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)
La Grande illusion (1937)
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)
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