1940 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Kellens101]

Best Picture: The Grapes of Wrath
Best Director: John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
Best Actor: Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
Best Actress: Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday
Best Supporting Actor: John Carradine in The Grapes of Wrath
Best Supporting Actress: Judith Anderson in Rebecca
Best Original Screenplay: The Great Dictator
Best Adapted Screenplay: His Girl Friday
Best Score: Rebecca
Best Art Direction: The Thief of Baghdad
Best Costume Design: The Thief of Baghdad
Best Cinematography: The Grapes of Wrath
Best Editing: His Girl Friday
Best Sound: Fantasia

[Cinemanolis]

PICTURE
The Philadelphia Story
*His Girl Friday
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator

DIRECTOR
Howard Hawkes - His Girl Friday
Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
*John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
Charles Chaplin - The Great Dictator
George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
William Wyler – The Letter

ACTOR
*Cary Grant - His Girl Friday
Laurence Olivier - Rebecca
James Stewart - The Shop around the Corner
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath
Charles Chaplin - The Great Dictator

ACTRESS
*Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story
Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday
Joan Fontaine - Rebecca
Vivien Leigh – Waterloo Bridge
Bette Davis - The Letter

SUPPORTING ACTOR
*James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
George Sanders - Rebecca
Frank Morgan - The Shop around the Corner
Thomas Mitchell – The Long Voyage Home
John Qualen - The Grapes of Wrath

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*Judith Anderson - Rebecca
Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
Mary Boland - Pride and Prejudice
Edna May Oliver - Pride and Prejudice
Marlene Dietrich – Destry Rides Again

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Kitty Foyle
*The Great Dictator
Foreign Correspondent
The Great McGinty
Angels Over Broadway

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Philadelphia Story
*His Girl Friday
The Grapes of Wrath
Rebecca
Pride and Prejudice
Destry Rides Again

[ksrymy]

BEST PICTURE
01. His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks)
02. The Grapes of Wrath (dir. John Ford)
03. The Shop Around the Corner (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
04. The Great Dictator (dir. Charles Chaplin)
05. Foreign Correspondent (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
06. Rebecca (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
07. Fantasia (dir. Ben Sharpsteen)
08. The Philadelphia Story (dir. George Cukor)
09. The Letter (dir. William Wyler)
10. Strange Cargo (dir. Frank Borzage)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
02. Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday
03. Alfred Hitchcock, Foreign Correspondent
04. Ernst Lubitsch, The Shop Around the Corner
05. Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca

BEST ACTOR
01. Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath
02. Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
03. Cary Grant, His Girl Friday
04. Laurence Olivier, Rebecca
05. James Stewart, The Shop Around the Corner

BEST ACTRESS
01. Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
02. Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
03. Bette Davis, The Letter
04. Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
05. Joan Crawford, Strange Cargo

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Frank Morgan, The Shop Around the Corner
02. John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath
03. Ian Hunter, Strange Cargo
04. George Sanders, Foreign Correspondent
05. Frank Morgan, The Mortal Storm

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Judith Anderson, Rebecca
02. Flora Robson, The Sea Hawk
03. Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
04. Marianne Löfgren, Juninatten
05. Mildred Natwick, The Long Voyage Home

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. His Girl Friday (Charles Lederer, based on the play "The Front Page" by Charles Macarthur and Ben Hecht)
02. Strange Cargo (Lawrence Hazard, based on the novel "Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep" by Richard Sale)
03. The Shop Around the Corner (Samson Raphaelson, based on the play "Parfumerie" by Miklós László)
04. Foreign Correspondent (Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton, based on the novel "Personal History" by Vincent Sheean)
05. Arise, My Love (Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Jacques Théry, based on the story by Benjamin Glazer and Hans Székely)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. Foreign Correspondent (Dorothy Spencer)
02. The Thief of Bagdad (Charles Crichton)
03. His Girl Friday (Gene Havlick)
04. The Great Dictator (Willard Nico)
05. The Sea Hawk (George Amy)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. The Letter (Tony Gaudio)
02. The Grapes of Wrath (Gregg Toland)
03. Stranger on the Third Floor (Nicholas Musuraca)
04. Rebecca (George Barnes)
05. Foreign Correspondent (Rudolph Maté)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. The Thief of Bagdad (Vincent Korda)
02. Pride and Prejudice (Cedric Gibbons)
03. The Sea Hawk (Anton Grot)
04. Rebecca (Lyle R. Wheeler)
05. Foreign Correspondent (Alexander Golitzen)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. The Thief of Bagdad (John Armstrong, Oliver Messel, Marcel Vertès)
02. The Sea Hawk (Orry-Kelly)
03. The Mark of Zorro (Sam Benson)
04. The Great Dictator (Wyn Ritchie, Ted Tetrick)
05. Primrose Path (Renié)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. The Thief of Bagdad (Miklós Rósza)
02. The Mark of Zorro (Alfred Newman)
03. The Letter (Max Steiner)
04. The Sea Hawk (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
05. Our Town (Aaron Copland)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Johnny Apollo ("This Is the Beginning of the End," music and lyrics by Mack Gordon, performed by Dorothy Lamour)
02. The House of the Seven Gables ("The Color of Your Eyes," music by Frank Skinner, lyrics by Ralph Freed, performed by Vincent Price)
03. Paradis perdu ("Paradis perdu," music by Hans May, lyrics by Roger Fernay, performed by Meme Bianchi)
04. Pinocchio ("When You Wish Upon a Star," music by Leigh Harline, lyrics by Ned Washington, performed by Cliff Edwards)
05. Down Argentine Way ("Down Argentina Way," music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Carlos Albert and Mack Gordon, performed by Don Ameche, Betty Grable, and the Nicholas Brothers)

BEST SOUND
01. The Sea Hawk (Nathan Levinson, Francis J. Scheid)
02. Foreign Correspondent (Frank Maher)
03. The Mark of Zorro (W. D. Flick; Roger Heman, Sr.)
04. The Thief of Bagdad (A. W. Watkins)
05. Fantasia (William E. Garity, J. N. A. Hawkins, C. O. Slyfield)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. The Thief of Bagdad (Stuart Freeborn, Norbert A. Myles, Guy Pearce)
02. The Sea Hawk (Perc Westmore)
03. All This, and Heaven Too (Perc Westmore)
04. Pride and Prejudice (Jack Dawn, Sidney Guilaroff)
05. The Letter (Perc Westmore, Gordon Bau)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. The Thief of Bagdad (Lawrence W. Butler, Peter Ellenshaw, Wally Veevers)
02. Foreign Correspondent (Ray Binger, Paul Eagler, Lee Zavitz)
03. The Sea Hawk (Byron Haskin, Hans F. Koenekamp)
04. The Long Voyage Home (Ray Binger, R. T. Layton)
05. Boom Town (A. Arnold Gillespie)

FINAL TALLY
9 nominations: Foreign Correspondent (1 win)
8 nominations: The Sea Hawk (1 win)
7 nominations: Rebecca (1 win), The Thief of Bagdad (5 wins)
6 nominations: The Grapes of Wrath (2 wins), His Girl Friday (3 wins)
5 nominations: The Letter (1 win), The Shop Around the Corner (1 win)
4 nominations: The Great Dictator, Strange Cargo
3 nominations: The Mark of Zorro,
2 nominations: Fantasia, The Long Voyage Home, The Philadelphia Story, Pride and Prejudice
1 nomination: All This, and Heaven Too; Arise, My Love; Boom Town, Down Argentine Way, The House of the Seven Gables, Johnny Apollo (1 win), Juninatten, The Mortal Storm, Our Town, Paradis perdu, Pinocchio, Primrose Path, Stranger on the Third Floor

[jowy_jillia]

Only announcing the winners

Best Picture - Rebecca
Best Director - Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
Best Actor - Cary Grant - His Girl Friday (& The Philadelphia Story)
Best Actress - Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story
Best Supporting Actor - James Stephenson - The Letter
Best Supporting Actress - Judith Anderson - Rebecca
Best Screenplay - Rebecca
Best Cinematography - Rebecca
Best Film Editing - Rebecca
Best Art Direction - Rebecca
Best Costume Design - Pride and Prejudice
Best Original Score - Waterloo Bridge
Best Special Effects - Rebecca

May be subject to change.

[Reza]

Well, I finally finished watching The Grapes of Wrath. Yes, it is a great film, but.......

[Bruce_Lavigne]

Best Picture
• La Bête Humaine – pr. Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim
• The Grapes of Wrath – pr. Darryl F. Zanuck
• His Girl Friday – pr. Howard Hawks
• The Long Voyage Home – pr. John Ford, Walter Wanger
• Rebecca – pr. David O. Selznick

Best Director
• John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath
• John Ford – The Long Voyage Home
• Howard Hawks – His Girl Friday
• Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
• Jean Renoir – La Bête Humaine

Best Leading Actor
• Walter Brennan – The Westerner
• Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath
• Cary Grant – His Girl Friday
• Cary Grant – The Philadelphia Story
• James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story

Best Leading Actress
• Bette Davis – The Letter
• Joan Fontaine – Rebecca
• Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story
• Vivien Leigh – Waterloo Bridge
• Rosalind Russell – His Girl Friday

Best Supporting Actor
• John Carradine – The Grapes of Wrath
• Julien Carrette – La Bête Humaine
• Thomas Mitchell – The Long Voyage Home
• Frank Morgan – The Shop Around the Corner
• John Qualen – The Long Voyage Home

Best Supporting Actress
• Judith Anderson – Rebecca
• Jane Darwell – The Grapes of Wrath
• Ruth Hussey – The Philadelphia Story
• Barbara O'Neil – All This, and Heaven Too
• Flora Robson – The Sea Hawk

Best Adapted Screenplay
• La Bête Humaine – Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
• His Girl Friday – Charles Lederer
• The Long Voyage Home – Dudley Nichols
• The Philadelphia Story – Donald Ogden Stewart
• The Shop Around the Corner – Samson Raphaelson

Best Original Screenplay
• Foreign Correspondant – Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison
• The Great Dictator – Charles Chaplin
• The Great McGinty – Preston Sturges
• My Favorite Wife – Leo McCarey, Sam Spewack, Bella Spewack
• The Westerner – Niven Busch, Jo Swerling, Stuart N. Lake

[Precious Doll]

Best Film

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Rebecca
3. Waterloo Bridge
4. The Great Dictator
5. My Little Chickadee

Best Director

1. Robert Z Leonard, Pride and Prejudice
2. Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca
3. Mervyn LeRoy, Waterloo Bridge
4. Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
5. Edward Cline, My Little Chickadee

Best Actor

1. Laurence Olivier, Rebecca
2. Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath
3. Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
4. Raymond Massey, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
5. Raimu, The Well-Digger’s Daughter

Best Actress

1. Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge
2. Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
3. Greer Garson, Pride and Prejudice
4. Mae West, My Little Chickadee
5. Bette Davis, The Letter

Best Supporting Actor

1. James Stephenson, The Letter
2. Fernandel, The Well-Digger’s Daughter
3. John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath
4. Jackie Oakie, The Great Dictator
5. Donald Crisp, Brother Orchid

Best Supporting Actress

1. Judith Anderson, Rebecca
2. Jan Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
3. Flora Robson, The Sea Hawke
4. Ruth Gordon, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
5. Lucille Ball, Dance, Girl, Dance

Best Screenplay

1. The Great Dictator
2. My Little Chickadee
3. Dance, Girl, Dance
4. The Bank Dick
5. Foreign Correspondent

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Rebecca
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. Waterloo Bridge
5. Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Best Cinematography

1. Rebecca
2. The Great Dictator
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. Waterloo Bridge
5. The Sea Hawke

Best Editing

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Rebecca
3. The Great Dictator
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. My Little Chickadee

Best Sound

1. Rebecca
2. The Sea Hawke
3. The Great Dictator
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Foreign Correspondent

Best Art Direction

1. Rebecca
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Great Dictator
4. The Sea Hawke
5. Waterloo Bridge

Best Costume Design

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Great Dictator
3. The Sea Hawke
4. My Little Chickadee
5. Dance, Girl, Dance

Best Music

1. Rebecca
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Great Dictator
4. The Letter
5. Foreign Correspondence

[Sabin]

I just watched "The Philadelphia Story" for the first time in years. It does not disappoint. The entire cast is perfectly in synch except for Mr. Stewart at certain times; I think it's that he and his girl friday look just a little too overdressed (aren't these two supposed to be contemptuous of the rich?), but some of his most poignant awkwardness is on fine display, as well as the lowest I've seen his forehead get in the drunk scene with Cary Grant.

I couldn't help but feel that the play was just made for the stage, though. Most of the laughs I had were in the behavior between the lines like Cary Grant's little head duck-in after tartly dismissing Stewart on their first meeting. But shouldn't this dialogue be just a little more quickly paced than it is? I'd say that maybe they were spacing it out a little for laughs but I can't imagine anybody needing such time for a laugh as is provided actually doing so. It's a wonderful film and the childlike twinness between Grant and Hepburn really sneaks up on you (man, should he have won!), but I think I prefer the year's other two comedic gems: "His Girl Friday" and especially "The Shop Around the Corner."

[MCAR]

Picture:
The Great Dictator
His Girl Friday
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
The Shop Around The Corner

Actor:
Charles Chaplin – The Great Dictator
Henry Fonda – The Grapes Of Wrath
Cary Grant – His Girl Friday
Laurence Olivier – Rebecca
James Stewart – The Shop Around The Corner

Actress:
Bette Davis – The Letter
Joan Fontaine - Rebecca
Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story
Vivien Leigh – Waterloo Bridge
Rosalind Russell – His Girl Friday

Supporting Actor:
Ralph Bellamy – His Girl Friday
John Carradine – The Grapes Of Wrath
Frank Morgan – The Mortal Storm
Jack Oakie –The Great Dictator
George Sanders – Rebecca

Supporting Actress:
Judith Anderson - Rebecca
Jane Darwell – The Grapes Of Wrath
Ruth Hussey – The Philadelphia Story
Barbara O’Neil – All This And Heaven Too
Lucille Watson – Waterloo Bridge

Director:
George Cukor – The Philadelphia Story
John Ford – The Grapes Of Wrath
Howard Hawks – His Girl Friday
Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
Ernst Lubitsch – The Shop Around The Corner

Original Screenplay:
Charles Bennett & Joan Harrison – Foreign Correspondent
Brackett, Glazer, Szekely, Thery & B. Wilder – Arise My Love
Charles Chaplin – The Great Dictator
Preston Sturges – The Great McGinty
Preston Sturges – Remember The Night

Adapted Screenplay:
J. Harrison, M. Hogan, P. MacDonald & R. Sherwood – Rebecca
Nunnally Johnson – The Grapes Of Wrath
Charles Lederer – His Girl Friday
Samson Raphaelson – The Shop Around The Corner
Donald Ogden Stewart – The Philadelphia Story

[Aceisgreat]

BEST PICTURE
The Grapes of Wrath
The Letter
The Philadelphia Story
Pride and Prejudice
*Rebecca

BEST DIRECTOR
George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
*Alfred Hitchc ock, Rebecca
Robert Z. Leonard, Pride and Prejudice
William Wyler, The Letter

BEST ACTOR
Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
*Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath
Raymond Massey, Abe Lincoln In Illinois
Laurence Olivier, Rebecca
James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story

BEST ACTRESS
Bette Davis, The Letter
Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
Greer Garson, Pride and Prejudice
*Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
*Walter Brennan, The Westerner
John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath
Frank Morgan, The Mortal Storm
Jack Oakie, The Great Dictator
George Sanders, Rebecca

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*Judith Anderson, Rebecca
Mary Boland, Pride and Prejudice
Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story
Edna May Oliver, Pride and Prejudice



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[Reza]

1940

Best Picture
His Girl Friday
The Grapes of Wrath
The Letter
*Rebecca
Waterloo Bridge

Best Actor
Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator
Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath
*Cary Grant, His Girl Friday
Laurence Olivier, Rebecca
Anton Walbrook, Gaslight

Best Actress
Bette Davis, The Letter
*Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge
Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday

Best Supporting Actor
Walter Brennan, The Westerner
John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath
Ian Hunter, Strange Cargo
*Frank Morgan, The Mortal Storm
George Sanders, Rebecca

Best Supporting Actress
*Judith Anderson, Rebecca
Florence Bates, Rebecca
Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story
Flora Robson, The Sea Hawk

Best Director
George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday
*Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca
William Wyler, The Letter

[joshua]

Thanks, Magilla, I'll have to check The Mortal Storm out.



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[Big Magilla]

Joshua, I just found your question about Frank Morgan. He was great in both The Mortal Storm and The Shop Around the Corner, again in support of Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. I like them better in Shop, Morgan better in Storm, but all three are excellent in both. Morgan's early portrayal of a victim of Naziism is still powerful no matter how many similar characters we've since seen.



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[Reza]

My take on the 1940 Best Actress race - Both Hepburn and Roz cancell each other out for their comic performances and Joan Fontaine wins for her dramatic turn in Rebecca!



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[joshua]

Magilla, I haven't seen The Mortal Storm, for which you reward Frank Morgan with his supporting actor nod for this year, but I assume his work in the film must be pretty special, as I consider his turn in The Shop Around the Corner to be one of the loveliest, most touching pieces of acting I've seen from this decade.

On another note, I'd have given best actress of 1940 to Rosalind Russell over Hepburn, although I'd pull my hair out rather than choose between these two exquisite comic performances for real.



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