1941 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1941

Ball Of Fire

★ Citizen Kane

Dumbo

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

High Sierra

✔ How Green Was My Valley

The Lady Eve

The Little Foxes

The Maltese Falcon

Sergeant York

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Best Actor of 1941

Humphrey Bogart (High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon)

✔ ★ Gary Cooper (Meet John Doe, Ball Of Fire and Sergeant York)

Henry Fonda (The Lady Eve)

Robert Montgomery (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)

Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

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Best Actress of 1941

Bette Davis (The Little Foxes and The Great Lie)

Deanna Durbin (It Started With Eve)

✔ Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)

Vivien Leigh (That Hamilton Woman)

★ Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve, Meet John Doe and Ball Of Fire)

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Best Director of 1941

✔ John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)

John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)

Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve)

★ Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

William Wyler (The Little Foxes)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1941

Charles Coburn (The Lady Eve and The Devil And Miss Jones)

Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane)

James Gleason (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)

★ Sydney Greenstreet (The Maltese Falcon)

Peter Lorre (The Maltese Falcon)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1941

★ ✔ Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon and The Great Lie)

Patricia Collinge (The Little Foxes)

Dorothy Comingore (Citizen Kane)

Rita Hayworth (The Strawberry Blonde and Blood And Sand)

Teresa Wright (The Little Foxes)

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Special Award

The Maltese Falcon (best movie of 1941 not named Citizen Kane)

John Huston, from the novel by Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) (adapted screenplay)

Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane) (original screenplay)

Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane) (cinematography)

Perry Ferguson and Van Nest Polglase; Al Fields and Darrell Silvera (Citizen Kane) (art direction-set decoration)

Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane) (score)

Robert Wise (Citizen Kane) (film editing)

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" (Buck Privates) music by Hugh Prince; lyrics by Don Raye (song)

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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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1939 Alternate Oscars

For reasons I won't go into, I've seen Gone with the Wind in a theater more times than any other movie — eight. That's 32 hours of Gone with the Wind, enough Rhett and Scarlett to last a lifetime.

I won't say it's my favorite movie of all-time (that would be Casablanca, Rio Bravo and a dozen others). But it is a good one ...

Best Picture of 1939

✔ Gone With The Wind

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Gunga Din

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

Ninotchka

The Rules Of The Game

Stagecoach

★ The Wizard Of Oz

The Women

Wuthering Heights

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Best Actor of 1939

Marcel Dalio (The Rules Of The Game)

✔ Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

Clark Gable (Gone With The Wind)

Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights)

★ James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington)

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Best Actress of 1939

Jean Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and Only Angels Have Wings)

Bette Davis (Dark Victory)

Greta Garbo (Ninotchka)

Judy Garland (The Wizard Of Oz)

★ ✔ Vivien Leigh (Gone With The Wind)

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Best Director of 1939

Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington)

★ ✔ Victor Fleming (The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind)

John Ford (Stagecoach and Young Mr. Lincoln)

Ernst Lubitsch (Ninotchka)

Jean Renoir (The Rules Of The Game)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1939

★ Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr (The Wizard Of Oz)

Harry Carey (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington)

✔ Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach, Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Gone With The Wind and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame)

Frank Morgan (The Wizard Of Oz)

Claude Rains (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1939

Olivia de Havilland (Gone With The Wind)

Margaret Hamilton (The Wizard Of Oz)

★ ✔ Hattie McDaniel (Gone With The Wind)

Butterfly McQueen (Gone With The Wind)

Rosalind Russell (The Women)

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Special Award

Bert Glennon (Stagecoach) (black-and-white cinematography)

"Over The Rainbow" (The Wizard Of Oz) music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E.Y. Harburg (song)

Flying Monkeys (The Wizard Of Oz) (The stuff that childhood nightmares are made of)

Max Steiner (Gone With The Wind) (score)

Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (Gone with the Wind) (color cinematography)

Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, from the play by Clare Boothe Luce (The Women) (screenplay)

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1938 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1938

★ The Adventures Of Robin Hood

Alexander Nevsky

Angels With Dirty Faces

La bête humaine

Bringing Up Baby

Holiday

The Lady Vanishes

Port Of Shadows

Pygmalion

✔ You Can't Take It With You

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Best Actor of 1938

James Cagney (Angels With Dirty Faces)

★ Errol Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby and Holiday)

Leslie Howard (Pygmalion)

Michael Redgrave (The Lady Vanishes)

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Best Actress of 1938

✔ Bette Davis (Jezebel)

★ Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby and Holiday)

Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion)

Margaret Lockwood (The Lady Vanishes)

Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades and The Shopworn Angel)

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Best Director of 1938

Marcel Carné (Port Of Shadows and Hotel du Nord)

Michael Curtiz and William Keighley (The Adventures Of Robin Hood)

Sergei M. Eisenstein (Alexander Nevsky)

★ Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby)

Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1938

John Garfield (Four Daughters)

Claude Rains (The Adventures Of Robin Hood)

★ Basil Rathbone (The Adventures Of Robin Hood, If I Were King and The Dawn Patrol)

Mickey Rooney (Boys Town)

Charlie Ruggles (Bringing Up Baby)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1938

✔ Fay Bainter (Jezebel)

★ Billie Burke (Merrily We Live)

Spring Byington (You Can't Take It With You)

May Robson (Bringing Up Baby)

Dame May Whitty (The Lady Vanishes)

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Special Award

Milo Anderson (The Adventures of Robin Hood) (costumes)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures of Robin Hood) (score)

Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio (The Adventures Of Robin Hood) (cinematography)

Dudley Nichols & Hagar Wilde (Bringing Up Baby) (original screenplay)

Charlie Ruggles (Bringing Up Baby) (most incompetent hunter) (big game category)

"Jeepers Creepers" (Going Places) music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Johnny Mercer (song)

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