12th Academy Awards (1940) - Movies from 1939
1939
11 nominations - 1 award
Nominations - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Best Picture
- Best Director (Frank Capra)
- Best Leading Actor (James Stewart)
- Best Supporting Actor (Harry Carey)
- Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains)
- Best Screenplay (Sidney Buchman)
- Best Story (Lewis R. Foster) Winner
- Best Film Editing (Gene Havlick, Al Clark)
- Best Scoring of Music (adaptation or treatment) (Dimitri Tiomkin)
- Best Production Design (Lionel Banks)
- Best Sound Mixing (John P. Livadary)