movie_creation Best Motion Picture or Outstanding Motion Picture: 1940 to 1949 movie_creation
| YEAR | TITLE | STARRING |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | All The King's Men
Nominees (4) :Battleground; The Heiress; A Letter to Three Wives; Twelve O’Clock High |
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Joanne Dru and John Derek |
| 1948 | Hamlet
Nominees (4) :The Red Shoes; Johnny Belinda; The Snake Pit; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Laurence Olivier, Norman Wooland, John Laurie, Anthony Quayle, Harcourt Williams and Peter Cushing |
| 1947 | Gentleman's Agreement
Nominees (4) :The Bishop’s Wife; Crossfire; Great Expectations; Miracle on the 34th Street |
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, June Havoc and Anne Revere |
| 1946 | The Best Years Of Our Lives
Nominees (4) :Henry V; It’s a Wonderful Life; The Razor’s Edge; The Yearling |
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell |
| 1945 | The Lost Weekend
Nominees (4) :Anchors Aweigh; The Bells of St-Mary’s; Mildred Pierce; Spellbound |
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling and Frank Faylen |
| 1944 | Going My Way
Nominees (4) :Double Indemnity; Gaslight; Since You Went Away; Wilson |
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald and Risë Stevens |
| 1943 | Casablanca
Nominees (9) :For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heaven Can Wait; The Human Comedy; In Which We Serve; Madame Curie; The More the Merrier; The Ox-Bow Incident; The Song of Bernadette; Watch on the Rhine |
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver
Nominees (9) :The Invaders; King’s Row; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Pied Piper; The Pride of the Yankees; Random Harvest; The Talk of the Town; Wake Island; Yankee Doodle Daddy |
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers and Henry Wilcoxon |
| 1941 | How Green Was Valley
Nominees (9) :Blossoms in the Dust; Here Comes Mr. Jordan; Citizen Kane; Hold Back the Dawn; The Little Foxes; The Maltese Falcon; One Boot in Heaven; Sergeant York; Suspicion |
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp and Roddy McDowall |
| 1940 | Rebecca
Nominees (9) :All This, and Heaven Too; Foreign Correspondent; The Grapes of Wrath; The Great Dictator; Kitty Foyle; The Letter; The Long Voyage Home; Our Town; The Philadelphia Story |
Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Reginald Denny, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Nigel Bruce and Florence Bates |