Honorary Awards, 1941

Awards presented February 26, 1942

To Rey Scott for his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16 mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions. 

Rey Scott pretends to film Li Ling-Ai, who helped produce Kukan: The Battle Cry of China. Scott, a freelance filmmaker and correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, shot his documentary about Chinese resistance to the invading Japanese using his hand-held camera. The film concluded with an aerial bombing attack on the city of Chongqing that Scott filmed from the roof of the United States Embassy. Despite its honorary Academy Award, the film was lost for many years until Hawaiian filmmaker Robin Lung discovered a print, which is now being restored by the Academy.

To the British Ministry of Information for its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film Target for Tonight. 

Original American theatrical poster for Target for Tonight

To Leopold Stokowski and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production, Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form.

Leopold Stokowski with Disney sound engineer William Garity

To Walt Disney, William Garity, John N.A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia.