Awards
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Outstanding Production |
Best Director |
- It Happened One Night
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street
- Cleopatra
- Flirtation Walk
- The Gay Divorcee
- Here Comes the Navy
- The House of Rothschild
- Imitation of Life
- One Night of Love
- The Thin Man
- Viva Villa!
- The White Parade
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- Frank Capra – It Happened One Night
- Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love
- W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Clark Gable – It Happened One Night
- Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini
- William Powell – The Thin Man
- Paul Muni – Black Fury (write-in)
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- Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
- Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage (write-in)
- Grace Moore – One Night of Love
- Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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| Best Story |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Manhattan Melodrama – Arthur Caesar
- Hide-Out – Mauri Grashin
- The Richest Girl in the World – Norman Krasna
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- It Happened One Night – Robert Riskin
- The Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- Viva Villa! – Ben Hecht
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| Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy |
Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty |
- La Cucaracha – Pioneer Pictures
- Men in Black – Jules White
- What, No Men! – Warner Bros.
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- City of Wax – Skibo Productions
- Bosom Friends – Skibo Productions
- Strikes and Spares – Pete Smith
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| Best Animated Short Film |
Best Art Direction |
- The Tortoise and the Hare – Walt Disney
- Holiday Land – Screen Gems
- Jolly Little Elves – Walter Lantz
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- The Merry Widow – Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope
- The Affairs of Cellini – Richard Day
- The Gay Divorcee – Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark
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| Best Score |
Best Song |
- One Night of Love – Columbia Studio Music Department
- The Gay Divorcee – RKO Radio Studio Music Department
- The Lost Patrol – RKO Radio Studio Music Department
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- "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee – Music by Con Conrad; Lyric by Herb Magidson
- "Carioca" from Flying Down to Rio – Music by Vincent Youmans; Lyric by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn
- "Love in Bloom" from She Loves Me Not – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin
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| Best Cinematography |
Best Assistant Director |
- Cleopatra – Victor Milner
- The Affairs of Cellini – Charles Rosher
- Operator 13 – George J. Folsey
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- Viva Villa! – John S. Waters
- Cleopatra – Cullen Tate
- Imitation of Life – Scott Beal
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| Best Sound Recording |
Best Film Editing |
- One Night of Love – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department
- The Affairs of Cellini – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department
- Cleopatra – Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio Sound Department
- Flirtation Walk – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department
- The Gay Divorcee – Carl Dreher, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
- Imitation of Life – Theodore Soderberg, Universal Studio Sound Department
- Viva Villa! – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department
- The White Parade – Edmund H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department
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- Eskimo – Conrad Nervig
- Cleopatra – Anne Bauchens
- One Night of Love – Gene Milford
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