duimnael|180px|Vivien Leigh, die beste aktrise, in Gone with the Wind. duimnael|180px|Die aanbieder, Bob Hope.
Die 12de Oscar-toekenningsaand is op 29 Februarie 1940 deur die Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gehou om erkenning te gee aan rolprente van 1939. Bob Hope was vir die eerste (van 19) keer die aanbieder.
Gone with the Wind het die meeste benoemings ontvang: altesaam 13. Dit was die eerste jaar waarin ’n Oscar toegeken is vir beste visuele effekte, asook waarin twee pryse vir kinematografie toegeken is: vir ’n kleur- en ’n swart-wit prent.
Hattie McDaniel was die eerste swart Amerikaner wat ’n Oscar gewen het, as beste vroulike byspeler vir Gone with the Wind.
Dit was die eerste Oscar-aand wat verfilm is. Die tydskrif Variety Magazine het geskryf die sterre was selfbewus vanweë die kameras en die geleentheid is gekenmerk deur modebewuste aktrises in die beste rokke, pelse en juweliersware.
Omstredenheid Die Los Angeles Times het ’n taamlik akkurate lys van die wenners geplaas ondanks ’n belofte om die resultate van die stemmery geheim te hou. Baie van die benoemdes het dus voor die tyd geweet wie gewen het. Clark Gable en Bette Davis was twee van die sterre wat by hul aankoms geweet het hulle het nie in hul onderskeie kategorieë gewen nie.
Verdere omstredenheid is ná die seremonie veroorsaak toe die Los Angeles Times berig die beste akteur en aktrise, Robert Donat en Vivien Leigh, het James Stewart en Davis net-net geklop. Dit het daartoe gelei dat die Academy seker gemaak het die stemmery en resultate bly in die toekoms geheim.
Pryse Hier volg ’n lys van die wenners en benoemdes (die wenners word eerste genoem en is in vet druk):
+ Wenners en benoemdes van die 12de Oscar-toekenningsaand Beste produksie Beste regisseur Gone with the Wind Dark Victory Goodbye, Mr. Chips Love Affair Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Ninotchka Of Mice and Men Stagecoach The Wizard of Oz Wuthering Heights Victor Fleming – Gone with the Wind Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington John Ford – Stagecoach Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips William Wyler – Wuthering Heights Beste akteur Beste aktrise Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips Clark Gable – Gone with the Wind Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights Mickey Rooney – Babes in Arms James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind Bette Davis – Dark Victory Irene Dunne – Love Affair Greta Garbo – Ninotchka Greer Garson – Goodbye, Mr. Chips Beste manlike byspeler Beste vroulike byspeler Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach Brian Aherne – Juarez Harry Carey – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Brian Donlevy – Beau Geste Claude Rains – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Hattie McDaniel – Gone with the Wind Olivia de Havilland – Gone with the Wind Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights Edna May Oliver – Drums Along the Mohawk Maria Ouspenskaya – Love Affair Beste storie Beste draaiboek Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lewis R. Foster Love Affair – Mildred Cram en Leo McCarey Bachelor Mother – Felix Jackson Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel Young Mr. Lincoln – Lamar Trotti | valign="top" | Gone with the Wind – Sidney Howard Ninotchka – Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch en Billy Wilder Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Sidney Buchman Wuthering Heights – Ben Hecht en Charles MacArthur Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Eric Maschwitz, R. C. Sherriff en Claudine West |- ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste lewende-aksie-kortprent, een spoel ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste lewende-aksie-kortprent, twee spoele |- | valign="top" | Busy Little Bears – Paramount Information Please – RKO Radio Prophet Without Honor – MGM Sword Fishing – Warner Bros. | valign="top" | Sons of Liberty – Warner Bros. Drunk Driving – MGM Five Times Five – RKO Radio |- ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste animasiekortprent ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste klankbaan |- | valign="top" | The Ugly Duckling – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Detouring America – Warner Bros. Peace on Earth – MGM The Pointer – Walt Disney Productions en RKO Radio | valign="top" | Stagecoach – Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold en Leo Shuken The Great Victor Herbert – Phil Boutelje en Arthur Lange Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland Babes in Arms – Roger Edens en George E. Stoll She Married a Cop – Cy Feuer Intermezzo – Lou Forbes The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Alfred Newman They Shall Have Music – Alfred Newman First Love – Charles Previn Swanee River – Louis Silvers Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Dimitri Tiomkin Way Down South – Victor Young Beste oorspronklike musiek Beste liedjie The Wizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart Nurse Edith Cavell – Anthony Collins Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland The Man in the Iron Mask – Lud Gluskin en Lucien Moraweck Eternally Yours – Werner Janssen The Rains Came – Alfred Newman Wuthering Heights – Alfred Newman Dark Victory – Max Steiner Gone with the Wind – Max Steiner Golden Boy – Victor Young Gulliver's Travels – Victor Young Man of Conquest – Victor Young "Over the Rainbow" uit The Wizard of Oz – Musiek Harold Arlen; liriek E.Y. Harburg "Faithful Forever" uit Gulliver's Travels – Musiek Ralph Rainger; liriek Leo Robin "I Poured My Heart Into a Song" uit Second Fiddle – Musiek en liriek Irving Berlin "Wishing" uit Love Affair – Musiek en liriek Buddy de Sylva Beste klank Beste kunsredigering When Tomorrow Comes – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studios-klankafdeling Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – John Livadary, Columbia Studios-klankafdeling Goodbye, Mr. Chips – A.W. Watkins, Denham Studios-klankafdeling Of Mice and Men – Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studios-klankafdeling Balalaika – Douglas Shearer, MGM-klankafdeling The Great Victor Herbert – Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Studio-klankafdeling Man of Conquest – Charles L. Lootens, Republic Studios-klankafdeling The Hunchback of Notre Dame – John Aalberg, RKO Pictures-klankafdeling Gone with the Wind – Thomas T. Moulton, Samuel Goldwyn Studio-klankafdeling The Rains Came – E.H. Hansen, 20th Century Fox-klankafdeling The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros.-klankafdeling Gone with the Wind – Lyle Wheeler Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lionel Banks Wuthering Heights – James Basevi The Rains Came – William S. Darling en George Dudley Beau Geste – Hans Dreier en Robert Odell The Wizard of Oz – Cedric Gibbons en William A. Horning The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Anton Grot Captain Fury – Charles D. Hall Man of Conquest – John Victor Mackay First Love – Jack Otterson en Martin Obzina Love Affair – Van Nest Polglase en Alfred Herman Stagecoach – Alexander Toluboff Beste kinematografie, swart-wit Beste kinematografie, kleur Wuthering Heights – Gregg Toland Gunga Din – Joseph H. August Lady of the Tropics – Norbert Brodine Juarez – Tony Gaudio Stagecoach – Bert Glennon The Rains Came – Arthur Charles Miller The Great Victor Herbert – Victor Milner Intermezzo – Gregg Toland First Love – Joseph Valentine Only Angels Have Wings – Joseph Walker Gone with the Wind – Ernest Haller en Ray Rennahan The Four Feathers – Georges Périnal en Osmond Borradaile The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Sol Polito en W. Howard Greene Drums Along the Mohawk – Ray Rennahan en Bert Glennon The Wizard of Oz – Hal Rosson The Mikado – William V. Skall en Bernard Knowles Beste redigering Beste visuele effekte Gone with the Wind – Hal C. Kern en James E. Newcom Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Charles Frend Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Gene Havlick en Al Clark Stagecoach – Otho Lovering en Dorothy Spencer The Rains Came – Barbara McLean The Rains Came – Edmund H. Hansen en Fred Sersen Gone with the Wind – Jack Cosgrove, Fred Albin en Arthur Johns Only Angels Have Wings – Roy Davidson en Edwin C. Hahn Union Pacific – Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings en Loren Ryder The Wizard of Oz – A. Arnold Gillespie en Douglas Shearer The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Byron Haskin en Nathan Levinson Topper Takes a Trip – Roy Seawright
Erepryse Douglas Fairbanks Motion Picture & Television Fund William Cameron Menzies Die Technicolor Company
Irving G. Thalberg-gedenkprys David O. Selznick
Jeugprys Judy Garland vir The Wizard of Oz
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