Date: February 23, 1939
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Spencer Tracy for Boys Town
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Bette Davis for Jezebel
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Walter Brennan for Kentucky
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Fay Bainter for Jezebel
Best Director
- Frank Capra for You Can’t Take It With You
Best Writing, Original Story
- Eleanore Griffin & Dore Schary for Boys Town
Best Writing, Screenplay
- George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, & W.P. Lipscomb for Pygmalion
Best Cinematography
- Joseph Ruttenberg for The Great Waltz
Best Art Direction
- Carl Jules Weyl for The Adventures of Robin Hood
Best Sound, Recording
- Thomas T. Moulton for The Cowboy and the Lady
Best Film Editing
- Ralph Dawson for The Adventures of Robin Hood
Best Original Song
- Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin for “Thanks for the Memory” from The Big Broadcast of 1938
Best Original Score
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold for The Adventures of Robin Hood
Best Scoring
- Alfred Newman for Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Best Short Subject, Two-Reel
- The Declaration of Independence
Best Short Subject, One-Reel
- That Mothers Might Live
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
- Walt Disney for Ferdinand the Bull
Juvenile Award
- Deanna Durbin
- Mickey Rooney
