Academy Awards
annual awards for cinematic achievements
1940 edition
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Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment
John Leipold
Leo Shuken
W. Franke Harling
For the film: Stagecoach
Also nominated: Aaron Copland · Alfred Newman · Arthur Lange · Babes in Arms · Charles Previn · Cy Feuer · Dimitri Tiomkin · Erich Wolfgang Korngold · First Love · Georgie Stoll · Intermezzo: A Love Story · Louis Forbes · Louis Silvers · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Phil Boutelje · They Shall Have Music · Roger Edens · She Married a Cop · Swanee River · The Great Victor Herbert · The Hunchback of Notre Dame · The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Victor Young · Way Down South
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Academy Scientific and Technical Award
Alan Cook
Charles Handley
David Joy
F. R. Abbott
Haller Belt
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Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Hal C. Kern
James E. Newcom
For the film: Gone with the Wind
Also nominated: Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Al Clark · Barbara McLean · Charles Frend · Dorothy Spencer · Gene Havlick · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Otho Lovering · Stagecoach · The Rains Came
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Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
For the film: The Ugly Duckling
Also nominated: Detouring America · Peace on Earth · The Pointer
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Academy Award for Best Director
For the film: Gone with the Wind
Also nominated: Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Frank Capra · John Ford · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Sam Wood · Stagecoach · William Wyler · Wuthering Heights
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Academy Award for Best Original Score
Herbert Stothart
For the film: The Wizard of Oz
Also nominated: Aaron Copland · Alfred Newman · Anthony Collins · Gulliver's Travels · Of Mice and Men · Dark Victory · Eternally Yours · Golden Boy · Gone with the Wind · Lucien Moraweck · Lud Gluskin · Man of Conquest · Max Steiner · Nurse Edith Cavell · The Man in the Iron Mask · The Rains Came · Victor Young · Werner Janssen · Wuthering Heights
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Academy Award for Best Production Design
Lyle R. Wheeler
For the film: Gone with the Wind
Also nominated: Alexander Toluboff · Alfred Herman · Anton Grot · Beau Geste · Captain Fury · Cedric Gibbons · Charles D. Hall · First Love · George Dudley · Hans Dreier · Jack Otterson · James Basevi · John Victor Mackay · Lionel Banks · Love Affair · Man of Conquest · Martin Obzina · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Robert Odell · Stagecoach · The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · The Rains Came · The Wizard of Oz · Van Nest Polglase · William A. Horning · William S. Darling · Wuthering Heights
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Academy Award for Best Sound
For the film: When Tomorrow Comes
Also nominated: Goodbye, Mr. Chips · A. W. Watkins · Balalaika · Of Mice and Men · Charles L. Lootens · Douglas Shearer · Edmund H. Hansen · Elmer Raguse · Gone with the Wind · John O. Aalberg · John P. Livadary · Loren L. Ryder · Man of Conquest · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Nathan Levinson · The Great Victor Herbert · The Hunchback of Notre Dame · The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · The Rains Came · Thomas T. Moulton
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Academy Award for Best Story
For the film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Also nominated: Bachelor Mother · Felix Jackson · Lamar Trotti · Leo McCarey · Love Affair · Melchior Lengyel · Mildred Cram · Ninotchka · Young Mr. Lincoln
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
For the film: Stagecoach
Also nominated: Beau Geste · Brian Aherne · Brian Donlevy · Claude Rains · Harry Carey · Juarez · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Academy Award for Best Picture
Also nominated: Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Of Mice and Men · Dark Victory · Love Affair · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Ninotchka · Stagecoach · The Wizard of Oz · Wuthering Heights
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Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
Also nominated: Drunk Driving · Five Times Five
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Academy Award for Technical Achievement
Farciot Edouart
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Academy Juvenile Award
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Special Achievement Academy Award
Ralph Block
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