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Academy Awards, USA
2020s
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1950s
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1930s
1920s
Award categories
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Music, Original Score
Best Music, Original Song
Best Music, Scoring
Best Picture
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
Best Short Subject, One-reel
Best Short Subject, Two-reel
Best Sound, Recording
Best Writing, Original Story
Best Writing, Screenplay
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Spencer Tracy
Boys Town
Nominated
Robert Donat
The Citadel
Leslie Howard
Pygmalion
James Cagney
Angels with Dirty Faces
Charles Boyer
Algiers
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Walter Brennan
Kentucky
Nominated
Gene Lockhart
Algiers
Robert Morley
Marie Antoinette
Basil Rathbone
If I Were King
John Garfield
Four Daughters
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Bette Davis
Jezebel
Nominated
Fay Bainter
White Banners
Margaret Sullavan
Three Comrades
Wendy Hiller
Pygmalion
Norma Shearer
Marie Antoinette
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Fay Bainter
Jezebel
Nominated
Billie Burke
Merrily We Live
Spring Byington
You Can't Take It with You
Beulah Bondi
Of Human Hearts
Miliza Korjus
The Great Waltz
Best Art Direction
Winner
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Carl Jules Weyl
Nominated
The Goldwyn Follies
Richard Day
Holiday
Stephen Goosson
Lionel Banks
If I Were King
Hans Dreier
John B. Goodman
Marie Antoinette
Cedric Gibbons
Carefree
Van Nest Polglase
Mad About Music
Jack Otterson
Algiers
Alexander Toluboff
Merrily We Live
Charles D. Hall
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Lyle R. Wheeler
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Bernard Herzbrun
Boris Leven
Best Cinematography
Winner
The Great Waltz
Joseph Ruttenberg
Nominated
Army Girl
Ernest Miller
Harry J. Wild
Vivacious Lady
Robert De Grasse
The Young in Heart
Leon Shamroy
Mad About Music
Joseph A. Valentine
You Can't Take It with You
Joseph Walker
Algiers
James Wong Howe
Jezebel
Ernest Haller
Merrily We Live
Norbert Brodine
Suez
J. Peverell Marley
The Buccaneer
Victor Milner
Best Director
Winner
Frank Capra
You Can't Take It with You
Nominated
King Vidor
The Citadel
Norman Taurog
Boys Town
Michael Curtiz
Four Daughters
Best Film Editing
Winner
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Ralph Dawson
Nominated
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Barbara McLean
Test Pilot
Tom Held
You Can't Take It with You
Gene Havlick
The Great Waltz
Tom Held
Best Music, Original Score
Winner
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Nominated
Breaking the Ice
Victor Young
If I Were King
Richard Hageman
Blockade
Werner Janssen
The Young in Heart
Franz Waxman
Pacific Liner
Robert Russell Bennett
Army Girl
Victor Young
The Cowboy and the Lady
Alfred Newman
Suez
Louis Silvers
Block-Heads
Marvin Hatley
Marie Antoinette
Herbert Stothart
Best Music, Original Song
Winner
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Ralph Rainger
Leo Robin
Nominated
The Cowboy and the Lady
Lionel Newman
Arthur Quenzer
That Certain Age
Jimmy McHugh
Harold Adamson
The Lady Objects
Ben Oakland
Oscar Hammerstein II
Mannequin
Edward Ward
Chet Forrest
Bob Wright
Under Western Stars
Johnny Marvin
Merrily We Live
Phil Charig
Arthur Quenzer
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Irving Berlin
Carefree
Irving Berlin
Going Places
Harry Warren
Johnny Mercer
Best Music, Scoring
Winner
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Alfred Newman
Nominated
Girls' School
Morris Stoloff
Gregory Stone
The Young in Heart
Franz Waxman
Mad About Music
Charles Previn
Frank Skinner
There Goes My Heart
Marvin Hatley
Jezebel
Max Steiner
Sweethearts
Herbert Stothart
Carefree
Victor Baravalle
The Goldwyn Follies
Alfred Newman
Storm Over Bengal
Cy Feuer
Tropic Holiday
Boris Morros
Best Picture
Winner
You Can't Take It with You
Nominated
The Grand Illusion
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Jezebel
Four Daughters
Pygmalion
Boys Town
Test Pilot
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Citadel
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
Winner
Ferdinand the Bull
Walt Disney
Nominated
Hunky and Spunky
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
Walt Disney
Good Scouts
Walt Disney
Brave Little Tailor
Walt Disney
Best Short Subject, One-reel
Winner
That Mothers Might Live
Nominated
The Great Heart
Timber Toppers
Best Short Subject, Two-reel
Winner
The Declaration of Independence
Nominated
A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: They're Always Caught
Swingtime in the Movies
Best Sound, Recording
Winner
The Cowboy and the Lady
Thomas T. Moulton
Nominated
You Can't Take It with You
John P. Livadary
Four Daughters
Nathan Levinson
Suez
Edmund H. Hansen
If I Were King
Loren L. Ryder
Merrily We Live
Elmer Raguse
Sweethearts
Douglas Shearer
Vivacious Lady
James Wilkinson
Army Girl
Charles L. Lootens
That Certain Age
Bernard B. Brown
Best Writing, Original Story
Winner
Boys Town
Eleanore Griffin
Dore Schary
Nominated
Blockade
John Howard Lawson
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Irving Berlin
Angels with Dirty Faces
Rowland Brown
Mad About Music
Marcella Burke
Frederick Kohner
Test Pilot
Frank Wead
Best Writing, Screenplay
Winner
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Ian Dalrymple
Cecil Lewis
W.P. Lipscomb
Nominated
Boys Town
John Meehan
Dore Schary
Four Daughters
Lenore J. Coffee
Julius J. Epstein
You Can't Take It with You
Robert Riskin
The Citadel
Ian Dalrymple
Elizabeth Hill
Frank Wead