Academy Awards 1938

Best Picture

WINNER:
The Life of Emile Zola: (Warner Bros.)

NOMINEES:
The Awful Truth: (Columbia)
Captains Courageous: (M-G-M)
Dead End: (Samuel Goldwyn Productions)
The Good Earth: (M-G-M)
In Old Chicago: (20th Century Fox)
Lost Horizon: (Columbia)
One Hundred Men and a Girl: (Universal)
Stage Door: (RKO Radio)
A Star Is Born: (Selznick International Pictures)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Captains Courageous: Spencer Tracy

NOMINEES:
Conquest: Charles Boyer
A Star Is Born: Fredric March
Night Must Fall: Robert Montgomery
The Life of Emile Zola: Paul Muni

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
The Good Earth: Luise Rainer

NOMINEES:
The Awful Truth: Irene Dunne
Camille: Greta Garbo
A Star Is Born: Janet Gaynor
Stella Dallas: Barbara Stanwyck

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
The Life of Emile Zola: Joseph Schildkraut

NOMINEES:
The Awful Truth: Ralph Bellamy
The Hurricane: Thomas Mitchell
Lost Horizon: H.B. Warner
Topper: Roland Young

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
In Old Chicago: Alice Brady
Alice Brady's trophy was swiped by an impostor who came onstage to accept the award on the absent actress' behalf. It has never been never recovered and the imposter could never be tracked down. Before the Academy could do justice and issue a copy of the award, Alice Brady passed away.

NOMINEES:
Stage Door: Andrea Leeds
Stella Dallas: Anne Shirley
Dead End: Claire Trevor
Night Must Fall: Dame May Whitty

Best Director

WINNER:
The Awful Truth: Leo McCarey

NOMINEES:
The Life of Emile Zola: William Dieterle
The Good Earth: Sidney Franklin
Stage Door: Gregory La Cava
A Star Is Born: William A. Wellman

Best Assistant Director

WINNER:
In Old Chicago: Robert D. Webb

NOMINEES:
Lost Horizon: Charles C. Coleman
The Life of Emile Zola: Russell Saunders
A Star Is Born: Eric Stacey
Souls at Sea: Hal Walker

Best Writing, Original Story

WINNER:
A Star Is Born: William A. Wellman, Robert Carson

NOMINEES:
Black Legion: Robert Lord
In Old Chicago: Niven Busch
The Life of Emile Zola: Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
One Hundred Men and a Girl: Hanns Kräly

Best Writing, Screenplay

WINNER:
The Life of Emile Zola: Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine

NOMINEES:
The Awful Truth: Viña Delmar
Captains Courageous: Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every
Stage Door: Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller
A Star Is Born: Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker

Best Cinematography

WINNER:
The Good Earth: Karl Freund

NOMINEES:
Dead End: Gregg Toland
Wings Over Honolulu: Joseph A. Valentine

Best Art Direction

WINNER:
Lost Horizon: Stephen Goosson

NOMINEES:
Conquest: Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning
A Damsel in Distress: Carroll Clark
Dead End: Richard Day
Every Day's a Holiday: Wiard Ihnen
The Life of Emile Zola: Anton Grot
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round: John Victor Mackay
The Prisoner of Zenda: Lyle R. Wheeler
Souls at Sea: Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson
Vogues of 1938: Alexander Toluboff
Wee Willie Winkie: William S. Darling, David S. Hall
You're a Sweetheart: Jack Otterson

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER:
The Hurricane: Thomas T. Moulton (United Artists SSD)

NOMINEES:
The Girl Said No: A.E. Kaye (Grand National SSD)
Hitting a New High: John Aalberg (RKO Radio SSD)
In Old Chicago: Edmund H. Hansen (20th Century-Fox SSD)
The Life of Emile Zola: Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD)
Lost Horizon: John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)
Maytime: Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)
One Hundred Men and a Girl: Homer G. Tasker (Universal SSD)
Topper: Elmer Raguse (Hal Roach SSD)
Wells Fargo: Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD)

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
Lost Horizon: Gene Havlick, Gene Milford

NOMINEES:
The Awful Truth: Al Clark
Captains Courageous: Elmo Veron
The Good Earth: Basil Wrangell
One Hundred Men and a Girl: Bernard W. Burton

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
Waikiki Wedding: Harry Owens
For the song "Sweet Leilani"

NOMINEES:
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air: Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics)
For the song "Remember Me"
Vogues of 1938: Sammy Fain (music), Lew Brown (lyrics)
For the song "That Old Feeling"
Shall We Dance: George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics)
For the song "They Can't Take That Away from Me"
Artists & Models: Friedrich Hollaender (music), Leo Robin (lyrics)
For the song "Whispers in the Dark"

Best Music, Score

WINNER:
One Hundred Men and a Girl: Charles Previn (head of department) (Universal Studio Music Department)
No composer credit.

NOMINEES:
The Hurricane: Alfred Newman (head of department) (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department)
Score by Alfred Newman.
In Old Chicago: Louis Silvers (head of department) (20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department)
No composer credit.
The Life of Emile Zola: Leo F. Forbstein (head of department) (Warner Bros. Studio Music Department)
Score by Max Steiner.
Lost Horizon: Morris Stoloff (head of department) (Columbia Studio Music Department)
Score by Dimitri Tiomkin.
Make a Wish: Hugo Riesenfeld (musical director) (RKO Radio)
Score by Hugo Riesenfeld.
Maytime: Nat W. Finston (head of department) (M-G-M Studio Music Department)
Score by Herbert Stothart.
Portia on Trial: Alberto Colombo (head of department) (Republic Studio Music Department)
Score by Alberto Colombo.
The Prisoner of Zenda: Alfred Newman (musical director) (Selznick International Pictures Music Department)
Score by Alfred Newman.
Quality Street: Roy Webb (musical director) (RKO Radio Studio Music Department)
Score by Roy Webb.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Leigh Harline (head of department) (Walt Disney Studio Music Department)
Score by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith.
Something to Sing About: C. Bakaleinikoff (musical director) (Grand National Studio Music Department)
Score by Victor Schertzinger.
Souls at Sea: Boris Morros (head of department) (Paramount Studio Music Department)
Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder.
Way Out West: Marvin Hatley (head of department) (Roach Studio Music Department)
Score by Marvin Hatley.

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

WINNER:
Torture Money: (M-G-M)

NOMINEES:
Deep South: (RKO Radio)
Should Wives Work?: (RKO Radio)

Best Short Subject, One-reel

WINNER:
The Private Life of the Gannets: (Educational)

NOMINEES:
A Night at the Movies: (M-G-M)
Romance of Radium: Pete Smith

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

WINNER:
The Old Mill: Walt Disney

NOMINEES:
Educated Fish: (Paramount)
The Little Match Girl: Charles Mintz

Best Short Subject, Color

WINNER:
Penny Wisdom: Pete Smith

NOMINEES:
The Man Without a Country: (Warner Bros.)
Popular Science: (Paramount)

Best Dance Direction

WINNER:
A Damsel in Distress: Hermes Pan
For "Fun House"

NOMINEES:
Varsity Show: Busby Berkeley
For "The Finale"
Ready, Willing and Able: Bobby Connolly
For "Too Marvelous for Words"
A Day at the Races: Dave Gould
For "All God's Children Got Rhythm".
Ali Baba Goes to Town: Sammy Lee
For "Swing Is Here to Stay".
Thin Ice: Harry Losee
For "Prince Igor Suite".
Waikiki Wedding: LeRoy Prinz
For "Luau".

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
Mack Sennett
For his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a special award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius, Mack Sennett.
Edgar Bergen
For his outstanding comedy creation, Charlie McCarthy
(wooden statuette).
(Museum of Modern Art Film Library)
For its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts (certificate).
A Star Is Born: W. Howard Greene
For the color photography of A Star Is Born. (plaque)
This award was recommended by a committee of leading cinematographers after viewing all the color pictures made during the year.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

WINNER:
Darryl F. Zanuck

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:
(Agfa Ansco Corp.)
For Agfa Supreme and Agfa Ultra Speed pan motion picture negatives.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
(Walt Disney Prods. Ltd.)
For the design and application to production of the Multi-Plane Camera.
(Eastman Kodak Co.)
For two fine-grain duplicating film stocks.
Farciot Edouart (Paramount Pictures, Inc.)
For the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup.
Douglas Shearer (M-G-M Studio Sound Dept.)
For a method of varying the scanning width of variable density sound tracks (squeeze tracks) for the purpose of obtaining an increased amount of noise reduction.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
John Arnold (M-G-M Studio Camera Dept.)
For their improvement of the semi-automatic follow focus device and its application to all of the cameras used by the M-G-M Studio.
John P. Livadary (director of Sound Recording for Columbia Pictures Corp.)
For the application of the biplanar light valve to motion picture sound recording.
Thomas T. Moulton (United Artists SSD)
For the application to motion picture sound recording of volume indicators which have peak reading response and linear decibel scales.
(RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc.)
For the introduction of the modulated high-frequency method of determining optimum photographic processing conditions for variable width sound tracks.
Joseph E. Robbins (Paramount Pictures, Inc.)
For an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the soundproofing of gasoline generators and water pumps.
Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)
For the design of the film drive mechanism as incorporated in the ERPI 1010 reproducer.

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