Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

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1938 edition

Academy Scientific and Technical Award

Douglas Shearer

Farciot Edouart

John Arnold

John P. Livadary

Thomas T. Moulton
Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Gene Havlick

Gene Milford

For the film: Lost Horizon

Also nominated: Al Clark · Basil Wrangell · Bernard W. Burton · Captains Courageous · Elmo Veron · One Hundred Men and a Girl · The Awful Truth · The Good Earth
Academy Award for Best Story

Robert Carson

William A. Wellman

For the film: A Star Is Born

Also nominated: Black Legion · Géza Herczeg · Hanns Kräly · Heinz Herald · In Old Chicago · Niven Busch · One Hundred Men and a Girl · Robert Lord · The Life of Emile Zola
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Walt Disney

For the film: The Old Mill

Also nominated: Charles B. Mintz · Educated Fish · The Little Match Girl
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Karl Freund

For the film: The Good Earth

Also nominated: Dead End · Gregg Toland · Joseph Valentine · Wings Over Honolulu
Academy Award for Best Director

Leo McCarey

For the film: The Awful Truth

Also nominated: A Star Is Born · Gregory La Cava · Sidney Franklin · Stage Door · The Good Earth · The Life of Emile Zola · William A. Wellman · William Dieterle
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Color

Pete Smith

For the film: Penny Wisdom

Also nominated: Popular Science J-7-1 · The Man Without a Country
Academy Award for Best Production Design

Stephen Goosson

For the film: Lost Horizon

Also nominated: A Damsel in Distress · Alexander Toluboff · Anton Grot · Carroll Clark · Cedric Gibbons · Conquest · David S. Hall · Dead End · Every Day's a Holiday · Hans Dreier · Jack Otterson · John Victor Mackay · Lyle R. Wheeler · Manhattan Merry-Go-Round · Richard Day · Roland Anderson · Souls at Sea · The Life of Emile Zola · The Prisoner of Zenda · Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 · Wee Willie Winkie · Wiard Ihnen · William A. Horning · William S. Darling · You're a Sweetheart
Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment

Charles Previn

For the film: One Hundred Men and a Girl

Also nominated: Alberto Colombo · Alfred Newman · Boris Morros · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · C. Bakaleinikoff · Frank Churchill · Lost Horizon · Hugo Riesenfeld · In Old Chicago · Leigh Harline · Leo F. Forbstein · Louis Silvers · Make a Wish · Marvin Hatley · Milan Roder · Morris Stoloff · Nat W. Finston · Paul Smith · Portia on Trial · Maytime · Quality Street · Roy Webb · Something to Sing About · Souls at Sea · The Hurricane · The Life of Emile Zola · The Prisoner of Zenda · Way Out West
Academy Award for Best Sound

Thomas T. Moulton

For the film: The Hurricane

Also nominated: Topper · A. E. Kaye · Douglas Shearer · Edmund H. Hansen · Elmer Raguse · Hitting a New High · Homer G. Tasker · Lost Horizon · In Old Chicago · John O. Aalberg · John P. Livadary · Loren L. Ryder · Nathan Levinson · One Hundred Men and a Girl · Maytime · The Girl Said No · The Life of Emile Zola · Wells Fargo
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Joseph Schildkraut

For the film: The Life of Emile Zola

Also nominated: Topper · H.B. Warner · Lost Horizon · Ralph Bellamy · Roland Young · The Awful Truth · The Hurricane · Thomas Mitchell
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Life of Emile Zola

Also nominated: A Star Is Born · Captains Courageous · Dead End · Lost Horizon · In Old Chicago · One Hundred Men and a Girl · Stage Door · The Awful Truth · The Good Earth
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

Torture Money

Also nominated: Deep South · Should Wives Work?
Academy Juvenile Award

Mickey Rooney