Oscar Nominated films (1939 - )
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- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.Best Picture
Best Director - John Ford
Best Supporting Actor - Thomas Mitchell (W)
Best Original Score (W)
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Editing - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCharles BoyerMaria OuspenskayaA French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.Best Picture
Best Actress - Irene Dunne
Best Supporting Actress - Maria Ouspenskaya
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Song - Wishing
Best Art Direction - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.Best Picture
Best Director - William Wyler
Best Actor - Laurence Olivier
Best Actress - Geraldine Fitzgerald
Best Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction - DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsBette DavisGeorge BrentHumphrey BogartA young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.Best Picture
Best Actress - Bette Davis
Best Original Score - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniBette DavisBrian AherneLouis Napoleon III (Claude Rains) takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg (Brian Aherne) to add Mexico to his empire.Best Supoorting Actor - Brian Aherne
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaAkim TamiroffIn 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.Best Special Effects
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantJean ArthurRita HayworthAt a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract, as a traveling American showgirl stops in town.Best Special Effects
- DirectorSam WoodSidney FranklinStarsRobert DonatGreer GarsonTerry KilburnAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.Best Picture
Best Director - Sam Wood
Best Actor - Robert Donat (W)
Best Actress - Greer Garson
Best Screenplay
Best Editing
Best Sound - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaAlice BradyMarjorie WeaverA fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.Best Original Screenplay
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsLouis HaywardJoan BennettWarren WilliamDespotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan.Best Original Score
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsGinger RogersDavid NivenCharles CoburnAn unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.Best Original Screenplay
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsSonja HenieTyrone PowerRudy ValleeA studio publicist discovers a Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.Best Original Song - I Poured My Heart Into a Song
- DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.Best Picture
Best Original Score (W)
Best Original Song - Over the Rainbow (W)
Best Art Direction
Best Special Effects - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsCharles LaughtonMaureen O'HaraCedric HardwickeIn 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.Best Original Score
Best Sound - DirectorClarence BrownStarsMyrna LoyTyrone PowerGeorge BrentIn India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.Best Special Effects (W)
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBette DavisErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandA depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.Best Original Score
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Special Effects - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.Best Picture
Best Director - Frank Capra
Best Actor - James Stewart
Best Supporting Actor - Harry Carey
Best Supporting Actor - Claude Rains
Best Original Screenplay (W)
Best Original Score
Best Editing
Best Art Direction
Best Sound - DirectorJohn FordStarsClaudette ColbertHenry FondaEdna May OliverNewlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.Best Supporting Actress - Edna May Oliver
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsDeanna DurbinRobert StackEugene PalletteAn orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.Best Original Score
Best Art Direction - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsGreta GarboMelvyn DouglasIna ClaireA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.Best Picture
Best Actress - Greta Garbo
Best Original Screenplay - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.Best Picture (W)
Best Director - Victor Fleming (W)
Best Actor - Clark Gable
Best Actress - Vivien Leigh (W)
Best Supporting Actress - Hattie McDaniel (W)
Best Supporting Actress - Olivia de Havilland
Best Screenplay (W)
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography (W)
Best Editing (W)
Best Art Direction (W)
Best Sound
Best Special Effects