Academy Awards 1939
Overview of all award-winning films
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The 1939 Academy Awards took place at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was the 11th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, awards are always given to films from the previous year, in this case the films from 1938.
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory |
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Movie | N | S. |
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Life artist | 7th | 2 |
Alexander's Ragtime Band | 6th | 1 |
Jezebel - The malicious lady | 5 | 2 |
Bastards | 5 | 2 |
How happy we live! | 5 | 0 |
Father conducts | 5 | 0 |
Robin Hood, king of the vagabonds | 4th | 3 |
A flower girl's novel | 4th | 1 |
Algiers | 4th | 0 |
The citadel | 4th | 0 |
Mad About Music | 4th | 0 |
Marie-Antoinette | 4th | 0 |
If I were king | 4th | 0 |
The great waltz | 3 | 1 |
My husband the cowboy | 3 | 1 |
Army girl | 3 | 0 |
Chicago - angels with dirty faces | 3 | 0 |
The test pilot | 3 | 0 |
Carefree with Dr. Flagg - Carefree | 3 | 0 |
Suez | 3 | 0 |
A crook with a heart | 3 | 0 |
blockade | 2 | 0 |
Sweethearts | 2 | 0 |
That certain age | 2 | 0 |
The Goldwyn Follies | 2 | 0 |
Vivacious Lady | 2 | 0 |
Winners and nominees
Best movie
Survivalist (You Can not Take It with You) - Frank Capra
- Alexander's Ragtime Band - Harry Joe Brown , Darryl F. Zanuck
- The novel of a flower girl (Pygmalion) - Gabriel Pascal
- The Test Pilot - Louis D. Lighton
- The great illusion (La grande illusion) - Albert Pinkovitch , Frank Rollmer
- The Citadel (The Citadel) - Victor Saville
- Jezebel - The Malicious Lady (Jezebel) - Hal B. Wallis , Henry Blanke
- Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds (The Adventures of Robin Hood) - Henry Blanke , Hal B. Wallis
- The Devil Guys (Boys Town) - John W. Considine Jr.
- Father conducts (Four Daughters) - Henry Blanke , Hal B. Wallis
Best director
Frank Capra - Life Artist (You Can't Take It with You)
- Michael Curtiz - Chicago - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Michael Curtiz - Father Conducts (Four Daughters)
- Norman Taurog - The Devil Guys (Boys Town)
- King Vidor - The Citadel (The Citadel)
Best Actor
Spencer Tracy - The Devil Guys (Boys Town)
- Charles Boyer - Algiers
- James Cagney - Chicago - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Robert Donat - The Citadel (The Citadel)
- Leslie Howard - A Flower Girl's Novel (Pygmalion)
Best main actress
Bette Davis - Jezebel - The Malicious Lady (Jezebel)
- Fay Bainter - White Banners
- Wendy Hiller - The novel of a flower girl (Pygmalion)
- Norma Shearer - Marie-Antoinette (Marie Antoinette)
- Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades
Best supporting actor
Walter Brennan - The Golden Whip (Kentucky)
- John Garfield - Father Conducts (Four Daughters)
- Gene Lockhart - Algiers
- Robert Morley - Marie-Antoinette (Marie Antoinette)
- Basil Rathbone - If I'd king (If I Were King)
The best supporting actress
Fay Bainter - Jezebel - The Malicious Lady (Jezebel)
- Beulah Bondi - Of Human Hearts
- Billie Burke - How do we live happily! (Merrily We Live)
- Spring Byington - survivor (You Can not Take It with You)
- Miliza Korjus - The Great Waltz (The Great Waltz)
Best script
Ian Dalrymple , Cecil Lewis , WP Lipscomb , George Bernard Shaw - The novel of a flower girl (Pygmalion)
- Lenore J. Coffee , Julius J. Epstein - father conducts (Four Daughters)
- John Meehan , Dore Schary - Teufelskerle (Boys Town)
- Ian Dalrymple , Elizabeth Hill , Frank Wead - The Citadel (The Citadel)
- Robert Riskin - Life Artist (You Can't Take It with You)
Best original story
Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary - Teufelskerle (Boys Town)
- Irving Berlin - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Rowland Brown - Chicago - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Marcella Burke , Friedrich Kohner - Mad About Music
- John Howard Lawson - Blockade
- Frank Wead - The Test Pilot (Test Pilot)
Best camera
Joseph Ruttenberg - The Great Waltz (The Great Waltz)
- Norbert Brodine - How happy we live! (Merrily We Live)
- Robert De Grasse - Vivacious Lady
- Ernest Haller - Jezebel - The Malicious Lady (Jezebel)
- James Wong Howe - Algiers
- J. Peverell Marley - Suez
- Ernest Miller , Harry J. Wild - Army Girl
- Victor Milner - The Buccaneer of Louisiana
- Leon Shamroy - Rogue with heart (The Young in Heart)
- Joseph A. Valentine - Mad About Music
- Joseph Walker - Life Artist (You Can't Take It with You)
Best production design
Carl Jules Weyl - Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
- Richard Day - The Goldwyn Follies
- Hans Dreier , John B. Goodman - If I'd king (If I Were King)
- Cedric Gibbons - Marie-Antoinette
- Stephen Goosson , Lionel Banks - The Bride's Sister (Holiday)
- Charles D. Hall - How do we live happily! (Merrily We Live)
- Bernard Herzbrun , Boris Leven - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Jack Otterson - Mad About Music
- Van Nest Polglas - Carefree by Dr. Flagg - Carefree (Carefree)
- Alexander Toluboff - Algiers
- Lyle R. Wheeler - Toms Adventure (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Best original score
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
- Robert Russell Bennett - Pacific Liner
- Richard Hageman - If I'd king (If I Were King)
- Marvin Hatley - The Blockheads
- Werner Janssen - Blockade
- Alfred Newman - Mein Mann, der Cowboy (The Cowboy and the Lady)
- Louis Silvers - Suez
- Herbert Stothart - Marie-Antoinette
- Franz Waxman - Gauner mit Herz (The Young in Heart)
- Victor Young - Army Girl
- Victor Young - Breaking the Ice
Best adapted score
Alfred Newman - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Victor Baravalle - Carefree with Dr. Flagg - Carefree (Carefree)
- Cy Fire - Storm Over Bengal
- Marvin Hatley - Millionaire Goes astray (There Goes My Heart)
- Boris Morros - Tropic Holiday
- Alfred Newman - The Goldwyn Follies
- Charles Previn , Frank Skinner - Mad About Music
- Max Steiner - Jezebel - The Malicious Lady (Jezebel)
- Morris Stoloff , Gregory Stone - Girls' School
- Herbert Stothart - Sweethearts
- Franz Waxman - Gauner mit Herz (The Young in Heart)
Best song
Thanks for the Memory from The Big Broadcast of 1938 - Ralph Rainger , Leo Robin
- A Mist Is Over the Moon from The Lady Objects - Oscar Hammerstein II , Ben Oakland
- Always and Always from Mannequin - Chet Forrest , Edward Ward , Bob Wright
- Change Partners from worry-free by Dr. Flagg - Carefree (Carefree) - Irving Berlin
- Dust from Under Western Stars - Johnny Marvin
- Jeepers Creepers from Going Places - Johnny Mercer , Harry Warren
- Merrily We Live from How do we live happily! (Merrily We Live) - Phil Charig , Arthur Quenzer
- My Own from That Certain Age - Harold Adamson , Jimmy McHugh
- Now It Can Be Told from Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin
- The Cowboy and the Lady - Mein Mann, der Cowboy (The Cowboy and the Lady) - Lionel Newman , Arthur Quenzer
Best cut
Ralph Dawson - Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
- Gene Havlick - Life Artist (You Cant't Take It With You)
- Tom Held - The Great Waltz (The Great Waltz)
- Tom Held - The Test Pilot (Test Pilot)
- Barbara McLean - Alexander's Ragtime Band
Best tone
Thomas T. Moulton - Mein Mann, der Cowboy (The Cowboy and the Lady)
- Bernard B. Brown - That Certain Age
- Edmund H. Hansen - Suez
- Nathan Levinson - father conducts (Four Daughters)
- Charles L. Lootens - Army Girl
- Elmer Raguse - How happy we live! (Merrily We Live)
- Loren L. Ryder - If I'd king (If I Were King)
- Douglas Shearer - Sweethearts
- James Wilkinson - Vivacious Lady
- John P. Livadary - Life Artist (You Can't Take It with You)
Best short film (1 film roll)
- The Great Heart - MGM
- Timber Toppers - 20th Century Fox
Best short film (2 film roles)
The Declaration of Independence - Warner Bros.
- They're Always Caught - MGM
- Swingtime in the Movies - Warner Bros.
Best Short Film (Cartoon)
Ferdinand the Bull - Walt Disney
- Brave Little Tailor - Walt Disney
- The Good Scouts - Walt Disney
- Hunky and Spunky - Paramount
- Mother Goose Goes Hollywood - Walt Disney
Honorary Oscars
Honorary Oscar
- Arthur Ball
- Harry M. Warner
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Walt Disney
- Pirates in Alaska (Spawn of the North) - Paramount Pictures
- Sweethearts - Oliver T. Marsh and Allen M. Davey