10th Academy Awards (1938)

Highlights of 10th Academy Awards ceremony

The 10th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1937.
The award ceremony was held on 10th March 1938.
- WINNER

Best Picture

The Life of Emile Zola
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Dead End
The Good Earth
In Old Chicago
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door
A Star Is Born

Best Director

The Awful Truth - Leo McCarey
The Life of Emile Zola - William Dieterle
The Good Earth - Sidney Franklin
Stage Door - Gregory La Cava
A Star Is Born - William Wellman

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Captains Courageous - Spencer Tracy
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

The Good Earth - Luise Rainer
The Awful Truth - Irene Dunne
Camille - Greta Garbo
A Star Is Born - Janet Gaynor
Stella Dallas - Barbara Stanwyck

Best Supporting Actor

The Life of Emile Zola - Joseph Schildkraut
The Awful Truth - Ralph Bellamy
The Hurricane - Thomas Mitchell
Lost Horizon - H. B. Warner
Topper - Roland Young

Best Supporting Actress

In Old Chicago - Alice Brady
Stage Door - Andrea Leeds
Stella Dallas - Anne Shirley
Dead End - Claire Trevor
Night Must Fall - Dame May Whitty

Best Art Direction

Lost Horizon - Stephen Goosson
A Damsel in Distress - Carroll Clark
Wee Willie Winkie - William S. Darling, David Hall
Dead End - Richard Day
Souls at Sea - Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson
Conquest - Cedric Gibbons, William Horning
The Life of Emile Zola - Anton Grot
Every Day's a Holiday - Wiard Ihnen
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round - John Victor Mackay
You're a Sweetheart - Jack Otterson

Best Cinematography

The Good Earth - Karl Freund
Dead End - Gregg Toland
Wings Over Honolulu - Joseph Valentine

Best Film Editing

Lost Horizon - Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
One Hundred Men and a Girl - Bernard W. Burton
The Awful Truth - Al Clark
Captains Courageous - Elmo Vernon
The Good Earth - Basil Wrangell

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Darryl F. Zanuck

Best Short Subject - One-reel

The Private Life of the Gannets
A Night at the Movies
Romance of Radium

Best Short Subject - Two-reel

Torture Money
Deep South
Should Wives Work?

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

The Old Mill
Educated Fish
The Little Match Girl

Best Music - Song

Waikiki Wedding for "Sweet Leilani"
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air for "Remember Me"
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 for "That Old Feeling"
Shall We Dance for "They Can't Take That Away From Me"
Artists and Models for "Whispers in the Dark"

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

A Star Is Born - William A. Wellman, Robert Carson
In Old Chicago - Niven Busch
The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
One Hundred Men and a Girl - Hans Kraly
Black Legion - Robert Lord

Best Sound, Recording

The Hurricane
Lost Horizon
The Girl Said No
Topper
Maytime
Wells Fargo
Hitting a New High
In Old Chicago
One Hundred Men and a Girl
The Life of Emile Zola

Best Writing, Screenplay

Stage Door - Morris Ryskind, Anthony Veiller
A Star Is Born - Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker
The Awful Truth - Vina Delmar
Captains Courageous - John Lee Mahin, Marc Connolly, Dale Van Every

Best Assistant Director

In Old Chicago - Robert Webb
Lost Horizon - C. C. Coleman, Jr.
The Life of Emile Zola - Russ Saunders
A Star Is Born - Eric Stacey
Souls at Sea - Hal Walker

Best Short Subject : Color

Penny Wisdom
The Man Without a Country
Popular Science J-7-1

Best Dance Direction

A Damsel in Distress - Hermes Pan
Varsity Show - Busby Berkeley
Ready, Willing and Able - Bobby Connolly
A Day at the Races - Dave Gould
Ali Baba Goes to Town - Sammy Lee
Waikiki Wedding - LeRoy Prinz

Special Awards

Mack Sennett
Edgar Bergen
The Museum of Modern Art Film Library
W. Howard Greene

Music : Best Score

One Hundred Men and a Girl
Lost Horizon
The Hurricane
Something to Sing About
Way Out West
Maytime
Souls at Sea
Make a Wish
Portia on Trial
Quality Street
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