1942 Academy Awards – Directing Winner and Nominees

How Green Was My Valley

John Ford

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Alexander Hall

Sergeant York

Howard Hawks

The Little Foxes

William Wyler