Academy Awards 1938 Nominations

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Outstanding Production	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Writing (Original Story)	Best Screenplay
Best Live Action Short Subject (Color)	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Scoring	Best Song
Best Sound Recording	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Film Editing
Best Assistant Director	Best Dance Direction

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Outstanding Production

• A Star Is Born
• Captains Courageous
• Dead End
• In Old Chicago
• Lost Horizon
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Stage Door
• The Awful Truth
• The Good Earth
• The Life of Emile Zola

Best Director

• A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman)
• Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
• The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
• The Good Earth (Sidney Franklin)
• The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle)

Best Actor

• A Star Is Born (Fredric March)
• Captains Courageous (Spencer Tracy)
• Conquest (Charles Boyer)
• Night Must Fall (Robert Montgomery)
• The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni)

Best Actress

• A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor)
• Camille (Greta Garbo)
• Stella Dallas (Barbara Stanwyck)
• The Awful Truth (Irene Dunne)
• The Good Earth (Luise Rainer)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Lost Horizon (H.B. Warner)
• The Awful Truth (Ralph Bellamy)
• The Hurricane (Thomas Mitchell)
• The Life of Emile Zola (Joseph Schildkraut)
• Topper (Roland Young)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Dead End (Claire Trevor)
• In Old Chicago (Alice Brady)
• Night Must Fall (May Whitty)
• Stage Door (Andrea Leeds)
• Stella Dallas (Anne Shirley)

Best Writing (Original Story)

• A Star Is Born
• Black Legion
• In Old Chicago
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• The Life of Emile Zola

Best Screenplay

• A Star Is Born
• Captains Courageous
• Stage Door
• The Awful Truth
• The Life of Emile Zola

Best Live Action Short Subject (Color)

• Penny Wisdom
• Popular Science
• The Man Without a Country

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

• A Night at the Movies
• Romance of Radium
• The Private Life of the Gannets

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Deep South
• Should Wives Work?
• Torture Money

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Educated Fish
• The Little Match Girl
• The Old Mill

Best Scoring

• In Old Chicago
• Lost Horizon
• Make a Wish
• Maytime
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Portia on Trial
• Quality Street
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Something to Sing About
• Souls at Sea
• The Hurricane
• The Life of Emile Zola
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Way Out West

Best Song

• Artists & Models ("Whispers in the Dark")
• Mr. Dodd Takes the Air ("Remember Me")
• Shall We Dance ("They Can't Take That Away from Me")
• Vogues of 1938 ("That Old Feeling")
• Waikiki Wedding ("Sweet Leilani")

Best Sound Recording

• Hitting a New High
• In Old Chicago
• Lost Horizon
• Maytime
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• The Girl Said No
• The Hurricane
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Topper
• Wells Fargo

Best Art Direction

• A Damsel in Distress
• Conquest
• Dead End
• Every Day's a Holiday
• Lost Horizon
• Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
• Souls at Sea
• The Life of Emile Zola
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Vogues of 1938
• Wee Willie Winkie
• You're a Sweetheart

Best Cinematography

• Dead End
• The Good Earth
• Wings Over Honolulu

Best Film Editing

• Captains Courageous
• Lost Horizon
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• The Awful Truth
• The Good Earth

Best Assistant Director

• A Star Is Born (Eric Stacey)
• In Old Chicago (Robert D. Webb)
• Lost Horizon (Charles C. Coleman)
• Souls at Sea (Hal Walker)
• The Life of Emile Zola (Russell Saunders)

Best Dance Direction

• A Damsel in Distress
• A Day at the Races
• Ali Baba Goes to Town
• Ready, Willing and Able
• Thin Ice
• Varsity Show
• Waikiki Wedding