Your Oscars for the Decade: 1940's

[CheekyShepherd]

PICTURE
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Laura
The Third Man

ACTOR
Richard Attenborough - Brighton Rock
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
James Stewart - It's A Wonderful Life

ACTRESS
Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca
Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
Joan Fontaine - Rebecca
Dorothy McGuire - The Spiral Staircase
Barbra Stanwyck - Double Indemnity

DIRECTOR
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
Otto Preminger - Laura
Carol Reed - The Third Man
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
William Wyler - The Best Years Of Our Lives

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Joseph Cotten - Citizen Kane
Walter Huston - The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
Harold Russell - The Best Years Of Our Lives
Clifton Webb - Laura
Orson Welles - The Third Man

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase
Dorothy Comingore - Citizen Kane
Jane Darwell - The Grapes Of Wrath
Mercedes McCambridge - All The King's Men
Claire Trevor - Key Largo

SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
The Best Years Of Our Lives (Robert Sherwood)
Bicycle Thieves (Cesare Zavattini)
Casablanca (Julius J Epstein, Philip G Epstein & Howard Koch)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler)
The Grapes Of Wrath (Nunnally Johnson)

SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
Here Comes Mr Jordan (Sidney Buchman & Seton I Miller)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
Notorious (Ben Hecht)
The Third Man (Graham Greene & Alexander Korda)

ANIMATED FILM
Bambi
Dumbo
Pinocchio

ART DIRECTION - SET DECORATION
Great Expectations (John Bryan)
Hamlet (Roger K Furse)
The Phantom Of The Opera (Alexander Golitzen)
The Red Shoes (Hein Heckroth)
The Thief Of Bagdad (Vincent Korda)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Narcissus (Jack Cardiff)
Casablanca (Arthur Edeson)
Citizen Kane (Gregg Toland)
Laura (Joseph LaSchelle)
The Third Man (Robert Krasker)

FILM EDITING
The Best Years Of Our Lives (Daniel Mandell)
Casablanca (Owen Marks)
CItizen Kane (Robert Wise)
National Velvet (Robert Kern)
The Third Man (Oswald Hafenrichter)

ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
All That Money Can Buy (Bernard Herrmann)
Bambi (Frank Churchill & Edward H Plumb)
Casablanca (Max Steiner)
Laura (David Raksin)
The Third Man (Anton Karas)

ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE
The Jolson Story (Morris Stoloff)
Phantom Of The Opera (Edward Ward)
Pinocchio (Leigh Harline, Paul J Smith & Ned Washington)
Song Of The South (Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J Smith & Charles Wolcott)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Ray Heindorf & Heinz Roemheld)

ORIGINAL SONG
"As Time Goes By" - Casablanca
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" - Neptune's Daughter
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" - Meet Me In St. Louis
"When You Wish Upon A Star" - Pinocchio
"White Christmas" - Holiday Inn
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" - Song Of The South

SOUND
Air Force
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Citizen Kane
On The Town
The Southerner

SPECIAL/VISUAL EFFECTS
Citizen Kane
Portrait Of Jennie
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

[Trinity]

I really like your choices. As Time Goes By is not an original song though.


PICTURE
The Best Years of Our Lives
Casablanca
Double Indemnity
Laura
Rebecca

DIRECTOR
William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity)
William Wyler (The Heiress)
Otto Preminger (Laura)
Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca)

ACTOR
Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Ralph Richardson (The Heiress)
Cary Grant (His Girl Friday)
Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past)
Edward G. Robinson (Scarlet Street)

ACTRESS
Linda Darnell (A Letter to Three Wives)
Gene Tierney (The Razor's Edge)
Joan Fontaine (Rebecca)
Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street)
Carole Lombard (To Be Or Not To Be)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Clifton Webb (Laura)
Claude Rains (Notorious)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce)
Anne Baxter (The Razor's Edge)
Jennifer Jones (Since You Went Away)
Paulette Goddard (So Proudly We Hail!)

SCREENPLAY
The Big Sleep
Casablanca
The Lady Eve
Laura
A Letter to Three Wives

CINEMATOGRAPHY B/W
The Best Years of Our Lives
Citizen Kane
Laura
Out of the Past
Rebecca

CINEMATOGRAPHY COLOR
Black Narcissus
Duel in the Sun
Leave Her to Heaven
The Red Shoes

ORIGINAL SCORE
Casablanca
Duel in the Sun
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Laura

ORIGINAL SONG
Put the Blame on Mame (Gilda)
White Christmas (Holiday Inn)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (Lady Be Good)
The Trolley Song (Meet Me in St. Louis)

[Hannibal21]

Fantastic topic, the 40's is by far the best decade IMO and the most difficult for me to decide, as there were just too many great ones to mention.

PICTURE:
Rebecca
Citizen Kane
The Lady Eve
Casablanca
Double Indemnity

Winner: Citizen Kane

DIRECTOR:
Alfred Hitchcock for Rebecca
Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
Michael Curtiz for Casablanca
Billy Wilder for Double Indemnity
Carol Reed for The Third Man

Winner: Orson Welles

ACTOR:
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon & Casablanca
Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
Jean Marais in Beauty and the Beast
Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Winner: Orson Welles

ACTRESS:
Joan Fontaine in Rebecca
Bette Davis in The Little Foxes
Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca & Notorious
Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity
Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress

Winner: Ingrid Bergman

SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Joseph Cotten in Citizen Kane
Claude Rains in Casablanca
Dana Andrews in The Ox-Bow Incident
Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Orson Welles in The Third Man

Winner: Orson Welles

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Judith Anderson in Rebecca
Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath
Agnes Moorehead in The Magnificent Ambersons
Ann Blyth in Mildred Pierce
Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge

Winner: Anne Baxter

SCREENPLAY:
Citizen Kane
The Lady Eve
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Double Indemnity

Winner: Casablanca

FOREIGN FILM:
Beauty and the Beast
The Bicycle Thief

Winner: Beauty and the Beast

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Rebecca
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
Leave Her to Heaven
Black Narcissus

Winner: Citizen Kane

FILM EDITING:
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
Double Indemnity
Laura
The Killers

Winner: Citizen Kane

SCORE:
Rebecca
Citizen Kane
Laura
Spellbound
The Third Man

Winner: Laura

SOUND:
Citizen Kane
Laura
Spellbound
The Lady From Shanghai
White Heat

Winner: Citizen Kane

ART DIRECTION:
Rebecca
Citizen Kane
Leave Her to Heaven
Beauty and the Beast
Black Narcissus

Winner: Citizen Kane

COSTUME DESIGN:
Rebecca
The Magnificent Ambersons
Laura
Beauty and the Beast
The Razor's Edge

Winner: Rebecca