Date: February 23, 1939

Best Picture

• You Can’t Take It With You

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