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2 days ago · At the 12th Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary) from thirteen nominations, including wins for Best Picture, Best Director (Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard), Best Actress (Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, becoming the first ...
1 day ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story .
2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
2 days ago · The 1940 cinematic adaptation is a classic directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the title, it won two Academy Awards: Best Director for John Ford and Best Supporting Actress for Jane Darwell.
1 day ago · Despite the introduction of color, ... the 1940 drama was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Actor, and ... winning both Best Production Design and Best Cinematography.
3 days ago · Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly called Oscar.
4 days ago · Even so, It’s a Wonderful Life was nominated for an Academy Award as best picture, and Capra was nominated the sixth and final time as best director. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in State of the Union (1948), directed by Frank Capra.
