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Outstanding Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Special Effects - A. Arnold Gillespie, Douglas Shearer
The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Bob Hope, in his first of nineteen turns as host.
The 12th Academy Awards | 1940. Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel. Thursday, February 29, 1940. ... Outstanding Production - Hal Roach (production company)
Independent producer David O. Selznick, who had produced the previous year's big winner Gone With The Wind (1939), also produced the Best Picture winner in 1940 - and campaigned heavily for its win. Selznick was the first to produce two consecutive winners of the Best Picture Oscar.
Gone with the Wind ended up winning eight competitive and two honorary Oscars this night including Outstanding Production, Best Directing (Victor Fleming), Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Art Direction (Lyle Wheeler), Best Cinematography (Color) (Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan), Best Film Editing (Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom), and Best Wri...
Rebecca. (1940 film) Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based ...
Feb 5, 2014 · To Colonel Nathan Levinson for his outstanding service to the industry and the Army during the past nine years, which has made possible the present efficient mobilization of the motion picture industry facilities for the production of Army Training Films.
