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| 29 February (banquet) |
| Bob Hope (I) (last half) |
| Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| | Awarded to: | | | - Judy Garland (I)
- For her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year.
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| | Awarded to: | | | - Jean Hersholt (president); Ralph Morgan (chairman of the executive committee); Ralph Block (first vice-president); Conrad Nagel; Motion Picture Relief Fund
- Acknowledging the outstanding services to the industry during the past year of the Motion Picture Relief Fund and its progressive leadership (plaque).
- Technicolor Co.
- For its contributions in successfully bringing three-color feature production to the screen.
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Recognizing the unique and outstanding contribution of Douglas Fairbanks, first president of the Academy, to the international development of the motion picture (Commemorative Award).
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - William Cameron Menzies
- For outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind (plaque).
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| | Winners: | | | - Mitchell Camera Co.
- Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment: for a new type process projection head.
- Mole-Richardson Co.
- Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment: for a new type automatically controlled projection arc lamp.
- F.R. Abbott; Haller Belt; Alan Cook (II); Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.
- Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment: for faster projection lenses.
- George Anderson (X) (Warner Bros. Studio)
- For an improved positive head for sun arcs.
- John Arnold (I) (M-G-M Studio)
- For the M-G-M mobile camera crane.
- Farciot Edouart; Joseph E. Robbins; William Rudolph; Paramount Pictures, Inc.
- For the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill.
- Charles Handley; David Joy (II); National Carbon Co.
- Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment: for improved and more stable high-intensity carbons.
- Winton C. Hoch; Technicolor Motion Picture Corp.
- Multiple Award for important contributions in cooperative development of new improved Process Projection Equipment: for an auxiliary optical system.
- Emery Huse (Eastman Kodak Co.); Ralph B. Atkinson (Eastman Kodak Co.)
- For their specifications for chemical analysis of photographic developers and fixing baths.
- Thomas T. Moulton; Fred Albin; Sound Dept. of the Samuel Goldwyn Studio
- For the origination and application of the Delta db test to sound recording in motion pictures.
- Harold Nye (Warner Bros. Studio)
- For a miniature incandescent spot lamp.
- A.J. Tondreau (Warner Bros. Studio)
- For the design and manufacture of an improved sound track printer.
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - R.D. Musgrave; Selznick International Pictures Inc.
- For pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment in the production Gone with the Wind.
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