The Film-Lover's Check List: Academy Awards (1930/31-1939)

Academy Awards (1930/31-1939)

1930/31

Best Picture


	Cimarron (1931) *
	East Lynne (1931)
	The Front Page (1931)
	Skippy (1931)
	Trader Horn (1931)

Best Director


	Cimarron (1931) Wesley Ruggles
	A Free Soul (1931) Clarence Brown
	The Front Page (1931) Lewis Milestone
	Morocco (1930) Josef Von Sternberg
	Skippy (1931) Norman Taurog *

Best Actor


	A Free Soul (1931) * Lionel Barrymore
	Skippy (1931) Jackie Cooper
	Cimarron (1931) Richard Dix
	The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) Fredric March
	The Front Page (1931) Adolphe Menjou

Best Actress


	Morocco (1930) Marlene Dietrich
	Min and Bill (1930) Marie Dressler *
	Cimarron (1931) Irene Dunne
	Holiday (1930) Ann Harding
	A Free Soul (1931) Norma Shearer

Best Original Screenplay


	The Dawn Patrol (1930) *
	The Doorway To Hell (1930)
	Laughter (1930)
	The Public Enemy (1931)
	Smart Money (1931)

Best Adapted Screenplay


	Cimarron (1931) *
	The Criminal Code (1931)
	Holiday (1930)
	Little Caesar (1931)
	Skippy (1931)

Cinematography


	Cimarron (1931)
	Morocco (1930)
	The Right To Love (1930)
	Svengali (1931)
	Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) *

1931/32

Best Picture


	Arrowsmith (1931)
	Bad Girl (1931)
	The Champ (1931)
	Five Star Final (1931)
	Grand Hotel (1932) *
	One Hour With You (1932)
	Shanghai Express (1932)
	The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

Best Director


	Bad Girl (1931) Frank Borzage *
	The Champ (1931) King Vidor
	Shanghai Express (1932) Josef Von Sternberg

Best Actor


	The Champ (1931) Wallace Beery *
	The Guardsman (1931) Alfred Lunt
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Fredric March *

Best Actress


	Emma (1932) Marie Dressler
	The Guardsman (1931) Lynn Fontanne
	The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Helen Hayes *

Writing (Original Story)


	The Champ (1931) *
	Lady and Gent (1932)
	The Star Witness (1931)
	What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Writing (Adaptation)


	Arrowsmith (1931)
	Bad Girl (1931) *
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Short Subject (Comedy)


	The Loud Mouth (1932)
	The Music Box (1932) *
	Broadway Headliners: Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931)
	Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931) X

Short Subject (Novelty)


	Screen Souvenirs (1932)
	Swing High (1932)
	Wrestling Swordfish (1931) *

Short Subject (Cartoon)


	Flowers and Trees (1932) *
	It's Got Me Again! (1932)
	Mickey's Orphans (1931)

Cinematography


	Arrowsmith (1931)
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
	Shanghai Express (1932) *

Art Direction


	A Nous La Liberte (1931)
	Arrowsmith (1931)
	Transatlantic (1931) *

1932/33

Best Picture


	Cavalcade (1933) *
	A Farewell To Arms (1932)
	42nd Street (1933)
	I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
	Lady For a Day (1933)
	Little Women (1933)
	The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
	She Done Him Wrong (1933)
	Smilin' Through (1932)
	State Fair (1933)

Best Director


	Cavalcade (1933) Frank Lloyd *
	Lady For a Day (1933) Frank Capra
	Little Women (1933) George Cukor

Best Actor


	Berkeley Square (1933) Leslie Howard
	The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) Charles Laughton *
	I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) Paul Muni

Best Actress


	Morning Glory (1933) Katherine Hepburn *
	Lady For a Day (1933) May Robson
	Cavalcade (1933) Diana Wynyard

Best Original Screenplay


	One Way Passage (1932) *
	The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
	Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

Best Adapted Screenplay


	Lady For a Day (1933)
	Little Women (1933) *
	State Fair (1933)

Short Subject (Comedy)


	Mister Mugg (1933)
	A Preferred List (1933)
	So This Is Harris! (1933) *

Best Live Action Short (Novelty)


	Krakatoa (1933) *
	Menu (1933)
	The Sea (1933)

Best Animated Short


	Building a Building (1933)
	The Merry Old Soul (1933)
	Three Little Pigs (1933)

Cinematography


	A Farewell To Arms (1932) *
	Reunion In Vienna (1933)
	The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Art Direction


	Cavalcade (1933) *
	A Farewell To Arms (1932)
	Truth Is Stranger (1933)

Sound Recording


	A Farewell To Arms (1932) *
	42nd Street (1933)
	Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
	I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

1934

Best Picture


	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
	Cleopatra (1934)
	Flirtation Walk (1934)
	The Gay Divorcee (1934)
	Here Comes the Navy (1934)
	The House of Rothschild (1934)
	Imitation of Life (1934)
	It Happened One Night (1934) *
	One Night of Love (1934)
	The Thin Man (1934)
	Viva Villa! (1934)
	The White Parade (1934)

Best Director


	It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra *
	One Night of Love (1934) Victor Scherzinger
	The Thin Man (1934) W.S. Van Dyke

Best Actor


	It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Gable *
	The Affairs of Cellini (1934) Frank Morgan
	The Thin Man (1934) William Powell

Best Actress


	It Happened One Night (1934) Claudette Colbert *
	Of Human Bondage (1934) Bette Davis
	One Night of Love (1934) Grace Moore
	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Norma Shearer

Best Original Screenplay


	Hide-Out (1934)
	Manhattan Melodrama (1934) *
	The Richest Girl In the World (1934)

Best Adapted Screenplay


	It Happened One Night (1934) *
	The Thin Man (1934)
	Viva Villa! (1934)

Short Subject (Comedy)


	La Cucaracha (1934) *
	Men In Black (1934)
	What, No Men! (1935)

Short Subject (Novelty)


	Bosom Friends (1934)
	City of Wax (1934) *
	Strikes and Spares (1934)

Short Subject (Cartoon)


	Holiday Land (1934)
	Jolly Little Elves (1934)
	The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) *

Cinematography


	The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
	Cleopatra (1934) *
	Operator 13 (1934)

Film Editing


	Cleopatra (1934)
	Eskimo (1933) *
	One Night of Love (1934)

Music (Scoring)


	The Gay Divorcee (1934)
	The Lost Patrol (1934)
	One Night of Love (1934) *

Music (Song)


	Flying Down To Rio (1933) "Carioca"
	The Gay Divorcee (1934) "The Continental" *
	She Loves Me Not (1934) "Love in Bloom"

Art Direction


	The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
	The Gay Divorcee (1934)
	The Merry Widow (1934) *

Sound Recording


	The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
	Cleopatra (1934)
	Flirtation Walk (1934)
	The Gay Divorcee (1934)
	Imitation of Life (1934)
	One Night of Love (1934) *
	Viva Villa! (1934)
	The White Parade (1934)

Assistant Director


	Cleopatra (1934) Cullen Tate
	Imitation of Life (1934) Scott Beal
	Viva Villa! (1934) John Waters *

1935

Best Picture


	Alice Adams (1935)
	Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
	Captain Blood (1935)
	David Copperfield (1935)
	The Informer (1935)
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
	Les Miserables (1935)
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935) *
	Naughty Marietta (1935)
	Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
	Top Hat (1935)

Best Director


	Captain Blood (1935) Michael Curtiz
	The Informer (1935) John Ford *
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) Henry Hathaway
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935) Frank Lloyd

Actor


	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935) Clark Gable
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935) Charles Laughton
	The Informer (1935) Victor McLaglen
	Black Fury (1935) Paul Mini
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935) Franchot Tone

Actress


	Escape Me Never (1935) Elisabeth Bergner
	Private Worlds (1935) Claudette Colbert
	Dangerous (1935) Bette Davis *
	Alice Adams (1935) Katherine Hepburn
	Lady of Fortune (1935) Miriam Hopkins
	The Dark Angel (1935) Merle Oberon

Best Original Screenplay


	Captain Blood (1935)
	The Informer (1935) *
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)

Best Adapted Screenplay


	Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
	'G' Men (1935)
	The Gay Deception (1935)
	The Scoundrel (1935) *

Best Live Action Short (Comedy)


	How To Sleep (1935) *
	Oh, My Nerves (1935)
	Tit For Tat (1935)

Best Animated Short


	The Calico Dragon (1935)
	Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
	Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)

Cinematography


	Barbary Coast (1935)
	The Crusades (1935)
	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) *
	Les Miserables (1935)

Film Editing


	David Copperfield (1935)
	The Informer (1935)
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) *
	Les Miserables (1935)
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)

Music (Scoring)


	Captain Blood (1935)
	The Informer (1935) *
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
	Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Music (Original Song)


	Top Hat (1935) "Cheek to Cheek"
	Roberta (1935) "Lovely to Look At"
	Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) "Lullaby of Broadway" *

Art Direction


	The Dark Angel (1935) *
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
	Top Hat (1935)

Sound Recording


	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
	Captain Blood (1935)
	The Dark Angel (1935)
	I Dream Too Much (1935)
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
	Love Me Forever (1935)
	Naughty Marietta (1935) *
	1,000 a Minute (1935)
	Thanks a Million (1935)

1936

Best Picture


	Anthony Adverse (1936)
	Dodsworth (1936)
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) *
	Libeled Lady (1936)
	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
	Romeo and Juliet (1936)
	San Francisco (1936)
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
	A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
	Three Smart Girls (1936)

Best Director


	Dodsworth (1936) William Wyler
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Robert Z. Leonard
	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) Frank Capra *
	My Man Godfrey (1936) Gregory La Cava
	San Francisco (1936) W.S. Van Dyke

Best Actor


	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) Gary Cooper
	Dodsworth (1936) Walter Huston
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) Paul Muni *
	My Man Godfrey (1936) William Powell

Best Actress


	Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Irene Dunne
	Valiant Is the Word For Carrie (1936) Gladys George
	My Man Godfrey (1936) Carol Lombard
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Luis Rainer *
	Romeo and Juliet (1936) Norma Shearer

Best Supporting Actor


	My Man Godfrey (1936) Mischa Auer
	Come and Get It (1936) Walter Brennan *
	Pigskin Parade (1936) Stuart Erwin
	Romeo and Juliet (1936) Basil Rathbone
	The General Died At Dawn (1936) Akim Tamiroff

Best Supporting Actress


	The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Beulah Bondi
	My Man Godfrey (1936) Alice Brady
	These Three (1936) Bonita Granville
	Dodsworth (1936) Maria Ouspenskaya
	Anthony Adverse (1936) Gale Sondergaard *

Best Original Screenplay


	After the Thin Man (1936)
	Dodsworth (1936)
	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
	My Man Godfrey (1936)
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) *

Best Adapted Screenplay


	Fury (1936)
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
	San Francisco (1936)
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) *
	Three Smart Girls (1936)

Short Subject (Color)


	Give Me Liberty (1936) *
	La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
	Popular Science (1935)

Short Subject (One-reel)


	Bored of Education (1936) *
	Moscow Moods (1936)
	Wanted -- A Master (1936)

Short Subject (Two-reel)


	Broadway Brevities: Double Or Nothing (1936)
	Dummy Ache (1936)
	Crime Does Not Pay No. 8: The Public Pays (1936) *

Short Subject (Cartoon)


	The Country Cousin (1936)
	The Old Mill Pond (1936)
	Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)

Cinematography


	Anthony Adverse (1936) *
	The General Died At Dawn (1936)
	The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)

Film Editing


	Anthony Adverse (1936) *
	Come and Get It (1936)
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
	Lloyd's of London (1936)
	A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
	Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Music (Scoring)


	Anthony Adverse (1936) *
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
	The Garden of Allah (1936)
	The General Died At Dawn (1936)
	Winterset (1936)

Music (Song)


	Suzy (1936) "Did I Remember"
	Born To Dance (1936) "I've Got You Under My Skin"
	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) "A Melody from the Sky"
	Pennies From Heaven (1936) "Pennies from Heaven"
	Swing Time (1936) "The Way You Look Tonight" *
	Sing, Baby, Sing (1936) "When Did You Leave Heaven"

Art Direction


	Anthony Adverse (1936)
	Dodsworth (1936) *
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
	Lloyd's of London (1936)
	Magnificent Brute (1936)
	Romeo and Juliet (1936)
	Winterset (1936)

Sound Recording


	Banjo On My Knee (1936)
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
	Dodsworth (1936)
	General Spanky (1936)
	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
	San Francisco (1936) *
	The Texas Rangers (1936)
	That Girl From Paris (1936)
	Three Smart Girls (1936)

Assistant Director


	Anthony Adverse (1936) William Cannon
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) Jack Sullivan *
	The Garden of Allah (1936) Eric G. Stacey
	The Last of the Mohicans (1936) Clem Beauchamp
	San Francisco (1936) Joseph Newman

1937

Best Picture


	The Awful Truth (1937)
	Captains Courageous (1937)
	Dead End (1937)
	The Good Earth (1937)
	In Old Chicago (1937)
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937) *
	Lost Horizon (1937)
	One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
	Stage Door (1937)
	A Star Is Born (1937)

Best Director


	The Awful Truth (1937) Leo McCarey *
	The Good Earth (1937) Sidney Franklin
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937) William Dieterle
	Stage Door (1937) Gregory La Cava
	A Star Is Born (1937) William Wellman

Best Actor


	Conquest (1937) Charles Boyer
	A Star Is Born (1937) Fredric March
	Night Must Fall (1937) Robert Montomery
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Paul Muni
	Captains Courageous (1937) Spencer Tracy *

Best Actress


	The Awful Truth (1937) Irene Dunne
	Camille (1936) Greta Garbo
	A Star Is Born (1937) Janet Gaynor
	The Good Earth (1937) Luise Rainer *
	Stella Dallas (1937) Barbara Stanwyck

Best Supporting Actor


	The Awful Truth (1937) Ralph Bellamy
	The Hurricane (1937) Thomas Mitchell
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Josephe Schildkraut
	Lost Horizon (1937) H.B. Warner
	Topper (1937) Roland Young

Best Supporting Actress


	In Old Chicago (1937) Alice Brady *
	Stage Door (1937) Andrea Leeds
	Stella Dallas (1937) Anne Shirley
	Dead End (1937) Claire Trevor
	Night Must Fall (1937) May Whitty

Best Original Screenplay


	The Awful Truth (1937)
	Captains Courageous (1937)
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937) *
	Stage Door (1937)
	A Star Is Born (1937)

Best Adapted Screenplay


	Black Legion (1937)
	In Old Chicago (1937)
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
	One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)

Short Subject (Color)


	The Man Without a Country (1937)
	Penny Wisdom (1937) *
	Popular Science (1937)

One-reel


	A Night At the Movies (1937)
	The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) *
	Romance of Radium (1937)

Two-reel


	Deep South (1937)
	Should Wives Work? (1937)
	A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: Torture Money (1937) *

Short Subject (Cartoon)


	Educated Fish (1937)
	The Little Match Girl (1937)
	The Old Mill (1937) *

Cinematography


	Dead End (1937)
	The Good Earth (1937) *
	Wings Over Honolulu (1937)

Film Editing


	The Awful Truth (1937)
	Captains Courageous (1937)
	The Good Earth (1937)
	Lost Horizon (1937) *
	One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)

Music (Scoring)


	The Hurricane (1937)
	In Old Chicago (1937)
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
	Lost Horizon (1937)
	Make a Wish (1937)
	Maytime (1937)
	One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) *
	Portia On Trial (1937)
	The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
	Quality Street (1937)
	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
	Something To Sing About (1937)
	Souls At Sea (1937)
	Way Out West (1937)

Music (Original Song)


	Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937) "Remember me"
	Waikiki Wedding (1937) "Sweet Leilani" *
	Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937) "That Old Feeling"
	Shall We Dance (1937) "They Can't Take That Away From Me"
	Artists & Models (1937) "Whispers in the Dark"

Art Direction


	Conquest (1937)
	A Damsel In Distress (1937)
	Dead End (1937)
	Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
	Lost Horizon (1937) *
	Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
	The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
	Souls At Sea (1937)
	Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)
	Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
	You're a Sweetheart (1937)

Sound Recording


	The Girl Said No (1937)
	Hitting a New High (1937)
	The Hurricane (1937) *
	In Old Chicago (1937)
	The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
	Lost Horizon (1937)
	Maytime (1937)
	One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
	Topper (1937)
	Wells Fargo (1937)

1938

Best Picture


	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
	Boys Town (1938)
	The Citadel (1938)
	Four Daughters (1938)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	Jezebel (1938)
	Pygmalion (1938)
	Test Pilot (1938)
	You Can't Take It With You (1938) *

Best Director


	Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) Michael Curtiz
	Boys Town (1938) Norman Taurog
	The Citadel (1938) King Vidor
	Four Daughters (1938) Michael Curtiz
	You Can't Take It With You (1938) Frank Capra *

Best Actor


	Algiers (1938) Charles Boyer
	Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) James Cagney
	The Citadel (1938) Robert Donat
	Pygmalion (1938) Leslie Howard
	Boys Town (1938) Spencer Tracy *

Best Actress


	White Banners (1938) Fay Bainter
	Jezebel (1938) Bette Davis *
	Pygmalion (1938) Wendy Hiller
	Marie Antoinette (1938) Norma Shearer
	Three Comrades (1938) Margaret Sullavan

Best Supporting Actor


	Kentucky (1938) Walter Brennan *
	Four Daughters (1938) John Garfield
	Algiers (1938) Gene Lockhart
	Marie Antoinette (1938) Robert Morley
	If I Were King (1938) Basil Rathbone

Best Supporting Actress


	Jezebel (1938) Fay Bainter *
	Of Human Hearts (1938) Beulah Bondi
	Merrily We Live (1938) Billie Burke
	You Can't Take It With You (1938) Spring Byington
	The Great Waltz (1938) Miliza Korjus

Best Original Story


	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
	Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
	Blockade (1938)
	Boys Town (1938) *
	Mad About Music (1938)
	Test Pilot (1938)

Best Screenplay


	Boys Town (1938)
	The Citadel (1938)
	Four Daughters (1938)
	Pygmalion (1938) *
	You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Short Subject (One-reel)


	Carey Wilson's The Great Heart (1938)
	That Mothers Might Live (1938) *
	Timber Toppers (1938)

Short Subject (Two-reel)


	The Declaration of Independence (1938) *
	Swingtime In the Movies (1938)
	They're Always Caught (1938)

Short Subject (Cartoon)


	Brave Little Tailor (1938)
	Ferdinand the Bull (1938) *
	Good Scouts (1938)
	Hunky and Spunky (1938)
	Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)

Cinematography


	Algiers (1938)
	Army Girl (1938)
	The Buccaneer (1938)
	The Great Waltz (1938) *
	Jezebel (1938)
	Mad About Music (1938)
	Merrily We Live (1938)
	Suez (1938)
	Vivacious Lady (1938)
	You Can't Take It With You (1938)
	The Young In Heart (1938)

Film Editing


	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) *
	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
	The Great Waltz (1938)
	Test Pilot (1938)
	You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Music (Original Score)


	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) *
	Army Girl (1938)
	Block-Heads (1938)
	Blockade (1938)
	Breaking the Ice (1938)
	The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
	If I Were King (1938)
	Marie Antoinette (1938)
	Pacific Liner (1939)
	Suez (1938)
	The Young In Heart (1938)

Music (Scoring)


	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) *
	Carefree (1938)
	Girls' School (1938)
	The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
	Jezebel (1938)
	Mad About Music (1938)
	Storm Over Bengal (1938)
	Sweethearts (1938)
	There Goes My Heart (1938)
	Tropic Holiday (1938)
	The Young In Heart (1938)

Music (Song)


	Mannequin (1937) "Always and Always"
	Carefree (1938) "Change Partners"
	The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) "The Cowboy and the Lady"
	Under Western Stars (1938) "Dust"
	Going Places (1938) "Jeepers Creepers"
	Merrily We Live (1938) "Merrily We Live"
	The Lady Objects (1938) "A Mist over the Moon"
	That Certain Age (1938) "My Own"
	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) "Now It Can Be Told"
	The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) "Thanks for the Memory" *

Art Direction


	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) *
	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
	Algiers (1938)
	Carefree (1938)
	The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
	Holiday (1938)
	If I Were King (1938)
	Mad About Music (1938)
	Marie Antoinette (1938)
	Merrily We Live (1938)

Sound Recording


	Army Girl (1938)
	The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) *
	Four Daughters (1938)
	If I Were King (1938)
	Merrily We Live (1938)
	Suez (1938)
	Sweethearts (1938)
	That Certain Age (1938)
	Vivacious Lady (1938)
	You Can't Take It With You (1938)

1939

Best Picture


	Dark Victory (1939)
	Gone With the Wind (1939) *
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
	Love Affair (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	Ninotchka (1939)
	Of Mice and Men (1939)
	Stagecoach (1939)
	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
	Wuthering Heights (1939)

Best Director


	Gone With the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming *
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Sam Wood
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) Frank Capra
	Stagecoach (1939) John Ford
	Wuthering Heights (1939) William Wyler

Best Actor


	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Robert Donat *
	Gone With the Wind (1939) Clark Gable
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) James Stewart
	Wuthering Heights (1939) Laurence Olivier
	Babes In Arms (1939) Mickey Rooney

Best Actress


	Dark Victory (1939) Bette Davis
	Love Affair (1939) Irene Dunne
	Gone With the Wind (1939) Vivien Leigh *
	Ninotchka (1939) Greta Garbo
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Greer Garson

Best Supporting Actor


	Juarez (1939) Brian Aherne
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) Harrey Carey
	Beau Geste (1939) Brian Donlevy
	Stagecoach (1939) Thomas Mitchell *
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) Claude Rains

Best Supporting Actress


	Gone With the Wind (1939) Olivia de Havilland
	Wuthering Heights (1939) Geraldine Fitzgerald
	Gone With the Wind (1939) Hattie McDaniel *
	Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) Edna May Oliver
	Love Affair (1939) Maria Ouspenskaya

Best Original Story


	Bachelor Mother (1939)
	Love Affair (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) *
	Ninotchka (1939)
	Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Best Screenplay


	Gone With the Wind (1939) *
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	Ninotchka (1939)
	Wuthering Heights (1939)

Short Subject (One-reel)


	Busy Little Bears (1939) *
	Information Please (1939-1940 season) (#1) (1939)
	Carey Wilson's Prophet Without Honor (1939)
	Sword Fishing (1939)

Short Subject (Two-reel)


	Crime Does Not Pay No. 25: Drunk Driving (1939)
	Five Times Five (1939)
	Sons of Liberty (1939) *

Short Subject (Cartoon)


	Detouring America (1939)
	Peace On Earth (1939)
	The Pointer (1939)
	Ugly Duckling (1939) *

Cinematography (Black and White)


	Stagecoach (1939)
	Wuthering Heights (1939) *

Cinematography (Color)


	Gone With the Wind (1939) *
	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Film Editing


	Gone With the Wind (1939) *
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	The Rains Came (1939)
	Stagecoach (1939)

Music (Original Score)


	Dark Victory (1939)
	Eternally Yours (1939)
	Golden Boy (1939)
	Gone With the Wind (1939)
	Gulliver's Travels (1939)
	The Man In the Iron Mask (1939)
	Man of Conquest (1939)
	Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
	Of Mice and Men (1939)
	The Rains Came (1939)
	The Wizard of Oz (1939) *
	Wuthering Heights (1939)

Music (Scoring)


	Babes In Arms (1939)
	First Love (1939)
	The Great Victor Herbert (1939)
	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
	Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	Of Mice and Men (1939)
	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
	She Married a Cop (1939)
	Stagecoach (1939) *
	Swanee River (1939)
	They Shall Have Music (1939)
	Way Down South (1939)

Music (Song)


	Gulliver's Travels (1939) "Faithful Forever"
	Second Fiddle (1939) "I Poured My Heart into a Song"
	The Wizard of Oz (1939) "Over the Rainbow" *
	Love Affair (1939) "Wishing"

Art Direction


	Beau Geste (1939)
	Captain Fury (1939)
	First Love (1939)
	Gone With the Wind (1939) *
	Love Affair (1939)
	Man of Conquest (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
	The Rains Came (1939)
	Stagecoach (1939)
	The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Sound Recording


	Balalaika (1939)
	Gone With the Wind (1939)
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
	The Great Victor Herbert (1939)
	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
	Man of Conquest (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	Of Mice and Men (1939)
	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
	The Rains Came (1939)
	When Tomorrow Comes (1939) *