15th Academy Awards
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American Motion Picture Academy film award ceremony
Key facts
- Date
- March 4, 1943
- Site
- Cocoanut Grove , The Ambassador Hotel , Los Angeles , California , USA
- Hosted by
- Bob Hope
- Best picture
- Mrs. Miniver
- Most awards
- Mrs. Miniver (6)
- Most nominations
- Mrs. Miniver (12)
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 16th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 14th Academy Awards
- Location
- Ambassador Hotel
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943
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- edition number
- 15
- point in time
- 1943-03-04
- presenter
- Bob Hope
- awarded for period
- 1942-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4, 1943, honoring the films of 1942. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by Greer Garson. Accepting the award for Best Actress, Garson spoke for approximately 5 minutes and 30 seconds, which was the longest acceptance speech in Oscars history until Adrien Brody won for Best Actor in 2025. A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio.
Mrs. Miniver was the second film (after My Man Godfrey in 1936) to receive nominations in all four acting categories, as well as the first film to receive five acting nominations; it won six of its twelve nominations, including Best Picture and William Wyler's first of three Best Director awards.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “15th Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.