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Supporting Actress winner for Gone with the Wind, posing with an Oscar statuette with presenter Fay Bainter. Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. Arriving at the Oscars.
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.
Jan 21, 2014 · The first new method was pioneered and used in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad. The Caliph enjoys an airborne horse ride over his city in one of the first-ever Technicolor blue-screen travelling mattes for The Thief of Bagdad. The film won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects in 1940.
Honorary Award: Douglas Fairbanks, Judy Garland, William Cameron Menzies, Motion Picture Relief Fund, Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation Most awarded films 10
Special Effects - Special Visual Effects by William McGann; Special Audible Effects by Nathan Levinson
Who won the Academy Award and, ... Best Special Effects, 1940 Awards presented February 27, 1941 ...
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.
