Academy Award for Best Sound 1940
12th Academy Awards · held February 29, 1940 · 11 nominees
- 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