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1927-28
Production (Picture):
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"WINGS"
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"The Racket" "Seventh Heaven"
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Unique and Artistic Picture (also known as Artistic Quality of Production):
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"SUNRISE"
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"Chang" "The Crowd"
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Actor:
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EMIL JANNINGS for "The Way of All Flesh" and "The Last Command"
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Richard Barthelmess for "The Noose" and "The Patent Leather Kid" |
Actress:
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JANET GAYNOR for "Seventh Heaven"
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"Street Angel," and "Sunrise"
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Louise Dresser for "A Ship Comes In"
Gloria Swanson for "Sadie Thompson" |
Director:
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FRANK BORZAGE for "Seventh Heaven"
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Herbert Brenon for "Sorrell and Son"
King Vidor for "The Crowd"
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Comedy Direction:
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LEWIS MILESTONE for "Two Arabian Knights" |
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Ted Wilde for "Speedy" |
1928-29
Production (Picture):
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"BROADWAY MELODY" |
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"Alibi" "Hollywood Revue" "In Old Arizona" "The Patriot" |
Actor:
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WARNER BAXTER for "In Old Arizona" |
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George Bancroft for "Thunderbolt"
Chester Morris for "Alibi"
Paul Muni for "The Valiant"
Lewis Stone for "The Patriot" |
Actress:
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MARY PICKFORD for "Coquette" |
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Ruth Chatterton for "Madame X"
Betty Compson for "The Barker"
Jeanne Eagels for "The Letter"
Corinne Griffith for "The Divine Lady"
Bessie Love for "Broadway Melody" |
Director:
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FRANK LLOYD for "The Divine Lady" |
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Lionel Barrymore for "Madame X"
Harry Beaumont for "Broadway Melody"
Irving Cummings for "In Old Arizona"
Ernst Lubitsch for "The Patriot" |
Art Direction:
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CEDRIC GIBBONS for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and other pictures |
1929-30
Production (Picture):
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"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"
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"The Big House" "Disraeli" "The Divorcee" "The Love Parade" |
Actor:
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GEORGE ARLISS for "Disraeli" |
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George Arliss for "The Green Goddess"
Wallace Beery for "The Big House"
Maurice Chevalier for "The Big Pond"
Maurice Chevalier for "The Love Parade"
Ronald Colman for "Bulldog Drummond"
Ronald Colman for "Condemned"
Lawrence Tibbett for "The Rogue Song" |
Actress:
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NORMA SHEARER for "The Divorcee" |
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Nancy Carroll for "The Devil's Holiday"
Ruth Chatterton for "Sarah and Son"
Greta Garbo for "Anna Christie"
Greta Garbo for "Romance"
Norma Shearer for "Their Own Desire"
Gloria Swanson for "The Trespasser" |
Director:
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LEWIS MILESTONE for "All Quiet On The Western Front"
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Clarence Brown for "Anna Christie"
Robert Z. Leonard for "The Divorcee"
Ernst Lubitsch for "The Love Parade"
King Vidor for "Hallelujah" |
1930-31
Production (Picture):
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"CIMARRON" |
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"East Lynne" "The Front Page" "Skippy" "Trader Horn" |
Actor:
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LIONEL BARRYMORE for "A Free Soul" |
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Jackie Cooper for "Skippy"
Richard Dix for "Cimarron"
Fredric March for "The Royal Family of Broadway"
Adolphe Menjou for "The Front Page" |
Actress:
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MARIE DRESSLER for "Min and Bill" |
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Marlene Dietrich for "Morocco"

Irene Dunne for "Cimarron"
Ann Harding for "Holiday"
Norma Shearer for "A Free Soul" |
Director:
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NORMAN TAUROG for "Skippy" |
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Clarence Brown for "A Free Soul"
Lewis Milestone for "The Front Page"
Wesley Ruggles for "Cimarron"
Josef von Sternberg for "Morocco"
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1931-32
Production (Picture):
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"GRAND HOTEL" |
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"Arrowsmith"
"Bad Girl"
"The Champ"
"Five Star Final"
"One Hour With You"
"Shanghai Express"
"The Smiling Lieutenant" |
Actor:
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FREDRIC MARCH for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and
WALLACE BEERY for "The Champ" (tie) |
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Alfred Lunt for "The Guardsman" |
Actress:
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HELEN HAYES for "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" |
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Marie Dressler for "Emma"
Lynn Fontanne for "The Guardsman" |
Director:
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FRANK BORZAGE for "Bad Girl" |
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King Vidor for "The Champ"
Josef von Sternberg for "Shanghai Express" |
Special Award:
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Walt Disney for creating Mickey Mouse |
1932-33
Picture:
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"CAVALCADE" |
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"A Farewell to Arms" "42nd Street"

"I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" 
"Lady for a Day"
"Little Women"
"The Private Life of Henry VIII"
"She Done Him Wrong"

"Smilin' Through"
"State Fair" |
Actor:
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CHARLES LAUGHTON for "The Private Life of Henry VIII" |
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Leslie Howard for "Berkeley Square"
Paul Muni for "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang"
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Actress:
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KATHARINE HEPBURN for "Morning Glory" |
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May Robson for "Lady for a Day"
Diana Wynyard for "Cavalcade" |
Director:
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FRANK LLOYD for "Cavalcade" |
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Frank Capra for "Lady For a Day"
George Cukor for "Little Women" |
1934
Picture:
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"IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT"
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"The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
"Cleopatra"
"Flirtation Walk"
"The Gay Divorcee"
"Here Comes the Navy"
"The House of Rothschild"
"Imitation of Life"
"One Night of Love"
"The Thin Man"

"Viva Villa!"
"The White Parade" |
Actor:
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CLARK GABLE for "It Happened One Night"
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Frank Morgan for "Affairs of Cellini"
William Powell for "The Thin Man"
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Actress:
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CLAUDETTE COLBERT for "It Happened One Night"
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Grace Moore for "One Night of Love"
Norma Shearer for "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" |
Director:
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FRANK CAPRA for "It Happened One Night"
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Victor Schertzinger for "One Night of Love"
W. S. Van Dyke for "The Thin Man"
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1935
Picture:
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"MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY"
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"Alice Adams"
"Broadway Melody of 1936"
"Captain Blood"
"David Copperfield"
"The Informer"
"Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"Les Miserables"
"Naughty Marietta"
"Ruggles of Red Gap"
"Top Hat"
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Actor:
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VICTOR MCLAGLEN for "The Informer" |
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Clark Gable for "Mutiny on the Bounty"

Charles Laughton for "Mutiny on the Bounty"

Franchot Tone for "Mutiny on the Bounty"
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Actress:
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BETTE DAVIS for "Dangerous" |
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Elisabeth Bergner for "Escape Me Never"
Claudette Colbert for "Private Worlds"
Katharine Hepburn for "Alice Adams"
Miriam Hopkins for "Becky Sharp"
Merle Oberon for "The Dark Angel" |
Director:
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JOHN FORD for "The Informer" |
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Michael Curtiz for "Captain Blood"
Henry Hathaway for "Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
Frank Lloyd for "Mutiny on the Bounty"
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1936
Picture:
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"THE GREAT ZIEGFELD" |
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"Anthony Adverse"
"Dodsworth"
"Libeled Lady"
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"

"Romeo and Juliet"
"San Francisco"
"The Story of Louis Pasteur"
"A Tale of Two Cities"
"Three Smart Girls" |
Actor:
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PAUL MUNI for "The Story of Louis Pasteur" |
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Gary Cooper for "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"

Walter Huston for "Dodsworth"
William Powell for "My Man Godfrey"

Spencer Tracy for "San Francisco" |
Actress:
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LUISE RAINER for "The Great Ziegfeld" |
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Irene Dunne for "Theodora Goes Wild"
Gladys George for "Valiant Is the Word for Carrie"
Carole Lombard for "My Man Godfrey"

Norma Shearer for "Romeo and Juliet" |
Supporting Actor:
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WALTER BRENNAN for "Come and Get It" |
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Mischa Auer for "My Man Godfrey"

Stuart Erwin for "Pigskin Parade"
Basil Rathbone for "Romeo and Juliet"
Akim Tamiroff for "The General Died at Dawn" |
Supporting Actress:
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GALE SONDERGAARD for "Anthony Adverse" |
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Beulah Bondi for "The Gorgeous Hussy"
Alice Brady for "My Man Godfrey"

Bonita Granville for "These Three"
Maria Ouspenskaya for "Dodsworth" |
Director:
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FRANK CAPRA for "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"
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Gregory La Cava for "My Man Godfrey"

Robert Z. Leonard for "The Great Ziegfeld"
W. S. Van Dyke for "San Francisco"
William Wyler for "Dodsworth" |
1937
Picture:
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"THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA"
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"The Awful Truth"

"Captains Courageous"
"Dead End"
"The Good Earth"
"In Old Chicago"
"Lost Horizon"
"One Hundred Men and a Girl"
"Stage Door"
"A Star is Born" |
Actor:
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SPENCER TRACY for "Captains Courageous" |
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Charles Boyer for "Conquest"
Fredric March for "A Star is Born"
Robert Montgomery for "Night Must Fall"
Paul Muni for "The Life of Emile Zola"
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Actress:
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LUISE RAINER for "The Good Earth" |
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Irene Dunne for "The Awful Truth"

Greta Garbo for "Camille"

Janet Gaynor for "A Star is Born"
Barbara Stanwyck for "Stella Dallas" |
Supporting Actor:
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JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT for "The Life of Emile Zola"
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Ralph Bellamy for "The Awful Truth"

Thomas Mitchell for "The Hurricane"
H. B. Warner for "Lost Horizon"
Roland Young for "Topper"
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Supporting Actress:
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ALICE BRADY for "In Old Chicago" |
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Andrea Leeds for "Stage Door"
Anne Shirley for "Stella Dallas"
Claire Trevor for "Dead End"
May Whitty for "Night Must Fall" |
Director:
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LEO MCCAREY for "The Awful Truth"
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William Dieterle for "The Life of Emile Zola"

Sidney Franklin for "The Good Earth"
Gregory La Cava for "Stage Door"
William Wellmann for "A Star is Born" |
1938
Picture:
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"YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU" |
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"The Adventures of Robin Hood"

"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
"Boys Town"
"The Citadel"
"Four Daughters"
"Grand Illusion"
"Jezebel"

"Pygmalion"
"Test Pilot" |
Actor:
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SPENCER TRACY for "Boys Town" |
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Charles Boyer for "Algiers"
James Cagney for "Angels With Dirty Faces"
Robert Donat for "The Citadel"
Leslie Howard for "Pygmalion" |
Actress:
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BETTE DAVIS for "Jezebel"
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Fay Bainter for "White Banners"
Wendy Hiller for "Pygmalion"
Norma Shearer for "Marie Antoinette"
Margaret Sullavan for "Three Comrades" |
Supporting Actor:
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WALTER BRENNAN for "Kentucky" |
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John Garfield for "Four Daughters"
Gene Lockhart for "Algiers"
Robert Morley for "Marie Antoinette"
Basil Rathbone for "If I Were King" |
Supporting Actress:
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FAY BAINTER for "Jezebel"
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Beulah Bondi for "Of Human Hearts"
Billie Burke for "Merrily We Live"
Spring Byington for "You Can't Take it With You"
Miliza Korjus for "The Great Waltz" |
Director:
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FRANK CAPRA for "You Can't Take It With You" |
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Michael Curtiz for "Angels With Dirty Faces"
Michael Curtiz for "Four Daughters"
Norman Taurog for "Boys Town"
King Vidor for "The Citadel" |
1939
Picture:
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"GONE WITH THE WIND"
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"Dark Victory"

"Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
"Love Affair"
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

"Ninotchka"

"Of Mice and Men"
"Stagecoach"

"The Wizard of Oz"

"Wuthering Heights"
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Actor:
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ROBERT DONAT for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" |
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Clark Gable for "Gone With The Wind"

Laurence Olivier for "Wuthering Heights"

Mickey Rooney for "Babes in Arms"
James Stewart for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
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Actress:
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VIVIEN LEIGH for "Gone With The Wind"
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Bette Davis for "Dark Victory"

Irene Dunne for "Love Affair"
Greta Garbo for "Ninotchka"

Greer Garson for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" |
Supporting Actor:
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THOMAS MITCHELL for "Stagecoach"
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Brian Aherne for "Juarez"
Harry Carey for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

Brian Donlevy for "Beau Geste"
Claude Rains for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
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Supporting Actress:
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HATTIE MCDANIEL for "Gone With The Wind"
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Olivia de Havilland for "Gone With The Wind"

Geraldine Fitzgerald for "Wuthering Heights"

Edna May Oliver for "Drums Along the Mohawk"
Maria Ouspenskaya for "Love Affair" |
Director:
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VICTOR FLEMING for "Gone With The Wind"
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Frank Capra for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

John Ford for "Stagecoach"

Sam Wood for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
William Wyler for "Wuthering Heights"
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