11th Academy Awards

11th Academy Awards
Date	February 23, 1939
Site	Biltmore Hotel
Hosted by	No official host
Highlights
Best Picture	You Can't Take It with You
Most awards	The Adventures of Robin Hood (3)
Most nominations	You Can't Take it With You (7)

The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.^[1] It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host. This was also the first ceremony in which a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion) was nominated for Best Picture.

Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards, to be followed by John Ford (who would go on to win four) and William Wyler.

This was the first of only two times in Oscar history that three of the four acting awards were won by repeat winners; only Fay Bainter was a first time award winner. The only other time that this happened was at the 67th Academy Awards in 1994. Fay Bainter also was the first actress in the history of the Oscars to receive two acting nominations in the same year. In addition, Spencer Tracy became the first of only two lead actors to win two years in a row; the other one, Tom Hanks, also did so in 1994.

Radio coverage was banned at the 1939 ceremony. A reporter from KNX, Los Angeles, which had been reporting from the Academy Awards since 1930, locked himself into a booth and was able to broadcast for a few minutes before security guards broke down the door. Partial radio coverage was permitted again at the 1942 ceremony.^[2]

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Production	Best Director
You Can't Take It With You The Adventures of Robin Hood Alexander's Ragtime Band Boys Town The Citadel Four Daughters Grand Illusion Jezebel Pygmalion Test Pilot	Frank Capra – You Can't Take It With You Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces Michael Curtiz – Four Daughters Norman Taurog – Boys Town King Vidor – The Citadel
Best Actor	Best Actress
Spencer Tracy – Boys Town Charles Boyer – Algiers James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces Robert Donat – The Citadel Leslie Howard – Pygmalion	Bette Davis – Jezebel Fay Bainter – White Banners Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette Margaret Sullavan – Three Comrades
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Walter Brennan – Kentucky John Garfield – Four Daughters Gene Lockhart – Algiers Robert Morley – Marie Antoinette Basil Rathbone – If I Were King	Fay Bainter – Jezebel Beulah Bondi – Of Human Hearts Billie Burke – Merrily We Live Spring Byington – You Can't Take It With You Miliza Korjus – The Great Waltz
Best Story	Best Screenplay
Boys Town – Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary Alexander's Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin Angels with Dirty Faces – Rowland Brown Mad About Music – Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner Blockade – John Howard Lawson Test Pilot – Frank Wead	Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and W. P. Lipscomb Four Daughters – Lenore Coffee and Julius J. Epstein The Citadel – Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill and Frank Wead Boys Town – John Meehan and Dore Schary You Can't Take It With You – Robert Riskin
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel	Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
That Mothers Might Live – MGM The Great Heart – MGM Timber Toppers – 20th Century Fox	Declaration of Independence – Warner Bros. Swingtime in the Movies – Warner Bros. They're Always Caught – MGM
Best Animated Short Film	Best Score
Ferdinand the Bull – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Brave Little Tailor – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Good Scouts – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Hunky and Spunky – Paramount Mother Goose Goes Hollywood – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio	Alexander's Ragtime Band – Alfred Newman Carefree – Victor Baravalle Storm Over Bengal – Cy Feuer There Goes My Heart – Marvin Hatley Tropic Holiday – Boris Morros The Goldwyn Follies – Alfred Newman Mad About Music – Charles Previn and Frank Skinner Jezebel – Max Steiner Girls' School – Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone Sweethearts – Herbert Stothart The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman
Best Original Score	Best Song
The Adventures of Robin Hood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold Pacific Liner – Russell Bennett If I Were King – Richard Hageman Block-Heads – Marvin Hatley Blockade – Werner Janssen The Cowboy and the Lady – Alfred Newman Suez – Louis Silvers Marie Antoinette – Herbert Stothart The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman Army Girl – Victor Young Breaking the Ice – Victor Young	*"Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938* – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin** "Always and Always" from Mannequin – Music by Edward Ward; Lyric by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright "Change Partners" from Carefree – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin "The Cowboy and the Lady" from The Cowboy and the Lady – Music by Lionel Newman; Lyric by Arthur Quenzer "Dust" from Under Western Stars – Music and Lyric by Johnny Marvin "Jeepers Creepers" from Going Places – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Johnny Mercer "Merrily We Live" from Merrily We Live – Music by Phil Charig; Lyric by Arthur Quenzer "A Mist Over the Moon" from The Lady Objects – Music by Ben Oakland; Lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II "My Own" from That Certain Age – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyric by Harold Adamson "Now It Can Be Told" from Alexander's Ragtime Band – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
The Adventures of Robin Hood – Carl J. Weyl The Goldwyn Follies – Richard Day If I Were King – Hans Dreier and John B. Goodman Marie Antoinette – Cedric Gibbons Holiday – Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks Merrily We Live – Charles D. Hall Alexander's Ragtime Band – Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven Mad About Music – Jack Otterson Carefree – Van Nest Polglase Algiers – Alexander Toluboff The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Lyle Wheeler	The Great Waltz – Joseph Ruttenberg Merrily We Live – Norbert Brodine Vivacious Lady – Robert de Grasse Jezebel – Ernest Haller Algiers – James Wong Howe Suez – Peverell Marley Army Girl – Ernest Miller and Harry Wild The Buccaneer – Victor Milner The Young in Heart – Leon Shamroy Mad About Music – Joseph Valentine You Can't Take It With You – Joseph Walker
Best Sound Recording	Best Film Editing
The Cowboy and the Lady – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department You Can't Take It With You – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department Merrily We Live – Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department Sweethearts – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department If I Were King – Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department Army Girl – Charles L. Lootens, Republic Studio Sound Department Vivacious Lady – John Aalberg, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department Suez – Edmund H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department That Certain Age – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio Sound Department Four Daughters – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department	The Adventures of Robin Hood – Ralph Dawson The Great Waltz – Tom Held Test Pilot – Tom Held You Can't Take It With You – Gene Havlick Alexander's Ragtime Band – Barbara McLean

Academy Honorary Awards

J. Arthur Ball "for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of color in Motion Picture Photography." (Scroll)
Walt Disney "for creating Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937], recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon." (One statuette and seven miniature statuettes, representing the Seven Dwarfs, on a stepped base.) This is a rare case of a film being recognized in two succeeding ceremonies, as the film was also nominated for Best Score the previous year at the 10th Academy Awards.
Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Dev Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis H. Mesenkop, and Walter Oberst "for outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, Spawn of the North." (Plaque)
Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey "for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, Sweethearts." (Plaque)
Harry M. Warner "in recognition of patriotic service in the production of historical short subjects presenting significant episodes in the early struggle of the American people for liberty." (Scroll)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Hal B. Wallis

Academy Juvenile Awards

Deanna Durbin "for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement." (Shared with Mickey Rooney; miniature statuette)
Mickey Rooney "for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement." (Shared with Deanna Durbin; miniature statuette)

Multiple nominations and awards

The following twenty-six films received multiple nominations:

7 nominations: You Can't Take it With You
6 nominations: Alexander's Ragtime Band
5 nominations: Boys Town, Four Daughters, Jezebel, and Merrily We Live
4 nominations: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Algiers, The Citadel, If I Were King, Mad About Music, Marie Antoinette, and Pygmalion
3 nominations: Angels with Dirty Faces, Army Girl, Carefree, The Cowboy and the Lady, The Great Waltz, Suez, Test Pilot, and The Young in Heart
2 nominations: Blockade, The Goldwyn Follies, Sweethearts, That Certain Age, and Vivacious Lady

The following four films received multiple awards:

3 awards: The Adventures of Robin Hood
2 awards: Boys Town, Jezebel, and You Can't Take it With You

References

↑ "The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
↑ Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.

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Official Website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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Special awards	Academy Honorary Award Academy Scientific and Technical Award Gordon E. Sawyer Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Special Achievement Academy Award Student Academy Award

Retired awards	Assistant Director Dance Direction Director of a Comedy Picture Engineering Effects Short Subject, Two-reel Short Subject, Comedy Short Subject, Novelty Story Title Writing Unique and Artistic Quality of Production Academy Juvenile Award

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