David O. Selznick
Academy Awards and nominations
Table:
Year

Award

Title of work

Result

1934

Outstanding Production

Viva Villa!

Nominated

1935

Outstanding Production

David Copperfield

Nominated

1936

Outstanding Production

A Tale of Two Cities

Nominated

1937

Outstanding Production

A Star Is Born

Nominated

1939

Outstanding Production

Gone with the Wind

Won

1938

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Nominated

1939

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Won

1940

Outstanding Production

Rebecca

Won

1944

Best Motion Picture

Since You Went Away

Nominated

1945

Best Motion Picture

Spellbound

Nominated

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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) since the awards debuted in 1929 . This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot . Best Picture is the final award of the night and is considered the most prestigious honor of the ceremony . The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood , where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002 , showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award 's inception . There have been 563 films nominated for Best Picture and 92 winners .
Viva Villa ! is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa . The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht , adapted from the book Viva Villa ! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O . B. Stade . The film was shot on location in Mexico and produced by David O. Selznick . There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks , James Kevin McGuinness , and Howard Emmett Rogers . Hawks and William A. Wellman were also uncredited directors on the film . [ citation needed ] The film is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery in the titular role and featuring Fay Wray , who had played the leading lady in King Kong the previous year . The supporting cast includes Leo Carillo , Donald Cook , Stuart Erwin , Henry B. Walthall , Joseph Schildkraut and Katherine DeMille .
David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon the Charles Dickens novel The Personal History , Adventures , Experience , & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger . A number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted - notably David 's time at Salem House boarding school , although one character he met at Salem House ( Steerforth ) was retained for the film as a head boy at the school David attended after his aunt Betsey Trotwood gained custody of him . The story was adapted by Hugh Walpole from the Dickens novel , and the film was directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Howard Estabrook and Lenore J . Coffee , who was not credited . The novel had been adapted for film three times previously , but only released as a silent film until the production of this version .
A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens ' 1859 historical novel , A Tale of Two Cities , set in London and Paris . The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton , Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan . The supporting players include Reginald Owen , Basil Rathbone , Claude Gillingwater , Edna May Oliver and Blanche Yurka . It was directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by W. P. Lipscomb and S. N. Behrman . The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Film Editing . The story is set in France and England and spans several years before and during the French Revolution . It deals with the evils that precipitated the Revolution and with an innocent family and their friends caught up in the horrors of the Terror . Charles Darnay , a French aristocrat who has rejected his rank and moved to England , and Sidney Carton , a perpetually intoxicated English advocate , both fall in love at first sight of Lucie Manette . Lucie has brought her father to England to recover from years of unjust imprisonment in France . She marries Darnay and they befriend Carton . In the end , Carton saves Darnay 's life by taking his place at the guillotine . The film is generally regarded as the best cinematic version of Dickens ' novel and the best performance in Colman 's career .
A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick , directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman , Robert Carson , Dorothy Parker , and Alan Campbell , and starring Janet Gaynor ( in her only Technicolor film ) as an aspiring Hollywood actress , and Fredric March ( in his Technicolor debut ) as a fading movie star who helps launch her career . The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou , May Robson , Andy Devine , Lionel Stander , and Owen Moore . The film has been remade three times : in 1954 ( directed by George Cukor and starring Judy Garland and James Mason ) , in 1976 ( directed by Frank Pierson and starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson ) , and in 2018 ( starring Bradley Cooper , who also directed , and Lady Gaga ) . It has also been unofficially remade in Nepali as Ma Yesto Geet Gauchu 2 .
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell . The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming . Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era , the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara , the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner . It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes , who is married to his cousin , Melanie Hamilton , and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler . The leading roles are played by Vivien Leigh ( Scarlett ) , Clark Gable ( Rhett ) , Leslie Howard ( Ashley ) , and Olivia de Havilland ( Melanie ) . Production was difficult from the start . Filming was delayed for two years because of Selznick 's determination to secure Gable for the role of Rhett Butler , and the search for Scarlett led to 1,400 women being interviewed for the part . The original screenplay was written by Sidney Howard and underwent many revisions by several writers in an attempt to get it down to a suitable length . The original director , George Cukor , was fired shortly after filming began and was replaced by Fleming , who in turn was briefly replaced by Sam Wood while Fleming took some time off due to exhaustion . The film received positive reviews upon its release in December 1939 , although some reviewers found it overlong . The casting was widely praised , and many reviewers found Leigh especially suited to her role as Scarlett . At the 12th Academy Awards , it received ten Academy Awards ( eight competitive , two honorary ) from thirteen nominations , including wins for Best Picture , Best Director ( Fleming ) , Best Adapted Screenplay ( posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard ) , Best Actress ( Leigh ) , and Best Supporting Actress ( Hattie McDaniel , becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award ) .
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Governors Awards ceremonies to creative producers , whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production . The award is named for Irving Thalberg , legendary head of the Production Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , who developed the company 's reputation for sophisticated films . The trophy itself is a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar Oscar statuette . However , it is still counted as an honorary Oscar . The award was established in 1937 and was first presented at the 10th Academy Awards , in March 1938 . There have been 39 statuettes awarded to date .
Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock . It was Hitchcock 's first American project , and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick . The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison , and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan , were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier . The film stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding , aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young woman who becomes his second wife , with Judith Anderson , George Sanders and Gladys Cooper in supporting roles . The film is a gothic tale shot in black-and-white . Maxim de Winter 's first wife Rebecca , who died before the events of the film , is never seen . Her reputation and recollections of her , however , are a constant presence in the lives of Maxim , his new wife and the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers . The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 and it is the only film directed by Hitchcock to win that prestigious accolade . Rebecca won two Academy Awards , Best Picture and Best Cinematography , out of a total 11 nominations . Olivier , Fontaine and Anderson also were Oscar-nominated for their respective roles as were Hitchcock and the screenwriters .
Since You Went Away is a 1944 American drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists . It is an epic about the American home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away : Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder . The music score was by Max Steiner , and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez , Lee Garmes , George Barnes ( uncredited ) , and Robert Bruce ( uncredited ) . The film is set in a mid-sized American town , where people with loved ones in the Armed Forces try to cope with their changed circumstances and make their own contributions to the war effort . The town is near a military base , and some of the characters are troops serving Stateside . Though famously sentimental in places , Since You Went Away is somber at times about the effects of war on ordinary people . Some characters on the homefront are dealing with grief , loneliness , or fear for the future . Wounded and disabled troops are shown in the hospital scenes .
Spellbound is a 1945 American film noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock . It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims . The film stars Ingrid Bergman , Gregory Peck , Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll . It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes ( 1927 ) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer .