The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.

Events

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

16th Academy Awards

Best Picture: Casablanca - Warner Bros.

Best Director: Michael Curtiz - Casablanca

Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine

Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette

Best Supporting Actor: Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier,

Best Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls

1st Golden Globe Awards

Best Picture: The Song of Bernadette

Best Director: Henry King - The Song of Bernadette

Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine

Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette

Films released in 1943

• A Guy Named Joe
• Action in the North Atlantic
• Air Force
• The Ape Man
• Background to Danger, by Raoul Walsh with Peter Lorre
• Bataan
• Bombardier, starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, and Anne Shirley
• Cabin in the Sky
• Calling Dr. Death the first of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
• Crazy House
• Coney Island
• The Constant Nymph
• Corvette K-225
• Crash Dive
• The Dancing Masters
• The Demi-Paradise
• Der Fuehrer's Face, Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning short
• Destination Tokyo
• Five Graves to Cairo
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Béla Lugosi
• The Gang's All Here
• Hangmen Also Die!
• Heaven Can Wait
• Hello, Frisco, Hello
• Hit the Ice, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Hitler's Children
• Holy Matrimony
• The Human Comedy
• It Ain't Hay, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Journey into Fear
• Lassie Come Home
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• The Mad Ghoul
• Madame Curie
• The Man in Grey, the first of the Gainsborough melodramas
• Millions Like Us
• Mission to Moscow
• The More the Merrier
• Mr. Lucky
• Münchhausen
• No Time for Love
• The North Star
• Old Acquaintance
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Rains
• Princess O'Rourke
• Riding High
• Sahara
• Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Sherlock Holmes in Washington
• The Song of Bernadette
• So Proudly We Hail!
• Son of Dracula
• Spitfire (originally released as The First of the Few in the U.K.)
• Star Spangled Rhythm
• Stormy Weather
• A Stranger in Town
• Tender Comrade
• This is the Army
• Thousands Cheer
• Titanic
• Victory Through Air Power
• War of the Wildcats (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma)
• Watch on the Rhine
• We Dive at Dawn
• We've Never Been Licked
• You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al. (film mentioned in article)

Serials

• Adventures of the Flying Cadets
• The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
• Batman, starring Lewis Wilson
• Daredevils of the West, starring Allan Lane, directed by John English
• Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
• G-Men vs the Black Dragon, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Masked Marvel, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Phantom, starring Tom Tyler
• Secret Service in Darkest Africa, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet

Short film series

• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Three Stooges (1934-1959)

Animated short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931–1941)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Donald Duck (1934–1956)
• Daffy Duck (1937 – 1966)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940–1958)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
• Chip 'n Dale (1943–1956)
• Droopy (1943–1958)

Births

• January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer
• January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
• February 20 - Mike Leigh, director
• March 15 - David Cronenberg, director
• March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
• May 24 - Gary Burghoff, American actor
• May 31 - Sharon Gless, actress
• June 13 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
• August 15 - Barbara Bouchet, actress
• August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
• October 4 - John Bindon, actor and bodyguard
• October 22 - Catherine Deneuve, actress
• December 21 - Jack Nance, actor

Deaths

• February 14 - Dora Gerson, German actress (b. 1899)
• June 1 - Leslie Howard, Academy Award-nominated British actor (b. 1893)

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