Film Weekly 1956-57 year book : Canadian motion picture industry (1956)
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Previous Academy Awards
192728
Actor: Emil Jannings, Way of All Flesh.
Actress: Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven.
Picture: Wings, Paramount.
Special Awards: Warner Bros, for The Jazz Singer. Charles Chaplin for The Circus.
192829
Actor: Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona.
Actress: Mary Pickford, Coquette.
Picture: Broadway Melody, MGM
192930
Actor: George Arliss, Disraeli.
Actress: Norma Shearer, The Divorcee.
Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front, Universal.
193031
Actor: Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul.
Actress: Marie Dressier, Min and Bill.
Picture: Cimarron, RKO.
193132
Actor: Frederic March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Actress: Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet.
Picture: Grand Hotel, MGM.
Special Award: Walt Disney for creation of Mickey Mouse.
193233
Actor: Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Actress: Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory.
Picture: Cavalcade, Fox Film Corp.
1934
Actor: Clark Gable, It Happened One Night.
Actress: Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night.
Picture: It Happened One Night, Columbia.
Special Award: Shirley Temple for outstanding contribution to screen entertainment.
1935
Actor: Victor McLaglen, The Informer.
Actress: Bette Davis, Dangerous.
Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty, MGM.
Special Award: David Wark Griffith for dis¬ tinguished: creative achievements as director and producer and lasting contributions to progress of motion picture arts.
1936
Actor: Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur.
Actress: Luise Rainer, The Great Ziegfeld.
Picture: The Great Ziegfeld, MGM.
Special Awards: March of Time. W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for color cinema¬ tography in The Garden of Allah.
1937
Actor: Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous.
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 photography 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 Durban. Mickey Rooney. Oliver Marsh and Allan Davies for color cinematography of Sweethearts. Harry M. Warner. J. Arthur Ball. Paramount.
Gordon Jennings. Farciot 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. Warner 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 Aword: 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: Hal 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 Mi Hand, 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