1940

1. His Girl Friday 2. The Shop Around Corner 3. Rebecca 4. Pinocchio 5. The Grapes of Wrath 6. The Great Dictator 7. Foreign Correspondent 8. The Letter 9. The Mortal Storm 10. Fantasia

11. Remember the Night 12. The Thief of Bagdad  13. The Philadelphia Story 14. Broadway Melody of 1940 15. Pride and Prejudice 16. Waterloo Bridge 17. Christmas in July 18. The Long Voyage Home 19. Dance, Girl, Dance 20. The Bank Dick

1. Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday 2. Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca 3. Ernst Lubitsch, The Shop Around Corner 4. John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath 5. Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske, Pinocchio

6. Samuel Armstrong & others, Fantasia 7. William Wyler, The Letter 8. Alfred Hitchcock,  Foreign Correspondent 9. Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator 10. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan, The Thief of Bagdad

1. Laurence Olivier, Rebecca 2. Cary Grant, His Girl Friday 3. Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath 4. James Stewart, The Shop Around Corner 5. Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator

6. Conrad Veidt, Contraband 7. Edward G. Robinson, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 8. Edward G. Robinson, Brother Orchid 9. Fred Astaire, Broadway Melody of 1940 10. W.C. Fields, The Bank Dick

1. Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday 2. Joan Fontaine, Rebecca 3. Bette Davis, The Letter 4. Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story 5. Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge

6. Margaret Sullavan, The Shop Around the Corner 7. Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle 8. Irene Dunne, My Favorite Wife 9. Lucile Ball, Dance Girl Dance 10. Greer Garson, Pride and Prejudice

1. Walter Brennan, The Westerner 2. John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath 3. Herbert Marshall, Foreign Correspondent 4. John Qualen, The Grapes of Wrath 5. George Sanders, Rebecca

6. Frank Morgan, The Shop Around Corner 7. James Stephenson, The Letter 8. Conrad Veidt, The Thief of Bagdad 9. George Sanders, Foreign Correspondent 10. Joseph Schildkraut, The Shop Around the Corner

1. Judith Anderson, Rebecca 2. Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath 3. Barbara O'Neal, All This and Heaven Too 4. Virginia Field,  Waterloo Bridge 5. Ann Sothern, Brother Orchid

6. Paulette Goddard, The Great Dictator 7. Gale Sondergaard, The Letter 8. Marianne Löfgren, Juninatten 9. Magaret Lockwood, The Stars Look Down 10. Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story

1. George Barnes, Rebecca 2. Tony Gaudio, The Letter 3. Georges Périnal, The Thief of Bagdad 4. Gregg Toland, The Long Voyage Home 5. Gregg Toland, The Grapes of Wrath

6. James Wong Howe, Abe Lincoln in Illinois 7. Sidney Wagner & William V. Skall, Northway Passage 8. Ernest Haller,  All This and Heaven Too 9. Rudolph Maté, Foreign Correspondent 10. William Daniels, The Mortal Storm