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Art Direction - Van Nest Polglase, Al Herman Music (Song) - Wishing in "Love Affair" Music and Lyrics by Buddy de Sylva Outstanding Production - RKO Radio
Best Art Direction Academy Award winners. People who have been awarded the Best Art Direction Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .
- Outstanding Production
- Directing
- Actor
- Actress
- Actor in A Supporting Role
- Actress in A Supporting Role
- Writing
- Music
- Film Editing
- Cinematography
All This, and Heaven Too – Warner Bros. Foreign Correspondent – Walter Wanger (production company) The Grapes of Wrath – 20th Century-Fox The Great Dictator – Charles Chaplin Productions Kitty Foyle – RKO Radio The Letter – Warner Bros. The Long Voyage Home – Argosy-Wanger Our Town – Sol Lesser (production company) The Philadelphia Story – Metro-Go...
The Grapes of Wrath – John Ford Kitty Foyle – Sam Wood The Letter – William Wyler The Philadelphia Story – George Cukor Rebecca– Alfred Hitchcock
Charles Chaplin – The Great Dictator Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath Raymond Massey – Abe Lincoln in Illinois Laurence Olivier – Rebecca James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story
Bette Davis – The Letter Joan Fontaine – Rebecca Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle Martha Scott – Our Town
Albert Basserman – Foreign Correspondent Walter Brennan – The Westerner William Gargan – They Knew What They Wanted Jack Oakie – The Great Dictator James Stephenson – The Letter
Judith Anderson – Rebecca Jane Darwell – The Grapes of Wrath Ruth Hussey – The Philadelphia Story Barbara O’Neil – All This, and Heaven Too Marjorie Rambeau – Primrose Path
Angels over Broadway – Ben Hecht Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet – John Huston, Heinz Herald, Norman Burnside Foreign Correspondent – Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison The Great Dictator – Charles Chaplin The Great McGinty– Preston Sturges
“Down Argentina Way” – Down Argentine Way – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon “I’d Know You Anywhere” – You’ll Find Out – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “It’s A Blue World” – Music in My Heart – Music, Lyrics by Chet Forrest, Bob Wright “Love Of My Life” – Second Chorus – Music by Artie Shaw; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “Only...
The Grapes of Wrath – Robert Simpson The Letter – Warren Low The Long Voyage Home – Sherman Todd North West Mounted Police – Anne Bauchens Rebecca– Hal C. Kern
Abe Lincoln in Illinois – James Wong Howe All This, and Heaven Too – Ernest Haller Arise, My Love – Charles B. Lang, Jr. Boom Town – Harold Rosson Foreign Correspondent – Rudolph Maté The Letter – Gaetano (Tony) Gaudio The Long Voyage Home – Gregg Toland Rebecca – George Barnes Spring Parade – Joseph Valentine Waterloo Bridge– Joseph Ruttenberg
Bob Hope hosted the 12th Annual Academy Awards which took place at the Ambassador Hotel on Thursday, February 29, 1940. Two films had double-digit nominations: Thirteen for Gone with the Wind and ten for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. A couple of changes were afoot.
Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Jane Austen's comic classic about five sisters out to nab husbands in 19th-century England. Cast & Crew. Read More. Robert Z. Leonard. Director. Greer Garson. Elizabeth Bennet. Laurence Olivier. Mr. Darcy. Mary Boland. Mrs. Bennet.
- Robert Z. Leonard, Marvin Stuart
- Greer Garson
The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. From 1940 through 1956 and again from 1959-1966, it was divided into two categories Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) and Best Art Direction (Color).
The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Bob Hope, in his first of nineteen turns as host.
