Oscars 1938 Winners (My Version)

Best Picture!

Winner: A Star Is Born!

Nominees:
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Dead End
The Good Earth
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door

Best Director!

Winner: William A. Wellman, A Star Is Born!

Nominees:
Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
Gregory La Cava - Stage Door

Best Actor!

Winner: Cary Grant, The Awful Truth!

Nominees:
Charles Boyer - Conquest
Fredric March - A Star Is Born
Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola
Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous

Best Actress!

Winner: Irene Dunne, The Awful Truth!

Nominees:
Greta Garbo - Camille
Janet Gaynor - A Star Is Born
Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas

Best Supporting Actor!

Winner: Ralph Bellamy, The Awful Truth!

Nominees:
Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon
Roland Young - Topper

Best Supporting Actress!

Winner: Andrea Leeds, Stage Door!

Nominees:
Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas
Claire Trevor - Dead End
Dame May Whitty - Night Must Fall

Best Original Screenplay!

Winner: Stan Laurel and Hal Roach, Way Out West!

Nominees:
Robert Pirosh, George Seaton and George Oppenheimer - A Day at the Races
Jean Renoir and Charles Spaak - La Grande Illusion
Ben Hecht - Nothing Sacred
Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano - Shall We Dance

Best Adapted Screenplay!

Winner: Alan Campbell, Robert Carson and Dorothy Parker, A Star Is Born!

Nominees:
Vina Delmar - The Awful Truth
John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly and Dale Van Every - Captains Courageous
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg and Norman Reilly Raine - The Life of Emile Zola
Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller - Stage Door

Best Story!

Winner: A Star Is Born!

Nominees:
Black Legion
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
One Hundred Men and a Girl

Best Live Action Short - One-Reel!

Winner: The Private Life of the Gannets!

Nominees:
A Night at the Movies
Romance of Radium

Best Live Action Short - Two-Reel!

Winner: Torture Money!

Nominees:
Deep South
Should Wives Work?

Best Live Action Short - Color!

Winner: Penny Wisdom!

Nominees:
The Man Without a Country
Popular Science J-7-1

Best Animated Short!

Winner: The Old Mill!

Nominees:
Educated Fish
The Little Match Girl

Best Original Score!

Winner: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!

Nominees:
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl

Best Original Song!

Winner: Harry Owens - Sweet Leilani, Waikiki Wedding!

Nominees:
Harry Warren and Al Dubin - Remember Me, Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Sammy Fain and Lew Brown - That Old Feeling, Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin - They Can't Take That Away From Me, Shall We Dance
Frederick Hollander and Leo Robin - Whispers in the Dark, Artists and Models

Best Art Direction!

Winner: Lost Horizon!

Nominees:
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
The Prisoner of Zenda
Way Out West

Best Cinematography!

Winner: A Star Is Born!

Nominees:
Captains Courageous
The Good Earth
Dead End
Lost Horizon

Best Sound Recording!

Winner: The Life of Emile Zola!

Nominees:
The Hurricane
In Old Chicago
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Lost Horizon

Best Film Editing!

Winner: The Awful Truth!

Nominees:
Captains Courageous
The Good Earth
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl

Best Assistant Director!

Winner: Eric G. Stacey, A Star Is Born!

Nominees:
Robert Webb - In Old Chicago
Russ Saunders - The Life of Emile Zola
C. C. Coleman, Jr. - Lost Horizon
Hal Walker - Souls at Sea

Best Dance Direction!

Winner: A Damsel in Distress!

Nominees:
Ali Baba Goes to Town
A Day at the Races
Thin Ice
Waikiki Wedding