Oscar Nominated films (1938 - 1939)
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- 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 Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Sound - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsFredric MarchFranciska GaalAkim TamiroffSemi-fictional account of pirate Jean Lafitte's involvement in the War of 1812.Best Cinematography
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsClaude RainsFay BainterJackie CooperA homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.Best Actress - Fay Bainter
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsWalter HustonJames StewartGene ReynoldsEthan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.Best Supporting Actress - Beulah Bondi
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsTommy KellyJackie MoranAnn GillisTom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.Best Art Direction
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDeanna DurbinHerbert MarshallGail PatrickA young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen after she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.Best Original Song
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction - DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsConstance BennettBrian AherneAlan MowbrayDizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.Best Supporting Actress - Billie Burke
Best Original Song - Merrily We Live
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Sound - 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 Picture
Best Actress - Bette Davis (W)
Best Supporting Actress - Fay Bainter (W)
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography - DirectorVictor FlemingStarsClark GableMyrna LoySpencer TracyJim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsGinger RogersJames StewartJames EllisonA professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.Best Cinematography
Best Sound - 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 Picture
Best Original Score (W)
Best Editing (W)
Best Art Direction (W) - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantDoris NolanA young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.Best Art Direction
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerAlice FayeDon AmecheThis send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Original Song - Now It Can Be Told
Best Art Direction - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsRobert TaylorMargaret SullavanFranchot ToneThe close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.Best Actress - Margaret Sullavan
- DirectorRichard WallaceLewis MilestoneGilbert PrattStarsJanet GaynorDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Roland YoungThrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.Best Original Score
Best Cinematography - DirectorW.S. Van DykeJulien DuvivierStarsNorma ShearerTyrone PowerJohn BarrymoreThe tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.Best Actress - Norma Shearer
Best Supporting Actor - Robert Morley
Best Original Score
Best Art Direction - DirectorJohn CromwellStarsCharles BoyerHedy LamarrSigrid GurieA wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.Best Actor - Charles Boyer
Best Supporting Actor - Gene Lockhart
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction - 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 Picture
Best Supporting Actor - John Garfield
Best Screenplay
Best Sound - DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyPatricia EllisStan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.Best Original Score
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersRalph BellamyA psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.Best Original Score
Best Original Song - Change Partners and Dance with Me
Best Art Direction - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGeorge RaftHenry FondaDorothy LamourFriends since childhood, two men are on opposite sides in a salmon fishing conflict.Best Sound (Honorary)
Best Visual Effects (Honorary) - DirectorAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid LawsonA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.Best Picture
Best Actor - Leslie Howard
Best Actress - Wendy Hiller
Best Screenplay (W) - 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 Picture (W)
Best Director - Frank Capra (W)
Best Supporting Actress - Spring Byington
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound - 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 Picture
Best Actor - Spencer Tracy (W)
Best Original Screenplay (W) - DirectorFrank LloydStarsRonald ColmanBasil RathboneFrances DeeVagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.Best Supporting Actor - Basil Rathbone
Best Art Direction
Best Sound
Best Original Score