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1940 Oscars 12th Academy Awards |
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1940 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Outstanding Production: Gone With the Wind – David O. Selznick for Selznick International and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (WINNER) Dark Victory – David Lewis for Warner Bros. Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Victor Saville for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Love Affair – Leo McCarey for RKO Radio Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Frank Capra for Columbia Ninotchka – Sidney Franklin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Of Mice and Men – Lewis Milestone for Hal Roach Prod. and United Artists Stagecoach – Walter Wanger for United Artists The Wizard of Oz – Mervyn LeRoy for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Wuthering Heights – Samuel Goldwyn for Samuel Goldwyn Productions and United Artists |
| Best Director: Victor Fleming – Gone With the Wind (WINNER) Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington John Ford – Stagecoach William Wyler – Wuthering Heights |
| Best Actor: Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Mr Chips (WINNER) Clark Gable – Gone With the Wind as Rhett Butler Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff Mickey Rooney – Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson “Jeff” Smith |
| Best Actress: Vivien Leigh – Gone With the Wind as Scarlett O’Hara (WINNER) Bette Davis – Dark Victory as Judith Traherne Irene Dunne – Love Affair as Terry McKay Greta Garbo – Ninotchka as Nina Ivanovna ‘Ninotchka’ Yakushova Greer Garson – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Katherine |
| Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach as Doc Boone (WINNER) Brian Aherne – Juarez as Maximilian I of Mexico Harry Carey – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate Brian Donlevy – Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff Claude Rains – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Senator Joseph Harrison “Joe” Paine |
| Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel – Gone With the Wind as Mammy (WINNER) Olivia de Havilland – Gone with the Wind as Melanie Hamilton Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights as Isabella Linton Edna May Oliver – Drums Along the Mohawk as Mrs McKlennar Maria Ouspenskaya – Love Affair as Grandmother Janou |
| Best Story: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lewis R. Foster (WINNER) Bachelor Mother – Felix Jackson Love Affair – Mildred Cram and Leo McCarey Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel Young Mr. Lincoln – Lamar Trotti |
| Best Screenplay: Gone With the Wind – Sidney Howard (posthumous award), based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (WINNER) Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Eric Maschwitz, R. C. Sherriff and Claudine West, based on the novel by James Hilton Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Sidney Buchman, based on a story by Lewis R. Foster Ninotchka – Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Billy Wilder, based on a story by Melchior Lengyel Wuthering Heights – Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, based on the novel by Emily Brontë |
| Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel: Busy Little Bears – Paramount Pictures (WINNER) Information Please – RKO Radio Prophet Without Honor – MGM Sword Fishing – Warner Bros. |
| Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel: Sons of Liberty – Warner Bros. (WINNER) Drunk Driving – MGM Five Times Five – RKO Radio |
| Best Animated Short Film: The Ugly Duckling – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio (WINNER) Detouring America – Warner Bros. Peace on Earth – MGM The Pointer – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio |
| Best Score: Stagecoach – Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken (WINNER) Babes in Arms – Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll First Love – Charles Previn The Great Victor Herbert – Phil Boutelje and Arthur Lange The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Alfred Newman Intermezzo – Lou Forbes Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Dimitri Tiomkin Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Erich Wolfgang Korngold She Married a Cop – Cy Feuer Swanee River – Louis Silvers They Shall Have Music – Alfred Newman Way Down South – Victor Young |
| Best Original Score: The Wizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart (WINNER) Dark Victory – Max Steiner Eternally Yours – Werner Janssen Golden Boy – Victor Young Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner Gulliver’s Travels – Victor Young The Man in the Iron Mask – Lud Gluskin and Lucien Moraweck Man of Conquest – Victor Young Nurse Edith Cavell – Anthony Collins Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland The Rains Came – Alfred Newman Wuthering Heights – Alfred Newman |
| Best Song: “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Yip Harburg (WINNER) “Faithful Forever” from Gulliver’s Travels – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyrics by Leo Robin “I Poured My Heart Into a Song” from Second Fiddle – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin “Wishing” from Love Affair – Music and Lyrics by Buddy DeSylva |
| Best Sound Recording: When Tomorrow Comes – Bernard B. Brown (WINNER) Balalaika – Douglas Shearer Gone With the Wind – Thomas T. Moulton Goodbye, Mr. Chips – A. W. Watkins The Great Victor Herbert – Loren L. Ryder The Hunchback of Notre Dame – John O. Aalberg Man of Conquest – Charles L. Lootens Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – John P. Livadary Of Mice and Men – Elmer Raguse The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Nathan Levinson The Rains Came – Edmund H. Hansen |
| Best Art Direction: Gone With the Wind – Lyle R. Wheeler (WINNER) Beau Geste – Hans Dreier and Robert Odell Captain Fury – Charles D. Hall First Love – Jack Otterson and Martin Obzina Love Affair – Van Nest Polglase and Alfred Herman Man of Conquest – John Victor Mackay Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lionel Banks The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Anton Grot The Rains Came – William S. Darling and George Dudley Stagecoach – Alexander Toluboff The Wizard of Oz – Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning Wuthering Heights – James Basevi |
| Best Cinematography, Black and White: Wuthering Heights – Gregg Toland (WINNER) First Love – Joseph Valentine The Great Victor Herbert – Victor Milner Gunga Din – Joseph H. August Juarez – Tony Gaudio Intermezzo – Gregg Toland Lady of the Tropics – Norbert Brodine Of Mice and Men – George J. Folsey Only Angels Have Wings – Joseph Walker The Rains Came – Arthur Charles Miller Stagecoach – Bert Glennon |
| Best Cinematography, Color: Gone With the Wind – Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (WINNER) Drums Along the Mohawk – Ray Rennahan and Bert Glennon The Four Feathers – Georges Périnal and Osmond Borradaile The Mikado – William V. Skall and Bernard Knowles The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Sol Polito and W. Howard Greene The Wizard of Oz – Hal Rosson |
| Best Film Editing: Gone With the Wind – Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (WINNER) Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Charles Frend Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Gene Havlick and Al Clark The Rains Came – Barbara McLean Stagecoach – Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer |
| Best Special Effects: The Rains Came – E. H. Hansen and Fred Sersen (WINNER) Gone With the Wind – John R. Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns Only Angels Have Wings – Roy Davidson and Edwin C. Hahn The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Byron Haskin and Nathan Levinson Topper Takes a Trip – Roy Seawright Union Pacific – Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and Loren L. Ryder The Wizard of Oz – A. Arnold Gillespie and Douglas Shearer |
| Academy Honorary Awards Douglas Fairbanks “recognizing the unique and outstanding contribution of Douglas Fairbanks, first President of the Academy, to the international development of the motion picture.” Motion Picture Relief Fund “acknowledging the outstanding services to the industry during the past year of the Motion Picture Relief Fund and its progressive leadership.” Presented to Jean Hersholt, President; Ralph Morgan, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Ralph Block, First Vice-President; and Conrad Nagel. William Cameron Menzies “for outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind.” The Technicolor Company “for its contributions in successfully bringing three-color feature production to the screen.” |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented to David O. Selznick. |
| Academy Juvenile Award: The Academy Juvenile Award was presented to Judy Garland for The Wizard of Oz. |
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