Recap / Twelfth Academy Awards

The 12th Academy Awards

Host: Bob Hope

Air Date: February 29, 1940

Best Picture

• Gone with the Wind (winner)
• 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 Actor (male)

• Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (winner)
• Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind
• Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights
• Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms
• James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Best Actor (female)

• Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind (winner)
• Bette Davis - Dark Victory
• Irene Dunne - Love Affair
• Greta Garbo - Ninotchka
• Greer Garson - Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Best Supporting Actor (male)

• Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach (winner)
• Brian Aherne - Juarez
• Harry Carey Actor - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste
• Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Best Supporting Actor (female)

• Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind (winner)
• Olivia de Havilland - Gonewith The Wind
• Geraldine Fitzgerald - Wuthering Heights
• Edna May Oliver - Drums Along the Mohawk
• Maria Ouspenskaya - Love Affair

Best Director

• Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind (winner)
• Sam Wood - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• John Ford - Stagecoach
• William Wyler - Wuthering Heights

Best Story

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (winner)
• Bachelor Mother
• Love Affair
• Ninotchka
• Young Mr. Lincoln

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Gone with the Wind (winner)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Ninotchka
• Wuthering Heights

Best Animated Short Film

• The Ugly Duckling (winner)
• Detouring America
• Peace on Earth
• The Pointer

Best Live Action Short Film (one-reel)

• Busty Little Bears (winner)
• Information Please
• Prophet Without Honor
• Sword Fishing

Best Live Action Short Film (two-reel)

• Sons of Liberty (winner)
• Drunk Driving
• Five Times Five

Best Original Score

• The Wizard of Oz (winner)
• Dark Victory
• Eternally Yours
• Golden Boy
• Gone with the Wind
• Gulliver's Travels
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
• Man Of Conquest
• Nurse Edith Cavell
• Of Mice and Men
• The Rains Came
• Wuthering Heights

Best Scoring

• Stagecoach (winner)
• Babes in Arms
• First Love
• The Great Victor Herbert
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Intermezzo
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Of Mice and Men
• The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex
• She Married A Cop
• Swanee River
• They Shall Have Music
• Way Down South

Best Song

• "Over the Rainbow" - Wizard of Oz (winner)
• "Faithful Forver" - Gulliver's Travels
• "I Poured My Heart Into a Song - Second Fiddle''
• "Wishing" - Love Affair

Best Sound Recording

• When Tomorrow Comes (winner)
• Balalaika
• Gone with the Wind
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• The Great Victor Herbert
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Man Of Conquest
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Of Mice and Men
• The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex
• The Rains Came

Best Art Direction

• Gone with the Wind (winner)
• Beau Geste
• Captain Fury
• First Love
• Love Affair
• Man Of Conquest
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex
• The Rains Came
• Stagecoach
• The Wizard of Oz
• Wuthering Heights

Best Cinematography (Black and White)

• Wuthering Heights (winner)
• Stagecoach

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Gone with the Wind (winner)
• The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex

Best Film Editing

• Gone with the Wind (winner)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Rains Came
• Stagecoach

Best Special Effects

• The Rains Came (winner)
• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex
• Topper Takes A Trip
• Union Pacific
• The Wizard of Oz

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