Oscar Nominations and Winners (1940)

Best Picture

• All This, and Heaven Too
• Foreign Correspondent
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Dictator
• Kitty Foyle
• The Letter
• The Long Voyage Home
• Our Town
• The Philadelphia Story
• Rebecca

Best Director

• George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story)
• John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
• Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca)
• Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle)
• William Wyler (The Letter)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator)
• Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath)
• Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)
• Laurence Olivier (Rebecca)
• James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Albert Basserman (Foreign Correspondent)
• Walter Brennan (The Westerner)
• William Gargan (They Knew What They Wanted)
• Jack Oakie (The Great Dictator)
• James Stephenson (The Letter)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Bette Davis (The Letter)
• Joan Fontaine (Rebecca)
• Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)
• Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
• Martha Scott (Our Town)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Judith Anderson (Rebecca)
• Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)
• Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story)
• Barbara O'Neil (All This, and Heaven Too)
• Marjorie Rambeau (Primrose Path)

Best Story

• Arise, My Love (Benjamin Glazer and John S. Toldy)
• Comrade X (Walter Reisch)
• Edison, the Man (Hugo Butler and Dore Schary)
• My Favorite Wife (Leo McCarey, Bella Spewack and Samuel Spewack)
• The Westerner (Stuart N. Lake)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Grapes of Wrath (Nunnally Johnson)
• Kitty Foyle (Dalton Trumbo)
• The Long Voyage Home (Dudley Nichols)
• The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart)
• Rebecca (Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison)

Best Original Screenplay

• Angels Over Broadway (Ben Hecht)
• Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald and John Huston)
• Foreign Correspondent (Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison)
• The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
• The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)

Art Direction - Black and White

• Arise, My Love
• Arizona
• The Boys From Syracuse
• The Dark Command
• Foreign Correspondent
• Lillian Russell
• My Favorite Wife
• My Son, My Son!
• Our Town
• Pride and Prejudice
• Rebecca
• The Sea Hawk
• The Westerner

Art Direction - Color

• Bitter Sweet
• Down Argentine Way
• Northwest Mounted Police
• The Thief of Bagdad

Cinematography - Black and White

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• All This, and Heaven Too
• Arise, My Love
• Boom Town
• Foreign Correspondent
• The Letter
• The Long Voyage Home
• Rebecca
• Spring Parade
• Waterloo Bridge

Cinematography - Color

• Bitter Sweet
• The Blue Bird
• Down Argentine Way
• Northwest Mounted Police
• Northwest Passage
• The Thief of Bagdad

Film Editing

• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Letter
• The Long Voyage Home
• Northwest Mounted Police
• Rebecca

Original Score

• Arizona (Victor Young)
• The Dark Command (Victor Young)
• The Fight for Life (Louis Gruenberg)
• The Great Dictator (Meredith Willson)
• The House of Seven Gables (Frank Skinner)
• The Howards of Virginia (Richard Hageman)
• The Letter (Max Steiner)
• The Long Voyage Home (Richard Hageman)
• The Mark of Zorro (Alfred Newman)
• My Favorite Wife (Roy Webb)
• Northwest Mounted Police (Victor Young)
• One Million B.C. (Werner Heymann)
• Our Town (Aaron Copland)
• Pinocchio (Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Ned Washington)
• Rebecca (Franz Waxman)
• The Thief of Bagdad (Miklos Rozsa)
• Waterloo Bridge (Herbert Stothart)

Score

• Arise, My Love (Victor Young)
• Hit Parade of 1941 (Cy Feuer)
• Irene (Anthony Collins)
• Our Town (Aaron Copland)
• The Sea Hawk (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
• Second Chorus (Artie Shaw)
• Spring Parade (Charles Previn)
• Strike Up the Band (Georgie Stoll and Roger Edens)
• Tin Pan Alley (Alfred Newman)

Original Song

• "Down Argentine Way" (Down Argentine Way) Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Mack Gordon.
• "I'd Know You Anywhere" (You'll Find Out) Music by Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• "It's a Blue World" (Music in My Heart) Music and lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright.
• "Love of My Life" (Second Chorus) Music by Artie Shaw. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• "Only Forever" (Rhythm on the River) Music by James Monaco. Lyrics by John Burke.
• "Our Love Affair" (Strike Up the Band) Music and lyrics by Roger Edens and Arthur Freed.
• "Waltzing in the Clouds" (Spring Parade) Music by Robert Stolz. Lyrics by Gus Kahn.
• "When You Wish Upon a Star" (Pinocchio) Music by Leigh Harline. Lyrics by Ned Washington.
• "Who Am I?" (Hit Parade of 1941) Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Walter Bullock.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• The Milky Way
• Puss Gets the Boot
• A Wild Hare

Live Action Short Film - One Reel

• London Can Take It
• More About Nostradamus
• Quicker 'n a Wink
• Siege

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels

• Eyes of the Navy
• Service With the Colors
• Teddy, the Rough Rider

Sound

• Behind the News
• Captain Caution
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Howards of Virginia
• Kitty Foyle
• Northwest Mounted Police
• Our Town
• The Sea Hawk
• Spring Parade
• Strike Up the Band
• Too Many Husbands

Special Effects

• The Blue Bird
• Boom Town
• The Boys From Syracuse
• Dr. Cyclops
• Foreign Correspondent
• The Invisible Man Returns
• The Long Voyage Home
• One Million B.C.
• Rebecca
• The Sea Hawk
• Swiss Family Robinson
• The Thief of Bagdad
• Typhoon
• Women in War