title: 1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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
  