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- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsClara BowCharles 'Buddy' RogersRichard ArlenTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.Best Film (1927-28)
Winner: Wings
7th Heaven
The Circus
Unique/Artistic: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
The Crowd - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest GarciaThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.Best Director
Comedy: Charlie Chaplin – The Circus
Ted Wilde – Speedy
Lewis Milestone – Two Arabian Knights
Drama: King Vidor – The Crowd
Frank Borzage – 7th Heaven
William A. Wellman – Wings
Sound: Wings - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam PowellA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.Best Actor
Winner: Emil Jannings – The Last Command
Charlie Chaplin – The Circus
Lon Chaney – Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Cinematography: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – Charles Rosher and Karl Struss
The Last Command
Sadie Thompson
Wings - DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordCharles 'Buddy' RogersSunshine HartA department store's stock girl falls in love with a co-worker, the son of the store's manager; the feeling is mutual though he is engaged to a debutante and focusing on becoming successful without the influence of his father.Best Actress
Winner: Mary Pickford – My Best Girl
Janet Gaynor – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Gloria Swanson – Sadie Thompson
Production: The Dove / Tempest – William Cameron Menzies
7th Heaven
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.Best Screenplay
Original: The Circus – Charlie Chaplin
The Last Command
Underworld
Adapted: 7th Heaven – Benjamin Glazer
The Jazz Singer
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie KingstonA woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.Best Film (1928-29)
Winner: Street Angel
The Broadway Melody
The Docks of New York
In Old Arizona
Lonesome - DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsBessie LoveAnita PageCharles KingA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.Best Director
Winner: Frank Borzage – Street Angel
Harry Beaumont – The Broadway Melody
Frank Lloyd – The Divine Lady
Josef von Sternberg – The Docks of New York
Irving Cummings – In Old Arizona
Sound: In Old Arizona - DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.Best Actor
Winner: Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona
George Bancroft – The Docks of New York
Buster Keaton – The Cameraman
Paul Muni – The Valiant
Lewis Stone – A Woman of Affairs
Cinematography: Street Angel – Ernest Palmer
The Divine Lady
In Old Arizona
Our Dancing Daughters
White Shadows in the South Seas - DirectorPál FejösStarsBarbara KentGlenn TryonFay HoldernessTwo lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?Best Actress
Winner: Janet Gaynor – Street Angel
Betty Compson – The Docks of New York
Jeanne Eagels – The Letter
Lillian Gish – The Wind
Corinne Griffith – The Divine Lady
Bessie Love – The Broadway Melody
Production: Street Angel – Harry Oliver
Alibi
The Docks of New York
Dynamite
The Mysterious Lady - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGeorge BancroftBetty CompsonOlga BaclanovaA blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.Best Screenplay
Winner: The Docks of New York – Jules Furthman
The Cameraman
In Old Arizona
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Leatherneck
Lonesome
Our Dancing Daughters
Street Angel
The Valiant
A Woman of Affairs - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.Best Film (1929-30)
Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front
The Big House
The Divorcee
Hallelujah
The Love Parade - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldLupino LaneThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.Best Director
Winner: Lewis Milestone – All Quiet on the Western Front
Clarence Brown – Anna Christie
Robert Leonard – The Divorcee
King Vidor – Hallelujah
Ernst Lubitsch – The Love Parade
Sound: The Big House
All Quiet on the Western Front
Hell’s Angels
The Love Parade
Raffles - DirectorGeorge W. HillWard WingStarsChester MorrisWallace BeeryLewis StoneA convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.Best Actor
Winner: Wallace Beery – The Big House
George Arliss – Disraeli
Maurice Chevalier – The Love Parade
Ronald Colman – Bulldog Drummond
Chester Morris – The Big House
Cinematography: All Quiet on the Western Front – Arthur Edeson
Anna Christie
Hell's Angels
The Love Parade
With Byrd at the South Pole - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsNorma ShearerRobert MontgomeryChester MorrisWhen a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.Best Actress
Winner: Norma Shearer – The Divorcee
Marie Dressler – Anna Christie
Greta Garbo – Anna Christie
Helen Morgan – Applause
Gloria Swanson – The Trespasser
Production: The Love Parade – Hans Dreier
Bulldog Drummond
King of Jazz
Sally
The Vagabond King - DirectorKing VidorStarsDaniel L. HaynesNina Mae McKinneyWilliam FountaineA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.Best Screenplay
Winner: The Big House – Frances Marion
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Divorcee
Hallelujah
Street of Chance - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.Best Film (1930-31)
Winner: City Lights
Cimarron
A Free Soul
The Front Page
Morocco
Skippy - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJackie CooperRobert CooganMitzi GreenSkippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.Best Director
Winner: Norman Taurog – Skippy
Wesley Ruggles – Cimarron
Clarence Brown – A Free Soul
Lewis Milestone – The Front Page
Josef von Sternberg – Morocco
Sound: The Dawn Patrol
Cimarron
The Criminal Code
The Public Enemy
Trader Horn - DirectorClarence BrownStarsNorma ShearerLeslie HowardLionel BarrymoreAn alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.Best Actor
Winners: Lionel Barrymore – A Free Soul
Jackie Cooper – Skippy
Richard Dix – Cimarron
Fredric March – The Royal Family of Broadway
Adolphe Menjou – The Front Page
Cinematography: Tabu: A Story of the South Seas – Floyd Crosby
The Big Trail
Cimarron
Morocco
Svengali - DirectorGeorge W. HillStarsMarie DresslerWallace BeeryDorothy JordanMin, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.Best Actress
Winner: Marie Dressler – Min and Bill
Nancy Carroll – Laughter
Irene Dunne – Cimarron
Ann Harding – Holiday
Norma Shearer – A Free Soul
Production: Cimarron – Max Rée
Just Imagine
Morocco
Svengali
Whoopee! - DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.Best Screenplay
Original: City Lights – Charlie Chaplin
The Doorway to Hell
Laughter
The Public Enemy
Smart Money
Adapted: Cimarron – Howard Estabrook
The Criminal Code
Holiday
Little Caesar
Skippy - DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.Best Film (1931-32)
Winner: Grand Hotel
Arrowsmith
The Champ
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Five Star Final
Scarface
Shanghai Express
The Smiling Lieutenant - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichClive BrookAnna May WongA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.Best Director
Winner: Josef von Sternberg – Shanghai Express
Edmund Goulding – Grand Hotel
Howard Hawks – Scarface
Sound: The Smiling Lieutenant
Scarface
Tarzan the Ape Man - DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsFredric MarchMiriam HopkinsRose HobartDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.Best Actor
Winner: Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wallace Beery – The Champ
Paul Muni – Scarface
Cinematography: Shanghai Express – Lee Garmes and James Wong Howe
Arrowsmith
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - DirectorEdgar SelwynStarsHelen HayesLewis StoneNeil HamiltonOut of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.Best Actress
Winner: Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Marlene Dietrich – Shanghai Express
Marie Dressler – Emma
Production: Shanghai Express – Hans Dreier
Arrowsmith
Transatlantic - DirectorKing VidorStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperIrene RichAn alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.Best Screenplay
Original: The Champ – Frances Marion and Leonard Praskins
A Nous la Liberte
What Price Hollywood?
Adapted: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein
Arrowsmith
Scarface - DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWarner BaxterBebe DanielsGeorge BrentWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.Best Film (1932-33)
Winner: 42nd Street
Cavalcade
A Farewell to Arms
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Lady for a Day
Little Women
One Way Passage
The Private Life of Henry VIII
She Done Him Wrong
Smilin' Through - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsPaul MuniGlenda FarrellHelen VinsonWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.Best Director
Winner: Mervyn LeRoy – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Lloyd Bacon – 42nd Street
George Cukor – Little Women
Sound: 42nd Street
Gold Diggers of 1933
A Farewell to Arms
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
King Kong - DirectorAlexander KordaStarsCharles LaughtonRobert DonatFranklin DyallKing Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.Best Actor
Winner: Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII
Paul Muni – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
William Powell – One Way Passage
Cinematography: A Farewell to Arms – Charles Lang
Red Dust
Sign of the Cross - DirectorLowell ShermanStarsKatharine HepburnDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Adolphe MenjouWhen a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.Best Actress
Winner: Katharine Hepburn – Morning Glory
Kay Francis – One Way Passage
May Robson – Lady for a Day
Production: A Farewell to Arms – Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
Gold Diggers of 1933
Little Women - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnJoan BennettPaul LukasA chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.Best Screenplay
Original: One Way Passage – Wilson Mizner, Joseph Jackson and Robert Lord
The Power and the Glory
Rasputin and the Empress
Adapted: Little Women – Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason
42nd Street
Lady for a Day - DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.Best Film
Winner: It Happened One Night
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Cleopatra
The Gay Divorcee
Here Comes the Navy
The House of Rothschild
Imitation of Life
Manhattan Melodrama
One Night of Love
The Scarlet Empress
The Thin Man
Viva Villa! - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichJohn LodgeSam JaffeA German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.Best Director
Winner: Frank Capra – It Happened One Night
Cecil B. DeMille – Cleopatra
W.S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
Sound: The Scarlet Empress
Cleopatra
The Gay Divorcee
One Night of Love
Viva Villa!
Film Editing: Eskimo – Conrad A. Nervig
Cleopatra
The Scarlet Empress - DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyMaureen O'SullivanFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.Best Actor
Winner: Clark Gable – It Happened One Night
Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini
William Powell – The Thin Man
Cinematography: Cleopatra – Victor Milner
The House of Rothschild
The Scarlet Empress - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsClaudette ColbertWarren WilliamHenry WilcoxonThe man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.Best Actress
Winner: Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Louise Beaver – Imitation of Life
Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage
Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Production: The Merry Widow – Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope
Cleopatra
The Scarlet Empress - DirectorW.S. Van DykeJack ConwayGeorge CukorStarsClark GableWilliam PowellMyrna LoyThe friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.Best Screenplay
Original: Manhattan Melodrama – Oliver H. P. Garrett, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Arthur Caesar
Hide-Out
The Richest Girl in the World
Adapted: It Happened One Night – Robert Riskin
The Gay Divorcee
The Thin Man - DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersAlice BradyA woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.Best Soundtrack
Song: "The Continental" The Gay Divorcee – Con Conrad and Herb Magidson
"Blue Moon (The Bad in Every Man)" Manhattan Melodrama
"On the Good Ship Lollipop" Bright Eyes
Score: The Lost Patrol – Max Steiner
The Gay Divorcee
One Night of Love - DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.Best Film
Winner: Mutiny on the Bounty
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Informer
Les Misérables
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ruggles of Red Gap
A Tale of Two Cities
Top Hat - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGary CooperFranchot ToneRichard CromwellThree British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves.Best Director
Winner: Frank Lloyd – Mutiny on the Bounty
Michael Curtiz – Captain Blood
John Ford – The Informer
Henry Hathaway – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Mark Sandrich – Top Hat
Sound: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Bride of Frankenstein
Captain Blood
The Dark Angel
Naughty Marietta
Film Editing: Mutiny on the Bounty – Margaret Booth
David Copperfield
The Informer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night's Dream - DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.Best Actor
Winner: Victor McLaglen – The Informer
Fred Astaire – Top Hat
Clark Gable – Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Laughton – Mutiny on the Bounty
Franchot Tone – Mutiny on the Bounty
Cinematography: A Midsummer Night's Dream – Hal Mohr
Barbary Coast
The Crusades
Les Miserables
Mutiny on the Bounty - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsKatharine HepburnFred MacMurrayFred StoneA working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.Best Actress
Winner: Katharine Hepburn – Alice Adams
Elisabeth Bergner – Escape Me Never
Claudette Colbert – Private Worlds
Miriam Hopkins – Becky Sharp
Merle Oberon – The Dark Angel
Margaret Sullavan – The Good Fairy
Production: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
The Dark Angel
Gold Diggers of 1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
Top Hat - DirectorRoy Del RuthW.S. Van DykeStarsJack BennyEleanor PowellRobert TaylorA Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.Best Screenplay
Original: Broadway Melody of 1936 – Harry W. Conn, Moss Hart, Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers
G Men
The Gay Deception
A Night at the Opera
The Scoundrel
Adapted: The Informer – Dudley Nichols
Captain Blood
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Mutiny on the Bounty
Ruggles of Red Gap - DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellAdolphe MenjouGloria StuartRomantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Lullaby of Broadway" Gold Diggers of 1935 – Harry Warren and Al Dubin
"Alone" A Night at the Opera
"Cheek to Cheek" Top Hat
"Lovely to Look At" Roberta
"You Are My Lucky Star" Broadway Melody Of 1936
Score: The Informer – Max Steiner
Captain Blood
Mutiny on the Bounty
Peter Ibbetson
Top Hat - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonRuth ChattertonPaul LukasA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.Best Film
Winner: Dodsworth
Anthony Adverse
The Great Ziegfeld
Libeled Lady
Modern Times
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
My Man Godfrey
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur - DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge BancroftA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.Best Director
Winner: William Wyler – Dodsworth
Robert Z. Leonard – The Great Ziegfeld
Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gregory La Cava – My Man Godfrey
W. S. Van Dyke – San Francisco
Sound: Dodsworth
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
San Francisco
Three Smart Girls - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniJosephine HutchinsonAnita LouiseThe biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.Best Actor
Winner: Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur
Charlie Chaplin – Modern Times
Gary Cooper – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Walter Huston – Dodsworth
William Powell – My Man Godfrey
Spencer Tracy – Fury
Cinematography: Anthony Adverse – Tony Gaudio
Dodsworth
The Garden of Allah
The General Died at Dawn
Modern Times - DirectorJack ConwayStarsJean HarlowWilliam PowellMyrna LoyWhen a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.Best Actress
Winner: Jean Harlow – Libeled Lady
Ruth Chatterton – Dodsworth
Irene Dunne – Theodora Goes Wild
Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey
Norma Shearer – Romeo and Juliet
Shirley Temple – Captain January
Production: Dodsworth – Richard Day
Anthony Adverse
The Great Ziegfeld
Lloyd's of London
Romeo and Juliet - DirectorHoward HawksWilliam WylerRichard RossonStarsEdward ArnoldJoel McCreaFrances FarmerAn ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Walter Brennan – Come and Get It
Mischa Auer – My Man Godfrey
John Barrymore – Romeo and Juliet
Stuart Erwin – Pigskin Parade
Akim Tamiroff – The General Died at Dawn
Spencer Tracy – San Francisco
Film Editing: Anthony Adverse – Ralph Dawson
Come and Get It
Dodsworth
The Great Ziegfeld
Theodora Goes Wild - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyLuise RainerThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
Alice Brady – My Man Godfrey
Bonita Granville – These Three
Edna May Oliver – Romeo and Juliet
Maria Ouspenskaya – Dodsworth
Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse
Costume: The Great Ziegfeld – Adrian Adolph Greenberg
Anthony Adverse
The Last of the Mohicans
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco - DirectorGregory La CavaStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice BradyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.Best Screenplay
Original: Libeled Lady – George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan, and Maurine Dallas Watkins
Fury
The Great Ziegfeld
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Adapted: Dodsworth – Sidney Howard
After the Thin Man
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
My Man Godfrey
Romeo and Juliet - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersVictor MooreRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.Best Soundtrack
Song: "The Way You Look Tonight" Swing Time – Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields
"Did I Remember" Suzy
"I've Got You Under My Skin" Born to Dance
"Pennies from Heaven" Pennies from Heaven
"San Francisco" San Francisco
Score: Anthony Adverse – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Garden of Allah
The General Died at Dawn
Modern Times - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniGale SondergaardJoseph SchildkrautThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.Best Film
Winner: The Life of Emile Zola
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Dead End
The Good Earth
In Old Chicago
Lost Horizon
Make Way for Tomorrow
Stage Door
A Star Is Born - DirectorGregory La CavaStarsKatharine HepburnGinger RogersAdolphe MenjouA chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.Best Director
Winner: William Dieterle – The Life of Emile Zola
Leo McCarey – The Awful Truth
William Wyler – Dead End
Gregory La Cava – Stage Door
William A. Wellman – A Star Is Born
Sound: Lost Horizon
The Hurricane
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
Topper - DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyFreddie BartholomewLionel BarrymoreA spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.Best Actor
Winner: Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous
Fredric March – A Star Is Born
Robert Montgomery – Night Must Fall
Victor Moore – Make Way for Tomorrow
Paul Muni – The Life of Emile Zola
Roland Young – Topper
Cinematography: A Star Is Born – W. Howard Greene
Dead End
The Good Earth
Lost Horizon
Wings over Honolulu - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCary GrantRalph BellamyA married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.Best Actress
Winner: Irene Dunne – The Awful Truth
Beulah Bondi – Make Way for Tomorrow
Greta Garbo – Camille
Janet Gaynor – A Star Is Born
Luise Rainer – The Good Earth
Barbara Stanwyck – Stella Dallas
Production: Lost Horizons – Stephen Goosson
Conquest
Dead End
The Life of Emile Zola
The Prisoner of Zenda - DirectorFrank CapraStarsRonald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett HortonWhen a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Joseph Schildkraut – The Life of Emile Zola
Ralph Bellamy – The Awful Truth
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. – The Prisoner of Zenda
Adolph Menjou – Stage Door
Thomas Mitchell – The Hurricane
H. B. Warner – Lost Horizon
Film Editing: Lost Horizon – Gene Havlick and Gene Milford
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Dead End
The Life of Emile Zola - DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerAlice FayeDon AmecheThe O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Alice Brady – In Old Chicago
Fay Bainter – Make Way for Tomorrow
Andrea Leeds – Stage Door
Claire Trevor – Dead End
Anne Shirley – Stella Dallas
May Whitty – Night Must Fall
Costume: Camille – Adrian Adolph Greenberg
In Old Chicago
Maytime
The Prisoner of Zenda
Stage Door - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanJack ConwayVictor FlemingStarsJanet GaynorFredric MarchAdolphe MenjouA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.Best Screenplay
Original: A Star Is Born – Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and William A. Wellman
Black Legion
In Old Chicago
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Way Out West
Adapted: The Life of Emile Zola – Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Make Way for Tomorrow
Stage Door - DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett HortonA ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.Best Soundtrack
Song: "They Can’t Take That Away From Me" Shall We Dance – George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
"Heigh-Ho" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"Remember Me" Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
"Sweet Leilani" Waikiki Wedding
"That Old Feeling" Walter Wanger’s Vogues of 1938
Score: Lost Horizon – Dimitri Tiomkin
The Hurricane
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.Best Film
Winner: You Can't Take It with You
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Angels with Dirty Faces
Boys Town
The Citadel
Four Daughters
Grand Illusion
Jezebel
Pygmalion
Test Pilot - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienHumphrey BogartA priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.Best Director
Winner: Frank Capra – You Can't Take It with You
Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces
Norman Taurog – Boys Town
King Vidor – The Citadel
Jean Renoir – Grand Illusion
Sound: You Can’t Take It with You
The Cowboy and the Lady
Four Daughters
Suez
Vivacious Lady
Special Effect: Spawn of the North - DirectorKing VidorStarsRobert DonatRosalind RussellRalph RichardsonAn enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.Best Actor
Winner: Robert Donat – The Citadel
Charles Boyer – Algiers
James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces
Errol Flynn – The Adventures of Robin Hood
Leslie Howard – Pygmalion
Spencer Tracy – Boys Town
Cinematography: You Can't Take It with You – Joseph Walker
Algiers
The Great Waltz
Jezebel
Suez - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHenry FondaGeorge BrentIn 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.Best Actress
Winner: Bette Davis – Jezebel
Fay Bainter – White Banners
Katharine Hepburn – Holiday
Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion
Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette
Margaret Sullavan – Three Comrades
Production: The Adventures of Robin Hood – Carl Jules Weyl
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Algiers
Holiday
Marie Antoinette - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsClaude RainsJohn GarfieldJeffrey LynnA musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his Four Daughters.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: John Garfield – Four Daughters
Edward Arnold – You Can't Take It with You
Gene Lockhart – Algiers
Robert Morley – Marie Antoinette
Basil Rathbone – If I Were King
Mickey Rooney – Boys Town
Film Editing: The Adventures of Robin Hood – Ralph Dawson
Alexander's Ragtime Band
The Great Waltz
Test Pilot
You Can't Take It with You - DirectorMichael CurtizWilliam KeighleyStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandBasil RathboneWhen Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: 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
Doris Nolan – Holiday
Costume: The Adventures of Robin Hood – Milo Anderson
The Great Waltz
Jezebel
Marie Antoinette
Suez - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsSpencer TracyMickey RooneyHenry HullWhen a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.Best Screenplay
Original: Boys Town – Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary and John Meehan
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Blockade
Mad About Music
Test Pilot
Adapted: Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and W. P. Lipscomb
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Citadel
Four Daughters
You Can't Take It with You - DirectorMitchell LeisenJames P. HoganStarsW.C. FieldsMartha RayeDorothy LamourThe Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Thanks for the Memory" The Big Broadcast of 1938 – Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin
"Change Partners" Carefree
"Jeepers Creepers" Going Places
"My Own" That Certain Age
"Now It Can Be Told" Alexander's Ragtime Band
Score: The Adventures of Robin Hood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
The Cowboy and the Lady
Jezebel
The Young in Heart - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.Best Film
Winner: Gone With the Wind
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Love Affair
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
The Women
Wuthering Heights - DirectorSam WoodSidney FranklinStarsRobert DonatGreer GarsonTerry KilburnAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.Best Director
Winner: Victor Fleming – Gone with the Wind
Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Lewis Milestone – Of Mice and Men
George Cukor – The Women
Sound: Gone With the Wind
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Rains Came
When Tomorrow Comes
Special Effect: The Wizard of Oz
Gone With the Wind
Only Angels Have Wings
The Rains Came
Union Pacific - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.Best Actor
Winner: James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Lon Chaney Jr. – Of Mice and Men
Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Clark Gable – Gone with the Wind
Burgess Meredith – Of Mice and Men
Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights
Cinematography: Gone with the Wind – Ernest Haller and Lee Garmes
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsNorma ShearerJoan CrawfordRosalind RussellA study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.Best Actress
Winner: Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind
Bette Davis – Dark Victory
Irene Dunne – Love Affair
Greta Garbo – Ninotchka
Judy Garland – The Wizard of Oz
Norma Shearer – The Women
Production: Gone With the Wind – Lyle R. Wheeler
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Rains Came
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach
Brian Aherne – Juarez
Harry Carey – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Brian Donlevy – Beau Geste
Frank Morgan – The Wizard of Oz
Claude Rains – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Film Editing: Gone With the Wind – Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Rains Came
Stagecoach - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLon Chaney Jr.Burgess MeredithBetty FieldA mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Hattie McDaniel – Gone with the Wind
Olivia de Havilland – Gone with the Wind
Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights
Greer Garson – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Margaret Hamilton – The Wizard of Oz
Rosalind Russell – The Women
Costume: Gone with the Wind – Walter Plunkett
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Rains Came
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsGreta GarboMelvyn DouglasIna ClaireA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.Best Screenplay
Original: Ninotchka – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch and Melchior Lengyel
Bachelor Mother
The Great Victor Herbert
Love Affair
Young Mr. Lincoln
Adapted: Gone With the Wind – Sidney Howard
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Of Mice and Men
The Women - DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Over the Rainbow" The Wizard of Oz – Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
"An Apple For The Teacher" The Star Maker
"Good Morning" Babes In Arms
"Faithful Forever" Gulliver's Travels
"Wishing" Love Affair
Score: The Wizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart
Gone With the Wind
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
Wuthering Heights