“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” – Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven
“Algiers” – Alexander Toluboff
“Carefree” – Van Nest Polglase
“The Goldwyn Follies” – Richard Day
“Holiday” – Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks
“If I Were King” – Hans Dreier and John B. Goodman
“Mad About Music” – Jack Otterson
“Marie Antoinette” – Cedric Gibbons
“Merrily We Live” – Charles D. Hall
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Algiers” – James Wong Howe
“Army Girl” – Ernest Miller and Harry J. Wild
“The Buccaneer” – Victor Milner
“The Great Waltz” – Joseph Ruttenberg
“Jezebel” – Ernest Haller
“Mad About Music” – Joseph Valentine
“Merrily We Live” – Norbert Brodine
“Suez” – Peverell Marley
“Vivacious Lady” – Robert De Grasse
“You Can’t Take It with You” – Joseph Walker
“The Young in Heart” – Leon Shamroy
DIRECTOR
Frank Capra – “You Can’t Take It with You”
Michael Curtiz – “Angels with Dirty Faces”
Michael Curtiz – “Four Daughters”
Norman Taurog – “Boys Town”
King Vidor – “The Citadel”
FILM EDITING
“The Adventures of Robin Hood” – Ralph Dawson
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” – Barbara McLean
“The Great Waltz” – Tom Held
“Test Pilot” – Tom Held
“You Can’t Take It with You” – Gene Havlick
SHORT SUBJECT (CARTOON)
“Brave Little Tailor” – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
“Ferdinand the Bull” – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
“Good Scouts” – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
“Hunky and Spunky” – Paramount
“Mother Goose Goes Hollywood” – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
LIVE ACTION SHORT SUBJECT (ONE-REEL)
“The Great Heart” – MGM
“That Mothers Might Live” – MGM
“Timber Toppers” – 20th Century Fox
LIVE ACTION SHORT SUBJECT (TWO-REEL)
“Declaration of Independence” – Warner Bros.
“Swingtime in the Movies” – Warner Bros.
“They’re Always Caught” – MGM
ORIGINAL SCORE
“The Adventures of Robin Hood” – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
“Army Girl” – Victor Young
“Block-Heads” – Marvin Hatley
“Blockade” – Werner Janssen
“Breaking the Ice” – Victor Young
“The Cowboy and the Lady” – Alfred Newman
“If I Were King” – Richard Hageman
“Marie Antoinette” – Herbert Stothart
“Pacific Liner” – Russell Bennett
“Suez” – Louis Silvers
“The Young in Heart” – Franz Waxman
SCORING
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” – Alfred Newman
“Carefree” – Victor Baravalle
“Girls’ School” – Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone
“The Goldwyn Follies” – Alfred Newman
“Jezebel” – Max Steiner
“Mad About Music” – Charles Previn and Frank Skinner
“Storm Over Bengal” – Cy Feuer
“Sweethearts” – Herbert Stothart
“There Goes My Heart” – Marvin Hatley
“Tropic Holiday” – Boris Morros
“The Young in Heart” – Franz Waxman
SONG
“Now It Can Be Told” from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” – Irving Berlin
“Thanks for the Memory” from “The Big Broadcast of 1938” – Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin
“Change Partners” from “Carefree” – Irving Berlin
“The Cowboy and the Lady” from “The Cowboy and the Lady” – Lionel Newman & Arthur Quenzer
“Jeepers Creepers” from “Going Places” – Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer
“A Mist Over the Moon” from “The Lady Objects” – Ben Oakland & Oscar Hammerstein II
“Always and Always” from “Mannequin” – Edward Ward, Chet Forrest and Bob Wright
“Merrily We Live” from “Merrily We Live” – Phil Charig & Arthur Quenzer
“My Own” from “That Certain Age” – Jimmy McHugh & Harold Adamson
“Dust” from “Under Western Stars” – Johnny Marvin
SOUND RECORDING
“Army Girl” – Charles L. Lootens
“The Cowboy and the Lady” – Thomas T. Moulton
“Four Daughters” – Nathan Levinson
“If I Were King” – Loren L. Ryder
“Merrily We Live” – Elmer Raguse
“Suez” – Edmund H. Hansen
“Sweethearts” – Douglas Shearer
“That Certain Age” – Bernard B. Brown
“Vivacious Lady” – John O. Aalberg
“You Can’t Take It with You” – John P. Livadary
WRITING (ADAPTATION)
“Boys Town” – John Meehan and Dore Schary
“The Citadel” – Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill and Frank Wead
“Four Daughters” – Lenore Coffee and Julius J. Epstein
“Pygmalion” – George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, and W. P. Lipscomb
“You Can’t Take It with You” – Robert Riskin
WRITING (ORIGINAL STORY)
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” – Irving Berlin
“Angels with Dirty Faces” – Rowland Brown
“Blockade” – John Howard Lawson
“Boys Town” – Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary
“Mad About Music” – Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner
“Test Pilot” – Frank Wead
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
J. Arthur Ball “for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of color in Motion Picture Photography”
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Walt Disney “for creating Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Dev Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis H. Mesenkop, and Walter Oberst “for outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, Spawn of the North”
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey “for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, “Sweethearts“
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Harry M. Warner “in recognition of patriotic service in the production of historical short subjects presenting significant episodes in the early struggle of the American people for liberty”
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Hal B. Wallis
Academy Juvenile Award
Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney “for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement”
