The 1940s: The Arts: Awards
THE 1940s: THE ARTS: AWARDS
Pulitzer Prizes
1940
Fiction: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Drama: The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan
Poetry: Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren
1941
Fiction: no award
Drama: There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood
Poetry: Sunder land Capture, by Leonard Bacon
1942
Fiction: In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow
Drama: no award
Poetry: The Dust Which Is God, by William Rose Benét
1943
Fiction: Dragon's Teeth, by Upton Sinclair
Drama: The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
Poetry: A Witness Tree, by Robert Frost
Music: Secular Cantata no. 2, ("A Free Song"), by William Schuman
1944
Fiction: Journey in the Dark, by Martin Flavin
Drama: no award
Poetry: Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Benét
Music: Symphony no. 4, op. 34, by Howard Hanson
1945
Fiction: A Bell For Adano, by John Hersey
Drama: Harvey, by Mary Chase
Poetry: V-Letter and Other Poems, by Karl Shapiro
Music: Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copland
1946
Fiction: no award
Drama: State of the Union, by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
Poetry: no award
Music: The Canticle of the Sun, by Leo Sowerby
1947
Fiction: All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Drama: no award
Poetry: Lord Weary's Castle, by Robert Lowell
Music: Symphony no. 3, by Charles E. Ives
1948
Fiction: Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener
Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
Poetry: The Age of Anxiety, by W. H. Auden
Music: Symphony no. 3, by Walter Piston
1949
Fiction: Guard of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens
Drama: Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
Poetry: Terror and Decorum, by Peter Viereck
Music: Louisiana Story, by Virgil Thomson
Academy of Motion Picture Artsand Sciences Awards (The Oscars)
1940
Actor: James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
Actress: Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle
Picture: Rebecca, Selznick International
Director: John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
1941
Actor: Gary Cooper, Sergeant York
Actress: Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
Picture: How Green Was My Valley, 20th Century-Fox
Director: John Ford, How Green Was My Valley
1942
Actor: James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Actress: Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
Picture: Mrs. Miniver, M-G-M
Director: William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver
1943
Actor: Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine
Actress: Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette
Picture: Casablanca, Warner Bros.
Director: Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
1944
Actor: Bing Crosby, Going My Way
Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
Picture: Going My Way, Paramount
Director: Leo McCarey, Going My Way
1945
Actor: Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
Actress: Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce
Picture: The Lost Weekend, Paramount
Director: Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend
1946
Actor: Frederic March, The Best Years of Our Lives
Actress: Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own
Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives, Goldwyn, RKO
Director: William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives
1947
Actor: Ronald Colman, A Double Life
Actress: Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter
Picture: Gentleman's Agreement, 20th Century-Fox
Director: Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement
1948
Actor: Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
Actress: Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda
Picture: Hamlet, Two Cities Film, Universal Studios
Director: John Huston, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949
Actor: Broderick Crawford, All the Kings Men
Actress: Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
Picture: All the Kings Men, Columbia
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Letter to Three Wives
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GEORGE INNESS and the San Francisco art world in the 1890s.(painter)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; George Inness (Fig. 1) was a leading American landscape...also entitled In California), by George Inness, 1894. Signed and dated "G. Inness...White and the Women's Board. Fig. 1. George Inness (1825-1894) in a photograph of c...
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George Inness and the unfinished painting.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...for the American landscape painter George Inness (Fig.1). He recognized the heightened...OMITTED] Born in Newburgh, New York, Inness received little formal artistic training...Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). Inness's earliest works, such as the...
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George Inness Took Hefty Salary -- Trolley association head got $60,000 in 1998, which reportedly is against his bylaws
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 3/2/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...disclosures follow YILA president George Inness' release last Friday of financial...expenses and assets for 1997 and 1998. Inness turned the reports over to the city...board members were not aware that Inness drew a salary of $31,995 in 1997...
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Rail Line Is Asked to Repay $212,000 -- Auditors question up to $378,000 in costs; Interurban President George Inness turns up in California
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 9/6/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...embattled president, George Inness, pay back $212...I'm questioning George on," said Del Mears...foreman who succeeded Inness as general manager...learning more about Inness' role with Yakima Interurban. "Now that George is gone and we...
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Are George Inness, Yakima Interurban at End of Rail Line? State transportation department turns matter over to Attorney General's Office
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 7/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Lines Association and its president, George Inness. The state Department of Transportation...the seizure of the 11- mile track Inness offered last year as collateral for...Valley businesses. DOT recently asked Inness to verify his claim that additional...
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George Inness Landscapes
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/26/2003; 460 words
; ...counterparts. A glorious exception is George Inness, who managed to pack as much fervor...point of tracing this influence -- Inness broke down his canvases into all...and retinas. -- Blake Gopnik George Inness and the Visionary Landscape is...
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George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne
Magazine article from: The Journal of American Culture; 9/1/2008; ; 671 words
; George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne Michael Quick. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2007. George Inness was a great painter, not just a great American nineteenth-century...
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CASE SOLVED: Parts of 'lost' Inness painting united.(ARTS & CULTURE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/20/2004; 700+ words
; ...the Hudson River School artist George Inness, believed to have been destroyed...only multipart series painted by Inness," says Rachael Z. DeLue, assistant...author of the forthcoming book, "George Inness and the Science of Landscape...
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Case Solved: Parts of "Lost" Inness Painting United.
Magazine article from: World and I; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the Hudson River School artist George Inness, believed to have been destroyed...only multipart series painted by Inness," says Rachael Z. DeLue, assistant...DeLue is author of the new book George Inness and the Science of Landscape...
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Rail Project Deadline Extended -- State gives Inness until April 10 to complete project between Yakima and Naches
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 3/30/2000; ; 631 words
; ...Interurban Lines Association president George Inness more time to restore an 11-mile...rail office in Olympia has granted Inness to complete a state-funded project...freight service to the Naches Valley. Inness, facing a Friday deadline to complete...
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George Inness
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Inness The American artist George Inness (1825-1894) was primarily a landscape painter, who developed a personal, subjective form of impressionism. George Inness was born May 1, 1825, near Newburg, N.Y. His family...
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Inness, George
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Inness, George ( b nr. Newburgh, NY, 1 May 1825...work; later he settled in New Jersey. Inness is considered by many to be the greatest...painter of the 19th century. His son George Inness Jr. (1854–1926) was also...
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Hudson River School
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...volcano. Others included Thomas Doughty, Thomas Cole, George Inness, and Asher Brown Durand. Adherents to the new aesthetic...the manner of the Hudson River painters. One artist, George Inness, bridged the shift. Artists continued to seek majesty...
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Alexander Helwig Wyant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...encounter in 1857 with some paintings by the landscapist George Inness, Wyant decided to seek the older artist's guidance...taught, Wyant was able to obtain some encouragement from Inness and small financial assistance from Nicholas Longworth...
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Art for Democracy's Sake
Book article from: American Decades
...magnificent of Europe's art treasures. Painters such as George Inness (1825-1894) had moved beyond the Hudson River school...invited critical essays from such respected authors as George Bernard Shaw and Gertrude Stein, reproduced works by...
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