Academy Award for Best Original Score 1942
14th Academy Awards · held February 26, 1942 · 20 nominees
- Winner The Devil and Daniel Webster · Bernard Herrmann
- Nominee Back Street · Frank Skinner
- Nominee Ball of Fire · Alfred Newman
- Nominee Cheers for Miss Bishop · Edward Ward
- Nominee Citizen Kane
- Nominee Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · Franz Waxman
- Nominee Hold Back the Dawn · Victor Young
- Nominee How Green Was My Valley
- Nominee King of the Zombies · Edward J. Kay
- Nominee Ladies in Retirement · Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch
- Nominee Lydia · Miklós Rózsa
- Nominee Mercy Island · Cy Feuer, Walter Scharf
- Nominee Sergeant York · Max Steiner
- Nominee So Ends Our Night · Louis Gruenberg
- Nominee Sundown
- Nominee Suspicion
- Nominee Tanks a Million · Edward Ward
- Nominee That Uncertain Feeling · Werner R. Heymann
- Nominee The Little Foxes · Meredith Willson
- Nominee This Woman is Mine · Richard Hageman