1938

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Win indicated by an asterisk (*)

1938 (11th)

ACTOR

 

Charles Boyer — Algiers {”Pepe Le Moko”}
 

James Cagney — Angels with Dirty Faces {”Rocky Sullivan”}
 

Robert Donat — The Citadel {”Andrew Mason”}
 

Leslie Howard — Pygmalion {”Professor Henry Higgins”}
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Spencer Tracy — Boys Town {”Father Flanagan”}

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

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Walter Brennan — Kentucky {”Peter Goodwin”}
 

John Garfield — Four Daughters {”Mickey Borden”}
 

Gene Lockhart — Algiers {”Regis”}
 

Robert Morley — Marie Antoinette {”King Louis XVI”}
 

Basil Rathbone — If I Were King {”Louis XI”}

ACTRESS

 

Fay Bainter — White Banners {”Hannah”}
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Bette Davis — Jezebel {”Julie Morrison”}
 

Wendy Hiller — Pygmalion {”Eliza Doolittle”}
 

Norma Shearer — Marie Antoinette {”Marie Antoinette”}
 

Margaret Sullavan — Three Comrades {”Pat Hollmann”}

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

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Fay Bainter — Jezebel {”Aunt Belle Massey”}
 

Beulah Bondi — Of Human Hearts {”Mary Wilkins”}
 

Billie Burke — Merrily We Live {”Mrs. Emily Kilbourne”}
 

Spring Byington — You Can’t Take It with You {”Penny Sycamore”}
 

Miliza Korjus — The Great Waltz {”Carla Donner”}

ART DIRECTION

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The Adventures of Robin Hood — Carl J. Weyl
 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Lyle Wheeler
 

Alexander’s Ragtime Band — Bernard Herzbrun, Boris Leven
 

Algiers — Alexander Toluboff
 

Carefree — Van Nest Polglase
 

The Goldwyn Follies — Richard Day
 

Holiday — Stephen Goosson, Lionel Banks
 

If I Were King — Hans Dreier, John Goodman
 

Mad about Music — Jack Otterson
 

Marie Antoinette — Cedric Gibbons
 

Merrily We Live — Charles D. Hall

CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Algiers — James Wong Howe
 

Army Girl — Ernest Miller, Harry Wild
 

The Buccaneer — Victor Milner
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The Great Waltz — Joseph Ruttenberg
 

Jezebel — Ernest Haller
 

Mad about Music — Joseph Valentine
 

Merrily We Live — Norbert Brodine
 

Suez — Peverell Marley
 

Vivacious Lady — Robert de Grasse
 

You Can’t Take It with You — Joseph Walker
 

The Young in Heart — Leon Shamroy

DIRECTING

 

Angels with Dirty Faces — Michael Curtiz
 

Boys Town — Norman Taurog
 

The Citadel — King Vidor
 

Four Daughters — Michael Curtiz
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You Can’t Take It with You — Frank Capra

FILM EDITING

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The Adventures of Robin Hood — Ralph Dawson
 

Alexander’s Ragtime Band — Barbara McLean
 

The Great Waltz — Tom Held
 

Test Pilot — Tom Held
 

You Can’t Take It with You — Gene Havlick

MUSIC (Original Score)

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The Adventures of Robin Hood — Erich Wolfgang Korngold
 

Army Girl — Victor Young
 

Block-Heads — Marvin Hatley
 

Blockade — Werner Janssen
 

Breaking the Ice — Victor Young
 

The Cowboy and the Lady — Alfred Newman
 

If I Were King — Richard Hageman
 

Marie Antoinette — Herbert Stothart
 

Pacific Liner — Russell Bennett
 

Suez — Louis Silvers
 

The Young in Heart — Franz Waxman

MUSIC (Scoring)

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Alexander’s Ragtime Band — Alfred Newman
 

Carefree — Victor Baravalle
 

Girls’ School — Morris Stoloff, Gregory Stone
 

The Goldwyn Follies — Alfred Newman
 

Jezebel — Max Steiner
 

Mad about Music — Charles Previn, Frank Skinner
 

Storm over Bengal — Cy Feuer
 

Sweethearts — Herbert Stothart
 

There Goes My Heart — Marvin Hatley
 

Tropic Holiday — Boris Morros
 

The Young in Heart — Franz Waxman

MUSIC (Song)

 

“Always and Always” from Mannequin — Music by Edward Ward; Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright
 

“Change Partners” from Carefree — Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
 

“The Cowboy and the Lady” from The Cowboy and the Lady — Music by Lionel Newman; Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer
 

“Dust” from Under Western Stars — Music and Lyrics by Johnny Marvin
 

“Jeepers Creepers” from Going Places — Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
 

“Merrily We Live” from Merrily We Live — Music by Phil Charig; Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer
 

“A Mist over the Moon” from The Lady Objects — Music by Ben Oakland; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
 

“My Own” from That Certain Age — Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
 

“Now It Can Be Told” from Alexander’s Ragtime Band — Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
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“Thanks for the Memory” from The Big Broadcast of 1938 — Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyrics by Leo Robin

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

 

The Adventures of Robin Hood — Warner Bros.-First National
 

Alexander’s Ragtime Band — 20th Century-Fox
 

Boys Town — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 

The Citadel — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 

Four Daughters — Warner Bros.-First National
 

Grand Illusion — Realization D’Art Cinematographique
 

Jezebel — Warner Bros.
 

Pygmalion — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 

Test Pilot — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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You Can’t Take It with You — Columbia

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

 

Brave Little Tailor — Walt Disney, Producer
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Ferdinand the Bull — Walt Disney, Producer
 

Good Scouts — Walt Disney, Producer
 

Hunky and Spunky — Paramount
 

Mother Goose Goes Hollywood — Walt Disney, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel)

 

The Great Heart — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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That Mothers Might Live — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 

Timber Toppers — 20th Century-Fox

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel)

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Declaration of Independence — Warner Bros.
 

Swingtime in the Movies — Warner Bros.
 

They’re Always Caught — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

SOUND RECORDING

 

Army Girl — Republic Studio Sound Department, Charles L. Lootens, Sound Director
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The Cowboy and the Lady — United Artists Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
 

Four Daughters — Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
 

If I Were King — Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
 

Merrily We Live — Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director
 

Suez — 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, Edmund H. Hansen, Sound Director
 

Sweethearts — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
 

That Certain Age — Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director
 

Vivacious Lady — RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director
 

You Can’t Take It with You — Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director

WRITING (Original Story)

 

Alexander’s Ragtime Band — Irving Berlin
 

Angels with Dirty Faces — Rowland Brown
 

Blockade — John Howard Lawson
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Boys Town — Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin
 

Mad about Music — Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
 

Test Pilot — Frank Wead

WRITING (Screenplay)

 

Boys Town — John Meehan, Dore Schary
 

The Citadel — Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill
 

Four Daughters — Julius J. Epstein, Lenore Coffee
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Pygmalion — Screenplay and Dialogue by George Bernard Shaw; Adaptation by W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple
 

You Can’t Take It with You — Robert Riskin

SPECIAL AWARD

* To Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement.
* To Harry M. Warner in recognition of patriotic service in the production of historical short subjects presenting significant episodes in the early struggle of the American people for liberty.
* To Walt Disney for ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon.
* To Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, ‘Sweethearts.’
* For outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, ‘Spawn of the North.’ Special Effects by Gordon Jennings, assisted by Jan Domela, Dev Jennings, Irmin Roberts and Art Smith. Transparencies by Farciot Edouart, assisted by Loyal Griggs. Sound Effects by Loren Ryder, assisted by Harry Mills, Louis H. Mesenkop and Walter Oberst.
* To J. Arthur Ball for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of color in Motion Picture Photography.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

 

Samuel Goldwyn

[NOTE: Did not win the award. This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]
 

Joe Pasternak

[NOTE: Did not win the award. This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]
 

David O. Selznick

[NOTE: Did not win the award. This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]
 

Hunt Stromberg

[NOTE: Did not win the award. This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]
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Hal B. Wallis

[NOTE: This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]
 

Walter Wanger

[NOTE: Did not win the award. This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]
 

Darryl F. Zanuck

[NOTE: Did not win the award. This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)

* To JOHN AALBERG and the RKO RADIO STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the application of compression to variable area recording in motion picture production. [Sound]
* To BYRON HASKIN and the SPECIAL EFFECTS DEPARTMENT OF WARNER BROS. STUDIO for pioneering the development and for the first practical application to motion picture production of the triple head background projector. [Special Photographic]