The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences La Address

Award ceremony for films of 1940

13th Academy Awards
Date	February 27, 1941
Site	Biltmore Basin, Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, California
Hosted past	Bob Hope
Highlights
All-time Pic	Rebecca
Most awards	The Thief of Bagdad (3)
Most nominations	Rebecca (eleven)
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The 13th Academy Awards honored American film achievements in 1940. This was the start twelvemonth that sealed envelopes were used to keep surreptitious the names of the winners^[1] which led to the famous phrase: "May I have the envelope, please?" The bookkeeping firm of Toll Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after the fiasco of leaked voting results in 1939 past the Los Angeles Times.

For the first time, the award for All-time Screenplay was carve up into two dissever categories: Best Original Screenplay and All-time Screenplay.

Independent producer David O. Selznick, who had produced the previous year's big winner Gone with the Wind (1939), likewise produced the Best Moving-picture show winner in 1940, Rebecca – and campaigned heavily for its win.^[two] Selznick was the start to produce two consecutive winners of the Best Picture Oscar. Although Rebecca had eleven nominations, it simply won for All-time Motion picture and Best Cinematography (Black and White), marking the last time a film would win Best Picture merely not win for either directing, acting, or writing.

The moving picture's distributor – United Artists – was the concluding of the original film studios (the others were Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, 20th Century-Play a trick on, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, Universal, and Paramount) to win the Best Picture Oscar. Rebecca was the first American-made moving-picture show directed past Alfred Hitchcock, and the but film from him to win All-time Picture. Hitchcock had two films nominated for Best Picture show, the other being Foreign Contributor. Two other directors also had 2 films in the running this year: Sam Wood (Our Town and Kitty Foyle) and John Ford (The Long Voyage Domicile and The Grapes of Wrath, which won All-time Manager).

Pinocchio was the first animated film to take abode competitive Oscars, for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song, starting a long tradition of animated films winning in these categories.

The Thief of Bagdad received the most Oscars of the evening, three, the first time a moving picture not nominated for Best Picture won the most awards. This and Pinocchio were the showtime films non nominated for All-time Picture to receive multiple awards.

Awards [edit]

Pete Smith; Best Alive Activeness Short Discipline, One-Reel winner

Bob Hope; Honorary University Award recipient

Nominees were announced on Feb 10, 1941. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[3]

Outstanding Product Rebecca – David O. Selznick for Selznick International and United Artists All This, and Heaven Too – Jack 50. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, and David Lewis for Warner Bros. Foreign Correspondent – Walter Wanger for Walter Wanger Productions and United Artists The Grapes of Wrath – Darryl F. Zanuck and Nunnally Johnson for 20th Century Fox The Great Dictator – Charlie Chaplin for Charlie Chaplin Productions and United Artists Kitty Foyle – David Hempstead for RKO Radio The Letter – Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros. The Long Voyage Home – John Ford for Argosy Films, Walter Wanger Productions, and United Artists Our Town – Sol Lesser for Sol Lesser Productions and United Artists The Philadelphia Story – Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Best Managing director John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath Sam Wood – Kitty Foyle William Wyler – The Letter George Cukor – The Philadelphia Story Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
Best Role player James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay "Mike" Connor Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator as The Barber/Adenoid Hynkel Henry Fonda – The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad Raymond Massey – Abe Lincoln in Illinois equally Abraham Lincoln Laurence Olivier – Rebecca as Maximilian de Winter	Best Actress Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle equally Kitty Foyle Bette Davis – The Letter every bit Leslie Crosbie Joan Fontaine – Rebecca as the second Mrs de Winter Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story every bit Tracy Samantha Lord Martha Scott – Our Town as Emily Webb
All-time Supporting Actor Walter Brennan – The Westerner as Judge Roy Edible bean Albert Bassermann – Foreign Correspondent every bit Van Meer William Gargan – They Knew What They Wanted as Joe Jack Oakie – The Swell Dictator equally Benzino Napaloni James Stephenson – The Letter of the alphabet every bit Howard Joyce	Best Supporting Actress Jane Darwell – The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad Judith Anderson – Rebecca equally Mrs. Danvers Ruth Hussey – The Philadelphia Story as Elizabeth Imbrie Barbara O'Neil – All This, and Heaven Too as Francoise "Fanny" Sebastiani de-Praslin Marjorie Rambeau – Primrose Path as Mamie Adams
Best Original Screenplay The Great McGinty – Preston Sturges Angels Over Broadway – Ben Hecht Dr. Ehrlich'due south Magic Bullet – Norman Burnstine, Heinz Herald, and John Huston Foreign Contributor – Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison The Corking Dictator – Charlie Chaplin	All-time Screenplay The Philadelphia Story – Donald Ogden Stewart, based on the play by Philip Barry The Grapes of Wrath – Nunnally Johnson, based on the novel by John Steinbeck Kitty Foyle – Dalton Trumbo, based on the novel by Christopher Morley The Long Voyage Home – Dudley Nichols, based on the plays The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Spring East for Cardiff, and The Long Voyage Home past Eugene O'Neill Rebecca – Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier
Best Original Story Ascend, My Love – Benjamin Glazer and John S. Toldy Comrade 10 – Walter Reisch Edison, the Man – Hugo Butler and Dore Schary My Favorite Married woman – Leo McCarey, Samuel Spewack, and Bella Spewack The Westerner – Stuart Northward. Lake	Best Live Action Curt Subject area, Ane-Reel Quicker'n a Flash – Pete Smith and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer London Can Accept It! – Warner Bros. More About Nostradamus – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Siege – RKO Radio
Best Live Action Brusk Discipline, Two-Reel Teddy, the Rough Rider – Warner Bros. Eyes of the Navy – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Service with the Colors – Warner Bros.	Best Short Field of study – Cartoons The Milky Fashion – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Puss Gets the Boot – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer A Wild Hare – Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros.
Best Original Score Pinocchio – Leigh Harline, Paul Smith and Ned Washington Arizona – Victor Young Dark Command – Victor Young The Fight for Life – Louis Gruenberg The Great Dictator – Meredith Willson The Firm of the 7 Gables – Frank Skinner The Howards of Virginia – Richard Hageman The Letter of the alphabet – Max Steiner The Long Voyage Abode – Richard Hageman The Marker of Zorro – Alfred Newman My Favorite Married woman – Roy Webb Due north West Mounted Police – Victor Young One Meg B.C. – Werner R. Heymann Our Boondocks – Aaron Copland Rebecca – Franz Waxman The Thief of Bagdad – Miklós Rózsa Waterloo Bridge – Herbert Stothart	All-time Scoring Can Pan Alley – Alfred Newman Arise, My Love – Victor Young Striking Parade of 1941 – Cy Feuer Irene – Anthony Collins Our Boondocks – 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
All-time Original Song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio – Music by Leigh Harline; Lyrics past Ned Washington "Downward Argentine Fashion" from Downwardly Argentine Way – Music past Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon "I'd Know You Anywhere" from Y'all'll Observe Out – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer "It's a Blue World" from Music in My Heart – Music and Lyrics past Chet Forrest and Bob Wright "Love of My Life" from 2d Chorus – Music by Artie Shaw; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer "Just Forever" from Rhythm on the River – Music past James 5. Monaco; Lyrics by Johnny Burke "Our Love Affair" from Strike Up the Ring – Music and Lyrics by Roger Edens and Arthur Freed "Waltzing in the Clouds" from Spring Parade – Music by Robert Stolz; Lyrics by Gus Kahn "Who Am I?" from Hit Parade of 1941 – Music past Jule Styne; Lyrics past Walter Bullock	All-time Sound Recording Strike Upwardly the Band – Douglas Shearer Behind the News – Charles 50. Lootens Captain Caution – Elmer Raguse The Grapes of Wrath – E. H. Hansen The Howards of Virginia – Jack Whitney Kitty Foyle – John O. Aalberg Due north Due west Mounted Police – Loren L. Ryder Our Town – Thomas T. Moulton The Body of water Hawk – Nathan Levinson Leap Parade – Bernard B. Brown Too Many Husbands – John P. Livadary
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White Pride and Prejudice – Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse Arise, My Love – Hans Dreier and Robert Conductor Arizona – Lionel Banks and Robert Peterson The Boys from Syracuse – John Otterson Night Command – John Victor Mackay Foreign Correspondent – Alexander Golitzen Lillian Russell – Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright My Favorite Married woman – Van Nest Polglase and Mark-Lee Kirk My Son, My Son! – John DuCasse Schulze Our Town – Lewis J. Rachmil Rebecca – Lyle R. Wheeler The Sea Hawk – Anton Grot The Westerner – James Basevi	Best Art Direction, Color The Thief of Bagdad – Vincent Korda Bitter Sweet – Cedric Gibbons and John S. Detlie Down Argentine Way – Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright North West Mounted Police – Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Rebecca – George Barnes Abe Lincoln in Illinois – James Wong Howe All This, and Heaven Besides – Ernest Haller Arise, My Love – Charles Lang Boom Town – Harold Rosson Foreign Correspondent – Rudolph Maté The Letter – Tony Gaudio The Long Voyage Home – Gregg Toland Spring Parade – Joseph Valentine Waterloo Bridge – Joseph Ruttenberg	Best Cinematography, Colour The Thief of Bagdad – Georges Périnal Biting Sugariness – Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey The Bluish Bird – Arthur C. Miller and Ray Rennahan Down Argentine Way – Leon Shamroy and Ray Rennahan N West Mounted Law – Victor Milner and W. Howard Greene Northwest Passage – Sidney Wagner and William V. Skall
Best Film Editing North West Mounted Police – Anne Bauchens The Grapes of Wrath – Robert L. Simpson The Alphabetic character – Warren Low The Long Voyage Home – Sherman Todd Rebecca – Hal C. Kern	Best Special Effects The Thief of Bagdad – Photographic Effects: Lawrence W. Butler; Sound Effects: Jack Whitney The Blue Bird – Photographic Furnishings: Fred Sersen; Audio Furnishings: Edmund H. Hansen Smash Town – Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie; Audio Effects: Douglas Shearer The Boys from Syracuse – Photographic Furnishings: John P. Fulton; Sound Effects: Bernard B. Dark-brown and Joe Lapis Dr. Cyclops – Photographic Effects: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings Foreign Correspondent – Photographic Effects: Paul Eagler; Audio Furnishings: Thomas T. Moulton The Invisible Human being Returns – Photographic Effects: John P. Fulton; Sound Effects: Bernard B. Brownish and William Hedgcock The Long Voyage Home – Photographic Effects: R. T. Layton and Ray Binger; Audio Effects: Thomas T. Moulton 1 One thousand thousand B.C. – Photographic Effects: Roy Seawright; Audio Furnishings: Elmer A. Raguse Rebecca – Photographic Effects: Jack Cosgrove; Sound Effects: Arthur Johns The Sea Hawk – Photographic Effects: Byron Haskin; Sound Effects: Nathan Levinson Swiss Family Robinson – Photographic Furnishings: Vernon Fifty. Walker; Sound Effects: John O. Aalberg Typhoon – Photographic Furnishings: Farciot Edouart and Gordon Jennings; Audio Effects: Loren L. Ryder Women in War – Photographic Effects: Howard J. Lydecker, William Bradford and Ellis J. Thackery; Sound Effects: Herbert Norsch

University Honorary Awards [edit]

• Bob Hope "in recognition of his unselfish services to the Motion Picture Industry".
• Colonel Nathan Levinson "for his outstanding service to the industry and the Army during the past 9 years, which has made possible the present efficient mobilization of the movement picture industry facilities for the production of Ground forces Training Films".

1941 Oscar firsts [edit]

For the first time, names of all winners remained secret until the moment they received their awards.

Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a six-minute directly radio address to the attendees from the White Business firm. It is the first time an American president participated in the event.

Multiple nominations and awards [edit]

The following 32 film received multiple nominations: 11 nominations: Rebecca 7 nominations: The Grapes of Wrath and The Letter of the alphabet 6 nominations: Foreign Contributor, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town, and The Philadelphia Story 5 nominations: The Great Dictator, Kitty Foyle, and N West Mounted Law 4 nominations: Arise, My Love, The Sea Hawk, Spring Parade, and The Thief of Bagdad iii nominations: All This, and Heaven Too, Down Argentine Way, My Favorite Wife, Strike Upwardly the Band, and The Westerner 2 nominations: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Arizona, Bitter Sweet, The Blue Bird, Blast Boondocks, The Boys from Syracuse, Dark Command, Hit Parade of 1941, The Howards of Virginia, One 1000000 B.C., Pinocchio, Second Chorus, and Waterloo Bridge

The following five films received multiple awards: 3 wins: The Thief of Bagdad ii wins: The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, Pinocchio and Rebecca

See besides [edit]

• 1940 in film

References [edit]

1. ^ "1941: THE 13TH ACADEMY Honor WINNERS". Oscars.org. 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2020-02-14 .
2. ^ Inside Oscar, Mason Wiley and Damien Boa, Ballantine Books (1986) pg. 103-107
3. ^ "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Movie Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on July six, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-12 .

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