Minnelli's musical masterpiece, The Band Wagon, didn't win any Oscar but was nominated in three categories: Story and Screenplay (Betty Comden and Adolph Green), Scoring of a Musical Picture
(Adolph Deutsch), and Color Costume Design (Mary Ann Nyberg).

Disney's popular production, Bambi (1942), received three Oscar Nominations: Sound Recording to Sam Slyfield, Song to “Love Is a Song,” music by Frank Churchill, lyrics by Larry Morey, and Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture to Frank Churchill and Edward Plumb.

The 1961 Soviet entry, Ballad of a Soldier, which became an international hit, was Oscar-nominated for its Original Story and Screenplay, by Valentin Yoshov and Grigori Chukhrai. The winner was William Inge, for Splendor in the Grass.

Billy Wilder's 1944 comedy Ball of Fire received four Oscar nominations: Actress to Barbara Stanwyck, Original Story to Thomas Monroe and Billy Wilder, Sound Recording to Thomas Moulton,
and Scoring of a Dramatic Picture: Alfred Newman.

Ace lenser George Folsey received yet another nomination for his b/w cinematography for The Balcony (1963), Joseph Strick's version of Jean Genet's famous surrealist play. The winner was James Wong Howe for Martin Ritt's Hud, starring Paul Newman.

UA (Reade-Sterling-Continental production)

Oscar Nominations: 1

Cinematography (b/w): George Folsey