1942 Academy Awards – Music (Original Dramatic Score) Winner

The Devil and Daniel Webster
Bernard Herrmann
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
1942 Academy Awards – Music (Original Dramatic Score) Nominees

Back Street
Frank Skinner

Ball of Fire
Alfred Newman

Cheers for Miss Bishop
Edward Ward

Citizen Kane
Bernard Herrmann

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Franz Waxman

Hold Back the Dawn
Victor Young

How Green Was My Valley
Alfred Newman

King of the Zombies
Edward J. Kay

Ladies in Retirement
Morris Stoloff

Lydia
Miklós Rózsa

Mercy Island
Cy Feuer

Sergeant York
Max Steiner

So Ends Our Night
Louis Gruenberg

Sundown
Miklós Rózsa

Suspicion
Franz Waxman

Tanks a Million
Edward Ward

That Uncertain Feeling
Werner R. Heymann

The Little Foxes
Meredith Willson
