Thursday, February 3, 2011

1940

Best Picture

Rebecca
-The Philadelphia Story
-The Grapes of Wrath
-The Great Dictator
-The Shop Around the Corner

Best Director

"I never thought that alcohol would - Oh shut up."
George Cukor for The Philadelphia Story
-Alfred Hitchcock for Rebecca
-Charlie Chaplin for The Great Dictator
-John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
-Ernst Lubitsch for The Shop Around the Corner

Best Actor

"Seems like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live one."
Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath
-Charlie Chaplin as Hynkel/Jewish Barber in The Great Dictator
-Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter in Rebecca
-Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln in Abe Lincoln of Illinois
-James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story

Best Actress

"I'm not the sort of woman men marry."
Joan Fontaine as The 2nd Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca
-Katherine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story
-Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie in The Letter
-Margaret Sullivan as Klara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner
-Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennett in Pride & Prejudice

Best Supporting Actor

"Don't spill none of that liquor, son. It eats right into the bar."
Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner
-Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice
-Albert Basserman as Van Meer in Foreign Correspondent
-Jack Oakie as Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria in The Great Dictator
-Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Pinky Hartwell in His Girl Friday

Best Supporting Actress

"Go ahead. Jump. He never loved you, so why go on living? Jump and it will all be over..."
Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca
-Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story
-Mary Boland as Jane Bennett in Pride & Prejudice
-Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath
-Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday

Best Screenplay

"The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges."
The Philadelphia Story
-Rebecca
-The Great Dictator
-His Girl Friday
-The Grapes of Wrath
-The Westerner

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