Nominated For The Academy Award For Best Picture
1939 was one of the years in which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated ten films for Best Picture:
- Dark Victory
- Gone With the Wind (The winner)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Love Affair
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Ninotchka
- Of Mice and Men
- Stagecoach
- The Wizard of Oz
- Wuthering Heights
These films came from a wide variety of film genres and sources for their stories and settings, including these: Historical novels (Gone with the Wind), contemporary affairs (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Of Mice and Men), love stories, classic novels (Wuthering Heights), a fantasy-musical (The Wizard of Oz), a tragedy (Dark Victory), a story of the Old West (Stagecoach), and a comedy (Ninotchka).
The five nominees for Best Director of 1939 all went on to become legendary film directors with multiple stellar films to their credit. In alphabetical order: Frank Capra, Victor Fleming, John Ford, Sam Wood, and William Wyler.
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