Best Films – 1940
Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
FILM
The Blue Bird
d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal
The Grapes of Wrath
d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson
Kitty Foyle
d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo
The Letter
d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch
The Mark of Zorro
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth
Pinocchio
d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Ted Sears, Otto Englander and others
Pride and Prejudice
d: Robert Z. Leonard; scr: Aldous Huxley, Jane Murfin
Rebecca
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Waterloo Bridge
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: S.N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, George Froeschel
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday
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Busman’s Honeymoon / Haunted Honeymoon
d: Arthur B. Woods; scr: Monckton Hoffe, Angus MacPhail, Harold Goldman
His Girl Friday
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer
The Long Voyage Home
d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols
The Man I Married
d: Irving Pichel; scr: Oliver H. P. Garrett
My Favorite Wife
d: Leo McCarey; scr: Sam Spewack, Bella Spewack
Susan and God
d: George Cukor; scr: Anita Loos
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story
ACTOR
Charles Chaplin
The Great Dictator
Henry Fonda
The Grapes of Wrath
Cary Grant
His Girl Friday
Cary Grant
My Favorite Wife
Cary Grant
The Philadelphia Story
Joel McCrea
Foreign Correspondent
Robert Montgomery
Busman’s Honeymoon
Laurence Olivier
Pride and Prejudice
Tyrone Power
The Mark of Zorro
James Stephenson
The Letter
Bette Davis in The Letter
ACTRESS
Joan Crawford
Strange Cargo
Joan Crawford
Susan and God
Constance Cummings
Busman’s Honeymoon
Bette Davis
The Letter
Irene Dunne
My Favorite Wife
Joan Fontaine
Rebecca
Greer Garson
Pride and Prejudice
Vivien Leigh
Waterloo Bridge
Ginger Rogers
Kitty Foyle
Rosalind Russell
His Girl Friday
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall in The Letter
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Granville Bates
My Favorite Wife
J. Edward Bromberg
The Mark of Zorro
Melville Cooper
Pride and Prejudice
Edmund Gwenn
Pride and Prejudice
Cedric Hardwicke
The Howards of Virginia
Herbert Marshall
Foreign Correspondent
Jack Oakie
The Great Dictator
Basil Rathbone
The Mark of Zorro
Sen Yung
The Letter
Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson in Rebecca
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Judith Anderson
Rebecca
Florence Bates
Rebecca
Mary Boland
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Darwell
The Grapes of Wrath
Frieda Inescort
Pride and Prejudice
Marjorie Main
Susan and God
Edna May Oliver
Pride and Prejudice
Micheline Presle
La Comédie du bonheur / The Play of Happiness
Gale Sondergaard
The Letter
Queenie Vassar
The Primrose Path
CINEMATOGRAPHY
George Barnes
Rebecca
Karl Freund
Pride and Prejudice
Tony Gaudio
The Letter
Ernest Haller
All This and Heaven Too
Arthur C. Miller, Ray Rennahan
The Blue Bird
Arthur C. Miller
The Mark of Zorro
Robert Planck
Strange Cargo
Joseph Ruttenberg
Waterloo Bridge
Gregg Toland
The Grapes of Wrath
Gregg Toland
The Long Voyage Home
MUSIC
Alfred Newman
The Grapes of Wrath
Alfred Newman
The Mark of Zorro
Max Steiner
The Letter
Max Steiner
Virginia City
Herbert Stothart
Waterloo Bridge
Herbert Stothart
Pride and Prejudice
Roy Webb
Kitty Foyle
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