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James Stewart And His Best Actor Oscar in 1941

The Philadelphia Story is a pivotal movie for James Stewart. But how did James Stewart get his Oscar for portraying the iconic...

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Although Gary Cooper won Best Actor for Sergeant York, he had two other equally important hits in 1941 without nominations: Ball of Fire, and Meet John Doe.
This rule was changed after the 1941 Academy Awards, when The Last Time I Saw Paris, from the film Lady Be Good, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won. Kern was upset that his song won because it had been published and recorded before it was used in the film.
ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE FOR HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY , 1941 | Christie's.
1940s
  • 1940 - Jimmy Stewart - The Philadelphia Story. ...
  • 1941 - Gary Cooper - Sergeant York. ...
  • 1942 - James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy. ...
  • 1943 - Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine. ...
  • 1944 - Bing Crosby - Going My Way. ...
  • 1945 - Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend. ...
  • 1946 - Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives.
July 2 – Sergeant York, the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest-grossing picture of the year and earns Cooper the first of two Academy Awards for Best Actor.