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NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW
BEST FILM CHOICES FOR 1940
Committee on Exceptional Photoplays
Best film of the year Best foreign-language Best Documentary
"THE GRAPES OF fUm "THE FIGHT FOR
WRATH" "THE BAKER'S WIFE" LIFE"
Ten Best American Films, in order of preference
"The Grapes of Wrath" "The Long Voyage Home" "The Great Dictator" "Foreign Correspondent"
"Of Mice and Men" "The Biscuit Eater"
"Our Town" "Gone With the Wind"
"Fantasia" "Rebecca"
Review Committees of the National Board
(On the basis of popular appeal)
"Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" "Gone With the Wind" "The Great Dictator"
"The Grapes of Wrath" "All This and Heaven Too"
"Fantasia" "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"
"Pride and Prejudice" 'The Long Vovage Home"
The Motion Picture Councils
(On the basis of popular appeal)
"Rebecca" "Knufe Rockne — All American" "All This and Heaven Too" "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"
"The Grapes of Wrath" "The Howards of Virginia"
"Pride and Prejudice" "Foreign Correspondent"
"Gone With the Wind" "Young Tom Edison"
The Committee on Exceptional Photoplays considers the following screen performances worthy of special praise, apart from the general excellence of acting in all of the films chosen as the best:
Jane Bryan in "We Are Not Alone." Raimu in "The Baker's Wife."
Betty Field in "Of Mice and Men." Ralph Richardson in "The Fugitive."
Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath" and Flora Robson in "We Are Not Alone."
"The Return of Frank James."
Joan Fontaine in "Rebecca." Greer Garson in "Pride and Prejudice."
William Holden in "Our Town." '^^'•^a Scott in "Our Town."
Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind" and lames Stewart in "The Shop Around the Cor
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Thomas Mitchell in "The Long Voyage Home." Conrad Veidt in "Escape."
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Ginger Rogers in "The Primrose Path.' George Sanders in "Rebecca."