1940


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    The Letter
    My Favorite Wife
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    The Shop Around the Corner


Best of 1940

  1. The Philadelphia Story
  2. The Shop Around the Corner
  3. His Girl Friday
  4. My Favorite Wife
  5. The Mortal Storm
  1. All This, & Heaven Too
  2. Gaslight
  3. The Letter
  4. Too Many Husbands
  5. Fantasia

LEAD ACTRESS

Bette Davis, The Letter
Irene Dunne, My Favorite Wife
Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
Margaret Sullavan, The Mortal Storm

LEADING ACTOR

Charles Boyer, All This, & Heaven Too
Cary Grant, His Girl Friday
James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
Anton Walbrook, Gaslight

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Cathleen Cordell, Gaslight
Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story
Barbara O'Neil, All This, & Heaven Too
Maria Ouspenskaya, The Mortal Storm
Irene Rich, The Mortal Storm

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ralph Bellamy, His Girl Friday
Frank Morgan, The Mortal Storm
Randolph Scott, My Favorite Wife

DIRECTION

Frank Borzage, The Mortal Storm
George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story
Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday
Anatole Litvak, All This, & Heaven Too
Ernst Lubitsch, The Shop Around the Corner

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Bella & Sam Spewack, My Favorite Wife

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Charles Lederer, His Girl Friday [play The Front Page, Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur]
Samson Raphaelson, The Shop Around the Corner [play Parfumerie, Miklós László]
AR Rawlinson & Bridget Boland, Gaslight [play, Patrick Hamilton]
Casey Robinson, All This, & Heaven Too [novel, Rachel Field]
Donald Ogden Stewart, The Philadelphia Story [play, Philip Barry]

1939 | Years | 1941

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» Belle toujours 2007, Manoel de Oliveira
» Duel in the Sun 1946, King Vidor
» Dragonwyck 1946, Joseph L Mankiewicz
» The Spiral Staircase 1945, Robert Siodmak
» The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934, Alfred Hitchcock
» Tell No One 2008, Guillaume Canet
» Heaven Knows, Mr Allison 1957, John Huston
» Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008, Woody Allen
» The Great Lie 1941, Edmund Goulding

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