Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The Life of Emile Zola
Henry Blanke, producer
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
Best Director
Winner
Leo McCarey
The Awful Truth — The Awful Truth
William Dieterle— The Life of Emile Zola
Sidney Franklin— The Good Earth
Gregory La Cava— Stage Door
William Wellman— A Star Is Born
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Spencer Tracy
Captains Courageous
Charles Boyer— Conquest
Fredric March— A Star Is Born
Robert Montgomery— Night Must Fall
Paul Muni— The Life of Emile Zola
Best Actress
Winner
Luise Rainer
The Good Earth
Irene Dunne— The Awful Truth
Greta Garbo— Camille
Janet Gaynor— A Star Is Born
Barbara Stanwyck— Stella Dallas
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Joseph Schildkraut
The Life of Emile Zola
Ralph Bellamy— The Awful Truth
Thomas Mitchell— The Hurricane
H.B. Warner— Lost Horizon
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Alice Brady
In Old Chicago
Andrea Leeds— Stage Door
Anne Shirley— Stella Dallas
Claire Trevor— Dead End
Dame May Whitty— Night Must Fall
Writing
Best Writing (Original Story)
Winner
William A. Wellman, Robert Carson
A Star Is Born
Best Screenplay
Winner
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine
The Life of Emile Zola
Music
Best Score
Winner
Charles Previn (Universal Music Dept.)
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Best Original Song
Winner
"Sweet Leilani" — Harry Owens
Waikiki Wedding
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Karl Freund
The Good Earth
Best Film Editing
Winner
Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
Lost Horizon
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Stephen Goosson
Lost Horizon
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Thomas T. Moulton, Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept.
The Hurricane
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Old Mill
Walt Disney / RKO