Oscar Nominations and Winners (1939)

Best Picture

• Dark Victory
• Gone With the Wind
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Love Affair
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Ninotchka
• Of Mice and Men
• Stagecoach
• The Wizard of Oz
• Wuthering Heights

Best Director

• Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind)
• John Ford (Stagecoach)
• Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• William Wyler (Wuthering Heights)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• Clark Gable (Gone With the Wind)
• Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights)
• Mickey Rooney (Babes in Arms)
• James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Brian Aherne (Juarez)
• Harry Carey (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
• Brian Donlevy (Beau Geste)
• Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach)
• Claude Rains (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Bette Davis (Dark Victory)
• Irene Dunne (Love Affair)
• Greta Garbo (Ninotchka)
• Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Olivia de Havilland (Gone With the Wind)
• Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights)
• Hattie McDaniel (Gone With the Wind)
• Edna May Oliver (Drums Along the Mohawk)
• Maria Ouspenskaya (Love Affair)

Best Original Story

• Love Affair (Mildred Cram and Leo McCarey)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Lewis R. Foster)
• Bachelor Mother (Felix Jackson)
• Ninotchka (Melchior Lengyel)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (Lamar Trotti)

Best Screenplay

• Ninotchka (Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Billy Wilder)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Sidney Buchman)
• Wuthering Heights (Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur)
• Gone With the Wind (Sidney Howard)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Eric Maschwitz, R. C. Sherriff and Claudine West)

Art Direction

• Beau Geste
• Captain Fury
• First Love
• Gone With the Wind
• Love Affair
• Man of Conquest
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• The Rains Came
• Stagecoach
• The Wizard of Oz
• Wuthering Heights

Cinematography - Black and White

• First Love
• The Great Victor Herbert
• Gunga Din
• Intermezzo
• Juarez
• Lady of the Tropics
• Of Mice and Men
• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Rains Came
• Stagecoach
• Wuthering Heights

Cinematography - Color

• Drums Along the Mohawk
• Four Feathers
• Gone With the Wind
• The Mikado
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• The Wizard of Oz

Film Editing

• Gone With the Wind
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Rains Came
• Stagecoach

Score

• Babes in Arms (Roger Edens and George E. Stoll)
• First Love (Charles Previn)
• The Great Victor Herbert (Phil Boutelje and Arthur Lange)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Alfred Newman)
• Intermezzo (Lou Forbes)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Dimitri Tiomkin)
• Of Mice and Men (Aaron Copland)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
• She Married a Cop (Cy Feuer)
• Stagecoach (Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken)
• Swanee River (Louis Silvers)
• They Shall Have Music (Alfred Newman)
• Way Down South (Victor Young)

Original Score

• Dark Victory (Max Steiner)
• Eternally Yours (Werner Janssen)
• Golden Boy (Victor Young)
• Gone With the Wind (Max Steiner)
• Gulliver's Travels (Victor Young)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (Lud Gluskin and Lucien Moraweck)
• Man of Conquest (Victor Young)
• Nurse Edith Cavell (Anthony Collins)
• Of Mice and Men (Aaron Copland)
• The Rains Came (Alfred Newman)
• The Wizard of Oz (Herbert Stothart)
• Wuthering Heights (Alfred Newman)

Original Song

• "Faithful Forever" (Gulliver's Travels) Music by Ralph Rainger. Lyrics by Leo Robin.
• "I Poured My Heart Into a Song" (Second Fiddle) Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.
• "Over the Rainbow" (The Wizard of Oz) Music by Harold Arlen. Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg.
• "Wishing" (Love Affair) Music and lyrics by Buddy de Sylva.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Detouring America
• Peace on Earth
• The Pointer
• The Ugly Duckling

Live Action Short Film - One Reel

• Busy Little Bears
• Information Please
• Prophet Without Honor
• Sword Fishing

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels

• Drunk Driving
• Five Times Five
• Sons of Liberty

Sound

• Balalaika
• Gone With the Wind
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• The Great Victor Herbert
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Man of Conquest
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Of Mice and Men
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• The Rains Came
• When Tomorrow Comes

Special Effects

• Gone With the Wind
• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• The Rains Came
• Topper Takes a Trip
• Union Pacific
• The Wizard of Oz