Oscar Nominations and Winners (1938)

Best Picture

• 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

Best Director

• 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 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 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 Actress in a Leading Role

• Fay Bainter (White Banners)
• Bette Davis (Jezebel)
• Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion)
• Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette)
• Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades)

Best 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 Original Story

• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin)
• Angels With Dirty Faces (Rowland Brown)
• Blockade (John Howard Lawson)
• Boys Town (Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary)
• Mad About Music (Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner)
• Test Pilot (Frank Wead)

Best Screenplay

• Boys Town (John Meehan and Dore Schary)
• The Citadel (Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill and Frank Wead)
• Four Daughters (Lenore Coffee and Julius J. Epstein)
• Pygmalion (Writen by George Bernard Shaw. Adapted by Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and W. P. Lipscomb.)
• You Can't Take It With You (Robert Riskin)

Art Direction

• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Algiers
• Carefree
• The Goldwyn Follies
• Holiday
• If I Were King
• Mad About Music
• Marie Antoinette
• Merrily We Live

Cinematography

• Algiers
• Army Girl
• The Buccaneer
• The Great Waltz
• Jezebel
• Mad About Music
• Merrily We Live
• Suez
• Vivacious Lady
• You Can't Take It With You
• The Young in Heart

Film Editing

• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• The Great Waltz
• Test Pilot
• You Can't Take It With You

Score

• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Alfred Newman)
• Carefree (Victor Baravalle)
• Girls' School (Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone)
• The Goldwyn Follies (Alfred Newman)
• Jezebel (Max Steiner)
• Mad About Music (Charles Previn and Frank Skinner)
• Storm Over Bengal (Cy Feuer)
• Sweethearts (Herbert Stothart)
• There Goes My Heart (Marvin Hatley)
• Tropic Holiday (Boris Morros)
• The Young in Heart (Franz Waxman)

Original Score

• The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
• Army Girl (Victor Young)
• Block-Heads (Marvin Hatley)
• Blockade (Werner Janssen)
• Breaking the Ice (Victor Young)
• The Cowboy and the Lady (Alfred Newman)
• If I Were King (Richard Hageman)
• Marie Antoinette (Herbert Stothart)
• Pacific Liner (Russell Bennett)
• Suez (Louis Silvers)
• The Young in Heart (Franz Waxman)

Original Song

• "Always and Always" (Mannequin) Music by Edward Ward. Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright.
• "Change Partners" (Carefree) Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.
• "The Cowboy and the Lady" (The Cowboy and the Lady) Music by Lionel Newman. Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer.
• "Dust" (Under Western Stars) Music and lyrics by Johnny Marvin.
• "Jeepers Creepers" (Going Places) Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• "Merrily We Live" (Merrily We Live) Music by Phil Charig. Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer.
• "A Mist Over the Moon" (The Lady Objects) Music by Ben Oakland. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
• "My Own" (That Certain Age) Music by Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics by Harold Adamson.
• "Now It Can Be Told" (Alexander's Ragtime Band) Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.
• "Thanks for the Memory" (The Big Broadcast of 1938) Music by Ralph Rainger. Lyrics by Leo Robin.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Brave Little Tailor
• Ferdinand the Bull
• Good Scouts
• Hunky and Spunky
• Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

Live Action Short Film - One Reel

• The Great Heart
• That Mothers Might Live
• Timber Toppers

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels

• Declaration of Independence
• Swingtime in the Movies
• They're Always Caught

Sound

• Army Girl
• The Cowboy and the Lady
• Four Daughters
• If I Were King
• Merrily We Live
• Suez
• Sweethearts
• That Certain Age
• Vivacious Lady
• You Can't Take It With You