Oscar Rewrite: 1940

 

Best Picture: Rebecca   The Philadelphia Story

Best Director: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)   Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca)

Best Actor: Jimmy Stewart (The Philadelphia Story) Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath)

Best Actress: Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)   Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday)

Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan (Westerner) Frank Morgan (Shop Around the Corner)

Best Supporting Actress: Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath) Judith Anderson (Rebecca)

Best Original Screenplay: The Great McGinty  The Great Dictator

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Philadelphia Story   The Grapes of Wrath

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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