Academy Award Winners, 1940-19491940 Best Picture Winner: Rebecca Nominees: All This and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, Kitty Foyle, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town, The Philadelphia Story Best Actor Winner: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story Nominees: Charles Chaplin in The Great Dictator, Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath, Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Laurence Olivier in Rebecca Best Actress Winner: Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle Nominees: Bette Davis in The Letter, Joan Fontaine in Rebecca, Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, Martha Scott in Our Town Best Supporting Actor Winner: Walter Brennan in The Westerner Nominees: Albert Basserman in Foreign Correspondent, William Gargan in They Knew What They Wanted, Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator, James Stephenson in The Letter Best Supporting Actress Winner: Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath Nominees: Judith Anderson in Rebecca, Ruth Hussey in The Philadelphia Story, Barbara O'Neil in All This and Heaven Too, Marjorie Rambeau in Primrose Path Best Director Winner: John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath Nominees: George Cukor for The Philadelphia Story, Alfred Hitchcock for Rebecca, Sam Wood for Kitty Foyle, William Wyler for The Letter 1941 Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley Nominees: Blossoms in the Dust, Citizen Kane, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hold Back the Dawn, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, One Foot in Heaven, Sergeant York, Suspicion Best Actor Winner: Gary Cooper in Sergeant York Nominees: Cary Grant in Penny Serenade, Walter Huston in All That Money Can Buy, Robert Montgomery in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Orson Welles in Citizen Kane Best Actress Winner: Joan Fontaine in Suspicion Nominees: Bette Davis in The Little Foxes, Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn, Greer Garson in Blossoms in the Dust, Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire Best Supporting Actor Winner: Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley Nominees: Walter Brennan in Sergeant York, Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones, James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon Best Supporting Actress Winner: Mary Astor in The Great Lie Nominees: Sara Allgood in How Green Was My Valley, Patricia Collinge in The Little Foxes, Teresa Wright in The Little Foxes, Margaret Wycherly in Sergeant York Best Director Winner: John Ford for How Green Was My Valley Nominees: Alexander Hall for Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Howard Hawks for Sergeant York, Orson Welles for Citizen Kane, William Wyler for The Little Foxes 1942 Best Picture Winner: Mrs. Miniver Nominees: The Invaders, Kings Row, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Pied Piper, The Pride of the Yankees, Random Harvest, The Talk of the Town, Wake Island, Yankee Doodle Dandy Best Actor Winner: James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy Nominees: Ronald Colman in Random Harvest, Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees, Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver, Monty Woolley in The Pied Piper Best Actress Winner: Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver Nominees: Bette Davis in Now, Voyager, Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, Rosalind Russell in My Sister Eileen, Teresa Wright in The Pride of the Yankees Best Supporting Actor Winner: Van Heflin in Johnny Eager Nominees: William Bendix in Wake Island, Walter Huston in Yankee Doodle Dandy, Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat, Henry Travers in Mrs. Miniver Best Supporting Actress Winner: Teresa Wright in Mrs. Miniver Nominees: Gladys Cooper in Now, Voyager, Agnes Moorehead in The Magnificent Ambersons, Susan Peters in Random Harvest, Dame May Whitty in Mrs. Miniver Best Director Winner: William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver Nominees: Michael Curtiz for Yankee Doodle Dandy, John Farrow for Wake Island, Mervyn LeRoy for Random Harvest, Sam Wood for Kings Row 1943 Best Picture Winner: Casablanca Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls Heaven Can Wait, The Human Comedy, In Which We Serve, Madame Curie, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette, Watch on the Rhine Best Actor Winner: Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine Nominees: Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Walter Pidgeon in Madame Curie, Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy Best Actress Winner: Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette Nominees: Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier, Ingrid Bergman in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Joan Fontaine in The Constant Nymph, Greer Garson in Madame Curie Best Supporting Actor Winner: Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier Nominees: Charles Bickford in The Song of Bernadette, J. Carrol Naish in Sahara, Claude Rains in Casablanca, Akim Tamiroff in For Whom the Bell Tolls Best Supporting Actress Winner: Katina Paxinou in For Whom the Bell Tolls Nominees: Gladys Cooper in The Song of Bernadette, Paulette Goddard in So Proudly We Hail, Anne Revere in The Song of Bernadette, Lucile Watson in Watch on the Rhine Best Director Winner: Michael Curtiz for Casablanca Nominees: Clarence Brown for The Human Comedy, Henry King for The Song of Bernadette, Ernst Lubitsch for Heaven Can Wait, George Stevens for The More the Merrier 1944 Best Picture Winner: Going My Way Nominees: Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Since You Went Away, Wilson Best Actor Winner: Bing Crosby in Going My Way Nominees: Charles Boyer in Gaslight, Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way, Cary Grant in None But the Lonely Heart, Alexander Knox in Wilson Best Actress Winner: Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight Nominees: Claudette Colbert in Since You Went Away, Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington, Greer Garson in Mrs. Parkington, Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity Best Supporting Actor Winner: Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way Nominees: Hume Cronyn in The Seventh Cross, Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington, Clifton Webb in Laura, Monty Woolley in Since You Went Away Best Supporting Actress Winner: Ethel Barrymore in None But the Lonely Heart Nominees: Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away, Angela Lansbury in Gaslight, Aline MacMahon in Dragon Seed, Agnes Moorehead in Mrs. Parkington Best Director Winner: Leo McCarey for Going My Way Nominees: Alfred Hitchcock for Lifeboat, Henry King for Wilson, Otto Preminger for Laura, Billy Wilder for Double Indemnity 1945 Best Picture Winner: The Lost Weekend Nominees: Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary's, Mildred Pierce, Spellbound Best Actor Winner: Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend Nominees: Bing Crosby in The Bells of St. Mary's, Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh, Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom, Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember Best Actress Winner: Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce Nominees: Ingrid Bergman in The Bells of St. Mary's, Greer Garson in The Valley of Decision, Jennifer Jones in Love Letters, Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven Best Supporting Actor Winner: James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Nominees: Michael Chekhov in Spellbound, John Dall in The Corn Is Green, Robert Mitchum in The Story of G.I. 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Carrol Naish in A Medal for Benny Best Supporting Actress Winner: Anne Revere in National Velvet Nominees: Eve Arden in Mildred Pierce, Ann Blyth in Mildred Pierce, Angela Lansbury in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Joan Lorring in The Corn Is Green Best Director Winner: Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend Nominees: Clarence Brown for National Velvet, Alfred Hitchcock for Spellbound, Leo McCarey for The Bells of St. Mary's, Jean Renoir for The Southerner 1946 Best Picture Winner: The Best Years Of Our Lives Nominees: Henry V, It's A Wonderful Life, The Razor's Edge, The Yearling Best Actor Winner: Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives Nominees: Laurence Olivier in Henry V, Larry Parks in The Jolson Story, Gregory Peck in The Yearling, James Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life Best Actress Winner: Olivia De Havilland in To Each His Own Nominees: Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter, Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun, Rosalind Russell in Sister Kenny, Jane Wyman in The Yearling Best Supporting Actor Winner: Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives Nominees: Charles Coburn in The Green Years, William Demarest in The Jolson Story, Claude Rains in Notorious, Clifton Webb in The Razor's Edge Best Supporting Actress Winner: Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge Nominees: Ethel Barrymore in The Spiral Staircase, Lillian Gish in Duel in the Sun, Flora Robson in Saratoga Trunk, Gale Sondergaard in Anna and the King of Siam Best Director Winner: William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives Nominees: Clarence Brown for The Yearling, Frank Capra for It's A Wonderful Life, David Lean for Brief Encounter, Robert Siodmak for The Killers 1947 Best Picture Winner: Gentleman's Agreement Nominees: The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Great Expectations, Miracle on 34th Street Best Actor Winner: Ronald Colman in A Double Life Nominees: John Garfield in Body and Soul, Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement, William Powell in Life With Father, Michael Redgrave in Mourning Becomes Electra Best Actress Winner: Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter Nominees: Joan Crawford in Possessed, Susan Hayward in Smash Up - The Story of a Woman, Dorothy McGuire in Gentleman's Agreement, Rosalind Russell in Mourning Becomes Electra Best Supporting Actor Winner: Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street Nominees: Charles Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter, Thomas Gomez in Ride the Pink Horse, Robert Ryan in Crossfire, Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death Best Supporting Actress Winner: Celeste Holm in Gentleman's Agreement Nominees: Ethel Barrymore in The Paradine Case, Gloria Grahame in Crossfire, Marjorie Main in The Egg and I, Anne Revere in Gentleman's Agreement Best Director Winner: Elia Kazan for Gentleman's Agreement Nominees: George Cukor for A Double Life, Edward Dmytryk for Crossfire, Henry Koster for The Bishop's Wife, David Lean for Great Expectations 1948 Best Picture Winner: Hamlet Nominees: Johnny Belinda, The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Best Actor Winner: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet Nominees: Lew Ayres in Johnny Belinda, Montgomery Clift in The Search, Dan Dailey in When My Baby Smiles at Me, Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty Best Actress Winner: Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda Nominees: Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc, Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit, Irene Dunne in I Remember Mama, Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number Best Supporting Actor Winner: Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Nominees: Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda, Jose Ferrer in Joan of Arc, Oscar Homolka in I Remember Mama, Cecil Kellaway in The Luck of the Irish Best Supporting Actress Winner: Claire Trevor in Key Largo Nominees: Barbara Bel Geddes in I Remember Mama, Ellen Corby in I Remember Mama, Agnes Moorehead in Johnny Belinda, Jean Simmons in Hamlet Best Director Winner: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Nominees: Anatole Litvak for The Snake Pit, Jean Negulesco for Johnny Belinda, Laurence Olivier for Hamlet, Fred Zinnemann for The Search 1949 Best Picture Winner: All The King's Men Nominees: Battleground, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives, Twelve O'Clock High ` Best Actor Winner: Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men Nominees: Kirk Douglas in Champion, Gregory Peck in Twelve O'Clock High, Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart, John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima Best Actress Winner: Olivia De Havilland in The Heiress Nominees: Jeanne Crain in Pinky, Susan Hayward in My Foolish Heart, Deborah Kerr in Edward, My Son, Loretta Young in Come to the Stable Best Supporting Actor Winner: Dean Jagger in Twelve O'Clock High Nominees: John Ireland in All the King's Men, Arthur Kennedy in Champion, Ralph Richardson in The Heiress, James Whitmore in Battleground Best Supporting Actress Winner: Mercedes Mccambridge in All the King's Men Nominees: Ethel Barrymore in Pinky, Celeste Holm in Come to the Stable, Elsa Lanchester in Come to the Stable, Ethel Waters in Pinky Best Director Winner: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives Nominees: Carol Reed for The Fallen Idol, Robert Rossen for All the King's Men, William A. Wellman for Battleground, William Wyler for The Heiress Return from Oscar Winners 1940-1949 to Oscar Winners Main Page |