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Browse nominations by ceremony year.
1939 Academy Awards — 137 nominations across 22 categories.
Best Picture
- ★ Gone with the Wind IMDB — Selznick International Pictures
- Dark Victory IMDB — Warner Bros.-First National
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Love Affair IMDB — RKO Radio
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington IMDB — Columbia
- Ninotchka IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Of Mice and Men IMDB — Hal Roach (production company)
- Stagecoach IMDB — Walter Wanger (production company)
- The Wizard of Oz IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Wuthering Heights IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Productions
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
ART DIRECTION
- ★ Gone with the Wind IMDB — Lyle Wheeler
- Beau Geste IMDB — Hans Dreier, Robert Odell
- Captain Fury IMDB — Charles D. Hall
- First Love IMDB — Jack Otterson, Martin Obzina
- Love Affair IMDB — Van Nest Polglase, Al Herman
- Man of Conquest IMDB — John Victor Mackay
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington IMDB — Lionel Banks
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex IMDB — Anton Grot
- The Rains Came IMDB — William Darling, George Dudley
- Stagecoach IMDB — Alexander Toluboff
- The Wizard of Oz IMDB — Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning
- Wuthering Heights IMDB — James Basevi
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)
- ★ Wuthering Heights IMDB — Gregg Toland
- First Love IMDB — Joseph Valentine
- The Great Victor Herbert IMDB — Victor Milner
- Gunga Din IMDB — Joseph H. August
- Intermezzo IMDB — Gregg Toland
- Juarez IMDB — Tony Gaudio
- Lady of the Tropics IMDB — George Folsey
- Of Mice and Men IMDB — Norbert Brodine
- Only Angels Have Wings IMDB — Joseph Walker
- The Rains Came IMDB — Arthur Miller
- Stagecoach IMDB — Bert Glennon
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)
- ★ Gone with the Wind IMDB — Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan
- Drums along the Mohawk IMDB — Ray Rennahan, Bert Glennon
- Four Feathers IMDB — Georges Perinal, Osmond Borradaile
- The Mikado IMDB — William V. Skall, Bernard Knowles
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex IMDB — Sol Polito, W. Howard Greene
- The Wizard of Oz IMDB — Hal Rosson
DIRECTING
FILM EDITING
MUSIC (Original Score)
- ★ The Wizard of Oz IMDB — Herbert Stothart
- Dark Victory IMDB — Max Steiner
- Eternally Yours IMDB — Werner Janssen
- Golden Boy IMDB — Victor Young
- Gone with the Wind IMDB — Max Steiner
- Gulliver's Travels IMDB — Victor Young
- The Man in the Iron Mask IMDB — Lud Gluskin, Lucien Moraweck
- Man of Conquest IMDB — Victor Young
- Nurse Edith Cavell IMDB — Anthony Collins
- Of Mice and Men IMDB — Aaron Copland
- The Rains Came IMDB — Alfred Newman
- Wuthering Heights IMDB — Alfred Newman
MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
- ★ Stagecoach IMDB — Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken
- Babes in Arms IMDB — George E. Stoll, Roger Edens
- First Love IMDB — Charles Previn
- The Great Victor Herbert IMDB — Phil Boutelje, Arthur Lange
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame IMDB — Alfred Newman
- Intermezzo IMDB — Lou Forbes
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington IMDB — Dimitri Tiomkin
- Of Mice and Men IMDB — Aaron Copland
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex IMDB — Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- She Married a Cop IMDB — Cy Feuer
- Swanee River IMDB — Louis Silvers
- They Shall Have Music IMDB — Alfred Newman
- Way Down South IMDB — Victor Young
MUSIC (Original Song)
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel)
SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel)
SOUND RECORDING
- ★ When Tomorrow Comes IMDB — Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director
- Balalaika IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
- Gone with the Wind IMDB — Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips IMDB — Denham Studio Sound Department, A. W. Watkins, Sound Director
- The Great Victor Herbert IMDB — Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame IMDB — RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director
- Man of Conquest IMDB — Republic Studio Sound Department, Charles L. Lootens, Sound Director
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington IMDB — Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
- Of Mice and Men IMDB — Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex IMDB — Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
- The Rains Came IMDB — 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director
SPECIAL AWARD
VISUAL EFFECTS
- ★ The Rains Came IMDB — Fred Sersen, E. H. Hansen
- Gone with the Wind IMDB — John R. Cosgrove, Fred Albin, Arthur Johns
- Only Angels Have Wings IMDB — Roy Davidson, Edwin C. Hahn
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex IMDB — Byron Haskin, Nathan Levinson
- Topper Takes a Trip IMDB — Roy Seawright
- Union Pacific IMDB — Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Loren Ryder
- The Wizard of Oz IMDB — A. Arnold Gillespie, Douglas Shearer