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Oscar Winners 1940-1949

Past Oscar Winners; Oscar Special Report

1940
Picture: "Rebecca"
Actor: James Stewart, "The Philadelphia Story"
Actress: Ginger Rogers, "Kitty Foyle"
Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan, "The Westerner"
Supporting Actress: Jane Darwell, "The Grapes of Wrath"
Director: John Ford, "The Grapes of Wrath"

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1941
Picture: "How Green Was My Valley"
Actor: Gary Cooper, "Sergeant York"
Actress: Joan Fontaine, "Suspicion"
Supporting Actor: Donald Crisp, "How Green Was My Valley"
Supporting Actress: Mary Astor, "The Great Lie"
Director: John Ford, "How Green Was My Valley"

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1942
Picture: "Mrs. Miniver"
Actor: James Cagney, "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Actress: Greer Garson, "Mrs. Miniver"
Supporting Actor: Van Heflin, "Johnny Eager"
Supporting Actress: Teresa Wright, "Mrs. Miniver"
Director: William Wyler, "Mrs. Miniver"

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1943
Picture: "Casablanca"
Actor: Paul Lukas, "Watch on the Rhine"
Actress: Jennifer Jones, "The Song of Bernadette"
Supporting Actor: Charles Coburn, "The More the Merrier"
Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Director: Michael Curtiz, "Casablanca"

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1944
Picture: "Going My Way"
Actor: Bing Crosby, "Going My Way"
Actress: Ingrid Bergman, "Gaslight"
Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgerald, "Going My Way"
Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore, "None But the Lonely Heart"
Director: Leo McCarey, "Going My Way"

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1945
Picture: "The Lost Weekend"
Actor: Ray Milland, "The Lost Weekend"
Actress: Joan Crawford, "Mildred Pierce"
Supporting Actor: James Dunn, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
Supporting Actress: Anne Revere, "National Velvet"
Director: Billy Wilder, "The Lost Weekend"

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1946
Picture: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Actor: Fredric March, "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Actress: Olivia de Havilland, "To Each His Own"
Supporting Actor: Harold Russell, "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter, "The Razor's Edge"
Director: William Wyler, "The Best Years of Our Lives"

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1947
Picture: "Gentleman's Agreement"
Actor: Ronald Colman, "A Double Life"
Actress: Loretta Young, "The Farmer's Daughter"
Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn, "Miracle on 34th Street"
Supporting Actress: "Gentleman's Agreement"
Director: Elia Kazan, "Gentleman's Agreement"

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1948
Picture: "Hamlet"
Actor: Laurence Olivier, "Hamlet"
Actress: Jane Wyman, "Johnny Belinda"
Supporting Actor: Walter Huston, "Treasure of Sierra Madre"
Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor, "Key Largo"
Director: John Huston, "Treasure of Sierra Madre"

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1949
Picture: "All the King's Men"
Actor: Broderick Crawford, "All the King's Men"
Actress: Olivia de Havilland, "The Heiress"
Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger, "Twelve O'Clock High"
Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge, "All the King's Men"
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, "Letter to Three Wives"

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