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?
Angels Over Broadway
The Great Dictator
They Knew What They Wanted
2. Which 1941 Best Picture nominee lost to How Green Was My Valley?
Citizen Kane
Billy the Kid
All That Money Can Buy
3. Which 1942 Best Picture nominee lost to Mrs. Miniver?
Bambi
The Magnificent Ambersons
Woman of the Year
4. Which 1943 Best Picture nominee lost to Casablanca?
The North Star
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lassie Come Home
5. Which 1944 Best Picture nominee lost to Going My Way?
Kismet
Laura
Double Indemnity
6. Which 1945 Best Picture nominee lost to The Lost Weekend?
Spellbound
Objective, Burma!
The Southerner
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
Miracle on 34th Street
Mother Wore Tights
9. Which 1948 Best Picture nominee lost to Hamlet?
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Naked City
The Search
10. Which 1949 Best Picture nominee lost to All the King's Men?
The Heiress
Bicycle Thieves
Champion
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