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1940s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice

Identify the 40s films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture* but lost.

Other decades in this quiz series here.

Wrong answers were nominated in categories other than Best Picture in the same year.
Year given is the year in film being awarded, not the date of the ceremony.
*Known as the award for Outstanding Picture, Outstanding Production or Best Motion Picture in this era.
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1. Which 1940 Best Picture nominee lost to Rebecca?
The Great Dictator
They Knew What They Wanted
Angels Over Broadway
2. Which 1941 Best Picture nominee lost to How Green Was My Valley?
Billy the Kid
All That Money Can Buy
Citizen Kane
3. Which 1942 Best Picture nominee lost to Mrs. Miniver?
The Magnificent Ambersons
Woman of the Year
Bambi
4. Which 1943 Best Picture nominee lost to Casablanca?
Lassie Come Home
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The North Star
5. Which 1944 Best Picture nominee lost to Going My Way?
Double Indemnity
Laura
Kismet
6. Which 1945 Best Picture nominee lost to The Lost Weekend?
Objective, Burma!
The Southerner
Spellbound
7. Which 1946 Best Picture nominee lost to The Best Years of Our Lives?
The Killers
Brief Encounter
It's a Wonderful Life
8. Which 1947 Best Picture nominee lost to Gentleman's Agreement?
Ride the Pink Horse
Mother Wore Tights
Miracle on 34th Street
9. Which 1948 Best Picture nominee lost to Hamlet?
The Search
The Naked City
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
10. Which 1949 Best Picture nominee lost to All the King's Men?
The Heiress
Bicycle Thieves
Champion
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