13th Academy Awards
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The 13th Academy Awards were held on February 27, 1941, to honor films released in 1940. This was the first year that sealed envelopes were used to keep the names of the winners secret. The accounting
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David O. Selznick; Best Picture winner
John Ford; Best Director winner
James Stewart; Best Actor winner
The Grapes of Wrath (film)
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The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Joh
13th Academy Awards
…Correspondent, and two other directors also had two films in the running: Sam Wood (Our Town and Kitty Foyle) and John Ford (The Long Voyage Home and The Grapes of Wrath, which won Best Director). Pinocchio was the first animated feature film to win competitive Oscars, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song…
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Stone inscription for The Grapes of Wrath at Ford's statue in Portland, Maine.