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| 11th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | February 23, 1939 | |||
| Site | Biltmore Hotel | |||
| Host | No official host | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | You Can't Take It with You | |||
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The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host, as well as the first to have a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion) nominated for Best Picture.
Winners and nominees
Winners are highlighted in boldface.
Best Motion Picture Of The Year
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Boys Town
- The Citadel
- Four Daughters
- Grand Illusion
- Jezebel
- Pygmalion
- Test Pilot
- You Can't Take It With You
Achievement in Directing
- Frank Capra - You Can't Take It With You
- Michael Curtiz - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Michael Curtiz - Four Daughters
- Norman Taurog - Boys Town
- King Vidor - The Citadel
Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role
- Charles Boyer - Algiers
- James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Robert Donat - The Citadel
- Leslie Howard - Pygmalion
- Spencer Tracy - Boys Town
Best Performance by An Actress In A Leading Role
- Fay Bainter - White Banners
- Bette Davis - Jezebel
- Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion
- Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette
- Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades
Best Performance by An Actor In a Supporting Role
- Walter Brennan - Kentucky
- John Garfield - Four Daughters
- Gene Lockhart - Algiers
- Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette
- Basil Rathbone - If I Were King
Best Performance by An Actress In a Supporting Role
- Fay Bainter - Jezebel
- Beulah Bondi - Of Human Hearts
- Billie Burke - Merrily We Live
- Spring Byington - You Can't Take It With You
- Miliza Korjus - The Great Waltz
Best Writing, Screenplay
- Lenore Coffee and Julius J. Epstein - Four Daughters
- Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill, and Frank Wead - The Citadel
- John Meehan and Dore Schary - Boys Town
- Robert Riskin - You Can't Take It With You
- George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, and W. P. Lipscomb - Pygmalion
Best Writing, Original Story
- Irving Berlin - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Rowland Brown - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner - Mad About Music
- Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary - Boys Town
- John Howard Lawson - Blockade
- Frank Wead - Test Pilot (film)
Art Decoration
- Richard Day - The Goldwyn Follies
- Hans Dreier and John Goodman - If I Were King
- Cedric Gibbons - Marie Antoinette
- Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks - Holiday
- Charles D. Hall - Merrily We Live
- Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Jack Otterson - Mad About Music
- Van Nest Polglase - Carefree
- Alexander Toluboff - Algiers
- Carl J. Weyl - The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Lyle Wheeler - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Achievement In Cinematography
- Norbert Brodine - Merrily We Live
- Robert de Grasse - Vivacious Lady
- Ernest Haller - Jezebel
- James Wong Howe - Algiers
- Peverell Marley - Suez
- Ernest Miller and Harry Wild - Army Girl
- Victor Milner - The Buccaneer
- Joseph Ruttenberg - The Great Waltz
- Leon Shamroy - The Young in Heart
- Joseph Valentine - Mad About Music
- Joseph Walker - You Can't Take It With You
Sound Recording
- You Can't Take It With You
- Merrily We Live
- Sweethearts
- If I Were King
- Army Girl
- Vivacious Lady
- Suez
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- That Certain Age
- Four Daughters
Short Subjects: Cartoons
- Brave Little Tailor
- Ferdinand the Bull
- Good Scouts
- Hunky and Spunky
- Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
Short Subjects: One-Reel
- The Great Heart
- That Mothers Might Live
- Timber Toppers
Short Subjects: Two-Reel
- Declaration of Independence
- Swingtime in the Movies
- They're Always Caught
Music: Best Song
- "Always and Always" - Mannequin
- "Change Partners" - Carefree
- "The Cowboy and the Lady" - The Cowboy and the Lady
- "Dust" - Under Western Stars
- "Jeepers Creepers" - Going Places
- "Merrily We Live" - Merrily We Live
- "A Mist Over the Moon" - The Lady Objects
- "My Own" - That Certain Age
- "Now It Can Be Told" - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- "Thanks for the Memory" - The Big Broadcast of 1938
Music: Best Score
- Carefree
- Storm Over Bengal
- There Goes My Heart
- Tropic Holiday
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- The Goldwyn Follies
- Mad About Music
- Jezebel
- Girls' School
- Sweethearts
- The Young in Heart
Music: Best Original Score
- Pacific Liner
- If I Were King
- Block-Heads
- Blockade
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- Suez
- Marie Antoinette
- The Young in Heart
- Army Girl
- Breaking the Ice
Film Editing
- Ralph Dawson - The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Tom Held - The Great Waltz
- Tom Held - Test Pilot
- Gene Havlick - You Can't Take It With You
- Barbara McLean - Alexander's Ragtime Band
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Not necessarily given each year
Special Award
- Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney
- Harry M. Warner
- Walt Disney
- Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey
- Gordon Jenning, Jan Domela, Dev Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren Ryder, Harry Mills, Louis H. Mesenkop, and Walter Oberst
- J. Arthur Ball
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