Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1951)
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Actress: Luise Rainer, The Good Earth.
Picture: The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros.
Special Awards: Mack Sennett. Edgar Bergen. W. Howard Greene for color photogrophy of A Star Is Born, Selznick-United Artists. The Museum of Modern Art Film Library for collecting films dating from 1895.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Darryl F. Zanuck.
1938
Actor: Spencer Tracy, Boys Town.
Actress: Bette Davis, Jezebel.
Picture: You Can't Take It With You, Columbia.
Special Awards: Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Deanna Durbin. Mickey Rooney. Oliver Marsh and Allan Davies for color cinematography of Sweethearts. Harry M. Warner. J. Arthur Ball. Paramount. Gor¬ don Jennings. Farclot Edouard and Loren Ryder.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Hal Wallis.
1939
Actor: Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Actress: Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind.
Picture: Gone With the Wind, Selznick International-MGM.
Special Awards: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. The Tech¬ nicolor Company. Motion Picture Relief Fund. Judy Garland for outstanding performance as screen juvenile. William Cameron Menzies for achievements in use of color for Gone With the Wind.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: David O. Selznick.
1940
Actor: James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story.
Actress: Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle.
Picture: Rebecca, Selznick International-UA.
Special Awards: Bob Hope. Colonel Nathan Levinson. Twentieth Century-Fox Films. War¬ ner Bros. Art Department and Anton Grot.
1941
Actor: Gary Cooper, Sergeant York.
Actress: Joan Fontaine, Suspicion.
Picture: How Green Was My Valley, 20th CenturyFox.
Special Awards: Walt Disney. William Garrity. John A. Hawkins. RCA Manufacturing Co. for use of sound in Fantasia. Leopold Sto¬ kowski and associates for unique creation of visualized music in Fantasia.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Walt Disney.
1942
Actor: James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Actress: Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver.
Picture: Mrs. Miniver, MGM.
Special Awards: Charles Boyer for creation of the French Research Foundation. In Which We Serve for outstanding international foreign production. MGM for production of the Andy Hardy series which best reflects the Ameri¬ can Way of Life.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Sidney Franklin.
1943
Actor: Paul Lukas, The Watch on the Rhine.
Actress: Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette.
Picture: Casablanca, Warner Bros.
Special Award: George Pal for his novel technique in producing puppetoon shorts.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Hall B.
Wallis.
1944
Actor: Bing Crosby, Going My Way.
Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight.
Picture: Going My Way, Paramount.
Special Award: Margaret O'Brien as the outstand¬ ing child actress of the year.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Darryl F. Zanuck.
1945
Actor: Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend.
Actress: Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce.
Picture: The Lost Weekend, Paramount.
Special Awards: Walter Wanger for distinguished achievement in serving six consecutive years as president of the Academy of Motion Pic¬ ture Arts and Sciences. Frank Ross, producer, Mervyn Leroy, director, and Frank Sinatra, star of the House I Live In. Peggy Ann Gar¬ ner as the most promising juvenile of 1945 for her performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
1946
Actor: Frederic March, The Best Years of Our Lives.
Actress: Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own.
Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives, RKO-Samuel Goldwyn.
Special Awards: Laurence Olivier. Harold Russell. Ernst Lubitsch. Claude Jarman, Jr. (Junior Award).
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Samuel
Goldwyn.
1947
Actor: Ronald Colman, A Double Life.
Actress: Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter.
Picture: Gentleman's Agreement, 20th CenturyFox.
Special Awards: Shoe Shine, Lopert Films. Ken Murray for Bill and Coo. James Baskett for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South. Industry pioneers — George K. Spoor, Thomas Armat, Albert E. Smith, Col. Wil¬ liam N. Selig. C. C. Davis of Western Elec¬ tric. Charles R. Dailey of Paramount Labora¬ tories. Col. Nathan Levinson of Warner Bros.
1948
Actor: Sir Laurence Olivier, Hamlet.
Actress: Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda.
Picture: Hamlet, J. Arthur Rank Organization.
Special Awards: Ivan Jandl for The Search. Sid Grauman. Adolph Zukor. Walter Wanger for Joan of Arc.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Jerry Wald
1949
Actor: Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men.
Actress: Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress.
Picture: All the King's Men, Robert RossenColumbia.
Special Awards: Jean Hersholt for distinguished service to the industry. Bobby Driscoll for outstanding juvenile performance in The Window and So Dear to My Heart. Fred Astaire for raising the standard of musi¬ cal films. Cecil B. DeMille for 37 years of pioneer work in the industry.
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