11th Academy Awards (1939)

Best Picture

You Can't Take It With You
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Boys Town
The Citadel
Four Daughters
Grand Illusion
Jezebel
Pygmalion
Test Pilot

Best Director

You Can't Take It With You - Frank Capra
Angels with Dirty Faces - Michael Curtiz
Four Daughters - Michael Curtiz
Boys Town - Norman Taurog
The Citadel - King Vidor

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Boys Town - Spencer Tracy
Algiers - Charles Boyer
Angels with Dirty Faces - James Cagney
The Citadel - Robert Donat
Pygmalion - Leslie Howard

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Jezebel - Bette Davis
White Banners - Fay Bainter
Pygmalion - Wendy Hiller
Marie Antoinette - Norma Shearer
Three Comrades - Margaret Sullavan

Best Supporting Actor

Kentucky - Walter Brennan
Four Daughters - John Garfield
Algiers - Gene Lockhart
Marie Antoinette - Robert Morley
If I Were King - Basil Rathbone

Best Supporting Actress

Jezebel - Fay Bainter
Of Human Hearts - Beulah Bondi
Merrily We Live - Billie Burke
You Can't Take It With You - Spring Byington
The Great Waltz - Miliza Korjus

Best Art Direction

The Adventures of Robin Hood - Carl J. Weyl
The Goldwyn Follies - Richard Day
If I Were King - Hans Dreier, John Goodman
Marie Antoinette - Cedric Gibbons
Holiday - Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks
Merrily We Live - Charles D. Hall
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven
Mad About Music - Jack Otterson
Carefree - Van Nest Polglase
Algiers - Alexander Toluboff

Best Cinematography

The Great Waltz - Joseph Ruttenberg
Merrily We Live - Norbert Brodine
Vivacious Lady - Robert de Grasse
Jezebel - Ernest Haller
Algiers - James Wong Howe
Suez - Peverell Marley
Army Girl - Ernest Miller, Harry Wild
The Buccaneer - Victor Milner
The Young in Heart - Leon Shamroy
Mad About Music - Joseph Valentine

Best Original Score

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Pacific Liner
If I Were King
Block-Heads
Blockade
The Cowboy and the Lady
Suez
Marie Antoinette
The Young in Heart
Army Girl

Academy Honorary Award

Harry M. Warner for "Patriotic service by producing historical short subjects"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Walt Disney for "Pioneering a new entertaining field through the on-screen inovation in this movie"
Sweethearts - Oliver T. Marsh, Allen M. Davey for "Color cinematography"
Spawn of the North for "Outstanding achievements in creating special photographic and sound effects"

Best Film Editing

The Adventures of Robin Hood - Ralph Dawson
The Great Waltz - Tom Held
Test Pilot - Tom Held
You Can't Take It With You - Gene Havlick
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Barbara McLean

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Hal B. Wallis
Darryl F. Zanuck
Walter Wanger
Joe Pasternak
Samuel Goldwyn
Hunt Stromberg
David O. Selznick

Best Short Subject - One-reel

That Mothers Might Live
The Great Heart
Timber Toppers

Best Short Subject - Two-reel

Declaration of Independence
Swingtime in the Movies
They're Always Caught

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

Ferdinand the Bull
Brave Little Tailor
Good Scouts
Hunky and Spunky
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

Best Music - Song

The Big Broadcast of 1938 for "Thanks for the Memory"
Mannequin for "Always and Always"
Carefree for "Change Partners"
The Cowboy and the Lady for "The Cowboy and the Lady"
Under Western Stars for "Dust"
Going Places for "Jeepers Creepers"
Merrily We Live for "Merrily We Live"
The Lady Objects for "A Mist Over the Moon"
That Certain Age for "My Own"
Alexander's Ragtime Band for "Now It Can Be Told"

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

Boys Town - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin
Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown
Mad About Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
Blockade - John Howard Lawson
Test Pilot - Frank Wead

Best Sound, Recording

The Cowboy and the Lady
You Can't Take It With You
Merrily We Live
Sweethearts
If I Were King
Army Girl
Vivacious Lady
Suez
That Certain Age
Four Daughters

Best Writing, Screenplay

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb
Four Daughters - Lenore Coffee, Julius J. Epstein
The Citadel - Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill, Frank Wead
Boys Town - John Meehan, Dore Schary
You Can't Take It With You - Robert Riskin

Special Awards

Music : Best Score

Alexander's Ragtime Band
Carefree
Storm Over Bengal
There Goes My Heart
Tropic Holiday
Mad About Music
The Goldwyn Follies
Jezebel
Jezebel Girls' School
Sweethearts

Juvenile Academy Award

Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney for "Significant contribution in presenting the spirit and personification of youth"

Technical Achievement Award

John Aalberg for "Application of compression to variable area recording in motion picture production"
Byron Haskin for "First practical application of the triple head background projector in motion picture"