<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> ← 13th </Li> <Li> Academy Awards </Li> <Li> 15th → </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> ← 13th </Li> <Li> Academy Awards </Li> <Li> 15th → </Li> </Ul> <P> The 14th Academy Awards honored American film achievements in 1941 and was held in the Biltmore Bowl at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California . 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). </P> <P> Most public attention was focused on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion and Olivia de Havilland for Hold Back the Dawn . Fontaine's victory was the only time a performer won for a role in a Hitchcock film . </P>

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