Academy Awards 1939

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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
Movie N S.
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)

That Mothers Might Live - MGM

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

Juvenile Award

Deanna Durbin
Mickey Rooney

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Hal B. Wallis

Technical Achievement Award

John Aalberg
Byron Haskin

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