Academy Awards
annual awards for cinematic achievements
1939 edition
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Special Achievement Academy Award
Allen M. Davey
Harry D. Mills
Walter Oberst
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Academy Award for Best Story
Eleanore Griffin
For the film: Boys Town
Also nominated: Alexander's Ragtime Band · Angels with Dirty Faces · Blockade · Frank Wead · Frederick Kohner · Irving Berlin · John Howard Lawson · Mad About Music · Marcella Burke · Rowland Brown · Test Pilot
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Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
For the film: Ferdinand the Bull
Also nominated: Brave Little Tailor · Good Scouts · Hunky and Spunky · Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
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Academy Award for Best Cinematography
For the film: The Great Waltz
Also nominated: Algiers · Army Girl · Ernest Haller · Ernest Miller · Harry J. Wild · James Wong Howe · Jezebel · Joseph Valentine · Joseph Walker · Leon Shamroy · Mad About Music · Merrily We Live · Norbert Brodine · Peverell Marley · Robert De Grasse · Suez · The Buccaneer · The Young in Heart · Victor Milner · Vivacious Lady · You Can't Take It with You
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Academy Award for Best Director
For the film: You Can't Take It with You
Also nominated: The Citadel · Angels with Dirty Faces · Boys Town · King Vidor · Michael Curtiz · Norman Taurog · Four Daughters
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Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Ralph Dawson
For the film: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Also nominated: The Great Waltz · Alexander's Ragtime Band · Barbara McLean · Gene Havlick · Test Pilot · Tom Held · You Can't Take It with You
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Academy Award for Best Original Score
For the film: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Also nominated: Alfred Newman · Army Girl · Block-Heads · Blockade · Breaking the Ice · Franz Waxman · Herbert Stothart · If I Were King · Louis Silvers · Marie Antoinette · Marvin Hatley · Pacific Liner · Richard Hageman · Robert Russell Bennett · Suez · The Cowboy and the Lady · The Wizard of Oz · The Young in Heart · Victor Young · Werner Janssen
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Academy Award for Best Production Design
Carl Jules Weyl
For the film: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Also nominated: Alexander's Ragtime Band · Alexander Toluboff · Algiers · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Bernard Herzbrun · Boris Leven · Carefree · Cedric Gibbons · Charles D. Hall · Hans Dreier · Holiday · If I Were King · Jack Otterson · John B. Goodman · Lionel Banks · Lyle R. Wheeler · Mad About Music · Marie Antoinette · Merrily We Live · Richard Day · Stephen Goosson · The Goldwyn Follies · Van Nest Polglase
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Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment
For the film: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Also nominated: Boris Morros · Carefree · Charles Previn · Cy Feuer · Frank Skinner · Franz Waxman · Gregory Stone · Herbert Stothart · Jezebel · Mad About Music · Marvin Hatley · Max Steiner · Morris Stoloff · Storm Over Bengal · Sweethearts · The Goldwyn Follies · There Goes My Heart · The Romantic Age · Tropic Holiday · Victor Baravalle
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Academy Award for Best Sound
Thomas T. Moulton
For the film: The Cowboy and the Lady
Also nominated: Army Girl · Bernard B. Brown · Charles L. Lootens · Douglas Shearer · Edmund H. Hansen · Elmer Raguse · If I Were King · James Wilkinson · John P. Livadary · Loren L. Ryder · Merrily We Live · Nathan Levinson · Four Daughters · Suez · Sweethearts · That Certain Age · Vivacious Lady · You Can't Take It with You
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
For the film: Kentucky
Also nominated: Algiers · Basil Rathbone · Gene Lockhart · If I Were King · John Garfield · Marie Antoinette · Four Daughters · Robert Morley
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Academy Juvenile Award
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Academy Scientific and Technical Award
John O. Aalberg
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Academy Award for Best Picture
Also nominated: The Citadel · Grand Illusion · Alexander's Ragtime Band · Boys Town · Jezebel · Pygmalion · Four Daughters · Test Pilot · The Adventures of Robin Hood
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Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
The Declaration of Independence
Also nominated: Swingtime in the Movies · They're Always Caught
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