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1940 Academy Awards (Oscars)
... Best Director (1940's) ...
Oscar's decade review of Academy Award winners and nominations for Best Director - winners are highlighted.

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» 12th Academy Awards (February 29, 1940)
The 12th Annual Awards held at The Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel
• Frank Capra for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
• John Ford for Stagecoach
• Sam Wood for Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Oscar Winner Victor Fleming for Gone With The Wind
• William Wyler for Wuthering Heights
 
» 13th Academy Awards (February 27, 1941)
The 13th Annual Awards held at The Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel
• Alfred Hitchcock for Rebecca
• George Cukor for The Philadelphia Story
Oscar Winner John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
• Sam Wood for Kitty Foyle
• William Wyler for The Letter
 
» 14th Academy Awards (February 26, 1942)
The 14th Annual Awards held at The Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel
• Alexander Hall for Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• Howard Hawks for Sergeant York
Oscar Winner John Ford for How Green Was My Valley
• Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
• William Wyler for The Little Foxes
 
» 15th Academy Awards (March 4, 1943)
The 15th Annual Awards held at The Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel
• John Farrow for Wake Island
• Mervyn LeRoy for Random Harvest
• Michael Curtiz for Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Sam Wood for Kings Row
Oscar Winner William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver
 
» 16th Academy Awards (March 2, 1944)
The 16th Annual Awards held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
• Clarence Brown for The Human Comedy
• Ernst Lubitsch for Heaven Can Wait
• George Stevens for The More the Merrier
• Henry King for The Song of Bernadette
Oscar Winner Michael Curtiz for Casablanca
 
» 17th Academy Awards (March 15, 1945)
The 17th Annual Awards held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
• Alfred Hitchcock for Lifeboat
• Billy Wilder for Double Indemnity
• Henry King for Wilson
Oscar Winner Leo McCarey for Going My Way
• Otto Preminger for Laura
 
» 18th Academy Awards (March 7, 1946)
The 18th Annual Awards held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
• Alfred Hitchcock for Spellbound
Oscar Winner Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
• Clarence Brown for National Velvet
• Jean Renoir for The Southerner
• Leo McCarey for The Bells of St. Mary's
 
» 19th Academy Awards (March 13, 1947)
The 19th Annual Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium
• Clarence Brown for The Yearling
• David Lean for Brief Encounter
• Frank Capra for It's a Wonderful Life
• Robert Siodmak for The Killers
Oscar Winner William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives
 
» 20th Academy Awards (March 20, 1948)
The 20th Annual Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium
• David Lean for Great Expectations
• Edward Dmytryk for Crossfire
Oscar Winner Elia Kazan for Gentleman's Agreement
• George Cukor for A Double Life
• Henry Koster for The Bishop's Wife
 
» 21st Academy Awards (March 24, 1949)
The 21st Annual Awards held at The Academy Awards Theater
• Anatole Litvak for The Snake Pit
• Fred Zinnemann for The Search
• Jean Negulesco for Johnny Belinda
Oscar Winner John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Laurence Olivier for Hamlet

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