Academy Award for Best Visual Effects 1940
12th Academy Awards · held February 29, 1940 · 7 nominees
- Winner The Rains Came · Edmund H. Hansen, Fred Sersen
- Nominee Gone with the Wind · John R. Cosgrove, Fred Albin, Arthur Johns
- Nominee Only Angels Have Wings · Roy Davidson, Edwin C. Hahn
- 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