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      • The Thief of Bagdad (1940, UK) The Academy Award for Best Special Effects (photographic and sound) was awarded to this film. There were 14 nominees for the honor, including Boom Town, Dr. Cyclops, Foreign Correspondent, The Invisible Man Returns, One Million B.C., Rebecca, The Sea Hawk, Typhoon, and Swiss Family Robinson.
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  2. Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. Arriving at the Oscars. Victor Fleming. Best Directing winner for Gone with the Wind. View More Memorable Moments.

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  3. 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.

  4. Jan 21, 2014 · The first new method was pioneered and used in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad. The Caliph enjoys an airborne horse ride over his city in one of the first-ever Technicolor blue-screen travelling mattes for The Thief of Bagdad. The film won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects in 1940.

  5. The Academy Award for Best Special Effects (photographic and sound) was awarded to this film. There were 14 nominees for the honor, including Boom Town, Dr. Cyclops, Foreign Correspondent, The Invisible Man Returns, One Million B.C., Rebecca, The Sea Hawk, Typhoon, and Swiss Family Robinson.

  6. Tom Howard (27 March 1910 – 30 August 1985) was a British special effects artist who won two Academy Awards. He had 82 films from 1940 to 1974.

  7. Best Effects, Special Effects: Fred Sersen, Edmund H. Hansen; Best Short Film - Animated: The Ugly Duckling (S) Best Short Film: One-Reel; Best Short Film: Two-Reel; Honorary Award: Gone with the Wind ; Honorary Award: Gone with the Wind

  8. The Special Academy Awards are voted on by special committees, rather than by the Academy membership as a whole. They are not always presented on an annual basis. Current special categories. Academy Honorary Award: since 1929; Academy Scientific and Technical Award (three different awards): since 1931; Gordon E. Sawyer Award: since 1981

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