The
14th Academy Awards honored American film achievements in 1941 and was held in the Biltmore Bowl at the Biltmore Hotel. The ceremony is now considered notable, in retrospect, as the year in which
Citizen Kane failed to win Best Picture, which instead was awarded to
John Ford's
How Green Was My Valley. Ford won his third award for
Best Director, becoming the second to accomplish three wins in that category, and the first to win in consecutive years (having won for
The Grapes of Wrath the previous year).