Evening star., 1942-02-27
Film Oscars Awarded
To Gary Cooper and
Joan Fonfaine
How Green Was Ny
Valley Best Picture;
Ford Best Director
by tn. Associated Press.

ford beSt OiTeCtor
by tn. Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27.-Joan
Fontaine and Gary Cooper today
possessed gold statuettes as the
outstanding movie actress and actor
of 1o4l.
Miss Fontaine won for her por-
trayal Of q woman who lived in
constant fear that her husband
would kill her. The picture was
Suspicion" produced by R-K-O.
Cooper was acclaimed for his role
as the World Wars No. hero,
Sergt. (Alvin) York, in the Warner
Bros picture of that name.
Miss Fontaine lost a bet to Wen
dell Willkie, speaker last night at
the annual dinner Of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sci
ences, who wagered $25 to her $40
that she would win. She paid of
promptly. Other nominees for the
best actress were her sister, Olivia
De Havilland; Bette Davis, already
q two time winner; Greer Carson
and Barbara Stanwyck.
Other male nominees were Orson
Welles, Cary Grant, Walter Huston
and Robert Montgomery.
Valley" Picture Judged Best.
Twentieth Century-Fox won the
best picture award for the first time
since the Academy of Motion Pic
lures Arts and Sciences began Civ
ing Oscars" in 1928. The film was
How Green Was My Valley" and
1t won major honors for two of
the men who helped make 1t great.
John Ford. now lieutenant COM
mander in the Navy, was awarded
a gold statuette for his directorial
work on the film, adapted from
Richard Llewellyns best-selling
book. Comdr. Ford also won best
directing Oscars" in 1885 and 1910
for The Informer" and Grapes
of Wrath"
Donald Crisp's work in How
Green Was My Valley" won him
the award for the years best male
supporting role.
Mary Astor was proclaimed best
supporting actress for her part in
Warner Bros THE Great Lie"
1t. Jimmy Stewart, in uniform,
and Ginger Rogers, who won the
1910 Oscars" made the presenta-
tions to Cooper, Miss Fontaine,
Crisp and Miss Astor. Crisp,
World War veteran and a captain
in the California State Guard, also
was in uniform.
Welles Shares One Award.
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane"
nominated for nine major and
minor trophies, received only one
best original screen play. Welles
and Herman j. Mankiewicz shared it.
Walt Disney as usual carried of
special honors, for Fantasia" and
'Dumbo" and was given the Irving
Thalberg Memorial Trophy for most
consistently high production achieve
ment.
Harry Segan received a statuette
for the best original motion picture
story, Here Comes MIR. Jordan"
produced by Columbia.
For the best written screen play,
Sidney Buchanan and Seton I.
Miller received statuettes. It also
was Here Comes Mr.. Jordan"
Jack Benny, who played Charles
Aunt" was given a special Oscar"
draped in skirts, as 'the best
sweater girl"
Other Awards Listed.
Other awards included:
Best song-Plaques to Jerome
Kern for the music and Oscar Ham
merstein I'd for the lyrics of THE
Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady
Be Good" M-G-M.
Best scoring Of musical picture,
plaques to Frank Churchill and
Oliver Wallace for Walt Disney's
''Dumbo."
Best scoring of dramatic picture,
a plaque to Bernard Hermann,
composer and conductor. "All That
Money Can Buy" r. K. o.
Cartoon: A plaque for Walt Dis
ney's Mickey Mouse picture, Lend
q Paw"
Two-reel film: A plaque for
"Main Street on the March," M.
G.. M.
One-reel film: A plaque for "Of
Pups and Puzzles" M. G. M.
Special awards were presented to
Walt Disney, William Garrity, John
N. A. Hawkins and the R. c. A. Man.
ufacturing Co. for the advancement
of the use of sound in Fantasia"
Leopold Stokowski and associates,
were given a special award for crea-
ton of a new form of visualized
music in Fantasia"
John Grierson, film commissioner
of Canada, presented awards for
documentary films to Rey Scott for
'Kukan," film record of China's
struggle, and to the British Min
tstry of Information for 'its vivid
and dramatic presentation Of the
heroism of the r. A. F." for the doc
umentary film Target for Tonight. "
This was the first time awards
had been made for documentary
films.
A special award for documentary
short was given the Canadian Film
Board for "Churchill's Island"
WilIkie Defends Douglas.
The meeting, starting with a BAN
ouet last night and continuing long
past midnight, drew 1900 persons,
300 more than ever turned out be-
fore.
Mr. Willkie farincinal hannIet