Picture: The Life of Emile Zola (Warner, produced by Henry Blanke)
Director: Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth
Actor: Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous
Actress: Luise Rainer, The Good Earth
Supporting Actor: Joseph Schildkraut, The Life of Emile Zola
Supporting Actress: Alice Brady, In Old Chicago
Writing Screenplay: The Life of Emile Zola, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine
Writing Original Story: A Star Is Born, William A. Wellman and Robert Carson
Cinematography: The Good Earth, Karl Freund
Interior Decoration: Lost Horizon, Stephen Goosson
Sound Recording: The Hurricane, Thomas Moulton
Assistant Direction: Robert Webb, In Old Chicago
Music Song: “Sweet Leilani (Waikiki Wedding), music and lyrics by Harry Owens
Music Score: One Hundred Men and a Girl, Charles Previn, as head of Universal Music Department
Editing: Lost Horizon, Gene Havlick and Gene Milford
Dance Direction: Hermes Pan, “Fun House,” from Damsel in Distress
Short Subjects: Cartoons: The Old Mill (Disney)
Short Subjects: One-Reel: Private Life of the Gannetts (Educational)
Short Subjects: Two-Reel: Torture Money, MGM (Crime Doesn’t Pay)
Short Subjects: Color: Penny Wisdom, Pete Smith, MGM (Pete Smith Specialties)
Special Awards:
Mack Sennett, for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius (Statuette)
Edgar Bergen, for his outstanding comedy creation, Charlie McCarthy (Wooden Statuette).
The Museum of Modern Art Film Library, for its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present, and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts (Scroll Certificate).
W. Howard Greene, for the color cinematography of “A Star Is Born” (Plaque).
