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Also known as The 15th Academy Awards

American Motion Picture Academy film award ceremony

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Within Vinony's link graph, 15th Academy Awards is referenced by 447 other articles, and connects out to Academy Awards, Academy Award for Best Sound and Alfred Newman.

Vinony files it under 1942 film awards, 1943 in American cinema and 1943 in Los Angeles.

Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.

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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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.

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