11th Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1939 took place at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was the 11th Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the previous year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1938.
- 2.1 Honorary Oscar
- 2.2 Juvenile Award
- 2.3 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- 2.4 Technical Achievement Award
Winners and nominees
Best Picture
Survivalist ( You Can not Take It with You) - Frank Capra
Best Director
Frank Capra - Survivalist ( You Can not Take It with You)
Best Actor
Spencer Tracy - Boys Town (Boys Town)
Best Actress
Bette Davis - Jezebel - The wicked Lady ( Jezebel )
Best Supporting Actor
Walter Brennan - The golden whip
Best Supporting Actress
Fay Bainter - Jezebel - The wicked Lady ( Jezebel )
Best Original Story
Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary - Boys Town (Boys Town)
Best Screenplay
George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and WP Lipscomb - Pygmalion: The Novel of a flower girl ( Pygmalion )
Best Camera
Joseph Ruttenberg - The Great Waltz ( The Great Waltz )
Best Art
Carl Jules Weyl - Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds ( The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Best Sound
Thomas T. Moulton - My husband, the Cowboy ( The Cowboy and the Lady )
Best Editing
Ralph Dawson - Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds ( The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Best Song
Thanks for the Memory - The Big Broadcast of 1938 - Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin
Best Original Soundtrack
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds ( The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Best Original Score
Alfred Newman - Alexander 's Ragtime Band (Alexander 's Ragtime Band )
Best Short Film (1 roll of film )
That Mothers Might Live - MGM
Best Short Film (2 films)
The Declaration of Independence - Warner Bros.
Best Short Film ( Animation )
Ferdinand the Bull ( Ferdinand the Bull) - Walt Disney