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