1939 Oscars 11th Academy Awards |
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1939 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Outstanding Production: You Can’t Take It with You – Frank Capra for Columbia (WINNER) The Adventures of Robin Hood – Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke for Warner Bros. Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Darryl F. Zanuck and Harry Joe Brown for 20th Century Fox Boys Town – John W. Considine, Jr. for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Citadel – Victor Saville for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Four Daughters – Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke for Warner Bros. and First National Grand Illusion – Frank Rollmer and Albert Pinkovitch for R. A. C. and World Pictures Jezebel – Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke for Warner Bros. Pygmalion – Gabriel Pascal for Pascal Film Productions Test Pilot – Louis D. Lighton for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Best Director: Frank Capra – You Can’t Take It with You (WINNER) Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces Norman Taurog – Boys Town King Vidor – The Citadel Michael Curtiz – Four Daughters |
| Best Actor: Spencer Tracy – Boys Town as Father Flanagan (WINNER) Charles Boyer – Algiers as Pepe le Moko James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces as William “Rocky” Sullivan Robert Donat – The Citadel as Dr. Andrew Manson Leslie Howard – Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins |
| Best Actress: Bette Davis – Jezebel as Julie Marsden (WINNER) Fay Bainter – White Banners as Hannah Parmalee Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion as Eliza Doolittle Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette as Marie Antoinette Margaret Sullavan – Three Comrades as Patricia Hollmann |
| Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan – Kentucky as Peter Goodwin (WINNER) John Garfield – Four Daughters as Mickey Borden Gene Lockhart – Algiers as Regis Robert Morley – Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI Basil Rathbone – If I Were King as King Louis XI |
| Best Supporting Actress: Fay Bainter – Jezebel as Aunt Belle Massey (WINNER) Beulah Bondi – Of Human Hearts as Mary Wilkins Billie Burke – Merrily We Live as Emily Kilbourne Spring Byington – You Can’t Take It with You as Penelope “Penny” Sycamore Miliza Korjus – The Great Waltz as Carla Donner |
| Best Original Story: Boys Town – Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary (WINNER) Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin Angels with Dirty Faces – Rowland Brown Blockade – John Howard Lawson Mad About Music – Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner Test Pilot – Frank Wead |
| Best Screenplay: Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, and W. P. Lipscomb, based on the play by Shaw (WINNER) Boys Town – John Meehan and Dore Schary, based on a story by Schary and Eleanore Griffin The Citadel – Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill and Frank Wead, based on the novel by A. J. Cronin Four Daughters – Lenore Coffee and Julius J. Epstein, based on the short story “Sister Act” by Fannie Hurst You Can’t Take It with You – Robert Riskin, based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel: That Mothers Might Live – MGM (WINNER) The Great Heart – MGM Timber Toppers – 20th Century Fox |
| Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel: Declaration of Independence – Warner Bros. (WINNER) Swingtime in the Movies – Warner Bros. They’re Always Caught – MGM |
| Best Short Subject, Cartoon: Ferdinand the Bull – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio (WINNER) Brave Little Tailor – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Good Scouts – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Hunky and Spunky – Paramount Mother Goose Goes Hollywood – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio |
| Best Original Score: The Adventures of Robin Hood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold (WINNER) Army Girl – Victor Young Block-Heads – Marvin Hatley Blockade – Werner Janssen Breaking the Ice – Victor Young The Cowboy and the Lady – Alfred Newman If I Were King – Richard Hageman Marie Antoinette – Herbert Stothart Pacific Liner – Russell Bennett Suez – Louis Silvers The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman |
| Best Scoring: Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Alfred Newman (WINNER) Carefree – Victor Baravalle Girls’ School – Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone The Goldwyn Follies – Alfred Newman Jezebel – Max Steiner Mad About Music – Charles Previn and Frank Skinner Storm Over Bengal – Cy Feuer Sweethearts – Herbert Stothart There Goes My Heart – Marvin Hatley Tropic Holiday – Boris Morros The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman |
| Best Song: “Thanks for the Memory” from The Big Broadcast of 1938 – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyrics by Leo Robin (WINNER) “Always and Always” from Mannequin – Music by Edward Ward; Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright “Change Partners” from Carefree – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin “The Cowboy and the Lady” from The Cowboy and the Lady – Music by Lionel Newman; Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer “Dust” from Under Western Stars – Music and Lyrics by Johnny Marvin “Jeepers Creepers” from Going Places – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “Merrily We Live” from Merrily We Live – Music by Phil Charig; Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer “A Mist Over the Moon” from The Lady Objects – Music by Ben Oakland; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II “My Own” from That Certain Age – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson “Now It Can Be Told” from Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin |
| Best Sound Recording: The Cowboy and the Lady – Thomas T. Moulton (WINNER) Army Girl – Charles L. Lootens Four Daughters – Nathan Levinson If I Were King – Loren L. Ryder Merrily We Live – Elmer Raguse Suez – Edmund H. Hansen Sweethearts – Douglas Shearer That Certain Age – Bernard B. Brown Vivacious Lady – John O. Aalberg You Can’t Take It with You – John P. Livadary |
| Best Art Direction: The Adventures of Robin Hood – Carl Jules Weyl (WINNER) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Lyle R. Wheeler Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven Algiers – Alexander Toluboff Carefree – Van Nest Polglase The Goldwyn Follies – Richard Day Holiday – Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks If I Were King – Hans Dreier and John B. Goodman Mad About Music – Jack Otterson Marie Antoinette – Cedric Gibbons Merrily We Live – Charles D. Hall |
| Best Cinematography: The Great Waltz – Joseph Ruttenberg (WINNER) Algiers – James Wong Howe Army Girl – Ernest Miller and Harry J. Wild The Buccaneer – Victor Milner Jezebel – Ernest Haller Mad About Music – Joseph Valentine Merrily We Live – Norbert Brodine Suez – Peverell Marley Vivacious Lady – Robert De Grasse You Can’t Take It with You – Joseph Walker The Young in Heart – Leon Shamroy |
| Best Film Editing: The Adventures of Robin Hood – Ralph Dawson (WINNER) Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Barbara McLean The Great Waltz – Tom Held Test Pilot – Tom Held You Can’t Take It with You – Gene Havlick |
Academy Honorary Awards: Walt Disney “for creating Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon.” (The prize was one full sized statuette and seven miniature statuettes, representing the Seven Dwarfs.) Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Dev Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis H. Mesenkop, and Walter Oberst “for outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, Spawn of the North.” (Plaque) Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey “for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, Sweethearts.” (Plaque) Harry M. Warner “in recognition of patriotic service in the production of historical short subjects presenting significant episodes in the early struggle of the American people for liberty.” (Scroll) |
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