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Best Picture Win: Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Forty-Ninth Parallel Runner-Up: Kings Row Runner-Up: Random Harvest Runner-Up: The Magnificent Ambersons Runner-Up: The Pied Piper Runner-Up: The Pride of the Yankees Runner-Up: The Talk of the Town Runner-Up: Wake Island Runner-Up: Yankee Doodle Dandy Best Director Win: William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Sam Wood, Kings Row Runner-Up: Mervyn LeRoy, Random Harvest Runner-Up: John Farrow, Wake Island Runner-Up: Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy Best Actor Win: James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy Runner-Up: Walter PIdgeon, Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Ronald Colman, Random Harvest Runner-Up: Monty Woolley, The Pied Piper Runner-Up: Gary Cooper, The Pride of the Yankees Best Actress Win: Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Rosalind Russell, My Sister Eileen Runner-Up: Bette Davis, Now, Voyager Runner-Up: Teresa Wright, The Pride of the Yankees Runner-Up: Katharine Hepburn, Woman of the Year Best Supporting Actor Win: Van Heflin, Johnny Eager Runner-Up: Henry Travers, Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Frank Morgan, Tortilla Flat Runner-Up: William Bendix, Wake Island Runner-Up: Walter Huston, Yankee Doodle Dandy Best Supporting Actress Win: Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Dame May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager Runner-Up: Susan Peters, Random Harvest Runner-Up: Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons Best Original Screenplay Win: Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr. , Woman of the Year Runner-Up: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell , One of Our Aircraft Is Missing Runner-Up: Don Hartman, Frank Butler , Road to Morocco Runner-Up: George Oppenheimer, The War Against Mrs. Hadley Runner-Up: Frank Butler, W.R. Burnett , Wake Island Best Original Story Win: Emeric Pressburger, Forty-Ninth Parallel Runner-Up: Irving Berlin, Holiday Inn Runner-Up: Paul Gallico, The Pride of the Yankees Runner-Up: Sidney Harmon, The Talk of the Town Runner-Up: Robert Buckner, Yankee Doodle Dandy Best Screenplay Win: George Froeschel, Arthur Wimpers, James Hilton, Claudine West , Mrs. Miniver Runner-Up: Emeric Pressburger, Rodney Achland , Forty-Ninth Parallel Runner-Up: George Froeschel, Arthur Wimpers, Claudine West , Random Harvest Runner-Up: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling , The Pride of the Yankees Runner-Up: Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman , The Talk of the Town

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