Best Films – 1938

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Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You
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
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
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
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
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
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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One Response to “Best Films – 1938”

  1. Stahr on May 31st, 2009

    Hello? What about Robert Donat in the Citadel?

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