Awards - Academy Awards - 1935-1944

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Casablanca
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Heaven Can Wait
• The Human Comedy
• In Which We Serve
• Madame Curie
• The More the Merrier
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• The Song of Bernadette
• Watch on the Rhine

Best Achievement in Directing

• Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
• Clarence Brown (The Human Comedy)
• Henry King (The Song of Bernadette)
• Ernst Lubitsch (Heaven Can Wait)
• George Stevens (The More the Merrier)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
• Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
• Gary Cooper (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• Walter Pidgeon (Madame Curie)
• Mickey Rooney (The Human Comedy)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
• Jean Arthur (The More the Merrier)
• Ingrid Bergman (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• Joan Fontaine (The Constant Nymph)
• Greer Garson (Madame Curie)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Charles Coburn (The More the Merrier)
• Charles Bickford (The Song of Bernadette)
• J. Carrol Naish (Sahara)
• Claude Rains (Casablanca)
• Akim Tamiroff (For Whom the Bell Tolls)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• Gladys Cooper (The Song of Bernadette)
• Paulette Goddard (So Proudly We Hail!)
• Anne Revere (The Song of Bernadette)
• Lucile Watson (Watch on the Rhine)

Best Documentary Feature

• Desert Victory
• Baptism of Fire
• The Battle of Russia
• Report from the Aleutians
• War Department Report

Best Original Screenplay

• Norman Krasna (Princess O'Rourke)
• Dudley Nichols (Air Force)
• Noël Coward (In Which We Serve)
• Lillian Hellman (The North Star)
• Allan Scott (So Proudly We Hail!)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch (Casablanca)
• Nunnally Johnson (Holy Matrimony)
• Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, Robert Russell (The More the Merrier)
• George Seaton (The Song of Bernadette)
• Dashiell Hammett (Watch on the Rhine)

Best Original Story

• William Saroyan (The Human Comedy)
• Action in the North Atlantic
• Destination Tokyo
• The More the Merrier
• Shadow of a Doubt

Best Cinematography (Color)

• W. Howard Greene, Hal Mohr (Phantom of the Opera)
• Ray Rennahan (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• Edward Cronjager (Heaven Can Wait)
• Charles G. Clarke, Allen M. Davey (Hello Frisco, Hello)
• Leonard Smith (Lassie Come Home)
• George J. Folsey (Thousands Cheer)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Arthur C. Miller (The Song of Bernadette)
• Elmer Dyer, Charles A. Marshall, James Wong Howe (Air Force)
• Arthur Edeson (Casablanca)
• Tony Gaudio (Corvette K-225)
• John F. Seitz (Five Graves to Cairo)
• Harry Stradling Sr. (The Human Comedy)
• Joseph Ruttenberg (Madame Curie)
• James Wong Howe (The North Star)
• Rudolph Maté (Sahara)
• Charles Lang (So Proudly We Hail!)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Air Force
• Casablanca
• Five Graves to Cairo
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Song of Bernadette

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Alfred Newman (The Song of Bernadette)
• Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner (The Amazing Mrs. Holliday)
• Max Steiner (Casablanca)
• Louis Gruenberg, Morris Stoloff (Commandos Strike at Dawn)
• Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Roy Webb (The Fallen Sparrow)
• Victor Young (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• Hanns Eisler (Hangmen Also Die)
• Phil Boutelje (Hi Diddle Diddle)
• Leigh Harline (Johnny Come Lately)
• Gerard Carbonara (The Kansan)
• Arthur Lange (Lady of Burlesque)
• Herbert Stothart (Madame Curie)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (The Moon and Sixpence)
• Aaron Copland (The North Star)
• Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, Oliver Wallace (Victory Through Air Power)
• Walter Scharf (In Old Oklahoma)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Harryette Warren (Hello Frisco, Hello) - "You'll Never Know"
• Hit Parade of 1943 - "Change of Heart"
• Cabin in the Sky - "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe"
• The Sky's the Limit - "My Shining Hour"
• Saludos Amigos - "Saludos Amigos"
• Hers to Hold - "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There"
• Star Spangled Rhythm - "That Old Black Magic"
• Thank Your Lucky Stars - "They're Either Too Young or Too Old"
• Stage Door Canteen - "We Mustn't Say Good Bye"
• Something to Shout About - "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Ray Heindorf (This Is the Army)
• Alfred Newman (Coney Island)
• Walter Scharf (Hit Parade of 1943)
• Edward Ward (Phantom of the Opera)
• Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, Charles Wolcott (Saludos Amigos)
• Leigh Harline (The Sky's the Limit)
• Morris Stoloff (Something to Shout About)
• Freddie Rich (Stage Door Canteen)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (Star Spangled Rhythm)
• Herbert Stothart (Thousands Cheer)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Phantom of the Opera
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Gang's All Here
• This Is the Army
• Thousands Cheer

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• The Song of Bernadette
• Five Graves to Cairo
• Flight for Freedom
• Madame Curie
• Mission to Moscow
• The North Star

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Crash Dive
• Air Force
• Bombardier
• The North Star
• So Proudly We Hail!
• Stand by for Action

Best Sound Mixing

• This Land Is Mine
• Hangmen Also Die
• Madame Curie
• The North Star
• Phantom of the Opera
• Riding High
• Sahara
• Saludos Amigos
• So This Is Washington
• The Song of Bernadette
• This Is the Army
• In Old Oklahoma

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Amphibious Fighters
• Cavalcade of the Dance with Veloz and Yolanda
• Champions Carry on
• Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform
• Seeing Hands

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Heavenly Music
• Letter to a Hero
• Mardi Gras
• Women at War

Best Animated Short Film

• Tom and Jerry - The Yankee Doodle Mouse
• The Dizzy Acrobat
• 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins
• Greetings Bait
• Imagination
• Reason and Emotion

Best Documentary Short Film

• December 7th
• Children of Mars
• Plan for Destruction
• Swedes in America
• To the People of the United States
• Tomorrow We Fly
• Youth in Crisis

Honorary Award

• George Pal

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Mrs. Miniver
• The Invaders
• Kings Row
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Pied Piper
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Random Harvest
• The Talk of the Town
• Wake Island
• Yankee Doodle Dandy

Best Achievement in Directing

• William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)
• Michael Curtiz (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• John Farrow (Wake Island)
• Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest)
• Sam Wood (Kings Row)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• Ronald Colman (Random Harvest)
• Gary Cooper (The Pride of the Yankees)
• Walter Pidgeon (Mrs. Miniver)
• Monty Woolley (The Pied Piper)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
• Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)
• Katharine Hepburn (Woman of the Year)
• Rosalind Russell (My Sister Eileen)
• Teresa Wright (The Pride of the Yankees)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Van Heflin (Johnny Eager)
• William Bendix (Wake Island)
• Walter Huston (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• Frank Morgan (Tortilla Flat)
• Henry Travers (Mrs. Miniver)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver)
• Gladys Cooper (Now, Voyager)
• Agnes Moorehead (The Magnificent Ambersons)
• Susan Peters (Random Harvest)
• Dame May Whitty (Mrs. Miniver)

Best Documentary Feature

• The Battle of Midway
• Moscow Strikes Back
• Prelude to War
• Kokoda Front Line!
• Africa, Prelude to Victory
• RKO Victory Special No. 34-201: Conquer by the Clock
• A Ship Is Born
• The New Spirit
• Paramount Victory Short No. T2-2: We Refuse to Die
• The White Eagle
• Twenty-One Miles
• The Grain That Built a Hemisphere
• Henry Browne, Farmer
• High Over the Borders
• High Stakes in the East
• Inside Fighting China
• Mr. Blabbermouth!
• It's Everybody's War
• Listen to Britain
• Paramount Victory Short No. T2-3: The Price of Victory
• Combat Report
• Mister Gardenia Jones
• Little Belgium
• Little Isles of Freedom
• Winning Your Wings

Best Original Screenplay

• Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr. (Woman of the Year)
• Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (One of Our Aircraft Is Missing)
• Frank Butler, Don Hartman (Road to Morocco)
• W.R. Burnett, Frank Butler (Wake Island)
• George Oppenheimer (The War Against Mrs. Hadley)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)
• Michael Curtiz (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• John Farrow (Wake Island)
• Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest)
• Sam Wood (Kings Row)

Best Original Story

• Emeric Pressburger (The Invaders)
• Holiday Inn
• The Pride of the Yankees
• The Talk of the Town
• Yankee Doodle Dandy

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Leon Shamroy (The Black Swan)
• W. Howard Greene, Milton R. Krasner, William V. Skall (Arabian Nights)
• Sol Polito (Captains of the Clouds)
• W. Howard Greene (Jungle Book)
• Victor Milner, William V. Skall (Reap the Wild Wind)
• Edward Cronjager, William V. Skall (To the Shores of Tripoli)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Joseph Ruttenberg (Mrs. Miniver)
• James Wong Howe (Kings Row)
• Stanley Cortez (The Magnificent Ambersons)
• Charles G. Clarke (Moontide)
• Edward Cronjager (The Pied Piper)
• Rudolph Maté (The Pride of the Yankees)
• John J. Mescall (Take a Letter, Darling)
• Ted Tetzlaff (The Talk of the Town)
• Leon Shamroy (Ten Gentlemen from West Point)
• Arthur C. Miller (This Above All)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Pride of the Yankees
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Talk of the Town
• This Above All
• Yankee Doodle Dandy

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Max Steiner (Now, Voyager)
• Frank Skinner (Arabian Nights)
• Frank Churchill, Edward H. Plumb (Bambi)
• Alfred Newman (The Black Swan)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (The Corsican Brothers)
• Victor Young (Flying Tigers)
• Max Terr (The Gold Rush)
• Roy Webb (I Married a Witch)
• Roy Webb (Joan of Paris)
• Miklós Rózsa (Jungle Book)
• Edward J. Kay (Klondike Fury)
• Leigh Harline (The Pride of the Yankees)
• Herbert Stothart (Random Harvest)
• Richard Hageman (The Shanghai Gesture)
• Victor Young (Silver Queen)
• Victor Young (Take a Letter, Darling)
• Friedrich Hollaender, Morris Stoloff (The Talk of the Town)
• Werner R. Heymann (To Be or Not to Be)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Irving Berlin (Holiday Inn) - "White Christmas"
• Always in My Heart - "Always in My Heart"
• You Were Never Lovelier - "Dearly Beloved"
• Babes on Broadway - "How About You?"
• Youth on Parade - "It Seems I Heard That Song Before"
• Orchestra Wives - "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo"
• Bambi - "Love Is a Song"
• Flying with Music - "Pennies for Peppino"
• Hellzapoppin' - "Pig Foot Pete"
• The Mayor of 44th Street - "There's a Breeze on Lake Louise"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Ray Heindorf, Heinz Roemheld (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• Edward Ward (Flying with Music)
• Roger Edens, George Stoll (For Me and My Gal)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (Holiday Inn)
• Charles Previn, Hans J. Salter (It Started with Eve)
• Walter Scharf (Johnny Doughboy)
• Alfred Newman (My Gal Sal)
• Leigh Harline (You Were Never Lovelier)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• My Gal Sal
• Arabian Nights
• Captains of the Clouds
• Jungle Book
• Reap the Wild Wind

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• This Above All
• George Washington Slept Here
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Random Harvest
• The Shanghai Gesture
• Silver Queen
• The Spoilers
• Take a Letter, Darling
• The Talk of the Town

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Reap the Wild Wind
• The Black Swan
• Desperate Journey
• Flying Tigers
• Invisible Agent
• Jungle Book
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Navy Comes Through
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
• The Pride of the Yankees

Best Sound Mixing

• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Arabian Nights
• Bambi
• Flying Tigers
• Friendly Enemies
• The Gold Rush
• Mrs. Miniver
• Once Upon a Honeymoon
• The Pride of the Yankees
• Road to Morocco
• This Above All
• You Were Never Lovelier

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Speaking of Animals and Their Families
• Desert Wonderland
• Marines in the Making
• The United States Marine Band

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Beyond the Line of Duty
• Don't Talk
• This Is America Series No. 33-101: Private Smith of the U.S.A.

Best Animated Short Film

• Der Fuehrer's Face
• All Out for 'V'
• Blitz Wolf
• Juke Box Jamboree
• Pigs in a Polka
• Tulips Shall Grow

Honorary Award

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Noël Coward (In Which We Serve)
• Charles Boyer

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• How Green Was My Valley
• Blossoms In the Dust
• Citizen Kane
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• Hold Back the Dawn
• The Little Foxes
• The Maltese Falcon
• One Foot in Heaven
• Sergeant York
• Suspicion

Best Achievement in Directing

• John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)
• Alexander Hall (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
• Howard Hawks (Sergeant York)
• Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
• William Wyler (The Little Foxes)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
• Cary Grant (Penny Serenade)
• Walter Huston (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
• Robert Montgomery (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
• Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)
• Bette Davis (The Little Foxes)
• Olivia de Havilland (Hold Back the Dawn)
• Greer Garson (Blossoms In the Dust)
• Barbara Stanwyck (Ball of Fire)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Donald Crisp (How Green Was My Valley)
• Walter Brennan (Sergeant York)
• Charles Coburn (The Devil and Miss Jones)
• James Gleason (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
• Sydney Greenstreet (The Maltese Falcon)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Mary Astor (The Great Lie)
• Sara Allgood (How Green Was My Valley)
• Patricia Collinge (The Little Foxes)
• Teresa Wright (The Little Foxes)
• Margaret Wycherly (Sergeant York)

Best Documentary Feature

• Churchill's Island
• A Place to Live
• Russian Soil
• Adventure in the Bronx
• Bomber
• Christmas Under Fire
• Letter from Home, A
• Life of a Thoroughbred
• Norway in Revolt
• Soldiers of the Sky
• Warclouds in the Pacific

Best Original Screenplay

• Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
• Norman Krasna (The Devil and Miss Jones)
• Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard Koch (Sergeant York)
• Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware (Tall, Dark and Handsome)
• Paul Jarrico (Tom Dick and Harry)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
• Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder (Hold Back the Dawn)
• Philip Dunne (How Green Was My Valley)
• Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes)
• John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)

Best Original Story

• Harry Segall (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
• Ball of Fire
• The Lady Eve
• Meet John Doe
• Night Train to Munich

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Ernest Palmer, Ray Rennahan (Blood and Sand)
• Wilfred M. Cline, William E. Snyder (Aloma of the South Seas)
• William V. Skall, Leonard Smith (Billy the Kid)
• Karl Freund, W. Howard Greene (Blossoms In the Dust)
• Bert Glennon (Dive Bomber)
• Harry Hallenberger, Ray Rennahan (Louisiana Purchase)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Arthur C. Miller (How Green Was My Valley)
• Karl Freund (The Chocolate Soldier)
• Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane)
• Joseph Ruttenberg (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
• Joseph Walker (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
• Leo Tover (Hold Back the Dawn)
• Sol Polito (Sergeant York)
• Edward Cronjager (Sun Valley Serenade)
• Charles Lang (Sundown)
• Rudolph Maté (That Hamilton Woman)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Sergeant York
• Citizen Kane
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• How Green Was My Valley
• The Little Foxes

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jerome Kern (Lady Be Good) - "The Last Time I Saw Paris"
• Dumbo - "Baby Mine"
• Ridin' on a Rainbow - "Be Honest with Me"
• Blues in the Night - "Blues in the Night"
• Buck Privates - "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B"
• Sun Valley Serenade - "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
• Las Vegas Nights - "Dolores"
• All-American Co-Ed - "Out of the Silence"
• You'll Never Get Rich - "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye"

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture

• Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace (Dumbo)
• Edward Ward (All-American Co-Ed)
• Robert Emmett Dolan (Birth of the Blues)
• Charles Previn (Buck Privates)
• Bronislau Kaper, Herbert Stothart (The Chocolate Soldier)
• Cy Feuer (Ice-Capades)
• Heinz Roemheld (The Strawberry Blonde)
• Emil Newman (Sun Valley Serenade)
• Anthony Collins (Sunny)
• Morris Stoloff (You'll Never Get Rich)

Best Original Dramatic Score

• Bernard Herrmann (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
• Frank Skinner (Back Street)
• Alfred Newman (Ball of Fire)
• Edward Ward (Cheers for Miss Bishop)
• Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane)
• Franz Waxman (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
• Victor Young (Hold Back the Dawn)
• Alfred Newman (How Green Was My Valley)
• Edward J. Kay (King of the Zombies)
• Morris Stoloff, Ernst Toch (Ladies in Retirement)
• Meredith Willson (The Little Foxes)
• Miklós Rózsa (Lydia)
• Cy Feuer, Walter Scharf (Mercy Island)
• Max Steiner (Sergeant York)
• Louis Gruenberg (So Ends Our Night)
• Miklós Rózsa (Sundown)
• Franz Waxman (Suspicion)
• Edward Ward (Tanks a Million)
• Werner R. Heymann (That Uncertain Feeling)
• Richard Hageman (This Woman Is Mine)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Blossoms In the Dust
• Blood and Sand
• Louisiana Purchase

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• How Green Was My Valley
• Citizen Kane
• The Flame of New Orleans
• Hold Back the Dawn
• Ladies in Retirement
• The Little Foxes
• Sergeant York
• Sis Hopkins
• The Son of Monte Cristo
• Sundown
• That Hamilton Woman
• When Ladies Meet

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• I Wanted Wings
• Aloma of the South Seas
• Flight Command
• The Invisible Woman
• The Sea Wolf
• That Hamilton Woman
• Topper Returns
• A Yank in the R.A.F.

Best Sound Mixing

• That Hamilton Woman
• Appointment for Love
• Ball of Fire
• The Chocolate Soldier
• Citizen Kane
• The Devil Pays Off
• How Green Was My Valley
• The Men in Her Life
• Sergeant York
• Skylark
• Topper Returns

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Of Pups and Puzzles
• Army Champions
• Beauty and the Beach
• Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm
• Forty Boys and a Song
• Kings of the Turf
• Sagebrush and Silver

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Main Street on the March!
• Alive in the Deep
• Forbidden Passage
• Gay Parisian, The
• The Tanks Are Coming

Best Animated Short Film

• Lend a Paw
• Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B'
• Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
• How War Came
• Tom and Jerry - The Night Before Christmas
• Rhapsody in Rivets
• Barney Bear - The Rookie Bear
• Rhythm in the Ranks
• Superman
• Truant Officer Donald

Honorary Award

• Target for Tonight (British Ministry of Information)
• Rey Scott ('Kukan': The Battle Cry of China)
• Leopold Stokowski (Fantasia) (Leopold Stokowski and his associates)
• Walt Disney, William E. Garity, J. N. A. Hawkins (Fantasia) (and the RCA Manufacturing Company)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Rebecca
• All This, and Heaven Too
• Foreign Correspondent
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Dictator
• Kitty Foyle
• The Letter
• The Long Voyage Home
• Our Town
• The Philadelphia Story

Best Achievement in Directing

• John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
• George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story)
• Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca)
• Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle)
• William Wyler (The Letter)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
• Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator)
• Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath)
• Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)
• Laurence Olivier (Rebecca)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
• Bette Davis (The Letter)
• Joan Fontaine (Rebecca)
• Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)
• Martha Scott (Our Town)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Walter Brennan (The Westerner)
• Albert Bassermann (Foreign Correspondent)
• William Gargan (They Knew What They Wanted)
• Jack Oakie (The Great Dictator)
• James Stephenson (The Letter)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)
• Judith Anderson (Rebecca)
• Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story)
• Barbara O'Neil (All This, and Heaven Too)
• Marjorie Rambeau (Primrose Path)

Best Original Screenplay

• Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty)
• Ben Hecht (Angels Over Broadway)
• Norman Burnstine, Heinz Herald, John Huston (Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet)
• Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison (Foreign Correspondent)
• Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
• Nunnally Johnson (The Grapes of Wrath)
• Dalton Trumbo (Kitty Foyle)
• Dudley Nichols (The Long Voyage Home)
• Joan Harrison, Robert E. Sherwood (Rebecca)

Best Original Story

• Benjamin Glazer, Hans Székely (Arise, My Love)
• Comrade X
• Edison, the Man
• My Favorite Wife
• The Westerner

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Georges Périnal (The Thief of Bagdad)
• Allen M. Davey, Oliver T. Marsh (Bitter Sweet)
• Arthur C. Miller, Ray Rennahan (The Blue Bird)
• Ray Rennahan, Leon Shamroy (Down Argentine Way)
• W. Howard Greene, Victor Milner (North West Mounted Police)
• William V. Skall, Sidney Wagner (Northwest Passage)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• George Barnes (Rebecca)
• James Wong Howe (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)
• Ernest Haller (All This, and Heaven Too)
• Charles Lang (Arise, My Love)
• Harold Rosson (Boom Town)
• Rudolph Maté (Foreign Correspondent)
• Tony Gaudio (The Letter)
• Gregg Toland (The Long Voyage Home)
• Joseph A. Valentine (Spring Parade)
• Joseph Ruttenberg (Waterloo Bridge)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• North West Mounted Police
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Letter
• The Long Voyage Home
• Rebecca

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith (Pinocchio)
• Victor Young (Arizona)
• Victor Young (Dark Command)
• Louis Gruenberg (The Fight for Life)
• Meredith Willson (The Great Dictator)
• Frank Skinner (The House of the Seven Gables)
• Richard Hageman (The Howards of Virginia)
• Max Steiner (The Letter)
• Richard Hageman (The Long Voyage Home)
• Alfred Newman (The Mark of Zorro)
• Roy Webb (My Favorite Wife)
• Victor Young (North West Mounted Police)
• Werner R. Heymann (One Million B.C.)
• Aaron Copland (Our Town)
• Franz Waxman (Rebecca)
• Miklós Rózsa (The Thief of Bagdad)
• Herbert Stothart (Waterloo Bridge)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Leigh Harline (Pinocchio) - "When You Wish Upon a Star"
• Down Argentine Way - "Down Argentine Way"
• You'll Find Out - "I'd Know You Anywhere"
• Music in My Heart - "It's a Blue World"
• Second Chorus - "Love of My Life"
• Rhythm on the River - "Only Forever"
• Strike Up the Band - "Our Love Affair"
• Spring Parade - "Waltzing in the Clouds"
• Hit Parade of 1941 - "Who Am I?"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Alfred Newman (Tin Pan Alley)
• Arise, My Love
• Hit Parade of 1941
• Irene
• Our Town
• The Sea Hawk
• Second Chorus
• Spring Parade
• Strike Up the Band

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Thief of Bagdad
• Bitter Sweet
• Down Argentine Way
• North West Mounted Police

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)

• Pride and Prejudice
• Arise, My Love
• Arizona
• The Boys from Syracuse
• Dark Command
• Foreign Correspondent
• Lillian Russell
• My Favorite Wife
• My Son, My Son!
• Our Town
• Rebecca
• The Sea Hawk
• The Westerner

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Thief of Bagdad
• The Blue Bird
• Boom Town
• The Boys from Syracuse
• Dr. Cyclops
• Foreign Correspondent
• The Invisible Man Returns
• The Long Voyage Home
• One Million B.C.
• Rebecca
• The Sea Hawk
• Swiss Family Robinson
• Typhoon
• Women in War

Best Sound Mixing

• Strike Up the Band
• Behind the News
• Captain Caution
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Howards of Virginia
• Kitty Foyle
• North West Mounted Police
• Our Town
• The Sea Hawk
• Spring Parade
• Too Many Husbands

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Quicker'n a Wink
• London Can Take It!
• More About Nostradamus
• Siege

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Teddy the Rough Rider
• Eyes of the Navy
• Service with the Colors

Best Animated Short Film

• The Milky Way
• Tom and Jerry - Puss Gets the Boot
• A Wild Hare

Honorary Award

• Nathan Levinson
• Bob Hope

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Gone with the Wind
• Dark Victory
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Love Affair
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Ninotchka
• Of Mice and Men
• Stagecoach
• The Wizard of Oz
• Wuthering Heights

Best Achievement in Directing

• Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)
• Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• John Ford (Stagecoach)
• Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• William Wyler (Wuthering Heights)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind)
• Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights)
• Mickey Rooney (Babes in Arms)
• James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
• Bette Davis (Dark Victory)
• Irene Dunne (Love Affair)
• Greta Garbo (Ninotchka)
• Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach)
• Brian Aherne (Juarez)
• Harry Carey (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• Brian Donlevy (Beau Geste)
• Claude Rains (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)
• Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind)
• Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights)
• Edna May Oliver (Drums Along the Mohawk)
• Maria Ouspenskaya (Love Affair)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Sidney Howard (Gone with the Wind)
• Eric Maschwitz, R.C. Sherriff, Claudine West (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• Sidney Buchman (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Billy Wilder (Ninotchka)
• Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (Wuthering Heights)

Best Original Story

• Lewis R. Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• Bachelor Mother
• Love Affair
• Ninotchka
• Young Mr. Lincoln

Best Cinematography (Color)

• Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan (Gone with the Wind)
• Bert Glennon, Ray Rennahan (Drums Along the Mohawk)
• Osmond Borradaile, Georges Périnal (The Four Feathers)
• William V. Skall (The Mikado)
• W. Howard Greene, Sol Polito (The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex)
• Harold Rosson (The Wizard of Oz)

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Gregg Toland (Wuthering Heights)
• Joseph A. Valentine (First Love)
• Victor Milner (The Great Victor Herbert)
• Joseph H. August (Gunga Din)
• Gregg Toland (Intermezzo: A Love Story)
• Tony Gaudio (Juarez)
• Norbert Brodine (Lady of the Tropics)
• Joseph Walker (Only Angels Have Wings)
• Arthur C. Miller (The Rains Came)
• Bert Glennon (Stagecoach)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Gone with the Wind
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Rains Came
• Stagecoach

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Herbert Stothart (The Wizard of Oz)
• Max Steiner (Dark Victory)
• Werner Janssen (Eternally Yours)
• Victor Young (Golden Boy)
• Max Steiner (Gone with the Wind)
• Victor Young (Gulliver's Travels)
• Lud Gluskin, Lucien Moraweck (The Man in the Iron Mask)
• Victor Young (Man of Conquest)
• Anthony Collins (Nurse Edith Cavell)
• Aaron Copland (Of Mice and Men)
• Alfred Newman (The Rains Came)
• Alfred Newman (Wuthering Heights)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Harold Arlen (The Wizard of Oz) - "Over the Rainbow"
• Gulliver's Travels - "Faithful Forever"
• Second Fiddle - "I Poured My Heart Into a Song"
• Love Affair - "Wishing"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling (Stagecoach)
• Roger Edens, George Stoll (Babes in Arms)
• Charles Previn (First Love)
• Phil Boutelje, Arthur Lange (The Great Victor Herbert)
• Alfred Newman (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
• Louis Forbes (Intermezzo: A Love Story)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• Aaron Copland (Of Mice and Men)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex)
• Cy Feuer (She Married a Cop)
• Louis Silvers (Swanee River)
• Alfred Newman (They Shall Have Music)
• Victor Young (Way Down South)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Gone with the Wind
• Beau Geste
• Captain Fury
• First Love
• Love Affair
• Man of Conquest
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• The Rains Came
• Stagecoach
• The Wizard of Oz
• Wuthering Heights

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Rains Came
• Gone with the Wind
• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• Topper Takes a Trip
• Union Pacific
• The Wizard of Oz

Best Sound Mixing

• When Tomorrow Comes
• Balalaika
• Gone with the Wind
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• The Great Victor Herbert
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Man of Conquest
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Of Mice and Men
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• The Rains Came

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Busy Little Bears
• Information Please: Series 1, No. 1
• Prophet Without Honor
• Sword Fishing

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Sons of Liberty
• Drunk Driving
• Five Times Five

Best Animated Short Film

• Ugly Duckling
• Detouring America
• Peace on Earth
• The Pointer

Juvenile Award

• Judy Garland

Honorary Award

• Douglas Fairbanks
• William Cameron Menzies
• Motion Picture Relief Fund
• Technicolor USA

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• You Can't Take It with You
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Boys Town
• The Citadel
• Four Daughters
• Grand Illusion
• Jezebel
• Pygmalion
• Test Pilot

Best Achievement in Directing

• Frank Capra (You Can't Take It with You)
• Michael Curtiz (Angels with Dirty Faces)
• Michael Curtiz (Four Daughters)
• Norman Taurog (Boys Town)
• King Vidor (The Citadel)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)
• Charles Boyer (Algiers)
• James Cagney (Angels with Dirty Faces)
• Robert Donat (The Citadel)
• Leslie Howard (Pygmalion)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Bette Davis (Jezebel)
• Fay Bainter (White Banners)
• Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion)
• Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette)
• Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Walter Brennan (Kentucky)
• John Garfield (Four Daughters)
• Gene Lockhart (Algiers)
• Robert Morley (Marie Antoinette)
• Basil Rathbone (If I Were King)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Fay Bainter (Jezebel)
• Beulah Bondi (Of Human Hearts)
• Billie Burke (Merrily We Live)
• Spring Byington (You Can't Take It with You)
• Miliza Korjus (The Great Waltz)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)
• John Meehan, Dore Schary (Boys Town)
• Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill, Frank Wead (The Citadel)
• Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein (Four Daughters)
• Robert Riskin (You Can't Take It with You)

Best Original Story

• Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary (Boys Town)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Angels with Dirty Faces
• Blockade
• Mad About Music
• Test Pilot

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Joseph Ruttenberg (The Great Waltz)
• James Wong Howe (Algiers)
• Ernest Miller, Harry J. Wild (Army Girl)
• Victor Milner (The Buccaneer)
• Ernest Haller (Jezebel)
• Joseph A. Valentine (Mad About Music)
• Norbert Brodine (Merrily We Live)
• J. Peverell Marley (Suez)
• Robert De Grasse (Vivacious Lady)
• Joseph Walker (You Can't Take It with You)
• Leon Shamroy (The Young in Heart)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• The Great Waltz
• Test Pilot
• You Can't Take It with You

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
• Victor Young (Army Girl)
• Werner Janssen (Blockade)
• Marvin Hatley (Block-Heads)
• Victor Young (Breaking the Ice)
• Alfred Newman (The Cowboy and the Lady)
• Richard Hageman (If I Were King)
• Herbert Stothart (Marie Antoinette)
• Robert Russell Bennett (Pacific Liner)
• Louis Silvers (Suez)
• Franz Waxman (The Young in Heart)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Ralph Rainger (The Big Broadcast of 1938) - "Thanks for the Memory"
• Mannequin - "Always and Always"
• Carefree - "Change Partners and Dance with Me"
• The Cowboy and the Lady - "The Cowboy and the Lady"
• Under Western Stars - "Dust"
• Going Places - "Jeepers Creepers"
• Merrily We Live - "Merrily We Live"
• The Lady Objects - "A Mist Over the Moon"
• That Certain Age - "My Own"
• Alexander's Ragtime Band - "Now It Can Be Told"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Alfred Newman (Alexander's Ragtime Band)
• Victor Baravalle (Carefree)
• Morris Stoloff, Gregory Stone (Girls' School)
• Alfred Newman (The Goldwyn Follies)
• Max Steiner (Jezebel)
• Charles Previn, Frank Skinner (Mad About Music)
• Cy Feuer (Storm Over Bengal)
• Herbert Stothart (Sweethearts)
• Marvin Hatley (There Goes My Heart)
• Boris Morros (Tropic Holiday)
• Franz Waxman (The Young in Heart)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Algiers
• Carefree
• The Goldwyn Follies
• Holiday
• If I Were King
• Mad About Music
• Marie Antoinette
• Merrily We Live

Best Sound Mixing

• The Cowboy and the Lady
• Army Girl
• Four Daughters
• If I Were King
• Merrily We Live
• Sweethearts
• Suez
• That Certain Age
• Vivacious Lady
• You Can't Take It with You

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• That Mothers Might Live
• The Great Heart
• Timber Toppers

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• The Declaration of Independence
• Swingtime in the Movies
• A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: They're Always Caught

Best Animated Short Film

• Ferdinand the Bull
• Brave Little Tailor
• Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
• Good Scouts
• Hunky and Spunky

Juvenile Award

• Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney

Honorary Award

• Harry M. Warner
• Allen M. Davey, Oliver T. Marsh (Sweethearts)
• Walt Disney (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
• Arthur Ball
• Jan Domela, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Devereaux Jennings, Gordon Jennings, Louis Mesenkop, Harry D. Mills, Walter Oberst, Irmin Roberts, Loren L. Ryder, Art Smith (Spawn of the North)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Life of Emile Zola
• The Awful Truth
• Captains Courageous
• Dead End
• The Good Earth
• In Old Chicago
• Lost Horizon
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Stage Door
• A Star Is Born

Best Achievement in Directing

• Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)
• William Dieterle (The Life of Emile Zola)
• Sidney Franklin (The Good Earth)
• Gregory La Cava (Stage Door)
• William A. Wellman (A Star Is Born)

Best Assistant Director

• Robert D. Webb (In Old Chicago)
• Lost Horizon
• The Life of Emile Zola
• A Star Is Born
• Souls at Sea

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
• Charles Boyer (Conquest)
• Fredric March (A Star Is Born)
• Robert Montgomery (Night Must Fall)
• Paul Muni (The Life of Emile Zola)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)
• Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth)
• Greta Garbo (Camille)
• Janet Gaynor (A Star Is Born)
• Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Joseph Schildkraut (The Life of Emile Zola)
• Ralph Bellamy (The Awful Truth)
• Thomas Mitchell (The Hurricane)
• H.B. Warner (Lost Horizon)
• Roland Young (Topper)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Alice Brady (In Old Chicago)
• Andrea Leeds (Stage Door)
• Anne Shirley (Stella Dallas)
• Claire Trevor (Dead End)
• Dame May Whitty (Night Must Fall)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine (The Life of Emile Zola)
• Viña Delmar (The Awful Truth)
• Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every, John Lee Mahin (Captains Courageous)
• Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller (Stage Door)
• Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker (A Star Is Born)

Best Original Story

• Robert Carson, William A. Wellman (A Star Is Born)
• Black Legion
• In Old Chicago
• The Life of Emile Zola
• One Hundred Men and a Girl

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Karl Freund (The Good Earth)
• Gregg Toland (Dead End)
• Joseph A. Valentine (Wings Over Honolulu)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Lost Horizon
• The Awful Truth
• Captains Courageous
• The Good Earth
• One Hundred Men and a Girl

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Charles Previn (One Hundred Men and a Girl)
• Leigh Harline (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
• Alfred Newman (The Hurricane)
• Louis Silvers (In Old Chicago)
• Leo F. Forbstein (The Life of Emile Zola)
• Morris Stoloff (Lost Horizon)
• Hugo Riesenfeld (Make a Wish)
• Nat W. Finston (Maytime)
• Alberto Colombo (Portia on Trial)
• Alfred Newman (The Prisoner of Zenda)
• Roy Webb (Quality Street)
• Constantin Bakaleinikoff (Something to Sing About)
• Boris Morros (Souls at Sea)
• Marvin Hatley (Way Out West)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Harry Owens (Waikiki Wedding) - "Sweet Leilani"
• Mr. Dodd Takes the Air - "Remember Me"
• Vogues of 1938 - "That Old Feeling"
• Shall We Dance? - "They Can't Take That Away from Me"
• Artists & Models - "Whispers in the Dark"

Best Dance Direction (Choreography)

• A Damsel In Distress
• Varsity Show
• Ready, Willing and Able
• A Day at the Races
• Ali Baba Goes to Town
• Thin Ice
• Waikiki Wedding

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Lost Horizon
• Conquest
• A Damsel In Distress
• Dead End
• Every Day's a Holiday
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Souls at Sea
• Vogues of 1938
• Wee Willie Winkie
• You're a Sweetheart

Best Sound Mixing

• The Hurricane
• The Girl Said No
• Hitting a New High
• In Old Chicago
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Lost Horizon
• Maytime
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Topper
• Wells Fargo

Best Short Film in Color

• Penny Wisdom
• The Man Without a Country
• Popular Science

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Private Life of the Gannets, The
• Night at the Movies, A
• Romance of Radium

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Torture Money
• Deep South
• Should Wives Work?

Best Animated Short Film

• The Old Mill
• Educated Fish
• The Little Match Girl

Honorary Award

• Mack Sennett
• Museum of Modern Art Film Library
• W. Howard Greene (A Star Is Born)
• Edgar Bergen

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Great Ziegfeld
• Anthony Adverse
• Dodsworth
• Libeled Lady
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Romeo and Juliet
• San Francisco
• The Story of Louis Pasteur
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Three Smart Girls

Best Achievement in Directing

• Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
• Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey)
• Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld)
• W. S. Van Dyke (San Francisco)
• William Wyler (Dodsworth)

Best Assistant Director

• Jack Sullivan (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Anthony Adverse
• San Francisco
• The Garden of Allah

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
• Gary Cooper (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
• Walter Huston (Dodsworth)
• William Powell (My Man Godfrey)
• Spencer Tracy (San Francisco)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)
• Irene Dunne (Theodora Goes Wild)
• Gladys George (Valiant Is the Word for Carrie)
• Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey)
• Norma Shearer (Romeo and Juliet)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Walter Brennan (Come and Get It)
• Mischa Auer (My Man Godfrey)
• Stuart Erwin (Pigskin Parade)
• Basil Rathbone (Romeo and Juliet)
• Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)
• Beulah Bondi (The Gorgeous Hussy)
• Alice Brady (My Man Godfrey)
• Bonita Granville (These Three)
• Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)

Best Original Screenplay

• Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
• Norman Krasna (Fury)
• William Anthony McGuire (The Great Ziegfeld)
• Robert E. Hopkins (San Francisco)
• Adele Comandini (Three Smart Girls)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
• Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett (After the Thin Man)
• Sidney Howard (Dodsworth)
• Robert Riskin (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
• Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind (My Man Godfrey)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Tony Gaudio (Anthony Adverse)
• Victor Milner (The General Died at Dawn)
• George J. Folsey (The Gorgeous Hussy)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Anthony Adverse
• Come and Get It
• The Great Ziegfeld
• Lloyd's of London
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Theodora Goes Wild

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Leo F. Forbstein (Anthony Adverse)
• Leo F. Forbstein (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
• Max Steiner (The Garden of Allah)
• Boris Morros (The General Died at Dawn)
• Nathaniel Shilkret (Winterset)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jerome Kern (Swing Time) - "The Way You Look Tonight"
• Suzy - "Did I Remember"
• Born to Dance - "I've Got You Under My Skin"
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - "A Melody from the Sky"
• Pennies from Heaven - "Pennies from Heaven (1936)"
• Sing, Baby, Sing - "When Did You Leave Heaven"

Best Dance Direction (Choreography)

• The Great Ziegfeld
• Gold Diggers of 1937
• Cain and Mabel
• Born to Dance
• One in a Million
• Dancing Pirate
• Swing Time

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Dodsworth
• Anthony Adverse
• The Great Ziegfeld
• Lloyd's of London
• Magnificent Brute
• Romeo and Juliet
• Winterset

Best Sound Mixing

• San Francisco
• Banjo on My Knee
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Dodsworth
• General Spanky
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• The Texas Rangers
• That Girl from Paris
• Three Smart Girls

Best Short Film in Color

• Give Me Liberty
• La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
• Popular Science

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

• Bored of Education
• Moscow Moods
• Wanted -- A Master

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

• The Public Pays
• Double or Nothing
• Dummy Ache

Best Animated Short Film

• The Country Cousin
• Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
• The Old Mill Pond

Honorary Award

• W. Howard Greene, Harold Rosson (The Garden of Allah)
• March of Time

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Alice Adams
• Broadway Melody of 1936
• Captain Blood
• The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
• The Informer
• Les Misérables
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Naughty Marietta
• Ruggles of Red Gap
• Top Hat

Best Achievement in Directing

• John Ford (The Informer)
• Henry Hathaway (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
• Frank Lloyd (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Michael Curtiz (Captain Blood)

Best Assistant Director

• Clem Beauchamp, Paul Wing (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
• The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
• Les Misérables
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Victor McLaglen (The Informer)
• Clark Gable (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Franchot Tone (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Paul Muni (Black Fury)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Bette Davis (Dangerous)
• Elisabeth Bergner (Escape Me Never)
• Claudette Colbert (Private Worlds)
• Katharine Hepburn (Alice Adams)
• Miriam Hopkins (Becky Sharp)
• Merle Oberon (The Dark Angel)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Dudley Nichols (The Informer)
• Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
• Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings, Carey Wilson (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Casey Robinson (Captain Blood)

Best Original Story

• Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (The Scoundrel)
• Broadway Melody of 1936
• The Gay Deception
• 'G' Men

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Hal Mohr (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
• Ray June (Barbary Coast)
• Victor Milner (The Crusades)
• Gregg Toland (Les Misérables)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
• The Informer
• Les Misérables
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Max Steiner (The Informer)
• Nat W. Finston (Mutiny on the Bounty)
• Irvin Talbot (Peter Ibbetson)
• Leo F. Forbstein (Captain Blood)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Harryette Warren (Gold Diggers of 1935) - "Lullaby of Broadway"
• Top Hat - "Cheek to Cheek"
• Roberta - "Lovely to Look at"

Best Dance Direction (Choreography)

• Broadway Melody of 1936
• Folies Bergère de Paris
• All the King's Horses
• The Big Broadcast of 1936
• Broadway Hostess
• Go Into Your Dance
• Gold Diggers of 1935
• King of Burlesque
• She
• Top Hat

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Dark Angel
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Top Hat

Best Sound Mixing

• Naughty Marietta
• 1,000 Dollars a Minute
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Captain Blood
• The Dark Angel
• I Dream Too Much
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Love Me Forever
• Thanks a Million

Best Short Subject (Comedy)

• How to Sleep
• Oh, My Nerves
• Tit for Tat

Best Short Subject (Drama)

• Wings Over Everest
• Audioscopiks
• Camera Thrills

Best Animated Short Film

• Three Orphan Kittens
• The Calico Dragon
• Who Killed Cock Robin?

Honorary Award

• D.W. Griffith

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• It Happened One Night
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
• Cleopatra
• Flirtation Walk
• The Gay Divorcee
• Here Comes the Navy
• The House of Rothschild
• Imitation of Life
• One Night of Love
• The Thin Man
• Viva Villa!
• The White Parade

Best Achievement in Directing

• Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
• Victor Schertzinger (One Night of Love)
• W. S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man)

Best Assistant Director

• John Waters (Viva Villa!)
• Imitation of Life
• Cleopatra

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
• Frank Morgan (The Affairs of Cellini)
• William Powell (The Thin Man)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
• Grace Moore (One Night of Love)
• Norma Shearer (The Barretts of Wimpole Street)
• Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night)
• Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett (The Thin Man)
• Ben Hecht (Viva Villa!)

Best Original Story

• Arthur Caesar (Manhattan Melodrama)
• Hide-Out
• The Richest Girl in the World

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Victor Milner (Cleopatra)
• Charles Rosher (The Affairs of Cellini)
• George J. Folsey (Operator 13)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Eskimo
• Cleopatra
• One Night of Love

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Louis Silvers (One Night of Love)
• Max Steiner (The Gay Divorcee)
• Max Steiner (The Lost Patrol)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Con Conrad (The Gay Divorcee) - "The Continental"
• Flying Down to Rio - "Carioca"
• She Loves Me Not - "Love in Bloom"

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Merry Widow
• The Affairs of Cellini
• The Gay Divorcee

Best Sound Mixing

• One Night of Love
• Imitation of Life
• The Affairs of Cellini
• Cleopatra
• Flirtation Walk
• The Gay Divorcee
• Viva Villa!
• The White Parade

Best Short Subject (Comedy)

• La Cucaracha
• Men in Black
• What, No Men?

Best Short Subject (Drama)

• City of Wax
• Bosom Friends
• Strikes and Spares

Best Animated Short Film

• The Tortoise and the Hare
• Holiday Land
• Jolly Little Elves

Juvenile Award

• Shirley Temple