Best Films - 1938

Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can’t Take It with You

Best 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

Best 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

Best 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

Best 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

Best 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

Elisabeth Rison & Helena Phillips Evans
My Bill

May Robson
Bringing Up Baby & Four Daughters

Gale Sondergaard
Dramatic School

Dame May Whitty
The Lady Vanishes

Best 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

Best Original Score

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