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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.
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.
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
Bob Hope hosted the 12th Annual Academy Awards which took place at the Ambassador Hotel on Thursday, February 29, 1940. Two films had double-digit nominations: Thirteen for Gone with the Wind and ten for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington .
Outstanding Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer * Music (Original Score) - Herbert Stothart * Music (Song) - Over The Rainbow in "The Wizard of Oz" Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
The 12th Academy Awards took place on February 29, 1940, and were held at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. This year’s Oscars were hosted by the iconic comedian Bob Hope. Films released in the eligibility year of 1939 were the stars of the show.
