Best Films – 1938

Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can’t Take It with You
FILM
The Adventures of Robin Hood
d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine
Bringing Up Baby
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Dramatic School
d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr.
L’Etrange Monsieur Victor
d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, Charles Spaak, Marcel Achard
Four Daughters
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein
If I Were King
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Preston Sturges
The Lady Vanishes
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Marie Antoinette
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda
Vivacious Lady
d: George Stevens; scr: P. J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano
You Can’t Take It with You
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin

Fay Bainter, Bette Davis in Jezebel
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Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
The Great Waltz
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter Reisch
Jezebel
d: William Wyler; scr: Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, John Huston
Eine Nacht in Mai / A Night in May
d: Georg Jacoby; scr: Hans Fritz Beckmann, Willy Clever
The Sisters
d: Anatole Litvak; scr: Milton Krims
White Banners
d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee, Abem Finkel, Cameron Rogers

Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
ACTOR
Lionel Barrymore
You Can’t Take It with You
Ronald Colman
If I Were King
Gary Cooper
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
Cary Grant
Bringing Up Baby
Raimu
L’Etrange Monsieur Victor
Claude Rains
White Banners
Michael Redgrave
The Lady Vanishes

Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller in Pygmalion
ACTRESS
Jean Arthur
You Can’t Take It with You
Beulah Bondi
Of Human Hearts
Katharine Hepburn
Bringing Up Baby
Wendy Hiller
Pygmalion
Margaret Lockwood
The Lady Vanishes
Michèle Morgan
Le Quais des brumes / Port of Shadows
Luise Rainer
Dramatic School
Marika Rökk
Eine Nacht in Mai
Ginger Rogers
Vivacious Lady
Norma Shearer
Marie Antoinette
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Edward Arnold
You Can’t Take It with You
Charles Coburn
Vivacious Lady
Paul Lukas
The Lady Vanishes
Robert Morley
Marie Antoinette
Basil Radford
The Lady Vanishes
Claude Rains
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Basil Rathbone
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Basil Rathbone
If I Were King
Joseph Schildkraut
Marie Antoinette
Akim Tamiroff
Spawn of the North

Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Spring Byington
You Can’t Take It with You
Mary Forbes
You Can’t Take It with You
Gladys George
Marie Antoinette
Una O’Connor
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Luise Rainer
The Great Waltz
Madeleine Rénaud
L’Etrange Monsieur Victor
May Robson
Bringing Up Baby
May Robson
Four Daughters
Gale Sondergaard
Dramatic School
Dame May Whitty
The Lady Vanishes

Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood
CINEMATOGRAPHY
William H. Daniels
Marie Antoinette
William H. Daniels
Dramatic School
Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito, W. Howard Greene
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Ernest Haller
Four Daughters
Ernest Haller
Jezebel
Peverell Marley
Suez
Oliver T. Marsh
Sweethearts
Rudolph Maté
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Joseph Ruttenberg
The Great Waltz
Harry Stradling
The Citadel
MUSIC
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Max Steiner
Four Daughters
Max Steiner
The Sisters
Max Steiner
White Banners
Herbert Stothart
Marie Antoinette
Dmitri Tiomkin
You Can’t Take It with You
Franz Waxman
Three Comrades
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Hello? What about Robert Donat in the Citadel?