Great Feeling" from It's a Great Feeling
VICTOR YOUNG and NED WASHINGTON for "My Foolish Heart" from My Foolish Heart
1948 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
BRIAN EASDALE for The Red Shoes
Other Nominees
HUGO FRIEDHOFER for Joan of Arc
ALFRED NEWMAN for The Snake Pit
MAX STEINER for Johnny Belinda
WILLIAM WALTON for Hamlet
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
JOHNNY GREEN and ROGER EDENS for Easter Parade
Other Nominees
LENNIE HAYTON for The Pirate
RAY HEINDORF for Romance on the High Seas
ALFRED NEWMAN for When My Baby Smiles At Me
VICTOR YOUNG for The Emperor Waltz
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
JAY LIVINGSTON and RAY EVANS for "Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface
Other Nominees
HAROLD ARLEN and LEO ROBIN for "For Every Man There's a Woman" from Casbah
FREDERICK HOLLANDER and LEO ROBIN for "This Is the Moment" from That Lady in Ermine
RAMEY IDRISS and GEORGE TIBBLES for "The Woody Woodpecker Song" from Wet Blanket Policy
JULE STYNE and SAMMY CAHN for "It's Magic" from Romance on the High Seas
1947 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for A Double Life
Other Nominees
HUGO FRIEDHOFER for The Bishop's Wife
ALFRED NEWMAN for Captain from Castile
DAVID RAKSIN for Forever Amber
MAX STEINER for Life With Father
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
ALFRED NEWMAN for Mother Wore Tights
Other Nominees
DANIELE AMFITHEATROF, PAUL SMITH and CHARLES WOLCOTT for Song of the South
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for Road to Rio
JOHNNY GREEN for Fiesta
RAY HEINDORF and MAX STEINER for My Wild Irish Rose
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
ALLIE WRUBEL and RAY GILBERT for "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South
Other Nominees
RALPH BLANE, HUGH MARTIN and ROGER EDENS for "Pass That Peace Pipe" from Good News
FRANK LOESSER for "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" from The Perils of Pauline
JOSEF MYROW and MACK GORDON for "You Do" from Mother Wore Tights
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ and LEO ROBIN for "A Gal in Calico" from The Time the Place and the Girl
1946 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
HUGO FRIEDHOFER for The Best Years of Our Lives
Other Nominees
BERNARD HERRMANN for Anna and the King of Siam
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for The Killers
WILLIAM WALTON for Henry V
FRANZ WAXMAN for Humoresque
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
MORRIS STOLOFF for The Jolson Story
Other Nominees
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for Blue Skies
LENNIE HAYTON for The Harvey Girlsfor Meet Me in Las Vegas
RAY HEINDORF and MAX STEINER for Night and Day
ALFRED NEWMAN for Centennial Summer
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
HARRY WARREN and JOHNNY MERCER for "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" from The Harvey Girls
Other Nominees
IRVING BERLIN for "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" from High Society
HOAGY CARMICHAEL and JACK BROOKS for "Ole Buttermilk Sky" from Canyon Passage
JEROME KERN and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II for "All Through the Day" from Centennial Summer
JAMES V. MONACO and MACK GORDON for "I Can't Begin to Tell You" from The Dolly Sisters
1945 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for Spellbound
Other Nominees
DANIELE AMFITHEATROF for Guest Wife
LOUIS APPLEBAUM and ANN RONELL for Story of G.I. Joe
R. DALE BUTTS and MORTON SCOTT for Flame of Barbary Coast
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for The Bells of St. Mary's
LOUIS FORBES for Brewster's Millions
HUGO FRIEDHOFER and ARTHUR LANGE for The Woman in the Window
KARL HAJOS for The Man Who Walked Alone
EDWARD J. KAY for G.I. Honeymoon
WERNER JANSSEN for Captain Kidd
WERNER JANSSEN for Guest in the House
WERNER JANSSEN for The Southerner
ALFRED NEWMAN for The Keys of the Kingdom
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for The Lost Weekend
MIKLÓS RÓZSA and MORRIS STOLOFF for A Song to Remember
HANS J. SALTER for This Love of Ours
HERBERT STOTHART for The Valley of Decision
ALEXANDER TANSMAN for Paris Underground
FRANZ WAXMAN for Objective, Burma!
ROY WEBB for The Enchanted Cottage
VICTOR YOUNG for Love Letters
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
GEORGE E. STOLL for Anchor's Aweigh
Other Nominees
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for Incendiary Blonde
LOUIS FORBES and RAY HEINDORF for Wonder Man
WALTER GREENE for Why Girls Leave Home
RAY HEINDORF and MAX STEINER for Rhapsody in Blue
CHARLES HENDERSON and ALFRED NEWMAN for State Fair
EDWARD J. KAY for Sunbonnet Sue
JEROME KERN and HANS J. SALTER for Can't Help Singing
ARTHUR LANGE for Belle of the Yukon
EDWARD H. PLUMB, PAUL SMITH and CHARLES WOLCOTT for The Three Caballeros
MORTON SCOTT for Hitchhike to Happiness
MARLIN SKILES and MORRIS STOLOFF and Tonight and Every Night
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
RICHARD RODGERS and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II for "It Might Well Be Spring" from State Fair
Other Nominees
HAROLD ARLEN and JOHNNY MERCER for "Accentuate the Positive" from Here Come the Waves
RAY HEINDORF, M.K. JEROME and TED KOEHLER for "Some Sunday Morning" from San Antonio
WALTER KENT and KIM GANNON for "Endlessly" from Earl Carroll Vanities
JEROME KERN and E.Y. HARBURG for "More and More" from Can't Help Singing
JAY LIVINGSTON and RAY EVANS for "The Cat and the Canary" from Why Girls Leave Home
ANN RONELL for "Linda" from Story of G.I. Joe
DAVID ROSE and LEO ROBIN for "So In Love" from Wonder Man
JULE STYNE and SAMMY CAHN for "I Fall in Love Too Easily" from Anchors Aweigh
JULE STYNE and JAY LIVINGSTON for "Anywhere" from Tonight and Every Night
JIMMY VAN HEUSEN and JOHNNY BURKE for "Sleighride in July" from Belle of the Yukon
JIMMY VAN HEUSEN and JOHNNY BURKE for "Aren't You Glad You're You" from The Bells of St. Mary's
ALLIE WRUBEL and HERB MAGIDSON for "I'll Buy That Dream" from Sing Your Way Home
VICTOR YOUNG and EDWARD HEYMAN for "Love Letters" from Love Letters
1944 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
MAX STEINER for Since You Went Away
Other Nominees
CONSTANTIN BAKALEINIKOFF and HANNS EISLER for None But the Lonely Heart
KARL HAJOS for Summer Storm
W. FRANKE HARLING for Three Russian Girls
HANS J. SALTER for Christmas Holiday
ARTHUR LANGE for Casanova Brown
MICHEL MICHELET for A Voice in the Wind
MICHEL MICHELET and EDWARD PAUL for The Hairy Ape
ALFRED NEWMAN for Wilson
EDWARD PAUL for Up in Mabel's Room
FREDDIE RICH for Jack London
DAVID ROSE for The Princess and the Pirate
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for Double Indemnity
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for The Woman of the Town
WALTER SCHARF and ROY WEBB for The Fighting Seabees
MAX STEINER for The Adventures of Mark Twain
MORRIS STOLOFF and ERNST TOCH for Address Unknown
ROBERT STOLZ for It Happened Tomorrow
HERBERT STOTHART for Kismet
DIMITRI TIOMKIN for The Bridge of San Luis Rey
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
CARMEN DRAGON and MORRIS STOLOFF for Cover Girl
Other Nominees
CONSTANTIN BAKALEINIKOFF for Higher and Higher
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for Lady in the Dark
LEO ERDODY and FERDE GROFÉ Sr. for Minstrel Man
LOUIS FORBES and RAY HEINDORF for Up in Arms
RAY HEINDORF for Hollywood Canteen
WERNER R. HEYMANN and KURT WEILL for Knickerbocker Holiday
EDWARD J. KAY for Lady, Let's Dance
MAHLON MERRICK for Sensations of 1945
ALFRED NEWMAN for Irish Eyes Are Smiling
CHARLES PREVIN for Song of the Open Road
HANS J. SALTER for The Merry Monahans
WALTER SCHARF for Brazil
GEORGE E. STOLL for Meet Me in St. Louis
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
JIMMY VAN HEUSEN and JOHNNY BURKE for "Swinging on a Star" from Going My Way
Other Nominees
HAROLD ARLEN and TED KOEHLER for "Now I Know" from Up in Arms
ARY BARROSO and NED WASHINGTON for "Rio de Janeiro" from Brazil
RALPH BLANE and HUGH MARTIN for "The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis
M.K. JEROME and TED KOEHLER for "Sweet Dreams Sweetheart" from Hollywood Canteen
WALTER KENT and KIM GANNON for "Too Much in Love" from Song of the Open Road
JEROME KERN and IRA GERSHWIN for "Long Ago and Far Away" from Cover Girl
JIMMY McHUGH and HAROLD ADAMSON for "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" from Higher and Higher
JAMES V. MONACO and MACK GORDON for "I'm Making Believe" for Sweet and Low-Down
LEW POLLACK and CHARLES NEWMAN for "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams" from Lady, Let's Dance
HARRY REVEL and PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER for "Remember Me to Carolina" from Minstrel Man
JULE STYNE and SAMMY CAHN for "I'll Walk Alone" from Follow the Boys
1943 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
ALFRED NEWMAN for Song of Bernadette
Other Nominees
CONSTANTIN BAKALEINIKOFF and ROY WEBB for The Fallen Sparrow
PHIL BOUTELJE for Hi Diddle Diddle
GERARD CARBONARA for The Kansan
AARON COPLAND for The North Star
HANNS EISLER for Hangmen Also Die
LOUIS GRUENBERG and MORRIS STOLOFF for Commandos Strike at Dawn
LEIGH HARLINE for Johnny Come Lately
ARTHUR LANGE for Lady of Burlesque
EDWARD H. PLUMB, PAUL SMITH and OLIVER WALLACE for Victory Through Air Power
HANS J. SALTER and FRANK SKINNER for The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
WALTER SCHARF for In Old Oklahoma
MAX STEINER for Casablanca
HERBERT STOTHART for Madame Curie
DIMITRI TIOMKIN for The Moon and Sixpence
VICTOR YOUNG for For Whom the Bell Tolls
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
RAY HEINDORF for This Is The Army
Other Nominees
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for Star Spangled Rhythm
LEIGH HARLINE for The Sky's the Limit
ALFRED NEWMAN for Coney Island
EDWARD H. PLUMB, PAUL SMITH and CHARLES WOLCOTT for Saludos Amigos
FREDDIR RICH for Stage Door Canteen
WALTER SCHARF for Hit Parade of 1943
MORRIS STOLOFF for Something to Shout About
HERBERT STOTHART for Thousands Cheer
EDWARD WARD for Phantom of the Opera
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
HARRY WARREN and MACK GORDON for "You'll Never Know" from Hello Frisco Hello
Other Nominees
HAROLD ARLEN and E.Y. HARBURG for "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" from Cabin in the Sky
HAROLD ARLEN and JOHNNY MERCER for "My Shining Hour" from The Sky's the Limit
HAROLD ARLEN and JOHNNY MERCER for "That Old Black Magic" from Star Spangled Rhythm
JIMMY McHUGH and HERB MAGIDSON for "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There" from Hers to Hold
JAMES V. MONACO and AL DUBIN for "We Mustn't Say Good Bye" from Stage Door Canteen
COLE PORTER for "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" from Something to Shout About
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ and FRANK LOESSER for "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" from Thank Your Lucky Stars
JULE STYNE and HAROLD ADAMSON for "Change of Heart" from Hit Parade of 1943
CHARLES WOLCOTT and NED WASHINGTON for "Saludos Amigos" from Saludos Amigos
1942 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC OR COMEDY PICTURE)
MAX STEINER for Now Voyager
Other Nominees
FRANK CHURCHILL and EDWARD H. PLUMB for Bambi
RICHARD HAGEMAN for The Shanghai Gesture
LEIGH HARLINE for The Pride of the Yankees
WERNER R. HEYMANN for To Be or Not to Be
FREDERICK HOLLANDER and MORRIS STOLOFF for The Talk of the Town
EDWARD J. KAY for Klondike Fury
ALFRED NEWMAN for The Black Swan
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for Jungle Book
FRANK SKINNER for Arabian Nights
HERBERT STOTHART for Random Harvest
MAX TERR for The Gold Rush
DIMITRI TIOMKIN for The Corsican Brothers
ROY WEBB for I Married a Witch
ROY WEBB for Joan of Paris
VICTOR YOUNG for Flying Tigers
VICTOR YOUNG for Silver Queen
VICTOR YOUNG for Take a Letter, Darling
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
RAY HEINDORF and HEINZ ROEMHELD for Yankee Doodle Dandy
Other Nominees
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for Holiday Inn
ROGER EDENS and GEORGE E. STOLL for For Me and My Gal
LEIGH HARLINE for You Were Never Lovelier
ALFRED NEWMAN for My Gal Sal
CHARLES PREVIN and HANS J. SALTER for It Started with Eve
WALTER SCHARF for Johnny Doughboy
EDWARD WARD for Flying with Music
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
IRVING BERLIN for "White Christmas" from Holiday Inn
Other Nominees
ERNESTO LECUONA and KIM GANNON for "Always in My Heart" from Always in My Heart
BURTON LANE and RALPH FREED for "How About You?" from Babes on Broadway
FRANK CHURCHILL and LARRY MOREY for "Love Is a Song" for Bambi
EDWARD WARD, CHET FORREST and BOB WRIGHT for "Pennies for Peppino" from Flying with Music
GENE DE PAUL and DON RAYE for "Pig Foot Pete" from Keep 'Em Flying
HARRY REVEL and MORT GREENE for "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise" from The Mayor of 44th Street
HARRY WARREN and MACK GORDON for "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" from Orchestra Wives
JEROME KERN and JOHNNY MERCER for "Dearly Beloved" from You Were Never Lovelier
JULE STYNE and SAMMY CAHN for "It Seems I Heard That Song Before" from Youth on Parade
1941 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (DRAMATIC PICTURE)
BERNARD HERRMANN for The Devil and Daniel Webster
Other Nominees
CY FEUER and WALTER SCHARF for Mercy Island
LOUIS GRUENERG for So Ends Our Night
RICHARD HAGEMAN for This Woman Is Mine
BERNARD HERRMANN for Citizen Kane
WERNER R. HEYMANN for That Uncertain Feeling
EDWARD J. KAY for King of the Zombies
ALFRED NEWMAN for Ball of Fire
ALFRED NEWMAN for How Green Was My Valley
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for Lydia
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for Sundown
FRANK SKINNER for Back Street
MAX STEINER for Sergeant York
MORRIS STOLOFF and ERNST TOCH for Ladies in Retirement
EDWARD WARD for Cheers for Miss Bishop
EDWARD WARD for Tanks a Million
FRANZ WAXMAN for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
FRANZ WAXMAN for Suspicion
MEREDITH WILLSON for The Little Foxes
VICTOR YOUNG for Hold Back the Dawn
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSICAL PICTURE)
FRANK CHURCHILL and OLIVER WALLACE for Dumbo
Other Nominees
ANTHONY COLLINS for Sunny
ROBERT EMMETT DOLAN for Birth of the Blues
CY FEUER for Ice-Capades
EMIL NEWMAN for Sun Valley Serenade
CHARLES PREVIN for Buck Privates
HEINZ ROMHELD for The Strawberry Blonde
MORRIS STOLOFF for You'll Never Get Rich
HERBERT STOTHART and BRONISLAU KAPER for The Chocolate Soldier
EDWARD WARD for All American Co-Ed
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
JEROME KERN and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II for "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good
Other Nominees
LOUIS ALTER and FRANK LOESSER for "Dolores" from Las Vegas Nights
HAROLD ARLEN and JOHNNY MERCER for "Blues in the Night" from Blues in the Night
GENE AUTRY and FRED ROSE for "Be Honest with Me" from Ridin' on a Rainbow
FRANK CHURCHILL and NED WASHINGTON for "Baby Mine" from Dumbo
LLOYD B. NORLIN for "Out of the Silence" from All American Co-Ed
COLE PORTER for "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" from You'll Never Get Rich
HUGH PRINCE and DON RAYE for "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" from Buck Privates
HARRY WARREN and MACK GORDON for "Chattanooga Choo Choo" from Sun Valley Serenade
1940 AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
LEIGH HARLINE, PAUL SMITH and NED WASHINGTON for Pinocchio
Other Nominees
AARON COPLAND for Our Town
LOUIS GRUENBERG for The Fight for Life
RICHARD HAGEMAN for The Howards of Virginia
RICHARD HAGEMAN for The Long Voyage Home
WERNER R. HEYMANN for One Million B.C.
ALFRED NEWMAN for The Mark of Zorro
MIKLÓS RÓZSA for The Thief of Bagdad
FRANK SKINNER for The House of the Seven Gables
MAX STEINER for The Letter
HERBERT STOTHART for Waterloo Bridge
FRANZ WAXMAN for Rebecca
ROY WEBB for My Favorite Wife
MEREDITH WILLSON for The Great Dictator
VICTOR YOUNG for Arizona
VICTOR YOUNG for Dark Command
VICTOR YOUNG for North West Mounted Police
BEST SCORE
ALFRED NEWMAN for Tin Pan Alley
Other Nominees
ANTHONY COLLINS for Irene
AARON COPLAND for Our Town
CY FEUER for Hit Parade of 1941
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD for The Sea Hawk
CHARLES PREVIN for Spring Parade
ARTIE SHAW for Second Chorus
GEORGE E. STOLL and ROGER EDENS for Strike Up the Band
VICTOR YOUNG for Arise, My Love
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
LEIGH HARLINE and NED WASHINGTON for "When You Wish Upon A Star" from Pinocchio
Other Nominees
ROGER EDENS and GEORGE E. STOLL for "Our Love Affair" from Strike Up the Band
CHET FORREST and BOB WRIGHT for "It's a Blue World" from Music in My Heart
JIMMY McHUGH and JOHNNY MERCER for "I'd Know You Anywhere" from You'll Find Out
JAMES V. MONACO and JOHNNY BURKE for "Only Forever" from Rhythm on the River
ARTIE SHAW and JOHNNY MERCER for "Love of My Life" from Second Chorus
ROBERT STOLZ and GUS KAHN for "Waltzing in the Clouds" from Spring Parade
JULE STYNE and WALTER BULLOCK for "Who Am I?" from Hit Parade of 1941
HARRY WARREN and MACK GORDON for "Down Argentine Way" from Down Argentine Way
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