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12th Academy Awards

Held in 1940 · 15 categories

Best Picture

Best Actor

Winner Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Robert Donat
Nominee Babes in Arms · Mickey Rooney
Nominee Gone with the Wind · Clark Gable
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · James Stewart
Nominee Wuthering Heights · Laurence Olivier

Best Actress

Winner Gone with the Wind · Vivien Leigh
Nominee Dark Victory · Bette Davis
Nominee Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Greer Garson
Nominee Love Affair · Irene Dunne
Nominee Ninotchka · Greta Garbo

Best Supporting Actor

Winner Stagecoach · Thomas Mitchell
Nominee Beau Geste · Brian Donlevy
Nominee Juarez · Brian Aherne
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Harry Carey
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Claude Rains

Best Supporting Actress

Winner Gone with the Wind · Hattie McDaniel
Nominee Drums Along the Mohawk · Edna May Oliver
Nominee Gone with the Wind · Olivia de Havilland
Nominee Love Affair · Maria Ouspenskaya
Nominee Wuthering Heights · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Best Director

Winner Gone with the Wind · Victor Fleming
Nominee Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Sam Wood
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Frank Capra
Nominee Stagecoach · John Ford
Nominee Wuthering Heights · William Wyler

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner Gone with the Wind · Sidney Howard
Nominee Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz, R. C. Sherriff
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Sidney Buchman
Nominee Ninotchka · Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch
Nominee Wuthering Heights · Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Best Original Score

Winner Stagecoach · John Leipold, Leo Shuken, Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling
Winner The Wizard of Oz · Herbert Stothart
Nominee Babes in Arms · Georgie Stoll, Roger Edens
Nominee Dark Victory · Max Steiner
Nominee Eternally Yours · Werner Janssen
Nominee First Love · Charles Previn
Nominee Golden Boy · Victor Young
Nominee Gone with the Wind · Max Steiner
Nominee Gulliver's Travels · Victor Young
Nominee Intermezzo · Lou Forbes
Nominee Man of Conquest · Victor Young
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominee Nurse Edith Cavell · Anthony Collins
Nominee Of Mice and Men · Aaron Copland
Nominee She Married a Cop · Cy Feuer
Nominee Swanee River · Louis Silvers
Nominee The Great Victor Herbert · Arthur Lange, Phil Boutelje
Nominee The Hunchback of Notre Dame · Alfred Newman
Nominee The Man in the Iron Mask · Lucien Moraweck, Lud Gluskin
Nominee The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Nominee The Rains Came · Alfred Newman
Nominee They Shall Have Music
Nominee Way Down South · Victor Young
Nominee Wuthering Heights · Alfred Newman

Best Original Song

Winner Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz · Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg
Nominee Faithful Forever from Gulliver's Travels · Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Nominee I Poured My Heart Into a Song from Second Fiddle · Irving Berlin
Nominee Wishing from Love Affair · Buddy DeSylva

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Winner Wuthering Heights · Gregg Toland
Nominee First Love · Joseph A. Valentine
Nominee Gunga Din · Joseph H. August
Nominee Intermezzo · Gregg Toland
Nominee Juarez · Tony Gaudio
Nominee Lady of the Tropics · George J. Folsey, Norbert Brodine
Nominee Of Mice and Men · Norbert Brodine
Nominee Only Angels Have Wings · Joseph Walker
Nominee Stagecoach · Bert Glennon
Nominee The Great Victor Herbert · Victor Milner
Nominee The Rains Came · Arthur Charles Miller

Best Cinematography (Color)

Winner Gone with the Wind · Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan
Nominee Drums Along the Mohawk · Bert Glennon, Ray Rennahan
Nominee The Four Feathers · Georges Périnal, Osmond Borradaile
Nominee The Mikado · Bernard Knowles, William V. Skall
Nominee The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Sol Polito, W. Howard Greene
Nominee The Wizard of Oz · Harold Rosson

Best Film Editing

Winner Gone with the Wind · Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom
Nominee Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Charles Frend
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Al Clark, Gene Havlick
Nominee Stagecoach · Dorothy Spencer, Otho Lovering
Nominee The Rains Came · Barbara McLean

Best Production Design

Winner Gone with the Wind · Lyle R. Wheeler
Nominee Beau Geste · Hans Dreier, Robert Odell
Nominee Captain Fury · Charles D. Hall
Nominee First Love · Jack Otterson, Martin Obzina
Nominee Love Affair · Alfred Herman, Van Nest Polglase
Nominee Man of Conquest · John Victor Mackay
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Lionel Banks
Nominee Stagecoach · Alexander Toluboff
Nominee The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Anton Grot
Nominee The Rains Came · George Dudley, William S. Darling
Nominee The Wizard of Oz · Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning
Nominee Wuthering Heights · James Basevi

Best Sound

Winner When Tomorrow Comes · Bernard B. Brown
Nominee Balalaika · Douglas Shearer
Nominee Gone with the Wind · Thomas T. Moulton
Nominee Goodbye, Mr. Chips · A. W. Watkins
Nominee Man of Conquest · Charles L. Lootens
Nominee Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · John P. Livadary
Nominee Of Mice and Men · Elmer A. Raguse
Nominee The Great Victor Herbert · Loren L. Ryder
Nominee The Hunchback of Notre Dame · John O. Aalberg
Nominee The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Nathan Levinson
Nominee The Rains Came · Edmund H. Hansen

Best Visual Effects

Winner The Rains Came · Edmund H. Hansen, Fred Sersen
Nominee Gone with the Wind · Arthur Johns, Fred Albin, John R. Cosgrove
Nominee Only Angels Have Wings · Edwin C. Hahn, Roy Davidson
Nominee The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Byron Haskin, Nathan Levinson
Nominee The Wizard of Oz · A. Arnold Gillespie, Douglas Shearer
Nominee Topper Takes a Trip · Roy Seawright
Nominee Union Pacific · Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Loren L. Ryder