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The 10th Academy Awards
| 1938
Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel
Thursday, March 10, 1938
Honoring movies released in 1937
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Highlights
Best Actress
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The Good Earth
Luise Rainer
Best Actor
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Captains Courageous
Spencer Tracy
Best Picture
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The Life of Emile Zola
accepted by Jack Warner, with Frank Capra
Memorable Moments
W.C. Fields, Mack Sennett, and Frank Capra
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At the Oscar ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
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Leo McCarey
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Best Directing winner for The Awful Truth
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Spencer Tracy
Captains Courageous
Nominees
Charles Boyer
Conquest
Fredric March
A Star Is Born
Robert Montgomery
Night Must Fall
Paul Muni
The Life of Emile Zola
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Joseph Schildkraut
The Life of Emile Zola
Nominees
Ralph Bellamy
The Awful Truth
Thomas Mitchell
The Hurricane
H. B. Warner
Lost Horizon
Roland Young
Topper
Actress
Winner
Luise Rainer
The Good Earth
Nominees
Irene Dunne
The Awful Truth
Greta Garbo
Camille
Janet Gaynor
A Star Is Born
Barbara Stanwyck
Stella Dallas
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Alice Brady
In Old Chicago
Nominees
Andrea Leeds
Stage Door
Anne Shirley
Stella Dallas
Claire Trevor
Dead End
Dame May Whitty
Night Must Fall
Art Direction
Winner
Lost Horizon
Stephen Goosson
Nominees
Conquest
Cedric Gibbons, William Horning
A Damsel in Distress
Carroll Clark
Dead End
Richard Day
Every Day's a Holiday
Wiard Ihnen
The Life of Emile Zola
Anton Grot
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
John Victor Mackay
The Prisoner of Zenda
Lyle Wheeler
Souls at Sea
Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
Alexander Toluboff
Wee Willie Winkie
William S. Darling, David Hall
You're a Sweetheart
Jack Otterson
Assistant Director
Winner
In Old Chicago
Robert Webb
Nominees
The Life of Emile Zola
Russ Saunders
Lost Horizon
C. C. Coleman, Jr.
Souls at Sea
Hal Walker
A Star Is Born
Eric Stacey
Cinematography
Winner
The Good Earth
Karl Freund
Nominees
Dead End
Gregg Toland
Wings over Honolulu
Joseph Valentine
Dance Direction
Winner
A Damsel in Distress
"Fun House" from "A Damsel in Distress"
Nominees
Varsity Show
"The Finale" from "Varsity Show"
Ready, Willing and Able
"Too Marvelous for Words" from "Ready, Willing and Able"
A Day at the Races
"All God's Children Got Rhythm" from "A Day at the Races"
Ali Baba Goes to Town
"Swing Is Here to Stay" from "Ali Baba Goes to Town"
Thin Ice
"Prince Igor Suite" from "Thin Ice"
Waikiki Wedding
"Luau" from "Waikiki Wedding"
Directing
Winner
The Awful Truth
Leo McCarey
Nominees
The Good Earth
Sidney Franklin
The Life of Emile Zola
William Dieterle
Stage Door
Gregory La Cava
A Star Is Born
William Wellman
Film Editing
Winner
Lost Horizon
Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
Nominees
The Awful Truth
Al Clark
Captains Courageous
Elmo Veron
The Good Earth
Basil Wrangell
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Bernard W. Burton
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Darryl F. Zanuck
Music (Scoring)
Winner
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (no composer credit)
Nominees
The Hurricane
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Alfred Newman)
In Old Chicago
20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (no composer credit)
The Life of Emile Zola
Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
Lost Horizon
Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin)
Make a Wish
Principal Productions, Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, musical director (Score by Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld)
Maytime
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)
Portia on Trial
Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Alberto Colombo)
The Prisoner of Zenda
Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, musical director (Score by Alfred Newman)
Quality Street
RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, musical director (Score by Roy Webb)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith)
Something to Sing About
Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (Score by Victor Schertzinger)
Souls at Sea
Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder)
Way Out West
Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score by Marvin Hatley)
Music (Song)
Winner
Waikiki Wedding
Sweet Leilani in "Waikiki Wedding" Music and Lyrics by Harry Owens
Nominees
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Remember Me in "Mr. Dodd Takes the Air" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Al Dubin
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
That Old Feeling in "Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Lew Brown
Shall We Dance
They Can't Take That Away From Me in "Shall We Dance" Music by George Gershwin; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Artists and Models
Whispers In The Dark in "Artists and Models" Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyrics by Leo Robin
Outstanding Production
Winner
The Life of Emile Zola
Warner Bros.
Nominees
The Awful Truth
Columbia
Captains Courageous
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dead End
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
The Good Earth
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In Old Chicago
20th Century-Fox
Lost Horizon
Columbia
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Universal
Stage Door
RKO Radio
A Star Is Born
Selznick International Pictures
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Old Mill
Walt Disney, Producer
Nominees
Educated Fish
Paramount
The Little Match Girl
Charles Mintz, Producer
Short Subject (Color)
Winner
Penny Wisdom
Pete Smith, Producer
Nominees
The Man without a Country
Warner Bros.
Popular Science J-7-1
Paramount
Short Subject (One-reel)
Winner
The Private Life of the Gannets
Skibo Productions
Nominees
A Night at the Movies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Romance of Radium
Pete Smith, Producer
Short Subject (Two-reel)
Winner
Torture Money
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Nominees
Deep South
RKO Radio
Should Wives Work?
RKO Radio
Sound Recording
Winner
The Hurricane
United Artists Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
Nominees
The Girl Said No
Grand National Studio Sound Department, A. E. Kaye, Sound Director
Hitting a New High
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director
In Old Chicago
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director
The Life of Emile Zola
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
Lost Horizon
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
Maytime
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Universal Studio Sound Department, Homer G. Tasker, Sound Director
Topper
Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director
Wells Fargo
Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
Special Award
Winner
A Star Is Born
Special Award
Writing (Original Story)
Winner
A Star Is Born
William A. Wellman, Robert Carson
Nominees
Black Legion
Robert Lord
In Old Chicago
Niven Busch
The Life of Emile Zola
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Hans Kraly
Writing (Screenplay)
Winner
The Life of Emile Zola
Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
Nominees
The Awful Truth
Vina Delmar
Captains Courageous
John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every
Stage Door
Morris Ryskind, Anthony Veiller
A Star Is Born
Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson