Alternate Oscars: 1942

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Casablanca*

Cat People

The Magnificent Ambersons

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

To Be or Not to Be

BEST DIRECTOR:

Michael Curtiz, Casablanca*

Ernst Lubitsch, To Be or Not to Be

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, One of Our Aircraft is Missing

Jacques Tourneur, Cat People

Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons

BEST ACTOR:

Jack Benny, To Be or Not to Be

Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca*

James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

Tim Holt, The Magnificent Ambersons

Monty Woolley, The Pied Piper

BEST ACTRESS:

Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca*

Bette Davis, Now, Voyager

Greer Garson, Random Harvest

Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch

Carole Lombard, To Be or Not to Be

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

William Bendix, Wake Island

Joseph Cotten, The Magnificent Ambersons

Otto Preminger, The Pied Piper

Claude Rains, Casablanca*

Ronald Reagan, Kings Row

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Mary Astor, The Palm Beach Story

Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager

Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons*

Ann Sheridan, Kings Row

Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Casablanca*

The Magnificent Ambersons

Mrs. Miniver

Random Harvest

This Gun for Hire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Cat People

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

The Palm Beach Story

The Talk of the Town

To Be or Not to Be*

BEST ART DIRECTION:

The Black Swan

Casablanca

Kings Row

The Magnificent Ambersons*

Yankee Doodle Dandy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The Black Swan

Casablanca

Cat People

The Magnificent Ambersons*

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

The Black Swan*

The Magnificent Ambersons

Now, Voyager

Roxie Hart

Yankee Doodle Dandy

BEST FILM EDITING:

Casablanca*

Cat People

The Magnificent Ambersons

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

Saboteur

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

The Black Swan

Casablanca

Kings Row

The Magnificent Ambersons

Now, Voyager*

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Happy Holiday" from Holiday Inn

"Heave Ho" from The Black Swan

"Knock on Wood" from Casablanca

"Love is a Song" from Bambi

"White Christmas" from Holiday Inn*

BEST MAKEUP:

The Black Swan*

I Married a Witch

The Magnificent Ambersons

Wake Island

Yankee Doodle Dandy

BEST SOUND:

Cat People*

In Which We Serve

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

The Pride of the Yankees

Wake Island

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

The Black Swan

In Which We Serve

One of Our Aircraft is Missing*

Saboteur

Wake Island

BEST STUNTS:

Across the Pacific

The Black Swan

In Which We Serve*

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

Wake Island

BEST CASTING:

Casablanca*

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Man Who Came to Dinner

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

The Palm Beach Story

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: (incomplete lineup)

In Which We Serve

One of Our Aircraft is Missing*

Went the Day Well?