Academy Award for Best Original Score 1940
12th Academy Awards · held February 29, 1940 · 12 nominees
- Winner The Wizard of Oz · Herbert Stothart
- Nominee Dark Victory · Max Steiner
- Nominee Eternally Yours · Werner Janssen
- Nominee Golden Boy · Victor Young
- Nominee Gone with the Wind · Max Steiner
- Nominee Gulliver's Travels · Victor Young
- Nominee Man of Conquest · Victor Young
- Nominee Nurse Edith Cavell · Anthony Collins
- Nominee Of Mice and Men · Aaron Copland
- Nominee The Man in the Iron Mask · Lucien Moraweck, Lud Gluskin
- Nominee The Rains Came · Alfred Newman
- Nominee Wuthering Heights · Alfred Newman