Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 1940
12th Academy Awards · held February 29, 1940 · 5 nominees
- 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