1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

6th New York Film Critics Circle Awards

January ?, 1941
(announced December 30, 1940)

The Grapes of Wrath

The 6th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced on 30 December 1940, honored the best filmmaking of 1940.^[1]

Winners[]

Best Film:
- The Grapes of Wrath
Best Actor:
- Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator
Best Actress:
- Katharine Hepburn – The Philadelphia Story
Best Director:
- John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath and The Long Voyage Home
Best Foreign Film:
- The Baker's Wife (La femme du boulanger) • France
Special Award:
- Walt Disney and Leopold Stokowski – Fantasia

^ "New York Film Critics pick "Grapes of Wrath" as best movie of last year". The Lewiston Daily Sun. 2 January 1941. Retrieved 29 December 2017 – via Google News Archive.

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