BEAU GESTE (William A. Wellman); THE CAT & THE CANARY
(Arthur Hornblow, Jr.); CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (Hal B. Wallis & Jack L. Warner); DARK VICTORY (David Lewis); THE FOUR FEATHERS (Alexander Korda); GUNGA DIN (George Stevens); THE
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Pandro S. Berman); INTERMEZZO: A LOVE STORY (David O. Selznick); LOVE AFFAIR (Leo McCarey); ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Robert Donat as "Mr. Charles Chipping" - GOODBYE MR.
CHIPS
Henry Fonda as "Abraham Lincoln" - YOUNG MR.
LINCOLN
Clark Gable as "Rhett Butler" - GONE WITH THE
WIND
Charles Laughton as "Quasimodo" - THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE
DAME
Burgess Meredith as "George Milton" - OF MICE &
MEN
Laurence Olivier as "Heathcliff" - WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
Basil Rathbone as "Sherlock Holmes" - THE HOUND OF THE
BASKERVILLES
Edward G. Robinson as "Edward Renard" - CONFESSIONS OF A
NAZI SPY
Mickey Rooney as "Mickey Moran" - BABES IN
ARMS
James Stewart as "Jefferson Smith" - MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON
Also Considered:
Charles Boyer (LOVE AFFAIR); James Cagney (THE ROARING
TWENTIES); Marcel Dalio (THE RULES OF THE GAME); Gary Cooper (BEAU GESTE); Cary Grant (GUNGA DIN); Louis Hayward (THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK); Bob Hope (THE CAT & THE CANARY); Boris Karloff
(DEVIL'S ISLAND); James Stewart (DESTRY RIDES AGAIN); John Wayne (STAGECOACH)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Ingrid Bergman as "Anita Hoffman" - INTERMEZZO: A LOVE
STORY
Claudette Colbert as "Eve Peabody" -
MIDNIGHT
Bette Davis as "Judith Traherne" - DARK
VICTORY
Marlene Dietrich as "Frenchy" - DESTRY RIDES
AGAIN
Irene Dunne as "Terry McKay" - LOVE AFFAIR
Greta Garbo as "Nina Ivanovna 'Ninotchka' Yakushova" -
NINOTCHKA
Judy Garland as "Dorothy Gale" - THE WIZARD OF
OZ
Greer Garson as "Katherine Ellis" - GOODBYE MR.
CHIPS
Vivien Leigh as "Scarlett O'Hara" - GONE WITH THE
WIND
Merle Oberon as "Cathy Earnshaw-Linton" - WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
Also Considered:
Bette Davis (THE OLD MAID); Bette Davis (THE PRIVATE LIVES
OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX); Judy Garland (BABES IN ARMS); Nora Gregor (THE RULES OF THE GAME); Myrna Loy (THE RAINS CAME); Anna Neagle (NURSE EDITH CAVELL); Maureen O'Hara (THE HUNCHBACK OF
NOTRE DAME); Ginger Rogers (BACHELOR MOTHER); Norma Shearer (THE WOMEN); Claire Trevor (STAGECOACH)
BEST DIRECTOR
Frank Capra - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Victor Fleming, George Cukor
& Sam Wood - GONE WITH THE WIND
John Ford - STAGECOACH
Zoltan Korda - THE FOUR FEATHERS
Ernst Lubitsch - NINOTCHKA
George Marshall - DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Lewis Milestone - OF MICE & MEN
Jean Renoir - THE RULES OF THE GAME
George Stevens - GUNGA DIN
William Wyler - WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Also Considered:
Clarence Brown (THE RAINS CAME); Michael Curtiz (THE
PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX); William Dieterle (JUAREZ); Mervyn LeRoy, Victor Fleming & Sam Wood (THE WIZARD OF OZ); Howard Hawks (ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS); Anatole Litvak
(CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY); Leo McCarey (LOVE AFFAIR); Elliott Nugent (THE CAT & THE CANARY); William A. Wellman (BEAU GESTE); Sam Wood (GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Brian Aherne as "Maximilian I" - JUAREZ
Ralph Bellamy as "Dr. Shelby" - BLIND ALLEY
Harry Carey as "President of the Senate" - MR. SMITH GOES
TO WASHINGTON
Brian Donlevy as "Sgt. Markoff" - BEAU GESTE
William Holden as "Joe Bonaparte" - GOLDEN
BOY
Paul Lukas as "Dr. Kassell" - CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI
SPY
Thomas Mitchell as "Doc Josiah Boone" -
STAGECOACH
Claude Rains as "Sen. Joseph Paine" - MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON
Ralph Richardson as "Capt. John Durrance" - THE FOUR
FEATHERS
James Stephenson as "Col. Armand Lucien" - DEVIL'S
ISLAND
Also Considered:
Mischa Auer (DESTRY RIDES AGAIN); Ray Bolger (THE WIZARD
OF OZ); Lon Chaney, Jr. (OF MICE & MEN); Brian Donlevy (DESTRY RIDES AGAIN); Paul Henreid (GOODBYE MR. CHIPS); Sam Jaffe (GUNGA DIN); Bert Lahr (THE WIZARD OF OZ); Thomas Mitchell (GONE
WITH THE WIND); C. Aubrey Smith (THE FOUR FEATHERS); Charles Winninger (DESTRY RIDES AGAIN)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jean Arthur as "Clarissa Saunders" - MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON
Olivia de Havilland as "Melanie Hamilton" - GONE WITH THE
WIND
Geraldine Fitzgerald as "Isabella Linton" - WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
Margaret Hamilton as "Miss Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the
West" - THE WIZARD OF OZ
Rita Hayworth as "Judy MacPherson" - ONLY ANGELS HAVE
WINGS
Hattie McDaniel as "Mammy" - GONE WITH THE
WIND
Una Merkel as "Lily Belle" - DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Edna May Oliver as "Mrs. McKlennar" - DRUMS ALONG THE
MOHAWK
Maria Ouspenskaya as "Grandmother" - LOVE AFFAIR
Gale Sondergaard as "Miss Lu" - THE CAT & THE
CANARY
Also Considered:
Mary Boland (THE WOMEN); Joan Crawford (THE WOMEN);
Paulette Dubost (THE RULES OF THE GAME); Kay Francis (IN NAME ONLY); Gladys George (THE ROARING TWENTIES); Miriam Hopkins (THE OLD MAID); Butterfly McQueen (GONE WITH THE WIND); Barbara
O'Neil (WHEN TOMORROW COMES); Elizabeth Patterson (THE CAT & THE CANARY); Rosalind Russell (THE WOMEN)
BEST ENSEMBLE
CAST
BEAU GESTE
THE CAT & THE CANARY
DARK VICTORY
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
GONE WITH THE
WIND
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
OF MICE & MEN
THE WIZARD OF OZ
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Also Considered:
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES; THE FOUR FEATHERS; GUNGA
DIN; INTERMEZZO: A LOVE STORY; LOVE AFFAIR; NINOTCHKA; THE ROARING TWENTIES; THE RULES OF THE GAME; STAGECOACH; THE WOMEN
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
BEAU GESTE
Robert Carson
THE CAT & THE CANARY
Walter de Leon & Lynn Starling
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Felix Jackson, Gertrude Purcell & Henry
Myers
GONE WITH THE
WIND
Sidney
Howard
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS
R.C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz & Sidney
Franklin
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
George Bruce
OF MICE & MEN
Eugene Solow
THE RAINS CAME
Phillip Dunne & Julian Josephson
THE WOMEN
Anita Loos & Jane Murfin
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
Also Considered:
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Edwin Blum &
William Drake); DARK VICTORY (Casey Robinson); FIRST LOVE (Bruce Manning & Lionel Hauser); GUNGA
DIN (Fred Guiol & Joel Sayre); HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Ernest Pascal); THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Sonya Levien & Bruno Frank); IN NAME ONLY (Richard Sherman); THE RAINS CAME
(Philip Dunne & Julien Josephson); SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (Willis Cooper); THE WIZARD OF OZ (Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY
Patrick Kirwan & Donald Bull
CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY
Milton Krims & John Wexley
INTERMEZZO: A LOVE STORY
George O'Neil
LOVE AFFAIR
Delmer Daves, Donald Ogden Stewart, Mildred Cram & Leo
McCarey
MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON
Sidney Buchman & Lewis R.
Foster
NINOTCHKA
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch & Melchior
Lengyel
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
Jules Furthman
THE ROARING TWENTIES
Jerry Wald, Richard Macauley & Robert Rossen
THE RULES OF THE GAME
Jean Renoir
STAGECOACH
Ernest Haycok & Dudley Nichols
Also Considered:
AT THE CIRCUS (Irving Brecher); BACHELOR MOTHER (Norman
Krasna); CAPTAIN FURY (Grover Jones, Jack Jevne & William de Mille); DAYBREAK (Jacques Prevert & Jacques Viot); DODGE CITY (Robert Buckner); THE FROZEN LIMITS (J.O.C. Orton, Marriott
Edgar & Val Guest); JESSE JAMES (Nunnally Johnson); MIDNIGHT (Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder); WHEN TOMORROW COMES (Dwight Taylor); YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (Lamar
Trotti)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
THE BEAR THAT COULDN'T SLEEP
Rudolf Ising
GULLIVER'S
TRAVELS
Max
Fleischer
LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY PANDA
Walter Lantz
Also Considered:
DAFFY DUCK & THE DINOSAUR (Leon Schlesinger); THE POINTER
(Walt Disney); SO DOES AN AUTOMOBILE (Max Fleischer)
BEST ART DIRECTION
THE FOUR FEATHERS
Vincent Korda
GONE WITH THE WIND
William Cameron Menzies & Lyle Wheeler; Howard
Bristol
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Van Nest Polglase; Darrell Silvera
JESSE JAMES
William S. Darling & George Dudley; Thomas
Little
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX
Anton Grot
THE RAINS CAME
William S. Darling & George Dudley; Thomas
Little
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
Jack Otterson; Russell A. Gausman
STAGECOACH
Alexander Toluboff
THE WIZARD OF
OZ
Cedric Gibbons & William
A. Horning; Edwin B. Willis
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
James Basevi; Julia Heron
Also Considered:
BEAU GESTE (Hans Dreier & Robert Odell); CAPTAIN FURY
(Charles D. Hall; William L. Stevens); THE CAT & THE CANARY (Hans Dreier & Robert Usher); DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (Richard Day & Mark-Lee Kirk; Thomas Little); FIRST LOVE (Jack
Otterson; Russell A. Gausman); LOVE AFFAIR (Van Nest Polglase & Alfred Herman; Darrell Silvera); MAN OF CONQUEST (John Victor Mackay); MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (Lionel Banks);
NINOTCHKA (Cedric Gibbons; Edwin B. Willis); YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (Richard Day & Mark-Lee Kirk; Thomas Little)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Hal Mohr
GONE WITH THE WIND
Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan
GUNGA DIN
Joseph H. August
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Joseph H. August
JUAREZ
Tony Gaudio
OF MICE & MEN
Norbert Brodine
THE RAINS CAME
Arthur C. Miller
STAGECOACH
Bert Glennon
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Harold Rosson
WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
Gregg
Toland
Also Considered:
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (Bert Glennon & Ray Rennahan);
THE FOUR FEATHERS (Georges Perinal); THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT (Victor Milner); INTERMEZZO: A LOVE STORY (Gregg Toland); LADY OF THE TROPICS (George J. Folsey); THE MIKADO (William V. Skall);
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (Joseph Walker); NINOTCHKA (William H. Daniels); ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Joseph Walker); THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX (Sol Polito & W. Howard
Greene)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
FIRST LOVE
Vera West
THE FOUR FEATHERS
Godfrey Brennan & Rene Hubert
GONE WITH THE WIND
Walter Plunkett
GUNGA DIN
Edward Stevenson
HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE
Herschel McCoy
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Walter Plunkett
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
William Bridgehouse
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX
Orry-Kelly
THE WIZARD OF
OZ
Adrian
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Omar Kiam
Also Considered:
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Gwen Wakeling); BEAU
GESTE (Edith Head); THE CAT & THE CANARY (Edith Head); DARK VICTORY (Orry-Kelly); DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (Vera West); MAN OF CONQUEST (Adele Palmer); MIDNIGHT (Irene); NINOTCHKA (Adrian);
STAGECOACH (Walter Plunkett); YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (Royer)
BEST FILM EDITING
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Milton Carruth
THE FOUR FEATHERS
Henry Cornelius
GONE WITH THE
WIND
Hal C. Kern & James E.
Newcom
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS
Charles Frend
GUNGA DIN
Henry Berman & John Lockert
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Gene Havlick & Al Clark
OF MICE & MEN
Bert Jordan
THE RAINS CAME
Barbara McLean
STAGECOACH
Dorothy Spencer & Otho Lovering
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Daniel Mandell
Also Considered:
BEAU GESTE (Thomas Scott); THE CAT & THE CANARY
(Archie Marshek); DODGE CITY (George Amy); INTERMEZZO: A LOVE STORY (Francis D. Lyon); MAN OF CONQUEST (Edward Mann); ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Viola Lawrence); THE ROARING TWENTIES (Jack
Killifer); STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE (Barbara McLean); WHEN TOMORROW COMES (Milton Carruth); THE WIZARD OF OZ (Blanche Sewell)
BEST MAKEUP
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Mel Berns & Gordon Bau
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX
Perc Westmore
THE WIZARD OF
OZ
Jack
Dawn
Also Considered:
GONE WITH THE WIND (Monte Westmore & Paul Stanhope);
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS (Jack Dawn); SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (Jack Pierce)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
DARK VICTORY
Max Steiner
GONE WITH THE
WIND
Max
Steiner
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Alfred Newman
INTERMEZZO: A LOVE STORY
Max Steiner & Robert Russell Bennett
JUAREZ
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Dimitri Tiomkin
OF MICE & MEN
Aaron Copland
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
Dimitri Tiomkin
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
Frank Skinner
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Alfred Newman
Also Considered:
BEAU GESTE (Alfred Newman); THE FOUR FEATHERS (Miklos
Rozsa); GOLDEN BOY (Victor Young); GOODBYE MR. CHIPS (Richard Addinsell); THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (Lud Gluskin & Lucien Moraweck); MAN OF CONQUEST (Victor Young); NURSE EDITH CAVELL
(Anthony Collins); THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX (Erich Wolfgang Korngold); THE RAINS CAME (Alfred Newman); STAGECOACH (Gerard Carbonara)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
BABES IN ARMS
Roger Edens & George Stoll
THE CAT & THE CANARY
Ernst Toch
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Frank Skinner
ETERNALLY YOURS
Werner Janssen
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Victor Young
SECOND FIDDLE
Cyril J. Mockridge
SWANEE RIVER
Louis Silvers
THEY SHALL HAVE MUSIC
Alfred Newman
WAY DOWN SOUTH
Victor Young
THE WIZARD OF
OZ
Herbert
Stothart
Also Considered:
AT THE CIRCUS (Franz Waxman); FIRST LOVE (Charles Previn);
THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT (Phil Boutelje & Arthur Lange); JUDGE HARDY & SON (David Snell); THE LITTLE PRINCESS (Charles Maxwell & Cyril J. Mockridge); LOVE AFFAIR (Roy Webb); MADE
FOR EACH OTHER (Oscar Levant); MIDNIGHT (Frederick Hollander); NINOTCHKA (Werner Heymann); SHE MARRIED A COP (Cy Feuer)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Faithful Forever" - GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin
"Good Morning" - BABES IN ARMS
Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed
"I Poured My Heart Into A Song" - SECOND
FIDDLE
Irving Berlin
"If I Only Had A Brain" - THE WIZARD OF
OZ
Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg
"The Lady's In Love With You" - SOME LIKE IT
HOT
Burton Lane & Frank Loesser
"Lydia, The Tattooed Lady" - AT THE
CIRCUS
Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg
"Over The Rainbow" -
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Harold Arlen & E.Y.
Harburg
"See What The Boys In the Back Room Will Have" -
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN
Friedrick Hollander & Frank Loesser
"Step Up & Take A Bow" - AT THE
CIRCUS
Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg
"Wishing" - LOVE AFFAIR
Buddy da Sylva
Also Considered:
"Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)" - FIRST LOVE (Joseph
LaCalle & Albert Gamse); "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" - THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg); "Eternally Yours" - ETERNALLY YOURS (Werner Janssen & L. Wolfe
Gilbert); "The Fantasy" - THE LITTLE PRINCESS (Samuel Pokrass & Walter Bullock); "Follow The Yellow Brick Road" - THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg); "Good Ground" -
WAY DOWN SOUTH (Clarence Muse & Langston Hughes); "I Like Opera / I Like Swing" - BABES IN ARMS (credit unknown); "Oh Give Me Time For Tenderness" - DARK VICTORY (Edmund Goulding &
Elsie Janis); "Three Blind Loves" - AT THE CIRCUS (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg); "We're Off To See The Wizard" - THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg)
BEST SOUND
GONE WITH THE WIND
Thomas Moulton
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS
A.W. Watkins
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
John E. Tribby
MAN OF CONQUEST
Charles Looten
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
John Livardary
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX
Nathan Levinson
THE RAINS CAME
Alfred Bruzlin & Roger Heman,
Sr.
STAGECOACH
Frank Maher
WHEN TOMORROW COMES
Bernard B. Brown
THE WIZARD OF OZ
Douglas Shearer
Also Considered:
BALALAIKA (Douglas Shearer); BEAU GESTE (Hugo Grenzbach
& Walter Oberst); DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (Bernard B. Brown); THE FOUR FEATHERS (A.W. Watkins); THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT (Loren L. Ryder); GUNGA DIN (John E. Tribby & James E. Stewart);
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (William A. Wilmarth); OF MICE & MEN (Elmer Raguse); ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Edwin C. Hahn); UNION PACIFIC (Loren L. Ryder)
BEST SPECIAL SOUND EFFECTS
GONE WITH THE WIND
Fred Albin & Arthur Johns
THE RAINS CAME
E.H. Hansen
STAGECOACH
Robert Parrish
Also Considered:
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Edwin C. Hahn);
UNION PACIFIC (Loren Ryder); THE WIZARD OF OZ (Douglas Shearer)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
GONE WITH THE WIND
Jack Cosgrove
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
Roy Davidson
THE RAINS CAME
Fred Sersen
UNION PACIFIC
Farciot Edouart & Gordon Jennings
THE WIZARD OF
OZ
A. Arnold
Gillespie
Also Considered:
GUNGA DIN (Vernon L. Walker); THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
(Vernon L. Walker); THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (Howard Anderson); THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX (Byron Haskin); TOPPER TAKES A TRIP (Roy Seawright)
Most Wins:
8 - Gone With the Wind
7 - The Wizard of Oz
2 - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1 - Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Gulliver's Travels; Stagecoach;
Wuthering Heights
Most Nominations:
16 - Gone With the Wind
13 - The Wizard of Oz
12 - Wuthering Heights
11 - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
10 - Destry Rides Again; Stagecoach
8 - Of Mice & Men
7 - Goodbye, Mr. Chips; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Rains
Came