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- The Thief of Bagdad (1940, UK) The Academy Award for Best Special Effects (photographic and sound) was awarded to this film. There were 14 nominees for the honor, including Boom Town, Dr. Cyclops, Foreign Correspondent, The Invisible Man Returns, One Million B.C., Rebecca, The Sea Hawk, Typhoon, and Swiss Family Robinson.
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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. [1] It was hosted by Bob Hope, in his first of nineteen turns as host.
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Supporting Actress winner for Gone with the Wind, posing with an Oscar statuette with presenter Fay Bainter. Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. Arriving at the Oscars.
The 12th Academy Awards | 1940. ... Special Award. Winner. Gone with the Wind. Special Award ... Special Effects - A. Arnold Gillespie, Douglas Shearer ...
Jan 21, 2014 · The first new method was pioneered and used in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad. The Caliph enjoys an airborne horse ride over his city in one of the first-ever Technicolor blue-screen travelling mattes for The Thief of Bagdad. The film won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects in 1940.
The Academy Award for Best Special Effects (photographic and sound) was awarded to this film. There were 14 nominees for the honor, including Boom Town, Dr. Cyclops, Foreign Correspondent, The Invisible Man Returns, One Million B.C., Rebecca, The Sea Hawk, Typhoon, and Swiss Family Robinson.
Jul 27, 2017 · Besides those two monuments, a great many other films were represented at the 12th Annual Academy awards, which took place at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles on February 29, 1940. And when I say a great many I mean it. This presented some difficulty as I wrote this piece. Normally, we cover each category in which our main film was nominated.
Awards Ceremony Date/Time: Thursday, February 29, 1940, 8:30pm. Location: Banquet, Coconut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. Host: Bob Hope. Length: 3 hours, 52 minutes. Presenters. Scientific & Technical Awards: Darryl F. Zanuck. Special Award: William Cameron Menzies for “Gone With the Wind,” Technicolor Company: Darryl F. Zanuck.
