The 13th Annual Academy Awards (1941)
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The 13th Annual Academy Awards honored American film achievements in 1940. This was the first year that sealed envelopes were used to keep secret the names of the winners which led to the famous phrase: "May I have the Envelope, please." The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after the fiasco of leaked voting results in 1939 by the Los Angeles Times. A new category was added this year for Best Original Screenplay.
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, Rebecca - and campaigned heavily for its win. Selznick was the first to produce two consecutive winners of the Best Picture Oscar. Although Rebecca had eleven nominations, it only won for Best Picture and Best Cinematography, Black and White.
The film's studio - United Artists - was the last of the original film studios (the others were MGM, Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal, and Paramount) to win the Best Picture Oscar. Rebecca was the first American-made film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and the only film from him to win Best Picture. Hitchcock actually had two films in the running, for in addition to Rebecca his Foreign Correspondent was also in the running for Best Picture. Pinocchio was the first animated film to take home Oscar, in both score and song. Starting a long tradition of animated films winning there. The Thief of Bagdad took home the most Oscars that night, 3. Making it the first film to have the most wins without being nominated for best picture.
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A = “Rebecca’s” Alfred (A) was nominated for the Best Director Award. Unfortunately, he did not win
B = Donald (B) Stewart won the Best Adaptated Screenplay for “The Philadelphia Story”.
C = “The Grapes of Wrath” was nominated for (X) Academy Awards ((X) + 1 = (C)).
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D = “The Great Dictator” was nominated for (D) Academy Awards.
E = The Howards of Virginia Richard (E) was up for the Best Original Score award (convert first letter of last name to a number).
F = Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a six minute direct radio address to the attendees from the White House. It is the (F) time an American president participates in the event.
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