1938

1938 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees)

(winners listed first in bold print)

Best Picture

You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Boys Town (1938)

The Citadel (1938)

Four Daughters (1938)

La Grande illusion (1937)

Jezebel (1938)

Pygmalion (1938)

Test Pilot (1938)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Spencer Tracy Boys Town (1938)

Charles Boyer Algiers (1938)

James Cagney Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Robert Donat The Citadel (1938)

Leslie Howard Pygmalion (1938)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Bette Davis Jezebel (1938)

Norma Shearer Marie Antoinette (1938)

Wendy Hiller Pygmalion (1938)

Margaret Sullavan Three Comrades (1938)

Fay Bainter White Banners (1938)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Walter Brennan Kentucky (1938)

Gene Lockhart Algiers (1938)

John Garfield Four Daughters (1938)

Basil Rathbone If I Were King (1938)

Robert Morley Marie Antoinette (1938)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Fay Bainter Jezebel (1938)

Miliza Korjus The Great Waltz (1938)

Billie Burke Merrily We Live (1938)

Beulah Bondi Of Human Hearts (1938)

Spring Byington You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Best Director

Frank Capra You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Michael Curtiz Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Norman Taurog Boys Town (1938)

King Vidor The Citadel (1938)

Michael Curtiz Four Daughters (1938)

Best Writing Original Story

Eleanore Griffin & Dore Schary Boys Town (1938)

Irving Berlin Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Rowland Brown Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

John Howard Lawson Blockade (1938)

Marcella Burke & Frederick Kohner Mad About Music (1938)

Frank Wead Test Pilot (1938)

Best Writing Screenplay

George Bernard Shaw & Ian Dalrymple & Cecil Lewis & W.P. Lipscomb Pygmalion (1938)

John Meehan & Dore Schary Boys Town (1938)

Ian Dalrymple & Elizabeth Hill & Frank Wead The Citadel (1938)

Lenore Coffee & Julius Epstein Four Daughters (1938)

Robert Riskin You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Best Cinematography

Joseph Ruttenberg The Great Waltz (1938)

James Wong Howe Algiers (1938)

Ernest Miller & Harry Wild Army Girl (1938)

Victor Milner The Buccaneer (1938)

Ernest Haller Jezebel (1938)

Joseph Valentine Mad About Music (1938)

Norbert Brodine Merrily We Live (1938)

J. Peverell Marley Suez (1938)

Robert De Grasse Vivacious Lady (1938)

Joseph Walker You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Leon Shamroy The Young in Heart (1938)

Best Art Direction

Carl Jules Weyl The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Lyle Wheeler The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Bernard Herzbrun & Boris Leven Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Alexander Toluboff Algiers (1938)

Van Nest Polglase Carefree (1938)

Richard Day The Goldwyn Follies (1938)

Stephen Goosson & Lionel Banks Holiday (1938)

Hans Dreier & John B. Goodman If I Were King (1938)

Jack Otterson Mad About Music (1938)

Cedric Gibbons Marie Antoinette (1938)

Charles D. Hall Merrily We Live (1938)

Best Sound Recording

Thomas Moulton The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

Charles Lootens Army Girl (1938)

Nathan Levinson Four Daughters (1938)

Loren Ryder If I Were King (1938)

Elmer Raguse Merrily We Live (1938)

Edmund Hansen Suez (1938)

Douglas Shearer Sweethearts (1938)

Bernard B. Brown That Certain Age (1938)

James Wilkinson Vivacious Lady (1938)

John Livadary You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Best Film Editing

Ralph Dawson The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Barbara McLean Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Tom Held The Great Waltz (1938)

Tom Held Test Pilot (1938)

Gene Havlick You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Best Music Original Song

Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics) “Thanks for the Memory” The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

Irving Berlin “Now It Can Be Told” Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Irving Berlin “Change Partners and Dance with Me” Carefree (1938)

Lionel Newman (music); Arthur Quenzer (lyrics) “The Cowboy and the Lady” The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

Harry Warren (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics) “Jeepers Creepers” Going Places (1938)

Ben Oakland (music); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) “A Mist Over the Moon” The Lady Objects (1938)

Edward Ward (music); Chet Forrest & Bob Wright (lyrics) “Always and Always” Mannequin (1937)

Phil Craig (music); Arthur Quenzer (lyrics) “Merrily We Live” Merrily We Live (1938)

Jimmy McHugh (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics) “My Own” That Certain Age (1938)

Johnny Marvin “Dust” Under Western Stars (1938)

Best Music Original Score

Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Victor Young Army Girl (1938)

Marvin Hatley Block-Heads (1938)

Werner Janssen Blockade (1938)

Victor Young Breaking the Ice (1938)

Alfred Newman The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

Richard Hageman If I Were King (1938)

Herbert Stothart Marie Antoinette (1938)

Robert Russell Bennett Pacific Liner (1938)

Louis Silvers Suez (1938)

Franz Waxman The Young in Heart (1938)

Best Music Scoring

Alfred Newman Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

Victor Baravalle Carefree (1938)

Morris Stoloff & Gregory Stone Girls’ School (1938)

Alfred Newman The Goldwyn Follies (1938)

Max Steiner Jezebel (1938)

Charles Previn & Frank Skinner Mad About Music (1938)

Cy Feuer Storm Over Bengal (1938)

Herbert Stothart Sweethearts (1938)

Marvin Hatley There Goes My Heart (1938)

Boris Morros Tropic Holiday (1938)

Franz Waxman The Young in Heart (1938)