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Medal of Honor

Winner
Autant en emporte le vent
8.2 (348K)
David O. Selznick

Photoplay Award

Best Performances of the Month (April)

Winner
La balle magique du Docteur Ehrlich
7.4 (1.9K)
Edward G. Robinson
Winner
Vigil in the Night
6.7 (1.1K)
Anne Shirley
Winner
Abraham Lincoln
7.3 (2.2K)
Raymond Massey
Winner
Les Raisins de la colère
8.1 (106K)
Jane Darwell
Winner
Le triomphe de l'amour
5.7 (54)
George Sanders
Winner
La femme du boulanger
7.5 (2.6K)
Raimu
Winner
Broadway qui danse
7.3 (2.9K)
Eleanor Powell
Winner
Broadway qui danse
7.3 (2.9K)
George Murphy
Winner
Pinocchio
7.5 (167K)
Walt Disney
Winner
Les Raisins de la colère
8.1 (106K)
Henry Fonda
Winner
L'oiseau bleu
6.2 (2.1K)
Shirley Temple
Winner
Broadway qui danse
7.3 (2.9K)
Fred Astaire
Winner
Vigil in the Night
6.7 (1.1K)
Carole Lombard
Winner
Swiss Family Robinson
6.3 (891)
Freddie Bartholomew
Winner
Le triomphe de l'amour
5.7 (54)
Mary Maguire

Best Performances of the Month (August)

Winner
Four Sons
6.5 (157)
Eugenie Leontovich
Winner
La valse dans l'ombre
7.7 (11K)
Robert Taylor
Winner
La valse dans l'ombre
7.7 (11K)
Virginia Field
Winner
La valse dans l'ombre
7.7 (11K)
Vivien Leigh
Winner
Le roman de Lillian Russell
6.4 (609)
Alice Faye
Winner
Les déracinés
6.1 (1K)
John Wayne
Winner
L'étrange aventure
7.0 (3.3K)
Ann Sothern
Winner
Le mystère du château maudit
7.0 (4.4K)
Bob Hope
Winner
La Vie de Thomas Edison
7.0 (1.9K)
Spencer Tracy
Winner
Torrid Zone
6.7 (1.5K)
James Cagney
Winner
L'étrangère
7.4 (5.7K)
Bette Davis
Winner
L'étrange aventure
7.0 (3.3K)
Edward G. Robinson
Winner
Torrid Zone
6.7 (1.5K)
Ann Sheridan
Winner
Suzanne et ses idées
5.9 (1.5K)
Rita Quigley
Winner
Untamed
5.2 (71)
Ray Milland
Winner
Le mystère du château maudit
7.0 (4.4K)
Paulette Goddard
Winner
Les déracinés
6.1 (1K)
Charles Coburn
Winner
L'étrangère
7.4 (5.7K)
Charles Boyer
Winner
Suzanne et ses idées
5.9 (1.5K)
Joan Crawford

Best Performances of the Month (December)

Winner
Sous le ciel d'Argentine
6.4 (1.4K)
Don Ameche
Winner
Les tuniques écarlates
6.3 (2K)
Preston Foster
Winner
Christmas in July
7.3 (4.6K)
Ellen Drew
Winner
Christmas in July
7.3 (4.6K)
Dick Powell
Winner
Sous le ciel d'Argentine
6.4 (1.4K)
Charlotte Greenwood
Winner
Honeymoon for Three
6.0 (604)
Ann Sheridan
Winner
La reine du Yukon
6.0 (98)
Charles Bickford
Winner
Ville conquise
7.2 (2.8K)
Arthur Kennedy
Winner
La reine du Yukon
6.0 (98)
Irene Rich
Winner
Chanson d'avril
6.6 (404)
Deanna Durbin
Winner
Ville conquise
7.2 (2.8K)
James Cagney
Winner
Arise, My Love
6.8 (1.1K)
Claudette Colbert
Winner
En avant la musique
6.8 (2.1K)
Mickey Rooney
Winner
Le cavalier du désert
7.3 (7.3K)
Gary Cooper
Winner
En avant la musique
6.8 (2.1K)
Judy Garland
Winner
Le cavalier du désert
7.3 (7.3K)
Walter Brennan
Winner
Ville conquise
7.2 (2.8K)
Ann Sheridan
Winner
Ville conquise
7.2 (2.8K)
Elia Kazan
Winner
Arise, My Love
6.8 (1.1K)
Ray Milland

Best Performances of the Month (February)

Winner
Nous ne sommes pas seuls
7.1 (396)
Jane Bryan
Winner
Nous ne sommes pas seuls
7.1 (396)
Paul Muni
Winner
Des souris et des hommes
7.8 (7.3K)
Burgess Meredith
Winner
Des souris et des hommes
7.8 (7.3K)
Lon Chaney Jr.
Winner
Autant en emporte le vent
8.2 (348K)
Vivien Leigh
Winner
The Great Victor Herbert
5.5 (144)
Allan Jones
Winner
Two Thoroughbreds
5.7 (76)
Jimmy Lydon
Winner
The Great Victor Herbert
5.5 (144)
Susanna Foster
Winner
La dame du vendredi
7.8 (66K)
Cary Grant
Winner
L'Enfer vert
5.7 (428)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Winner
Femme ou démon
7.6 (13K)
Charles Winninger
Winner
Femme ou démon
7.6 (13K)
James Stewart
Winner
Autant en emporte le vent
8.2 (348K)
Clark Gable
Winner
La dame du vendredi
7.8 (66K)
Rosalind Russell
Winner
The Big Guy
6.5 (41)
Jackie Cooper
Winner
Autant en emporte le vent
8.2 (348K)
Olivia de Havilland
Winner
The Great Victor Herbert
5.5 (144)
Mary Martin
Winner
Femme ou démon
7.6 (13K)
Marlene Dietrich
Winner
Les voyages de Gulliver
6.6 (5.2K)
Max Fleischer(Producer)
Winner
La lumière qui s'éteint
6.4 (613)
Walter Huston
Winner
L'Enfer vert
5.7 (428)
Joan Bennett
Winner
La lumière qui s'éteint
6.4 (613)
Ronald Colman

Best Performances of the Month (January)

Winner
Nick joue et gagne
7.3 (8.5K)
William Powell
Winner
Premier amour
7.0 (822)
Deanna Durbin
Winner
Premier amour
7.0 (822)
Helen Parrish
Winner
Sur la piste des Mohawks
7.0 (7.1K)
Edna May Oliver
Winner
Premier amour
7.0 (822)
Kathleen Howard
Winner
Balalaika
6.2 (370)
Ilona Massey
Winner
Sur les pointes
5.6 (235)
Vera Zorina
Winner
Judge Hardy and Son
6.7 (561)
Mickey Rooney
Winner
Nick joue et gagne
7.3 (8.5K)
Myrna Loy
Winner
Sur la piste des Mohawks
7.0 (7.1K)
Claudette Colbert
Winner
La fin du jour
7.8 (1.1K)
Louis Jouvet
Winner
Bad Little Angel
6.8 (329)
Virginia Weidler
Winner
Balalaika
6.2 (370)
Nelson Eddy
Winner
La fin du jour
7.8 (1.1K)
Michel Simon

Best Performances of the Month (July)

Winner
André Hardy va dans le monde
6.6 (1.1K)
Mickey Rooney
Winner
The Way of All Flesh
6.8 (131)
Akim Tamiroff
Winner
Safari, jungle mystérieuse
6.3 (89)
Lynne Overman
Winner
Johnny Apollo
6.9 (1.6K)
Tyrone Power
Winner
Tumak, fils de la jungle
5.7 (1.8K)
Roy Seawright(Visual Effects)
For technical work.
Winner
Mon épouse favorite
7.2 (12K)
Irene Dunne
Winner
Mon épouse favorite
7.2 (12K)
Cary Grant
Winner
André Hardy va dans le monde
6.6 (1.1K)
Judy Garland

Best Performances of the Month (June)

Winner
Buck Benny Rides Again
6.9 (387)
Jack Benny
Winner
La douce illusion
6.5 (694)
Kay Francis
Winner
En français... Messieurs!
6.2 (132)
Ray Milland
Winner
La douce illusion
6.5 (694)
Walter Pidgeon
Winner
Buck Benny Rides Again
6.9 (387)
Ellen Drew
Winner
The Biscuit Eater
7.2 (257)
Cordell Hickman
Winner
A Bill of Divorcement
6.0 (258)
Maureen O'Hara
Winner
La bête humaine
7.5 (8.8K)
Jean Gabin
Winner
Irène
6.3 (813)
Anna Neagle
Winner
Voyage sans retour
6.7 (777)
Merle Oberon
Winner
L'Escadron noir
6.7 (3.2K)
John Wayne
Winner
The Biscuit Eater
7.2 (257)
Billy Lee
Winner
Two Girls on Broadway
6.0 (515)
George Murphy
Winner
Voyage sans retour
6.7 (777)
George Brent
Winner
The Biscuit Eater
7.2 (257)
Tiverton Invader
Winner
La douce illusion
6.5 (694)
Deanna Durbin

Best Performances of the Month (March)

Winner
Brother Rat and a Baby
5.3 (363)
Eddie Albert
Winner
Married and in Love
5.8 (123)
Barbara Read
Winner
Rendez-vous
8.0 (42K)
Margaret Sullavan
Winner
Congo Maisie
6.2 (563)
Ann Sothern
Winner
High School
6.5 (94)
Jane Withers
Winner
Entente cordiale
5.8 (76)
Victor Francen
Winner
Quasimodo
7.8 (13K)
Charles Laughton
Winner
Le poignard mystérieux
6.0 (566)
Ruth Terry
Winner
Le poignard mystérieux
6.0 (566)
Pat O'Brien
Winner
Rendez-vous
8.0 (42K)
Frank Morgan
Winner
Vedettes du pavé
6.9 (1.6K)
Vivien Leigh
Winner
Mexican Spitfire
6.1 (453)
Leon Errol
Winner
Le gangster de Chicago
6.2 (488)
Robert Montgomery
Winner
Mexican Spitfire
6.1 (453)
Lupe Velez
Winner
Vedettes du pavé
6.9 (1.6K)
Charles Laughton
Winner
Le régiment des bagarreurs
6.6 (2.1K)
James Cagney
Winner
Rendez-vous
8.0 (42K)
James Stewart
Winner
Le régiment des bagarreurs
6.6 (2.1K)
Pat O'Brien

Best Performances of the Month (May)

Winner
Trop de maris
6.5 (1.8K)
Jean Arthur
Winner
Le lys du ruisseau
6.8 (1.9K)
Ginger Rogers
Winner
La jeunesse d'Edison
6.8 (1.3K)
Mickey Rooney
Winner
Le lys du ruisseau
6.8 (1.9K)
Joel McCrea
Winner
My Son, My Son!
6.4 (281)
Brian Aherne
Winner
Seventeen
6.3 (33)
Jackie Cooper
Winner
Le grand passage
7.0 (4.2K)
Robert Young
Winner
Trop de maris
6.5 (1.8K)
Melvyn Douglas
Winner
Rebecca
8.1 (160K)
Joan Fontaine
Winner
En route vers Singapour
6.6 (4.2K)
Bing Crosby
Winner
En route vers Singapour
6.6 (4.2K)
Bob Hope
Winner
Le cargo maudit
6.9 (3.1K)
Ian Hunter
Winner
Le grand passage
7.0 (4.2K)
Spencer Tracy
Winner
Le cargo maudit
6.9 (3.1K)
Joan Crawford
Winner
My Son, My Son!
6.4 (281)
Louis Hayward
Winner
Rebecca
8.1 (160K)
Laurence Olivier
Winner
Trop de maris
6.5 (1.8K)
Fred MacMurray
Winner
La Maison aux sept pignons
7.0 (1.6K)
Margaret Lindsay

Best Performances of the Month (November)

Winner
L'Odyssée des Mormons
6.3 (1.2K)
Dean Jagger
Winner
He Stayed for Breakfast
6.3 (223)
Loretta Young
Winner
Finie la comédie
6.2 (1.3K)
Rosalind Russell
Winner
Hired Wife
6.6 (481)
Virginia Bruce
Winner
Hired Wife
6.6 (481)
Rosalind Russell
Winner
Rhythm on the River
6.7 (438)
Bing Crosby
Winner
The Great Profile
6.2 (274)
John Barrymore
Winner
The Great Profile
6.2 (274)
Gregory Ratoff
Winner
He Stayed for Breakfast
6.3 (223)
Melvyn Douglas
Winner
He Stayed for Breakfast
6.3 (223)
Una O'Connor
Winner
Hired Wife
6.6 (481)
Brian Aherne
Winner
Howard le révolté
6.0 (1.3K)
Martha Scott
Winner
L'Odyssée des Mormons
6.3 (1.2K)
Mary Astor
Winner
Finie la comédie
6.2 (1.3K)
James Stewart
Winner
Howard le révolté
6.0 (1.3K)
Cary Grant
Winner
Double chance
6.5 (1.2K)
Ronald Colman

Best Performances of the Month (October)

Winner
Correspondant 17
7.4 (25K)
Joel McCrea
Winner
Gouverneur malgré lui
7.2 (4.7K)
Brian Donlevy
Winner
We Who Are Young
6.0 (403)
Lana Turner
Winner
La fièvre du pétrole
7.0 (4K)
Spencer Tracy
Winner
The Lady in Question
6.3 (1K)
Brian Aherne
Winner
Soixante années de gloire
6.3 (131)
Anna Neagle
Winner
Les Dalton arrivent
6.4 (989)
Broderick Crawford
Winner
Soixante années de gloire
6.3 (131)
Anton Walbrook
Winner
Mr. Wilson perd la tête
7.4 (4K)
William Powell
Winner
La fièvre du pétrole
7.0 (4K)
Clark Gable
Winner
Dulcy
6.0 (373)
Ann Sothern
Winner
Gold Rush Maisie
6.2 (486)
Ann Sothern
Winner
Sublime sacrifice
7.1 (190)
Wilfrid Lawson

Best Performances of the Month (September)

Winner
La tempête qui tue
7.7 (6.5K)
Margaret Sullavan
Winner
Orgueil et préjugés
7.4 (9.7K)
Greer Garson
Winner
Une femme dangereuse
7.2 (9.7K)
Ida Lupino
Winner
On the Night of the Fire
6.5 (329)
Ralph Richardson
Winner
My Love Came Back
6.3 (528)
Charles Winninger
Winner
L'aigle des mers
7.6 (11K)
Flora Robson
Winner
Tom Brown étudiant
6.6 (553)
Jimmy Lydon
Winner
L'aigle des mers
7.6 (11K)
Errol Flynn
Winner
Maryland
6.1 (178)
Ben Carter
Winner
La tempête qui tue
7.7 (6.5K)
Frank Morgan
Winner
La tempête qui tue
7.7 (6.5K)
James Stewart

Best Pictures of the Month (April)

Winner
La femme du boulanger
7.5 (2.6K)
Winner
Swiss Family Robinson
6.3 (891)
Winner
Le triomphe de l'amour
5.7 (54)
Winner
Broadway qui danse
7.3 (2.9K)
Winner
Les Raisins de la colère
8.1 (106K)
Winner
Vigil in the Night
6.7 (1.1K)
Winner
Destin dans la nuit
6.4 (711)
Winner
The Fight for Life
5.4 (99)
Winner
L'oiseau bleu
6.2 (2.1K)
Winner
Pinocchio
7.5 (167K)
Winner
Abraham Lincoln
7.3 (2.2K)
Winner
La balle magique du Docteur Ehrlich
7.4 (1.9K)

Best Pictures of the Month (August)

Winner
Les déracinés
6.1 (1K)
Winner
Untamed
5.2 (71)
Winner
Suzanne et ses idées
5.9 (1.5K)
Winner
Le mystère du château maudit
7.0 (4.4K)
Winner
Le roman de Lillian Russell
6.4 (609)
Winner
Four Sons
6.5 (157)
Winner
La valse dans l'ombre
7.7 (11K)
Winner
L'étrange aventure
7.0 (3.3K)
Winner
L'étrangère
7.4 (5.7K)
Winner
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
6.9 (40)
Winner
Life with Henry
6.0 (57)

Best Pictures of the Month (December)

Winner
Honeymoon for Three
6.0 (604)
Winner
Christmas in July
7.3 (4.6K)
Winner
Sous le ciel d'Argentine
6.4 (1.4K)
Winner
Les tuniques écarlates
6.3 (2K)
Winner
En avant la musique
6.8 (2.1K)
Winner
Ville conquise
7.2 (2.8K)
Winner
Le cavalier du désert
7.3 (7.3K)
Winner
Arise, My Love
6.8 (1.1K)
Winner
Chanson d'avril
6.6 (404)

Best Pictures of the Month (February)

Winner
Nous ne sommes pas seuls
7.1 (396)
Winner
Les voyages de Gulliver
6.6 (5.2K)
Winner
L'Enfer vert
5.7 (428)
Winner
La lumière qui s'éteint
6.4 (613)
Winner
Regain
7.4 (563)
Winner
Femme ou démon
7.6 (13K)
Winner
La dame du vendredi
7.8 (66K)
Winner
Autant en emporte le vent
8.2 (348K)
Winner
Des souris et des hommes
7.8 (7.3K)
Winner
Ma secrétaire est une perle
6.5 (866)
Winner
The Great Victor Herbert
5.5 (144)
Winner
Two Thoroughbreds
5.7 (76)

Best Pictures of the Month (January)

Winner
Bad Little Angel
6.8 (329)
Winner
Balalaika
6.2 (370)
Winner
Premier amour
7.0 (822)
Winner
Nick joue et gagne
7.3 (8.5K)
Winner
Le vainqueur
5.6 (264)
Winner
Judge Hardy and Son
6.7 (561)
Winner
Sur la piste des Mohawks
7.0 (7.1K)
Winner
La fin du jour
7.8 (1.1K)

Best Pictures of the Month (July)

Winner
Mon épouse favorite
7.2 (12K)
Winner
Une petite ville sans histoire
6.5 (3.2K)
Winner
André Hardy va dans le monde
6.6 (1.1K)
Winner
Johnny Apollo
6.9 (1.6K)

Best Pictures of the Month (June)

Winner
L'Escadron noir
6.7 (3.2K)
Winner
Two Girls on Broadway
6.0 (515)
Winner
Le docteur se marie
6.8 (1.1K)
Winner
Irène
6.3 (813)
Winner
La bête humaine
7.5 (8.8K)
Winner
The Biscuit Eater
7.2 (257)
Winner
Voyage sans retour
6.7 (777)
Winner
La caravane héroïque
6.8 (3.1K)
Winner
Double Alibi
6.3 (79)
Winner
La douce illusion
6.5 (694)
Winner
Buck Benny Rides Again
6.9 (387)
Winner
Star Dust
6.6 (401)
Winner
A Bill of Divorcement
6.0 (258)
Winner
Rendez-vous à minuit
6.6 (1.6K)

Best Pictures of the Month (March)

Winner
Le gangster de Chicago
6.2 (488)
Winner
Married and in Love
5.8 (123)
Winner
Brother Rat and a Baby
5.3 (363)
Winner
Le poignard mystérieux
6.0 (566)
Winner
High School
6.5 (94)
Winner
Congo Maisie
6.2 (563)
Winner
Vedettes du pavé
6.9 (1.6K)
Winner
Entente cordiale
5.8 (76)
Winner
Mexican Spitfire
6.1 (453)
Winner
Rendez-vous
8.0 (42K)
Winner
Le régiment des bagarreurs
6.6 (2.1K)
Winner
Le retour de l'homme invisible
6.4 (5.8K)
Winner
Swanee River
6.1 (247)
Winner
Raffles, gentleman cambrioleur
6.4 (1.3K)

Best Pictures of the Month (May)

Winner
Rebecca
8.1 (160K)
Winner
En route vers Singapour
6.6 (4.2K)
Winner
Le lys du ruisseau
6.8 (1.9K)
Winner
Le grand passage
7.0 (4.2K)
Winner
La jeunesse d'Edison
6.8 (1.3K)
Winner
My Son, My Son!
6.4 (281)
Winner
Trop de maris
6.5 (1.8K)

Best Pictures of the Month (November)

Winner
Hired Wife
6.6 (481)
Winner
Les aventures de Kit Carson
6.3 (694)
Winner
He Stayed for Breakfast
6.3 (223)
Winner
L'Odyssée des Mormons
6.3 (1.2K)
Winner
Rhythm on the River
6.7 (438)
Winner
Howard le révolté
6.0 (1.3K)
Winner
Le Mystère de Santa Marta
6.1 (69)
Winner
Double chance
6.5 (1.2K)
Winner
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
6.5 (497)

Best Pictures of the Month (October)

Winner
Mr. Wilson perd la tête
7.4 (4K)
Winner
Dulcy
6.0 (373)
Winner
Soixante années de gloire
6.3 (131)
Winner
The Ramparts We Watch
6.2 (32)
Winner
Les Dalton arrivent
6.4 (989)
Winner
The Man I Married
7.0 (635)
Winner
Sublime sacrifice
7.1 (190)
Winner
Le Retour des Texas Rangers
6.0 (249)
Winner
Gouverneur malgré lui
7.2 (4.7K)
Winner
Pago Pago, île enchantée
6.3 (169)
Winner
Le retour de Frank James
6.6 (3.9K)
Winner
Jeunesse
6.3 (484)
Winner
La fièvre du pétrole
7.0 (4K)
Winner
Correspondant 17
7.4 (25K)
Winner
The Lady in Question
6.3 (1K)

Best Pictures of the Month (September)

Winner
Tom Brown étudiant
6.6 (553)
Winner
L'aigle des mers
7.6 (11K)
Winner
L'île des amours
6.6 (683)
Winner
Maryland
6.1 (178)
Winner
La tempête qui tue
7.7 (6.5K)
Winner
Une femme dangereuse
7.2 (9.7K)
Winner
I Want a Divorce
6.1 (102)
Winner
Orgueil et préjugés
7.4 (9.7K)
Winner
My Love Came Back
6.3 (528)

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