11th Academy Awards
Held in 1939 · 13 categories
Best Picture
- Winner You Can't Take It With You
- Nominee Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Nominee Boys Town
- Nominee Four Daughters
- Nominee Jezebel
- Nominee La Grande Illusion
- Nominee Pygmalion
- Nominee Test Pilot
- Nominee The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Nominee The Citadel
Best Actor
- Winner Boys Town · Spencer Tracy
- Nominee Algiers · Charles Boyer
- Nominee Angels with Dirty Faces · James Cagney
- Nominee Pygmalion · Leslie Howard
- Nominee The Citadel · Robert Donat
Best Actress
- Winner Jezebel · Bette Davis
- Nominee Marie Antoinette · Norma Shearer
- Nominee Pygmalion · Wendy Hiller
- Nominee Three Comrades · Margaret Sullavan
- Nominee White Banners · Fay Bainter
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner Kentucky · Walter Brennan
- Nominee Algiers · Gene Lockhart
- Nominee Four Daughters · John Garfield
- Nominee If I Were King · Basil Rathbone
- Nominee Marie Antoinette · Robert Morley
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner Jezebel · Fay Bainter
- Nominee Merrily We Live · Billie Burke
- Nominee Of Human Hearts · Beulah Bondi
- Nominee The Great Waltz · Miliza Korjus
- Nominee You Can't Take It With You · Spring Byington
Best Director
- Winner You Can't Take It With You · Frank Capra
- Nominee Angels with Dirty Faces · Michael Curtiz
- Nominee Boys Town · Norman Taurog
- Nominee Four Daughters · Michael Curtiz
- Nominee The Citadel · King Vidor
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Pygmalion · Cecil Arthur Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, W. P. Lipscomb
- Nominee Boys Town · Dore Schary, John Meehan
- Nominee Four Daughters · Julius J. Epstein, Lenore J. Coffee
- Nominee The Citadel · Elizabeth Hill, Frank Wead, Ian Dalrymple
- Nominee You Can't Take It With You · Robert Riskin
Best Original Score
- Winner Alexander's Ragtime Band · Alfred Newman
- Winner The Adventures of Robin Hood · Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Nominee Army Girl · Victor Young
- Nominee Block-Heads · Marvin Hatley
- Nominee Blockade · Werner Janssen
- Nominee Breaking the Ice · Victor Young
- Nominee Carefree · Victor Baravalle
- Nominee Girls' School · Morris Stoloff
- Nominee If I Were King · Richard Hageman
- Nominee Jezebel · Max Steiner
- Nominee Mad About Music · Charles Previn, Frank Skinner
- Nominee Marie Antoinette · Herbert Stothart
- Nominee Pacific Liner · Robert Russell Bennett
- Nominee Storm Over Bengal · Cy Feuer
- Nominee Suez · Louis Silvers
- Nominee Sweethearts · Herbert Stothart
- Nominee The Cowboy and the Lady · Alfred Newman
- Nominee The Goldwyn Follies
- Nominee The Young in Heart · Franz Waxman
- Nominee There Goes My Heart · Marvin Hatley
- Nominee Tropic Holiday · Boris Morros
Best Original Song
- Winner Thanks for the Memory from The Big Broadcast of 1938 · Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
- Nominee A Mist Is Over the Moon · Ben Oakland, Oscar Hammerstein II
- Nominee A Mist Over the Moon from The Lady Objects · Ben Oakland, Oscar Hammerstein II
- Nominee Always and Always from Mannequin · Edward Ward, George Forrest, Robert Wright
- Nominee Change Partners from Carefree · Irving Berlin
- Nominee Dust from Under Western Stars · Johnny Marvin
- Nominee Jeepers Creepers from Going Places · Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer
- Nominee Merrily We Live · Arthur Quenzer, Phil Charig
- Nominee My Own from That Certain Age · Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
- Nominee Now It Can Be Told from Alexander's Ragtime Band · Irving Berlin
- Nominee The Cowboy and the Lady · Arthur Quenzer, Lionel Newman
Best Cinematography
- Winner The Great Waltz · Joseph Ruttenberg
- Nominee Algiers · James Wong Howe
- Nominee Army Girl · Ernest Miller, Harry J. Wild
- Nominee Jezebel · Ernest Haller
- Nominee Mad About Music · Joseph A. Valentine
- Nominee Merrily We Live · Norbert Brodine
- Nominee Suez · John Peverell Marley
- Nominee The Buccaneer · Victor Milner
- Nominee The Young in Heart · Leon Shamroy
- Nominee Vivacious Lady · Robert De Grasse
- Nominee You Can't Take It With You · Joseph Walker
Best Film Editing
- Winner The Adventures of Robin Hood · Ralph Dawson
- Nominee Alexander's Ragtime Band · Barbara McLean
- Nominee Test Pilot · Tom Held
- Nominee The Great Waltz · Tom Held
- Nominee You Can't Take It With You · Gene Havlick
Best Production Design
- Winner The Adventures of Robin Hood · Carl Jules Weyl
- Nominee Alexander's Ragtime Band · Bernard Herzbrun, Boris Leven
- Nominee Algiers · Alexander Toluboff
- Nominee Carefree · Van Nest Polglase
- Nominee Holiday · Lionel Banks, Stephen Goosson
- Nominee If I Were King · Hans Dreier, John B. Goodman
- Nominee Mad About Music · Jack Otterson
- Nominee Marie Antoinette · Cedric Gibbons
- Nominee Merrily We Live · Charles D. Hall
- Nominee The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Lyle R. Wheeler
- Nominee The Goldwyn Follies · Richard Day
Best Sound
- Winner The Cowboy and the Lady · Thomas T. Moulton
- Nominee Army Girl · Charles L. Lootens
- Nominee Four Daughters · Nathan Levinson
- Nominee If I Were King · Loren L. Ryder
- Nominee Merrily We Live · Elmer A. Raguse
- Nominee Suez · Edmund H. Hansen
- Nominee Sweethearts · Douglas Shearer
- Nominee That Certain Age · Bernard B. Brown
- Nominee Vivacious Lady · James Wilkinson
- Nominee You Can't Take It With You · John P. Livadary