1940 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1940

Fantasia

★ The Grapes Of Wrath

The Great Dictator

His Girl Friday

The Philadelphia Story

Pinocchio

✔ Rebecca

The Shop Around The Corner

The Thief Of Bagdad

The Three Stooges Comedy Shorts (You Nazty Spy!; A Plumbing We Will Go; Nutty But Nice; How High Is Up?; From Nurse To Worse; No Census, No Feeling; Cookoo Cavaliers; and Boobs In Arms)

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Best Actor of 1940

Brian Donlevy (The Great McGinty)

★ Henry Fonda (The Grapes Of Wrath)

Cary Grant (His Girl Friday, My Favorite Wife and The Philadelphia Story)

✔ James Stewart (Destry Rides Again, The Shop Around The Corner and The Philadelphia Story)

The Three Stooges (You Nazty Spy; A Plumbing We Will Go; Nutty But Nice; How High Is Up?; From Nurse To Worse; No Census, No Feeling; Cookoo Cavaliers; and Boobs In Arms)

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Best Actress of 1940

Bette Davis (All This, And Heaven Too and The Letter)

Joan Fontaine (Rebecca)

Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)

★ Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday)

Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around The Corner)

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Best Director of 1940

Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator)

George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story)

★ ✔ John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)

Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday)

Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1940

Ralph Bellamy (His Girl Friday)

★ ✔ Walter Brennan (The Westerner)

Felix Bressart (The Shop Around the Corner, Edison, the Man and Comrade X)

Jack Oakie (The Great Dictator)

John Qualen (His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath and The Long Voyage Home)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1940

★ Judith Anderson (Rebecca)

✔ Jane Darwell (The Grapes Of Wrath)

Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story)

Ida Lupino (They Drive By Night)

Virginia Weidler (The Philadelphia Story)

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Special Award

The Three Stooges (lifetime achievement)

Curly Howard (A Plumbing We Will Go) (worst remodel ever) (bathroom edition)

George Barnes (Rebecca) (cinematography)

Lodge Cunningham (His Girl Friday) (sound)

"When You Wish Upon A Star" (Pinocchio) music by Leigh Harline; lyrics by Ned Washington (song)

Donald Ogden Stewart, from the play by Philip Barry (The Philadelphia Story) (screenplay)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.