The 1942 Academy Awards were presented March 4, 1943 at Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
| Outstanding Motion Picture | The Invaders (Ortus; Columbia) |
| Kings Row (Warner Bros.) |
| The Magnificent Ambersons (Mercury; RKO Radio) |
| Mrs. Miniver (MGM) |
| The Pied Piper (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| The Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) |
| Random Harvest (MGM) |
| The Talk of the Town (Columbia) |
| Wake Island (Paramount) |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Actor | James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Ronald Colman, Random Harvest |
| Gary Cooper, The Pride of the Yankees |
| Walter Pidgeon, Mrs. Miniver |
| Monty Woolley, The Pied Piper |
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 James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy Archive Photos |
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| Best Actress | Bette Davis, Now, Voyager |
| Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver |
| Katharine Hepburn, Woman of the Year |
| Rosalind Russell, My Sister Eileen |
| Teresa Wright, The Pride of the Yankees |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | William Bendix, Wake Island |
| Van Heflin, Johnny Eager |
| Walter Huston, Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Frank Morgan, Tortilla Flat |
| Henry Travers, Mrs. Miniver |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager |
| Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons |
| Susan Peters, Random Harvest |
| Dame May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver |
| Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver |
| Directing | Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| John Farrow, Wake Island |
| Mervyn LeRoy, Random Harvest |
| Sam Wood, Kings Row |
| William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver |
| Writing | | Original Motion Picture Story | Irving Berlin, Holiday Inn | | Robert Buckner, Yankee Doodle Dandy | | Paul Gallico, The Pride of the Yankees | | Sidney Harmon, The Talk of the Town | | Emeric Pressburger, The Invaders | | Original Screenplay | W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, Wake Island | | Frank Butler and Don Hartman, Road to Morocco | | Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., Woman of the Year | | George Oppenheimer, The War Against Mrs. Hadley | | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing | | Screenplay | Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, The Invaders | | Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw, The Talk of the Town | | George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis, Mrs. Miniver | | George Froeschel, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis, Random Harvest | | Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling, The Pride of the Yankees |
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| Cinematography | | Black-and-White | Charles Clarke, Moontide | | Stanley Cortez, The Magnificent Ambersons | | Edward Cronjager, The Pied Piper | | James Wong Howe, Kings Row | | Rudolph Maté, The Pride of the Yankees | | John Mescall, Take a Letter, Darling | | Arthur Miller, This Above All | | Joseph Ruttenberg, Mrs. Miniver | | Leon Shamroy, Ten Gentlemen From West Point | | Ted Tetzlaff, The Talk of the Town | | Color | Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall, To the Shores of Tripoli | | W. Howard Greene, Jungle Book | | Milton Krasner, William V. Skall and W. Howard Greene, Arabian Knights | | Victor Milner and William V. Skall, Reap the Wild Wind | | Sol Polito, Captains of the Clouds | | Leon Shamroy, The Black Swan |
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| Art Direction | | Black-and-White | Lionel Banks and Rudolph Sternad, art direction; Fay Babcock, interior decoration, The Talk of the Town | | Ralph Berger, art direction; Emile Kuri, interior decoration, Silver Queen | | Albert S. D'Agostino, art direction; Al Fields and Darrell Silvera, interior decoration, The Magnificent Ambersons | | Richard Day and Joseph Wright, art direction; Thomas Little, interior decoration, This Above All | | Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson, art direction; Sam Comer, interior decoration, Take a Letter, Darling | | Perry Ferguson, art direction; Howard Bristol, interior decoration, The Pride of the Yankees | | Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell, art direction; Edwin B. Willis and Jack Moore, interior decoration, Random Harvest | | John B. Goodman and Jack Otterson, art direction; Russell A. Gausman and Boris Leven, art direction and interior decoration, The Shanghai Gesture | | Max Parker and Mark-Lee Kirk, art direction; Casey Roberts, interior decoration, George Washington Slept Here | | Edward R. Robinson, interior decoration, The Spoilers | | Color | Richard Day and Joseph Wright, art direction; Thomas Little, interior decoration, My Gal Sal | | Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson, art direction; George Sawley, interior decoration, Reap the Wild Wind | | Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson, art direction; Russell A. Gausman and Ira S. Webb, interior decoration, Arabian Nights | | Vincent Korda, art direction; Julia Heron, interior decoration, Jungle Book | | Ted Smith, art direction; Casey Roberts, interior decoration, Captains of the Clouds |
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| Sound Recording | Columbia Studio Sound Dept., You Were Never Lovelier |
| MGM Studio Sound Dept., Mrs. Miniver |
| Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Road to Morocco |
| RCA Sound, The Gold Rush |
| Republic Studio Sound Dept., Flying Tigers |
| RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., Once Upon a Honeymoon |
| Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept., The Pride of the Yankees |
| Sound Service, Inc., Friendly Enemies |
| Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., This Above All |
| Universal Studio Sound Dept., Arabian Nights |
| Walt Disney Studio Sound Dept., Bambi |
| Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Music | | Song | “Always in My Heart,” Always in My Heart, Ernesto Lecuona, music; Kim Gannon, lyrics | | “Dearly Beloved,” You Were Never Lovelier, Jerome Kern, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics | | “How About You?,” Babes on Broadway, Burton Lane, music; Ralph Freed, lyrics | | “It Seems I Heard That Song Before,” Youth on Parade, Jule Styne, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics | | “I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo,” Orchestra Wives, Harry Warren, music; Mack Gordon, lyrics | | “Love Is a Song,” Bambi, Frank Churchill, music; Larry Morey, lyrics | | “Pennies for Peppino,” Flying With Music, Edward Ward, music; Chet Forrest and Bob Wright, lyrics | | “Pig Foot Pete,” Hellzapoppin', Gene de Paul, music; Don Raye, lyrics (This song was declared ineligible because it does not appear in Hellzapoppin'. The song did appear in the 1941 film Keep 'Em Flying.) | | “There's a Breeze on Lake Louise,” The Mayor of 44th Street, Harry Revel, music; Mort Greene, lyrics | | “White Christmas,” Holiday Inn, Irving Berlin, music and lyrics | | Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb, Bambi | | Richard Hageman, The Shanghai Gesture | | Leigh Harline, The Pride of the Yankees | | Werner Heymann, To Be or Not to Be | | Frederick Hollander and Morris Stoloff, The Talk of the Town | | Edward Kay, Klondike Fury | | Alfred Newman, The Black Swan | | Miklos Rozsa, Jungle Book | | Frank Skinner, Arabian Nights | | Max Steiner, Now, Voyager | | Herbert Stothart, Random Harvest | | Max Terr, The Gold Rush | | Dimitri Tiomkin, The Corsican Brothers | | Roy Webb, I Married a Witch | | Roy Webb, Joan of Paris | | Victor Young, Flying Tigers | | Victor Young, Silver Queen | | Victor Young, Take a Letter, Darling | | Scoring of a Musical Picture | Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll, For Me and My Gal | | Robert Emmett Dolan, Holiday Inn | | Leigh Harline, You Were Never Lovelier | | Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld, Yankee Doodle Dandy | | Alfred Newman, My Gal Sal | | Charles Previn and Hans Salter, It Started With Eve | | Walter Scharf, Johnny Doughboy | | Edward Ward, Flying With Music |
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| Film Editing | George Amy, Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Harold F. Kress, Mrs. Miniver |
| Daniel Mandell, The Pride of the Yankees |
| Otto Meyer, The Talk of the Town |
| Walter Thompson, This Above All |
| Special Effects | Lawrence Butler, photography; William H. Wilmarth, sound, Jungle Book |
| Jack Cosgrove and Ray Binger, photography; Thomas T. Moulton, sound, The Pride of the Yankees |
| Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira, photography; Louis Mesenkop, sound, Reap the Wild Wind |
| John Fulton, photography; Bernard B. Brown, sound, Invisible Agent |
| A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe, photography; Douglas Shearer, sound, Mrs. Miniver |
| Byron Haskin, photography; Nathan Levinson, sound, Desperate Journey |
| Howard Lydecker, photography; Daniel J. Bloomberg, sound, Flying Tigers |
| Ronald Neame, photography; C. C. Stevens, sound, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing |
| Fred Sersen, photography; Roger Heman and George Leverett, sound, The Black Swan |
| Vernon L. Walker, photography; James G. Stewart, sound, The Navy Comes Through |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | All Out for “V” (Terrytoons Series) (Twentieth Century-Fox) | | Blitz Wolf (MGM) | | Der Fuehrer's Face (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio) | | Juke Box Jamboree (Swing Symphony Series) (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal) | | Pigs in a Polka (Blue Ribbon Series) (Leon Schlesinger, producer; Warner Bros.) | | Tulips Shall Grow (George Pal Puppetoon Series) (George Pal Productions, Paramount) | | One-Reel | Desert Wonderland (Magic Carpet Series) (Twentieth Century-Fox) | | Marines in the Making (Pete Smith Specialties Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM) | | Speaking of Animals and Their Families (Speaking of Animals Series) (Paramount) | | United States Marine Band (Melody Master Bands Series) (Warner Bros.) | | Two-Reel | Beyond the Line of Duty (Broadway Brevities Series) (U.S. War Department; Warner Bros.) | | Don't Talk (Crime Doesn't Pay Series) (MGM) | | Private Smith of the U.S.A. (This Is America Series) (RKO Radio) |
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| Documentary | Africa, Prelude to Victory (March of Time; Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| The Battle of Midway (U.S. Navy; Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Combat Report (U.S. Army Signal Corps) |
| Conquer by the Clock (America Speaks Series) (U.S. War Information Office; RKO Pathé) |
| The Grain That Built a Hemisphere (Walt Disney, producer; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs) |
| Henry Browne, Farmer (U.S. Department of Agriculture; Republic) |
| High Over the Borders (National Film Board of Canada) |
| High Stakes in the East (Netherlands Information Bureau; Netherlands Information Bureau/Service) |
| Inside Fighting China (World in Action Series) (National Film Board of Canada; United Artists) |
| It's Everybody's War (U.S. War Information Office; Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Kokoda Front Line! (Australian News and Information Bureau) |
| Listen to Britain (British Ministry of Information) |
| Little Belgium (Belgian Ministry of Information) |
| Little Isles of Freedom (Broadway Brevities Series) (Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew, producers; Warner Bros.) |
| Moscow Strikes Back (Artkino; Republic) |
| Mr. Blabbermouth! (U.S. War Information Office; MGM) |
| Mr. Gardenia Jones (U.S. War Information Office; MGM) |
| The New Spirit (Walt Disney, producer; U.S. Treasury Department) |
| Prelude to War (U.S. Army Special Services) |
| The Price of Victory (U.S. War Information Office; Paramount) |
| A Ship Is Born (U.S. Merchant Marine; Warner Bros.) |
| Twenty-One Miles (British Ministry of Information) |
| We Refuse to Die (U.S. War Information Office; Paramount) |
| White Eagle (Concanen Films) |
| Winning Your Wings (U.S. Army Air Force; Warner Bros.) |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Sidney Franklin |
| Special Awards | To Charles Boyer for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference for the Hollywood motion picture industry |
| To Noel Coward for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve |
| To MGM for its achievement in representing the American way of life in the production of the Andy Hardy series of films |
