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* Outstanding Production - Selznick International Pictures * Special Award - Special Award * Writing (Screenplay) - Sidney Howard
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.
Independent producer David O. Selznick, who had produced the previous year's big winner Gone With The Wind (1939), also produced the Best Picture winner in 1940 - and campaigned heavily for its win. Selznick was the first to produce two consecutive winners of the Best Picture Oscar.
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.
Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick.
Feb 5, 2014 · To Colonel Nathan Levinson for his outstanding service to the industry and the Army during the past nine years, which has made possible the present efficient mobilization of the motion picture industry facilities for the production of Army Training Films.
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 12th Annual Academy Awards. And the nominees are: Outstanding Production. Dark Victory Warner Bros.-First National; Gone with the Wind Selznick International Pictures; Goodbye, Mr. Chips Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Love Affair RKO Radio; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Columbia; Ninotchka Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
