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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.BEST PICTURE
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath
The Philadelphia Story
Foreign Correspondent
The Great Dictator
The Letter
His Girl Friday
Pinocchio
Pride and Prejudice
All This, and Heaven Too - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.BEST DIRECTOR
Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator
William Wyler - The Letter
Alfred Hitchcock - Foreign Correspondent - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.BEST ACTOR
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath
Laurence Olivier - Rebecca
Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator
Cary Grant - His Girl Friday
Cary Grant - The Philadelphia Story
Laurence Olivier - Pride and Prejudice - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.BEST ACTRESS
Joan Fontaine - Rebecca
Bette Davis - The Letter
Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story
Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday
Bette Davis - All This, and Heaven Too - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
George Sanders - Rebecca
John Carradine - The Grapes of Wrath
Herbert Marshall - Foreign Correspondent
George Sanders - Foreign Correspondent
Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath
Judith Anderson - Rebecca
Ruth Hussey - The Philadelphia Story
Barbara O'Neil - All This, and Heaven Too
Gladys Cooper - Rebecca
Gale Sondergaard - The Letter - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.BEST CASTING
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath
His Girl Friday
The Letter
Pride and Prejudice - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Great Dictator
Foreign Correspondent
A Chump at Oxford
Saps at Sea - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath
His Girl Friday
The Letter
Pride and Prejudice - DirectorNorman FergusonT. HeeWilfred JacksonStarsDickie JonesChristian RubMel BlancA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
Pinocchio
Kitty Foyle
North West Mounted Police
The Grapes of Wrath
The Thief of Bagdad
Pride and Prejudice - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.BEST EDITING
Rebecca
North West Mounted Police
The Grapes of Wrath
Foreign Correspondent
The Letter
The Philadelphia Story - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Rebecca
The Letter
The Grapes of Wrath
Foreign Correspondent
The Thief of Bagdad
All This, and Heaven Too - DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Thief of Bagdad
Rebecca
Pride and Prejudice
All This, and Heaven Too
North West Mounted Police
Foreign Correspondent - DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Thief of Bagdad
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
All This, and Heaven Too
The Letter
The Philadelphia Story - DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
The Thief of Bagdad
Pride and Prejudice
North West Mounted Police
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
Rebecca - DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Thief of Bagdad
Foreign Correspondent
Saps at Sea
Rebecca
North West Mounted Police - DirectorNorman FergusonT. HeeWilfred JacksonStarsDickie JonesChristian RubMel BlancA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.BEST SCORE
Pinocchio
Rebecca
The Letter
The Thief of Bagdad
North West Mounted Police
The Great Dictator - DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.BEST SOUNDTRACK/ADAPTED SCORE
Fantasia - DirectorNorman FergusonT. HeeWilfred JacksonStarsDickie JonesChristian RubMel BlancA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.BEST SONG
Pinocchio - "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Pinocchio - "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee"
Pinocchio - "I've Got No Strings" - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollPaulette GoddardIn 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.BEST SOUND
North West Mounted Police
Pinocchio
Fantasia
Foreign Correspondent
Saps at Sea
Rebecca - DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.BEST SOUND EDITING
The Thief of Bagdad
Foreign Correspondent
Pinocchio
Saps at Sea
North West Mounted Police
Rebecca - DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.BEST STUNTS
The Thief of Bagdad
Saps at Sea
North West Mounted Police
Foreign Correspondent
A Chump at Oxford
Rebecca - DirectorNorman FergusonT. HeeWilfred JacksonStarsDickie JonesChristian RubMel BlancA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Pinocchio
Fantasia