Casablanca – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros.
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Sam Wood for Paramount* Heaven Can Wait – Ernst Lubitsch for 20th Century Fox* The Human Comedy – Clarence Brown for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer* In Which We Serve – Noël Coward for Two Cities Films* Madame Curie – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer* The More the Merrier – George Stevens for Columbia* The Ox-Bow Incident – Lamar Trotti for 20th Century Fox* The Song of Bernadette – William Perlberg for 20th Century Fox* Watch on the Rhine – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros. | Michael Curtiz – Casablanca* Ernst Lubitsch – Heaven Can Wait* Clarence Brown – The Human Comedy* George Stevens – The More the Merrier* Henry King – The Song of Bernadette |
| Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller* Humphrey Bogart – Casablanca as Rick Blaine* Gary Cooper – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan* Walter Pidgeon – Madame Curie as Pierre Curie* Mickey Rooney – The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley | Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette Soubirous* Jean Arthur – The More the Merrier as Constance Milligan* Ingrid Bergman – For Whom the Bell Tolls as María* Joan Fontaine – The Constant Nymph as Tessa Sanger* Greer Garson – Madame Curie as Marie Curie |
| Charles Coburn – The More the Merrier as Benjamin Dingle* Charles Bickford – The Song of Bernadette as Abbé Dominique Peyramale* J. Carrol Naish – Sahara as Giuseppe* Claude Rains – Casablanca as Captain Louis Renault* Akim Tamiroff – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo | Katina Paxinou – For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pilar* Gladys Cooper – The Song of Bernadette as Marie Therese Vauzou* Paulette Goddard – So Proudly We Hail! as Lt. Joan O'Doul* Anne Revere – The Song of Bernadette as Louise Casterot Soubirous* Lucile Watson – Watch on the Rhine as Fanny Farrelly |
| Princess O'Rourke – Norman Krasna* Air Force – Dudley Nichols* In Which We Serve – Noël Coward* The North Star – Lillian Hellman* So Proudly We Hail! – Allan Scott | Casablanca – Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard E. Koch, based on Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison* Holy Matrimony – Nunnally Johnson, based on Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett* The More the Merrier – Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, and Robert Russell, based on a story by Frank Ross and Robert Russell* The Song of Bernadette – George Seaton, based on the novel by Franz Werfel* Watch on the Rhine – Dashiell Hammett, based on the play by Lillian Hellman |
| The Human Comedy – William Saroyan* Action in the North Atlantic – Guy Gilpatric* Destination Tokyo – Steve Fisher* The More the Merrier – Robert Russell and Frank Ross* Shadow of a Doubt – Gordon McDonell | Desert Victory – British Ministry of Information* Baptism of Fire – United States Army* The Battle of Russia – United States Department of War, Special Service Division* Report from the Aleutians – United States Army Pictorial Service* War Department Report – United States Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Bureau |
| December 7th – John Ford and United States Navy* Children of Mars – RKO Radio* Plan for Destruction – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer* Swedes in America – United States Office of War Information, Overseas Motion Picture Bureau* To the People of the United States – Walter Wanger* Tomorrow We Fly – United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics* Youth in Crisis – The March of Time | Amphibious Fighters – Grantland Rice* Cavalcade of Dance – Gordon Hollingshead* Champions Carry On – Edmund Reek* Hollywood in Uniform – Ralph Staub* Seeing Hands – Pete Smith |
| Heavenly Music – Jerry Bresler and Sam Coslow* Letter to a Hero – Frederic Ullman Jr.* Mardi Gras – Walter MacEwen* Women at War – Gordon Hollingshead | The Yankee Doodle Mouse – Fred Quimby* The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins – George Pal* The Dizzy Acrobat – Walter Lantz* Greetings, Bait! – Leon Schlesinger* Imagination – Dave Fleischer* Reason and Emotion – Walt Disney |
| The Song of Bernadette – Alfred Newman* The Amazing Mrs. Holliday – Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner* Casablanca – Max Steiner* Commandos Strike at Dawn – Louis Gruenberg and Morris Stoloff* The Fallen Sparrow – C. Bakaleinikoff and Roy Webb* For Whom the Bell Tolls – Victor Young* Hangmen Also Die! – Hanns Eisler* Hi Diddle Diddle – Philip Boutelje* In Old Oklahoma – Walter Scharf* Johnny Come Lately – Leigh Harline* The Kansan – Gerard Carbonara* Lady of Burlesque – Arthur Lange* Madame Curie – Herbert Stothart* The Moon and Sixpence – Dimitri Tiomkin* The North Star – Aaron Copland* Victory Through Air Power – Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Oliver Wallace | This Is the Army – Ray Heindorf* Coney Island – Alfred Newman* Hit Parade of 1943 – Walter Scharf* Phantom of the Opera – Edward Ward* Saludos Amigos – Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott* The Sky's the Limit – Leigh Harline* Something to Shout About – Morris Stoloff* Stage Door Canteen – Frederic E. Rich* Star Spangled Rhythm – Robert Emmett Dolan* Thousands Cheer – Herbert Stothart |
| "You'll Never Know" from Hello, Frisco, Hello – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon* "A Change of Heart" from Hit Parade of 1943 – Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Harold Adamson* "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" from Cabin in the Sky – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg* "My Shining Hour" from The Sky's the Limit – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer* "Saludos Amigos" from Saludos Amigos – Music by Charles Wolcott; Lyrics by Ned Washington* "Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There" from Hers to Hold – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Herb Magidson* "That Old Black Magic" from Star Spangled Rhythm – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer* "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" from Thank Your Lucky Stars – Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Frank Loesser* "We Mustn't Say Goodbye" from Stage Door Canteen – Music by James V. Monaco; Lyrics by Al Dubin* "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" from Something to Shout About – Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter | This Land Is Mine – Stephen Dunn* Hangmen Also Die! – Jack Whitney* In Old Oklahoma – Daniel J. Bloomberg* Madame Curie – Douglas Shearer* The North Star – Thomas T. Moulton* Phantom of the Opera – Bernard B. Brown* Riding High – Loren L. Ryder* Sahara – John P. Livadary* Saludos Amigos – C. O. Slyfield* So This Is Washington – J. L. Fields* The Song of Bernadette – E. H. Hansen* This Is the Army – Nathan Levinson |
| The Song of Bernadette – Art Direction: James Basevi and William S. Darling; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little* Five Graves to Cairo – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger* Flight for Freedom – Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino and Carroll Clark; Interior Decoration: Darrell Silvera and Harley Miller* Madame Curie – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Hugh Hunt* Mission to Moscow – Art Direction: Carl Jules Weyl; Interior Decoration: George James Hopkins* The North Star – Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol | Phantom of the Opera – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and John B. Goodman; Interior Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb* For Whom the Bell Tolls – Art Direction: Hans Dreier and Haldane Douglas; Interior Decoration: Bertram Granger* The Gang's All Here – Art Direction: James Basevi and Joseph C. Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little* This Is the Army – Art Direction: John Hughes and Lt. John Koenig; Interior Decoration: George James Hopkins* Thousands Cheer – Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Daniel B. Cathcart; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and Jacques Mersereau |
| The Song of Bernadette – Arthur C. Miller* Air Force – James Wong Howe, Elmer Dyer and Charles A. Marshall* Casablanca – Arthur Edeson* Corvette K-225 – Tony Gaudio* Five Graves to Cairo – John F. Seitz* The Human Comedy – Harry Stradling* Madame Curie – Joseph Ruttenberg* The North Star – James Wong Howe* Sahara – Rudolph Maté* So Proudly We Hail! – Charles Lang | Phantom of the Opera – Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene* For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ray Rennahan* Heaven Can Wait – Edward Cronjager* Hello, Frisco, Hello – Charles G. Clarke and Allen Davey* Lassie Come Home – Leonard Smith* Thousands Cheer – George J. Folsey |
| Air Force – George Amy* Casablanca – Owen Marks* Five Graves to Cairo – Doane Harrison* For Whom the Bell Tolls – Sherman Todd and John F. Link Sr.* The Song of Bernadette – Barbara McLean | Crash Dive – Photographic Effects: Fred Sersen; Sound Effects: Roger Heman* Air Force – Photographic Effects: Hans F. Koenekamp and Rex Wimpy; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson* Bombardier – Photographic Effects: Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects James G. Stewart and Roy Granville* The North Star – Photographic Effects: Clarence Slifer and Ray Binger; Sound Effects: Thomas T. Moulton* So Proudly We Hail! – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects: George Dutton* Stand By for Action – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie and Donald Jahraus; Sound Effects: Michael Steinore |