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12th Academy Awards Ceremony (1940)
12th Academy Awards Ceremony
(1940)
Drama / Family / News
February 29, 1940 at Cocoanut Grove, The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by Bob Hope
BEST PICTURE
Gone With the Wind
Dark Victory
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Love Affair
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
BEST DIRECTOR
Victor Fleming – Gone With the Wind
Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
John Ford – Stagecoach
Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William Wyler – Wuthering Heights
BEST ACTOR
Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Clark Gable – Gone With the Wind
Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights
Mickey Rooney – Babes in Arms
James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
BEST ACTRESS
Vivien Leigh – Gone With the Wind
Bette Davis – Dark Victory
Irene Dunne – Love Affair
Greta Garbo – Ninotchka
Greer Garson – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach
Brian Aherne – Juarez
Harry Carey – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Brian Donlevy – Beau Geste
Claude Rains – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Hattie McDaniel – Gone With the Wind
Olivia de Havilland – Gone With the Wind
Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights
Edna May Oliver – Drums Along the Mohawk
Maria Ouspenskaya – Love Affair
BEST STORY
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lewis R. Foster
Love Affair – Mildred Cram and Leo McCarey
Bachelor Mother – Felix Jackson
Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel
Young Mr. Lincoln – Lamar Trotti
BEST SCREENPLAY
Gone With the Wind – Sidney Howard
Ninotchka – Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Billy Wilder
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Sidney Buchman
Wuthering Heights – Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Eric Maschwitz, R. C. Sherriff and Claudine West
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM, ONE-REEL
Busy Little Bears – Paramount Pictures
Information Please – RKO Radio
Prophet Without Honor – MGM
Sword Fishing – Warner Bros.
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM, TWO-REEL
Sons of Liberty – Warner Bros.
Drunk Driving – MGM
Five Times Five – RKO Radio
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Ugly Duckling – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
Detouring America – Warner Bros.
Peace on Earth – MGM
The Pointer – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
BEST SCORE
Stagecoach – Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, and Leo Shuken
The Great Victor Herbert – Phil Boutelje and Arthur Lange
Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland
Babes in Arms – Roger Edens and George E. Stoll
She Married a Cop – Cy Feuer
Intermezzo – Lou Forbes
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Alfred Newman
They Shall Have Music – Alfred Newman
First Love – Charles Previn
Swanee River – Louis Silvers
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Dimitri Tiomkin
Way Down South – Victor Young
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Wizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart
Nurse Edith Cavell – Anthony Collins
Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland
The Man in the Iron Mask – Lud Gluskin and Lucien Moraweck
Eternally Yours – Werner Janssen
The Rains Came – Alfred Newman
Wuthering Heights – Alfred Newman
Dark Victory – Max Steiner
Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner
Golden Boy – Victor Young
Gulliver's Travels – Victor Young
Man of Conquest – Victor Young
BEST SONG
"Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyric by E. Y. Harburg
"Faithful Forever" from Gulliver's Travels – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin
"I Poured My Heart Into a Song" from Second Fiddle – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin
"Wishing" from Love Affair – Music and Lyric by Buddy de Sylva
BEST SOUND RECORDING
When Tomorrow Comes – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio Sound Department
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department
Goodbye, Mr. Chips – A. W. Watkins, Denham Studio Sound Department
Of Mice and Men – Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department
Balalaika – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department
The Great Victor Herbert – Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department
Man of Conquest – Charles L. Lootens, Republic Studio Sound Department
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – John Aalberg, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
Gone With the Wind – Thomas T. Moulton, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
The Rains Came – E. H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
BEST ART DIRECTION
Gone With the Wind – Lyle Wheeler
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lionel Banks
Wuthering Heights – James Basevi
The Rains Came – William S. Darling and George Dudley
Beau Geste – Hans Dreier and Robert Odell
The Wizard of Oz – Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Anton Grot
Captain Fury – Charles D. Hall
Man of Conquest – John Victor Mackay
First Love – Jack Otterson and Martin Obzina
Love Affair – Van Nest Polglase and Alfred Herman
Stagecoach – Alexander Toluboff
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BLACK AND WHITE
Wuthering Heights – Gregg Toland
Gunga Din – Joseph H. August
Lady of the Tropics – Norbert Brodine
Juarez – Tony Gaudio
Stagecoach – Bert Glennon
The Rains Came – Arthur Charles Miller
The Great Victor Herbert – Victor Milner
Intermezzo – Gregg Toland
First Love – Joseph Valentine
Only Angels Have Wings – Joseph Walker
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, COLOR
Gone With the Wind – Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan
The Four Feathers – Georges Périnal and Osmond Borradaile
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Sol Polito and W. Howard Greene
Drums Along the Mohawk – Ray Rennahan and Bert Glennon
The Wizard of Oz – Hal Rosson
The Mikado – William V. Skall and Bernard Knowles
BEST FILM EDITING
Gone With the Wind – Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom
Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Charles Frend
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Gene Havlick and Al Clark
Stagecoach – Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer
The Rains Came – Barbara McLean
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Rains Came – E. H. Hansen and Fred Sersen
Gone With the Wind – John R. Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns
Only Angels Have Wings – Roy Davidson and Edwin C. Hahn
Union Pacific – Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and Loren Ryder
The Wizard of Oz – A. Arnold Gillespie and Douglas Shearer
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Byron Haskin and Nathan Levinson
Topper Takes a Trip – Roy Seawright
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Douglas Fairbanks
The Motion Picture Relief Fund
William Cameron Menzies
The Technicolor Company
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
David O. Selznick
ACADEMY JUVENILE AWARD
Judy Garland for The Wizard of Oz
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