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1940 -- 1941 -- 1942 -- 1943

Ranking

My Picks

-- #3. Gone with the Wind <Best Picture & Director>

Limbo

-- #6. Ninotchka -- #7. Only Angels Have Wings -- #8. Young Mr. Lincoln -- #9. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

• 50 Top Films of 1939

-- #1. The Wizard of Oz -- #2. The Rules of the Game -- #3. Gone with the Wind -- #4. Stagecoach -- #5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- #10. Le Jour se lève -- #12. Wuthering Heights -- #14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame -- #23. Drums along the Mohawk -- #24. Goodbye, Mr. Chips -- #38. Bachelor Mother -- #44. The Old Maid -- #50. Babes in Arms

-- #6. Ninotchka -- #7. Only Angels Have Wings -- #8. Young Mr. Lincoln -- #9. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums -- #11. The Roaring Twenties -- #13. The Women -- #15. Destry Rides Again -- #16. Midnight -- #17. Dark Victory -- #18. Ugly Duckling -- #19. Love Affair -- #20. Of Mice and Men

-- #21. Gunga Din -- #22. Son of Frankenstein -- #25. The Hound of the Baskervilles -- #26. The Four Feathers -- #30. The Little Princess -- #32. Beau Geste -- #33. Another Thin Man -- #34. Dodge City -- #36. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- #37. Four Seasons of Children

Oscar, Best Films

-- Gone with the Wind [W] -- Dark Victory -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips -- Love Affair -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Ninotchka -- Of Mice and Men -- Stagecoach -- The Wizard of Oz -- Wuthering Heights

Top Grossing Films

-- Gone with the Wind -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Jesse James -- Babes in Arms -- The Wizard of Oz -- Gunga Din -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips -- Dodge City -- The Rains Came -- The Women

Schneider, Best Films

-- Stagecoach -- Wuthering Heights -- Le Jour Se Leve -- The Rules of the Game -- The Wizard of Oz -- Babes in Arms -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Gone with the Wind

-- Gunga Din -- Only Angels Have Wings -- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum -- Ninotchka -- Destry Rides Again

National Board of Review

-- Confessions of a Nazi Spy [W] -- Wuthering Heights -- Stagecoach -- Ninotchka -- Young Mr. Lincoln -- Crisis -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- The Roaring Twenties -- U-Boat 29

National Film Registry

-- The City <doc> -- Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther <doc> -- Destry Rides Again -- Early Abstractions <shorts> (1939–56) -- Gone with the Wind -- Gunga Din -- Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert <doc> -- The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair <doc> -- Midnight -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Ninotchka -- Only Angels Have Wings -- Stagecoach -- Tevya -- Verbena Tragica -- The Wizard of Oz -- The Women -- Wuthering Heights -- Young Mr. Lincoln

American Film Institute

-- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Gone with the Wind -- The Wizard of Oz -- Stagecoach -- Wuthering Heights

NYT, Best Films

-- Stagecoach -- Wuthering Heights -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips -- The Rules of the Game -- The Wizard of Oz -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Gone with the Wind

-- Gunga Din -- Love Affair -- Midnight -- Dark Victory -- Only Angels Have Wings -- Young Mr. Lincoln -- The Women -- Ninotchka -- Destry Rides Again -- Of Mice and Man

TSPDT, Best Films

-- The Rules of the Game -- The Wizard of Oz -- Gone with the Wind -- Stagecoach -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Le Jour se lève

-- Only Angels Have Wings -- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums -- Ninotchka -- Young Mr. Lincoln

Top10ner, Best Films

-- The Rules of the Game -- The Wizard of Oz -- Gone with the Wind -- Stagecoach -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Only Angels Have Wings -- Ninotchka

Film101, Best Films

-- The Rules of the Game -- Gone with the Wind -- The Wizard of Oz -- Stagecoach -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- Le Jour se lève -- Wuthering Heights -- Goodbye, Mr. Chips

-- Ninotchka -- The Women -- Destry Rides Again -- Gunga Din -- Young Mr. Lincoln -- Love Affair -- Only Angels Have Wings -- Dark Victory -- Midnight -- Of Mice and Men -- The Stars Look Down

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #4. Stagecoach -- #7. Only Angels Have Wings -- #8. Young Mr. Lincoln

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (UK) -- Tarzan Finds a Son -- Wuthering Heights -- The Wizard of Oz

-- Boy Slaves -- Boy Trouble -- Our Gang: Dad for a Day -- Death of a Champion -- Our Gang: Dog Daze -- Escape to Paradise -- Fisherman's Wharf -- The Great Man Votes -- Hurra! Ich bin Papa! (Germany) -- Mickey the Kid -- Night Work -- Off the Record [Unfit to Print] -- On Borrowed Time -- Streets of New York -- They Shall Have Music -- V lyudyakh [My Apprenticeship] (URSS) -- Way Down South -- We Are Not Alone (UK/USA)

-- The Little Princess -- Piccoli naufraghi -- Zenobia

Best International Films

{France} -- The Rules of the Game

{Japan} -- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum