1940 Oscar Shouldabeens

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1940

Best Picture
*The Grapes of Wrath
His Girl Friday
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
The Shop Around the Corner

Best 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

Best Actress
Bette Davis, The Letter
Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
*Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
Margaret Sullavan, The Shop Around the Corner

Best Supporting Actor
*Walter Brennan, The Westerner
John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath
Thomas Mitchell, The Long Voyage Home
Frank Morgan, The Mortal Storm
George Sanders, Rebecca

Best Supporting Actress
Judith Anderson, Rebecca
*Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
Edna May Oliver, Pride and Prejudice
Flora Robson, The Sea Hawk
Lucile Watson, Waterloo Bridge

Best 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