1940 Academy Awards – Music (Original Score) Winner and Nominees

The Wizard of Oz

Herbert Stothart

Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.

Dark Victory

Max Steiner

Eternally Yours

Werner Janssen

Golden Boy

Victor Young

Gone with the Wind

Max Steiner

Gulliver’s Travels

Victor Young

Man of Conquest

Victor Young

Nurse Edith Cavell

Anthony Collins

Of Mice and Men

Aaron Copland

The Man in the Iron Mask

Lud Gluskin

The Rains Came

Alfred Newman

Wuthering Heights

Alfred Newman