Oscar History: Academy Award Winning Movies and Actors of 1943

A look at Oscar winners and nominees, behind the scenes on the decisions for best picture, actor, etc for 1943, Casablanca gets top honors.

1943

Best Picture

NOMINEES: Casablanca, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, The Human Comedy, In Which We Serve, Madame Curie, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette, Watch on the Rhine

THE WINNER: Casablanca (Warner Bros.)

DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz

PLAYERS: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Best Actor

NOMINEES: Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca); Gary Cooper (For Whom the Bell Tolls); Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine); Walter Pidgeon (Madame Curie); Mickey Rooney (The Human Comedy)

THE WINNER: Humphrey Bogart

Best Actress

NOMINEES: Jean Arthur (The More the Merrier); Ingrid Bergman (For Whom the Bell Tolls); Joan Fontaine (The Constant Nymph); Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette); Greer Garson (Madame Curie)

THE WINNER: Jennifer Jones

Behind the Oscar

The Academy ceremony moved from hotel banquet rooms to a theater, and the public was admitted for the 1st time.