Outstanding Production |
Best Director |
- You Can't Take It With You
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Boys Town
- The Citadel
- Four Daughters
- Grand Illusion
- Jezebel
- Pygmalion
- Test Pilot
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- Frank Capra – You Can't Take It With You
- Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces
- Michael Curtiz – Four Daughters
- Norman Taurog – Boys Town
- King Vidor – The Citadel
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Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Spencer Tracy – Boys Town
- Charles Boyer – Algiers
- James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces
- Robert Donat – The Citadel
- Leslie Howard – Pygmalion
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- Bette Davis – Jezebel
- Fay Bainter – White Banners
- Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion
- Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette
- Margaret Sullavan – Three Comrades
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Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Walter Brennan – Kentucky
- John Garfield – Four Daughters
- Gene Lockhart – Algiers
- Robert Morley – Marie Antoinette
- Basil Rathbone – If I Were King
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- Fay Bainter – Jezebel
- Beulah Bondi – Of Human Hearts
- Billie Burke – Merrily We Live
- Spring Byington – You Can't Take It With You
- Miliza Korjus – The Great Waltz
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Best Story |
Best Screenplay |
- Boys Town – Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary
- Alexander's Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin
- Angels with Dirty Faces – Rowland Brown
- Mad About Music – Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner
- Blockade – John Howard Lawson
- Test Pilot – Frank Wead
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- Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and W. P. Lipscomb
- Four Daughters – Lenore Coffee and Julius J. Epstein
- The Citadel – Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill and Frank Wead
- Boys Town – John Meehan and Dore Schary
- You Can't Take It With You – Robert Riskin
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Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel |
Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel |
- That Mothers Might Live – MGM
- The Great Heart – MGM
- Timber Toppers – 20th Century Fox
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- Declaration of Independence – Warner Bros.
- Swingtime in the Movies – Warner Bros.
- They're Always Caught – MGM
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Best Animated Short Film |
Best Score |
- Ferdinand the Bull – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
- Brave Little Tailor – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
- Good Scouts – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
- Hunky and Spunky – Paramount
- Mother Goose Goes Hollywood – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
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- Alexander's Ragtime Band – Alfred Newman
- Carefree – Victor Baravalle
- Storm Over Bengal – Cy Feuer
- There Goes My Heart – Marvin Hatley
- Tropic Holiday – Boris Morros
- The Goldwyn Follies – Alfred Newman
- Mad About Music – Charles Previn and Frank Skinner
- Jezebel – Max Steiner
- Girls' School – Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone
- Sweethearts – Herbert Stothart
- The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman
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Best Original Score |
Best Song |
- The Adventures of Robin Hood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Pacific Liner – Russell Bennett
- If I Were King – Richard Hageman
- Block-Heads – Marvin Hatley
- Blockade – Werner Janssen
- The Cowboy and the Lady – Alfred Newman
- Suez – Louis Silvers
- Marie Antoinette – Herbert Stothart
- The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman
- Army Girl – Victor Young
- Breaking the Ice – Victor Young
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- "Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938 – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin
- "Always and Always" from Mannequin – Music by Edward Ward; Lyric by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright
- "Change Partners" from Carefree – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin
- "The Cowboy and the Lady" from The Cowboy and the Lady – Music by Lionel Newman; Lyric by Arthur Quenzer
- "Dust" from Under Western Stars – Music and Lyric by Johnny Marvin
- "Jeepers Creepers" from Going Places – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Johnny Mercer
- "Merrily We Live" from Merrily We Live – Music by Phil Charig; Lyric by Arthur Quenzer
- "A Mist Over the Moon" from The Lady Objects – Music by Ben Oakland; Lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II
- "My Own" from That Certain Age – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyric by Harold Adamson
- "Now It Can Be Told" from Alexander's Ragtime Band – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin
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Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- The Adventures of Robin Hood – Carl J. Weyl
- The Goldwyn Follies – Richard Day
- If I Were King – Hans Dreier and John B. Goodman
- Marie Antoinette – Cedric Gibbons
- Holiday – Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks
- Merrily We Live – Charles D. Hall
- Alexander's Ragtime Band – Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven
- Mad About Music – Jack Otterson
- Carefree – Van Nest Polglase
- Algiers – Alexander Toluboff
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Lyle Wheeler
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- The Great Waltz – Joseph Ruttenberg
- Merrily We Live – Norbert Brodine
- Vivacious Lady – Robert de Grasse
- Jezebel – Ernest Haller
- Algiers – James Wong Howe
- Suez – Peverell Marley
- Army Girl – Ernest Miller and Harry Wild
- The Buccaneer – Victor Milner
- The Young in Heart – Leon Shamroy
- Mad About Music – Joseph Valentine
- You Can't Take It With You – Joseph Walker
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Best Sound Recording |
Best Film Editing |
- The Cowboy and the Lady – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department
- You Can't Take It With You – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department
- Merrily We Live – Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department
- Sweethearts – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department
- If I Were King – Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department
- Army Girl – Charles L. Lootens, Republic Studio Sound Department
- Vivacious Lady – John Aalberg, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
- Suez – Edmund H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department
- That Certain Age – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio Sound Department
- Four Daughters – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
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- The Adventures of Robin Hood – Ralph Dawson
- The Great Waltz – Tom Held
- Test Pilot – Tom Held
- You Can't Take It With You – Gene Havlick
- Alexander's Ragtime Band – Barbara McLean
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