12th Academy Awards - Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Production Best Director
  • Gone With the Wind
    • Dark Victory
    • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    • Love Affair
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    • Ninotchka
    • Of Mice and Men
    • Stagecoach
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • Wuthering Heights
  • Victor Fleming – Gone With the Wind
    • Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    • John Ford – Stagecoach
    • Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    • William Wyler – Wuthering Heights
Best Actor Best Actress
  • Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    • Clark Gable – Gone With the Wind
    • Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights
    • Mickey Rooney – Babes in Arms
    • James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Vivien Leigh – Gone With the Wind
    • Bette Davis – Dark Victory
    • Irene Dunne – Love Affair
    • Greta Garbo – Ninotchka
    • Greer Garson – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
  • Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach
    • Brian Aherne – Juarez
    • Harry Carey – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    • Brian Donlevy – Beau Geste
    • Claude Rains – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Hattie McDaniel – Gone With the Wind
    • Olivia de Havilland – Gone With the Wind
    • Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights
    • Edna May Oliver – Drums Along the Mohawk
    • Maria Ouspenskaya – Love Affair
Best Story Best Screenplay
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lewis R. Foster
    • Love Affair – Mildred Cram and Leo McCarey
    • Bachelor Mother – Felix Jackson
    • Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel
    • Young Mr. Lincoln – Lamar Trotti
  • Gone With the Wind – Sidney Howard
    • Ninotchka – Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Billy Wilder
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Sidney Buchman
    • Wuthering Heights – Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
    • Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Eric Maschwitz, R. C. Sherriff and Claudine West
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
  • Busy Little Bears – Paramount Pictures
    • Information Please – RKO Radio
    • Prophet Without Honor – MGM
    • Sword Fishing – Warner Bros.
  • Sons of Liberty – Warner Bros.
    • Drunk Driving – MGM
    • Five Times Five – RKO Radio
Best Animated Short Film Best Score
  • The Ugly Duckling – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
    • Detouring America – Warner Bros.
    • Peace on Earth – MGM
    • The Pointer – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
  • Stagecoach – Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, and Leo Shuken
    • The Great Victor Herbert – Phil Boutelje and Arthur Lange
    • Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland
    • Babes in Arms – Roger Edens and George E. Stoll
    • She Married a Cop – Cy Feuer
    • Intermezzo – Lou Forbes
    • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    • The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Alfred Newman
    • They Shall Have Music – Alfred Newman
    • First Love – Charles Previn
    • Swanee River – Louis Silvers
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Dimitri Tiomkin
    • Way Down South – Victor Young
Best Original Score Best Song
  • The Wizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart
    • Nurse Edith Cavell – Anthony Collins
    • Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland
    • The Man in the Iron Mask – Lud Gluskin and Lucien Moraweck
    • Eternally Yours – Werner Janssen
    • The Rains Came – Alfred Newman
    • Wuthering Heights – Alfred Newman
    • Dark Victory – Max Steiner
    • Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner
    • Golden Boy – Victor Young
    • Gulliver's Travels – Victor Young
    • Man of Conquest – Victor Young
  • "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyric by E. Y. Harburg
    • "Faithful Forever" from Gulliver's Travels – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin
    • "I Poured My Heart Into a Song" from Second Fiddle – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin
    • "Wishing" from Love Affair – Music and Lyric by Buddy de Sylva
Best Sound Recording Best Art Direction
  • When Tomorrow Comes – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio Sound Department
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department
    • Goodbye, Mr. Chips – A. W. Watkins, Denham Studio Sound Department
    • Of Mice and Men – Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department
    • Balalaika – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department
    • The Great Victor Herbert – Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department
    • Man of Conquest – Charles L. Lootens, Republic Studio Sound Department
    • The Hunchback of Notre Dame – John Aalberg, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
    • Gone With the Wind – Thomas T. Moulton, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
    • The Rains Came – E. H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department
    • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
  • Gone With the Wind – Lyle Wheeler
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lionel Banks
    • Wuthering Heights – James Basevi
    • The Rains Came – William S. Darling and George Dudley
    • Beau Geste – Hans Dreier and Robert Odell
    • The Wizard of Oz – Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning
    • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Anton Grot
    • Captain Fury – Charles D. Hall
    • Man of Conquest – John Victor Mackay
    • First Love – Jack Otterson and Martin Obzina
    • Love Affair – Van Nest Polglase and Alfred Herman
    • Stagecoach – Alexander Toluboff
Best Cinematography, Black and White Best Cinematography, Color
  • Wuthering Heights – Gregg Toland
    • Gunga Din – Joseph H. August
    • Lady of the Tropics – Norbert Brodine
    • Juarez – Tony Gaudio
    • Stagecoach – Bert Glennon
    • The Rains Came – Arthur Charles Miller
    • The Great Victor Herbert – Victor Milner
    • Intermezzo – Gregg Toland
    • First Love – Joseph Valentine
    • Only Angels Have Wings – Joseph Walker
  • Gone With the Wind – Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan
    • The Four Feathers – Georges Périnal and Osmond Borradaile
    • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Sol Polito and W. Howard Greene
    • Drums Along the Mohawk – Ray Rennahan and Bert Glennon
    • The Wizard of Oz – Hal Rosson
    • The Mikado – William V. Skall and Bernard Knowles
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects
  • Gone With the Wind – Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom
    • Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Charles Frend
    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Gene Havlick and Al Clark
    • Stagecoach – Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer
    • The Rains Came – Barbara McLean
  • The Rains Came – E. H. Hansen and Fred Sersen
    • Gone With the Wind – John R. Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns
    • Only Angels Have Wings – Roy Davidson and Edwin C. Hahn
    • Union Pacific – Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and Loren Ryder
    • The Wizard of Oz – A. Arnold Gillespie and Douglas Shearer
    • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Byron Haskin and Nathan Levinson
    • Topper Takes a Trip – Roy Seawright

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