Winner

Spencer Tracy

Captains Courageous

Nominated

Robert Montgomery

Night Must Fall

Charles Boyer

Conquest

Fredric March

A Star Is Born

Paul Muni

The Life of Emile Zola

Winner

Joseph Schildkraut

The Life of Emile Zola

Nominated

Roland Young

Topper

Thomas Mitchell

The Hurricane

Ralph Bellamy

The Awful Truth

H.B. Warner

Lost Horizon

Winner

Luise Rainer

The Good Earth

Nominated

Irene Dunne

The Awful Truth

Barbara Stanwyck

Stella Dallas

Greta Garbo

Camille

Janet Gaynor

A Star Is Born

Winner

Alice Brady

In Old Chicago

Nominated

Anne Shirley

Stella Dallas

Andrea Leeds

Stage Door

Claire Trevor

Dead End

May Whitty

Night Must Fall

Winner

Lost Horizon

Stephen Goosson

Nominated

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

John Victor Mackay

Souls at Sea

Hans Dreier

Roland Anderson

You're a Sweetheart

Jack Otterson

A Damsel in Distress

Carroll Clark

Vogues of 1938

Alexander Toluboff

Wee Willie Winkie

William S. Darling

David S. Hall

Dead End

Richard Day

Every Day's a Holiday

Wiard Ihnen

The Life of Emile Zola

Anton Grot

The Prisoner of Zenda

Lyle R. Wheeler

Conquest

Cedric Gibbons

William A. Horning

Winner

Robert D. Webb

In Old Chicago

Nominated

Charles C. Coleman

Lost Horizon

Eric Stacey

A Star Is Born

Hal Walker

Souls at Sea

Russell Saunders

The Life of Emile Zola

Winner

The Good Earth

Karl Freund

Nominated

Wings Over Honolulu

Joseph A. Valentine

Dead End

Gregg Toland

Winner

A Damsel in Distress

Hermes Pan

Nominated

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Sammy Lee

Thin Ice

Harry Losee

A Day at the Races

Dave Gould

Varsity Show

Busby Berkeley

Ready, Willing and Able

Bobby Connolly

Waikiki Wedding

LeRoy Prinz

Winner

Leo McCarey

The Awful Truth

Nominated

William A. Wellman

A Star Is Born

Sidney Franklin

The Good Earth

William Dieterle

The Life of Emile Zola

Gregory La Cava

Stage Door

Winner

Lost Horizon

Gene Havlick

Gene Milford

Nominated

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Bernard W. Burton

The Awful Truth

Al Clark

Captains Courageous

Elmo Veron

The Good Earth

Basil Wrangell

Winner

Waikiki Wedding

Harry Owens

Nominated

Artist and Models

Friedrich Hollaender

Leo Robin

Shall We Dance

George Gershwin

Ira Gershwin

Vogues of 1938

Sammy Fain

Lew Brown

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

Harry Warren

Al Dubin

Winner

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Charles Previn

Nominated

In Old Chicago

Louis Silvers

The Life of Emile Zola

Leo F. Forbstein

Lost Horizon

Morris Stoloff

Maytime

Nat W. Finston

Souls at Sea

Boris Morros

Quality Street

Roy Webb

Make a Wish

Hugo Riesenfeld

Portia on Trial

Alberto Colombo

Way Out West

Marvin Hatley

The Hurricane

Alfred Newman

The Prisoner of Zenda

Alfred Newman

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Frank Churchill

Leigh Harline

Paul J. Smith

Something to Sing About

C. Bakaleinikoff

Winner

The Life of Emile Zola

Nominated

The Awful Truth

Captains Courageous

Lost Horizon

A Star Is Born

In Old Chicago

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Stage Door

Dead End

The Good Earth

Winner

The Old Mill

Walt Disney

Nominated

The Little Match Girl

Charles Mintz

Educated Fish

Winner

Penny Wisdom

Pete Smith

Nominated

Popular Science

The Man Without a Country

Winner

The Private Life of the Gannets

Nominated

A Night at the Movies

Romance of Radium

Pete Smith

Winner

Torture Money

Nominated

Deep South

Should Wives Work?

Winner

The Hurricane

Thomas T. Moulton

Nominated

Topper

Elmer Raguse

In Old Chicago

Edmund H. Hansen

The Life of Emile Zola

Nathan Levinson

Hitting a New High

John Aalberg

The Girl Said No

A.E. Kaye

Lost Horizon

John P. Livadary

Maytime

Douglas Shearer

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Homer G. Tasker

Wells Fargo

Loren L. Ryder

Winner

A Star Is Born

William A. Wellman

Robert Carson

Nominated

Black Legion

Robert Lord

One Hundred Men and a Girl

Hanns Kräly

In Old Chicago

Niven Busch

The Life of Emile Zola

Heinz Herald

Geza Herczeg

Winner

The Life of Emile Zola

Heinz Herald

Geza Herczeg

Norman Reilly Raine

Nominated

Captains Courageous

Marc Connelly

John Lee Mahin

Dale Van Every

The Awful Truth

Viña Delmar

A Star Is Born

Alan Campbell

Robert Carson

Dorothy Parker

Stage Door

Morrie Ryskind

Anthony Veiller