The 15th Annual Academy Awards (1943)
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The 15th Annual Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Best Picture honors went to the film Mrs. Miniver. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by the film’s Oscar-winning actress Greer Garson. Garson’s acceptance speech as Best Actress ran nearly 6 minutes and is generally considered to be the longest acceptance speech at an Academy Awards ceremony. Also notable at the ceremony, Irving Berlin presented the Academy Award for Best Song, which he ended up winning for "White Christmas".
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A = “Mrs. Miniver” was nominated for 12 Awards and won a total of (A) Awards.
B = (B) Meyer was nominated for Best Film Editing for his work for “The Talk of the Town”.
C = “Yankee Doodle Dandy” was nominated for (C) Academy Awards.
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D = “Jungle Book” was nominated for (D) Academy Awards.
E = “The Talk of the Town” was nominated for (E) Academy Awards.
F = “Arabian Nights” was nominated for Best Art Direction, Color. The people nominated were for Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and Jack Otterson; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman and (F) S. Webb (Convert the first letter of the first name to a number).
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