1940 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
United Artists; Walter Wanger
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
20th Century Fox; Darryl F. Zanuck & Nunnally
Johnson
THE GREAT DICTATOR
United Artists; Charles Chaplin
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Columbia; Howard Hawks
THE LETTER
Warner Bros; Robert Lord
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
MGM; Joseph L. Mankiewicz
PINOCCHIO
Disney; Walt Disney
REBECCA
United Artists; David O. Selznick
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
MGM; Ernst Lubitsch
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
United Artists; Alexander Korda
Also Considered:
ALL THIS & HEAVEN TOO (Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis
& David Lewis); THE BANK DICK (Edward F. Cline); THE BLUE BIRD (Gene Markey); GASLIGHT (John Corfield); THE GREAT MCGINTY (Paul Jones); THE MORTAL STORM (Frank Borzage & Victor
Saville); NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (Edward Black); OUR TOWN (Sol Lesser); THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (Hal B. Wallis & Mark Hellinger); WATERLOO BRIDGE (Sidney Franklin)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
James Cagney as "Danny Kenny" - CITY FOR
CONQUEST
Charles Chaplin as "Hynkel" - THE GREAT
DICTATOR
W.C. Fields as "Egbert Sousé" - THE BANK
DICK
Henry Fonda as "Tom Joad" - THE GRAPES OF
WRATH
Cary Grant as "Walter Burns" - HIS GIRL
FRIDAY
Raymond Massey as "Abraham Lincoln" - ABE LINCOLN IN
ILLINOIS
Laurence Olivier as "Maxim de Winter" -
REBECCA
James Stewart as "Macauley Connor" - THE PHILADELPHIA
STORY
Spencer Tracy as "Thomas Edison" - EDISON, THE
MAN
Anton Wolbrook as "Paul Mallen" - GASLIGHT
Also Considered:
Gary Cooper (THE WESTERNER); Albert Dekker (DR. CYCLOPS);
Brian Donlevy (THE GREAT MCGINTY); Clark Gable (BOOM TOWN); Cary Grant (THE PHILADELPHIA STORY); Herbert Marshall (THE LETTER); Joel McCrea (FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT); Tyrone Power (THE MARK OF
ZORRO); James Stewart (THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER); Spencer Tracy (BOOM TOWN)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Bette Davis as "Leslie Crosbie" - THE LETTER
Joan Fontaine as "Mrs. de Winter" -
REBECCA
Greer Garson as "Elizabeth Bennet" - PRIDE &
PREJUDICE
Katharine Hepburn as "Tracy Lord" - THE PHILADELPHIA
STORY
Vivian Leigh as "Myra" - WATERLOO BRIDGE
Ginger Rogers as "Kitty Foyle" - KITTY FOYLE
Rosalind Russell as "Hildy Burns" - HIS GIRL
FRIDAY
Martha Scott as "Emily Webb" - OUR TOWN
Margaret Sullavan as "Klara Novak" - THE SHOP AROUND THE
CORNER
Diana Wynyard as "Bella Mallen" - GASLIGHT
Also Considered:
Claudette Colbert (ARISE MY LOVE); Bette Davis (ALL THIS
& HEAVEN TOO); Irene Dunne (MY FAVOURITE WIFE); Deanna Durbin (SPRING PARADE); Judy Garland (STRIKE UP THE BAND); Carole Lombard (THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED); Eleanor Powell (BROADWAY
MELODY OF 1940); Norma Shearer (ESCAPE); Barbara Stanwyck (REMEMBER THE NIGHT); Shirley Temple (THE BLUE BIRD)
BEST DIRECTOR
Charles Chaplin - THE GREAT DICTATOR
George Cukor - THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
John Ford - THE GRAPES OF
WRATH
Howard Hawks - HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Alfred Hitchcock - FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Alfred Hitchcock - REBECCA
Ernst Lubitsch - THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
Carol Reed - NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH
Sam Wood - OUR TOWN
William Wyler - THE LETTER
Also Considered:
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan (THE THIEF
OF BAGDAD); Frank Borzage (THE MORTAL STORM); Michael Curtiz (THE SEA HAWK); Thorold Dickenson (GASLIGHT); Anatole Litvak (ALL THIS & HEAVEN TOO); Walter Lang (THE BLUE BIRD); Rouben
Mamoulian (THE MARK OF ZORRO); Preston Sturges (THE GREAT MCGINTY); Raoul Walsh (THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT); Sam Wood (KITTY FOYLE)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Albert Basserman as "Van Meer" - FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT
Ralph Bellamy as "Bruce Baldwin" - HIS GIRL
FRIDAY
Walter Brennan as "Judge Roy Bean" - THE
WESTERNER
John Carradine as "Jim Casy" - THE GRAPES OF
WRATH
William Gargan as "Joe" - THEY KNEW WHAT THEY
WANTED
Ian Hunter as "Smitty" - THE LONG VOYAGE
HOME
Frank Morgan as "Hugo Matuschek" - THE SHOP AROUND THE
CORNER
Jack Oakie as "Napaloni" - THE GREAT
DICTATOR
James Stephenson as "Howard Joyce" - THE
LETTER
Roland Young as "Uncle Willie" - THE PHILADELPHIA
STORY
Also Considered:
Walter Abel (ARISE MY LOVE); Roscoe Karns (HIS GIRL
FRIDAY); Arthur Kennedy (CITY FOR CONQUEST); Thomas Mitchell (THE LONG VOYAGE HOME); Frank Morgan (THE MORTAL STORM); Frank Pettingell (GASLIGHT); George Sanders (REBECCA); Joseph Schildkraut
(THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER); Akim Tamiroff (THE GREAT MCGINTY); Ernest Truex (HIS GIRL FRIDAY)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Judith Anderson as "Mrs. Danvers" - REBECCA
Fay Bainter as "Mrs. Gibbs" - OUR TOWN
Jane Darwell as "Ma Joad" - THE GRAPES OF
WRATH
Ruth Hussey as "Elizabeth Imrie" - THE PHILADELPHIA
STORY
Ida Lupino as "Lana Carlsen" - THEY DRIVE BY
NIGHT
Mildred Natwick as "Freda" - THE LONG VOYAGE
HOME
Barbara O'Neil as "Duchesse de Praslin" - ALL THIS &
HEAVEN TOO
Edna May Oliver as "Lady Catherine de Bourgh" - PRIDE
& PREJUDICE
Marjorie Rambeau as "Mamie Adams" - PRIMROSE
PATH
Virginia Weidler as "Dinah Lord" - THE PHILADELPHIA
STORY
Also Considered:
Peggy Ashcroft (QUIET WEDDING); Florence Bates (REBECCA);
Beulah Bondi (OUR TOWN); Gladys Cooper (REBECCA); Cathleen Cordell (GASLIGHT); Virginia Field (WATERLOO BRIDGE); Mary Nash (THE PHILADELPHIA STORY); Maureen O'Sullivan (PRIDE &
PREJUDICE); Gale Sondergaard (THE BLUE BIRD); Rachel Thomas (THE PROUD VALLEY)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
GASLIGHT
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
THE GREAT DICTATOR
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
THE LETTER
THE LONG VOYAGE HOME
OUR TOWN
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
REBECCA
Also Considered:
ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO; BOOM TOWN; CITY FOR CONQUEST; FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT; THE GREAT MCGINTY; THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER; SPRING PARADE; THE THIEF OF BAGDAD; WATERLOO BRIDGE; THE WESTERNER
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton & Robert
Benchley
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Nunnally Johnson
HIS GIRL
FRIDAY
Charles
Lederer
THE LETTER
Howard Koch
THE LONG VOYAGE HOME
Dudley Nichols
THE MORTAL STORM
Claudine West, Hans Rameau & George
Froeschel
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH
Frank Launder & Sidney Gilliat
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Donald Ogden Stewart
REBECCA
Robert E. Sherwood & Joan Harrison
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
Samson Raphaelson
Also Considered:
ALL THIS & HEAVEN TOO (Casey Robinson); CITY FOR
CONQUEST (John Wexley); GASLIGHT (A.R. Rawlinson & Bridget Boland); THE GHOST BREAKERS (Walter DeLeon); KITTY FOYLE (Dalton Trumbo); PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Aldous Huxley & Jane
Murfin); QUIET WEDDING (Terence Rattigan & Anatole de Grunwald); THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (Jerry Wald & Richard Macauley); THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Miles Malleson & Lajos Biro); WATERLOO
BRIDGE (S.N. Behrman, Hans Rameau & George Froeschel)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
ANGELS OVER BROADWAY
Ben Hecht
ARISE MY LOVE
Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder
THE BANK DICK
Mahatma Kane Jeeves (W.C. Fields)
DR. EHRLICH'S MAGIC BULLET
John Huston, Norman Burnside & Heinz Herald
THE GREAT DICTATOR
Charles Chaplin
THE GREAT MCGINTY
Preston Sturges
HUDSON'S BAY
Lamar Trotti
THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES
Karl Brown
MY FAVOURITE WIFE
Leo McCarey, Sam Spewack & Bella Spewack
STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR
Frank Partos
Also Considered:
CHRISTMAS IN JULY (Preston Sturges); DANCE, GIRL, DANCE
(Tess Slesinger & Frank Davis); EDISON, THE MAN (Dore Schary, Talbot Jennings & Bradbury Foote); GO WEST (Irving Brecher); KNUTE ROCKNE, ALL AMERICAN (Robert Buckner); MY LITTLE
CHICKADEE (W.C. Fields & Mae West); REMEMBER THE NIGHT (Preston Sturges); ROAD TO SINGAPORE (Don Hartman & Frank Butler); THE SEA HAWK (Seton I. Miller & Howard Koch); THE
WESTERNER (Jo Swerling & Niven Busch)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
FANTASIA
Walt Disney
KNOCK KNOCK
Walter Lantz
PINOCCHIO
Walt
Disney
PUSS GETS THE BOOT
William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
WILD HARE
Tex Avery
Also Considered:
AFRICA SQUEAKS (Leon Schlesinger); ANTS IN THE PLANTS (Max
Fleischer); BONE TROUBLE (Walt Disney); GALLOPIN' GALS (Fred Quimby); MILKY WAY (Rudolph Ising)
BEST ART DIRECTION
THE BLUE BIRD
Richard Day & Wiard Ihnen
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Alexander Golitzen
GASLIGHT
Duncan Sutherland
LILLIAN RUSSELL
Richard Day & Joseph C. Wright
OUR TOWN
Lewis J. Rachmil
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Cedric Gibbons & Paul Groesse
REBECCA
Lyle Wheeler
THE SEA HAWK
Anton Grot
THE THIEF OF
BAGDAD
Vincent
Korda
THE WESTERNER
James Basevi
Also Considered:
ARIZONA (Lionel Banks & Robert Peterson); THE BOYS
FROM SYRACUSE (John Otterson); BITTER SWEET (Cedric Gibbons & John S. Detlie)); DARK COMMAND (John Victor Mackay); DOWN ARGENTINE WAY (Richard Day & Joseph C. Wright); THE GRAPES OF
WRATH (Richard Day & Mark-Lee Kirk); THE MARK OF ZORRO (Richard Day & Joseph C. Wright); MY FAVOURITE WIFE (Van Nest Polglase & Mark-Lee Kirk); MY SON, MY SON (John DuCasse
Schulze); NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE (Hans Dreier & Roland Anderson)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
James Wong Howe
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Rudolph Maté
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Gregg Toland
THE LETTER
Tony Gaudio
THE LONG VOYAGE HOME
Gregg Toland)
THE MARK OF ZORRO
Arthur Miller
REBECCA
George
Barnes
THE SEA HAWK
Sol Polito
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
Georges Perinal
WATERLOO BRIDGE
Joseph Ruttenberg
Also Considered:
ALL THIS & HEAVEN TOO (Ernest Haller); ARISE MY LOVE
(Charles Lang, Jr.); BITTER SWEET (Oliver T. Marsh & Allen Davey); THE BLUE BIRD (Arthur Miller & Ray Rennahan); BOOM TOWN (Harold Rosson); THE MARK OF ZORRO (Arthur C. Miller); NORTH
WEST MOUNTED POLICE (Victor Milner & W. Howard Greene); NORTHWEST PASSAGE (Sidney Wagner & William V. Skall); PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Karl Freund); SPRING PARADE (Joseph
Valentine)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
Walter Plunkett
ALL THIS & HEAVEN TOO
Orry-Kelly
THE BLUE BIRD
Gwen Wakeling
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Gwen Wakeling
THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES
Vera West
THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA
Irene
THE MARK OF ZORRO
Travis Banton
PRIDE &
PREJUDICE
Adrian & Gile
Steele
REBECCA
Irene
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
Oliver Messel, John Armstrong & Marcel
Vertes
Also Considered:
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (Vera West); DARK COMMAND (Adele
Palmer); EDISON, THE MAN (Dolly Tree & Gile Steele); GASLIGHT (credit unknown); THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES (Vera West); LILLIAN RUSSELL (Travis Banton); MY FAVOURITE WIFE (Howard Greer);
OUR TOWN (Edward P. Lambert); THE SEA HAWK (Orry-Kelly); WATERLOO BRIDGE (Adrian &
Gile Steele); THE WESTERNER (Irene Saltern)
BEST FILM EDITING
FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT
Otho Lovering & Dorothy
Spencer
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Robert E. Simpson
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Gene Havlick
THE LETTER
Warren Low
THE LONG VOYAGE HOME
Sherman Todd
NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE
Anne Bauchens
OUR TOWN
Sherman Todd
REBECCA
Hal C. Kern
THE SEA HAWK
George Amy
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
Gene Ruggiero
Also Considered:
ALL THIS & HEAVEN TOO (Warren Low); BOOM TOWN (Blanche
Sewell); THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (Milton Carruth); THE GREAT DICTATOR (Willard Nico); LONDON CAN TAKE IT (Harry Watt); THE MARK OF ZORRO (Robert Bischoff); NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (R.E.
Dearing); SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (George Crone); THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD (William Hornbeck & Charles Crichton); THE WESTERNER (Daniel Mandell)
BEST MAKEUP
THE GREAT DICTATOR
Ed Voight
THE SEA HAWK
Perc Westmore
THE THIEF OF
BAGDAD
Guy Pearce & Stuart
Freeborn
Also Considered:
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Charles Gemora & Gustaf Norin); PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Jack Dawn); REBECCA (Monte Westmore)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
DARK COMMAND
Victor Young
GASLIGHT
Richard Addinsell
THE LETTER
Max Steiner
THE LONG VOYAGE HOME
Richard Hageman
THE MARK OF ZORRO
Alfred Newman
OUR TOWN
Aaron Copland
REBECCA
Franz
Waxman
THE SEA HAWK
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
Miklos Rozsa
WATERLOO BRIDGE
Herbert Stothart
Also Considered:
ARIZONA (Victor Young); THE FIGHT FOR LIFE (Louis
Gruenberg); THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA (Richard Hageman); NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE (Victor Young); ONE MILLION, B.C. (Werner Heymann)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
ARISE MY LOVE
Victor Young
THE BANK DICK
Charles Previn
THE GHOST BREAKERS
Ernst Toch
THE GREAT DICTATOR
Meredith Wilson
MY FAVOURITE WIFE
Roy Webb
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Franz Waxman
PINOCCHIO
Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith
& Ned Washington
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
Werner Heymann
STRIKE UP THE BAND
George Stoll & Roger Edens
TIN PAN ALLEY
Alfred Newman
Also Considered:
FANTASIA (Edward H. Plumb); HIT PARADE OF 1941 (Cy
Feuer); IRENE (Anthony Collins); SECOND CHORUS (Artie Shaw); SPRING PARADE (Charles Previn)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Down Argentine Way" - DOWN ARGENTINE
WAY
Harry Warren & Mack Gordon
"I Hear Music" - DANCING ON A DIME
Burton Lane & Frank Loesser
"I've Got No Strings" - PINOCCHIO
Leigh Harline & Ned Washington
"It's A Blue World" - MUSIC IN MY HEART
Chet Forrest & Bob Wright
"Love Of My Life" - SECOND CHORUS
Artie Shaw & Johnny Mercer
"Only Forever" - RHYTHM ON THE RIVER
James Monaco & Johnny Burke
"Our Love Affair" - STRIKE UP THE BAND
Roger Edens & George Stoll
"Waltzing In The Clouds" - SPRING
PARADE
Robert Stolz & Gus Kahn
"When You Wish Upon A
Star" - PINOCCHIO
Leigh Harline & Ned
Washington
"Who Am I?" - HIT PARADE OF 1941
Jule Styne & Walter Bullock
Also Considered:
"Begin The Beguine" - BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 (Cole
Porter); "Give A Little Whistle" - PINOCCHIO (Leigh Harline & Ned Washington); "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee" - PINOCCHIO (Leigh Harline & Ned Washington); "I Concentrate On You" - BROADWAY
MELODY OF 1940 (Cole Porter); "I'd Know You Anywhere" - YOU'LL FIND OUT (Jimmy McHugh & Johnny Mercer)
BEST SOUND
FANTASIA
William E. Garity, J.N.A.
Hawkins & C.O. Slyfield
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Thomas Moulton
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
E.H. Hansen
KITTY FOYLE
John Aalberg
NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE
Loren Ryder
OUR TOWN
Thomas Moulton
THE SEA HAWK
Nathan Levinson
SPRING PARADE
Bernard B. Brown
STRIKE UP THE BAND
Douglas Shearer
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
Jack Whitney
Also Considered:
BEHIND THE NEWS (Charles Lootens); THE BLUE BIRD (E.H.
Hansen); BOOM TOWN (Douglas Shearer); THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (Bernard B. Brown); CAPTAIN CAUTION (Elmer Raguse); THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA (Jack Whitney); PINOCCHIO (George Lowerre); REBECCA
(Arthur Johns); SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (John Aalborg); TOO MANY HUSBANDS (John Livardary)
BEST SPECIAL SOUND EFFECTS
BOOM TOWN
Douglas Shearer
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE
Bernard B. Brown & Joseph Lapis
ONE MILLION
B.C.
Elmer
Raguse
THE SEA HAWK
Nathan Levinson
TYPHOON
Loren Ryder
Also Considered:
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Thomas Moulton); THE LONG VOYAGE
HOME (Thomas Moulton); REBECCA (Arthur Johns); SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (John Aalberg); THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Jack Whitney)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE BLUE BIRD
Fred Sersen
DR. CYCLOPS
Farciot Edouart & Gordon Jennings
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Paul Eagler
ONE MILLION B.C.
Roy Seawright
THE SEA HAWK
Byron Haskin
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
Vernon L. Walker
THE THIEF OF
BAGDAD
Lawrence
Butler
TYPHOON
Farciot Edouart & Gordon Jennings
Also Considered:
BOOM TOWN (A. Arnold Gillespie); THE BOYS FROM
SYRACUSE (John P. Fulton); THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (John P. Fulton); THE
LONG VOYAGE HOME (R.T. Layton & R.O. Binger); REBECCA (Jack Cosgrove); WOMEN IN WAR (Howard J. Lydecker, William Bradford & Ellis J. Thackery)
Most Wins:
4 - The Grapes of Wrath
3 - Pinocchio; Rebecca; The Thief of Bagdad
1 - Fantasia; Foreign Correspondent; The Great Dictator; His Girl Friday; The Letter; One Million B.C.; The Philadelphia Story; Pride & Prejudice
Most Nominations:
12 - Rebecca
11 - The Grapes of Wrath
10 - The Philadelphia Story
9 - The Letter
8 - Foreign Correspondent; The Great Dictator; His Girl Friday; Our Town; The Sea Hawk; The Thief of Bagdad
7 - The Long Voyage Home; The Shop Around the Corner
5 - Gaslight; Pinocchio; Pride & Prejudice
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