1939

Best Picture

Gone With the Wind
-Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
-The Wizard of Oz
-The Rules of the Game
-Stagecoach

Best Director

"I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."
Victor Fleming for Gone With the Wind
-Frank Capra for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
-Jean Renoir for The Rules of the Game
-John Ford for Stagecoach
-Victor Fleming for The Wizard of Oz

Best Actor

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause."
James Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
-Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
-Burgess Meredith as George in Of Mice & Men
-John Wayne as Ringo Kid in Stagecoach
-Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

Best Actress

"There's no place like home. There's no place like home."
Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
-Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind
-Bette Davis as Judith Traherne in Dark Victory
-Greta Garbo as Ninotchka in Ninotchka
-Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Best Supporting Actor

"The Committee ruled otherwise! The gentleman stands guilty, as charged. And I believe I speak for every member when I say that no one cares to hear what a man of his condemned character has to say about any section of any legislation before this House."
Claude Rains as Sen. Joseph Paine in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
-George Raft as Hood Stacey in Each Dawn I Die
-Leslie Howard as Ashley in Gone With the Wind
-Lon Chaney Jr. as Lenny in Of Mice & Men
-Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone in Stagecoach

Best Supporting Actress

"I'll get you my pretty! And your little dog, too!"
Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch/Miss Gulch in The Wizard of Oz
-Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in Gone With the Wind
-Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind
-Jean Arthur as Saunders in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
-Geraldine Fitzgerald as Isabella in Wuthering Heights

Best Screenplay

"Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that."
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
-Gone With the Wind
-Only Angels Have Wings
-Of Mice & Men
-The Wizard of Oz
-The Rules of the Game

1938

Best Picture

Boys Town
-The Adventures of Robin Hood
-Angels With Dirty Faces
-King of Alcatraz
-You Can't Take It With You

Best Director

"I'll organize revolt, exact a death for a death, and I'll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up free men and strike a blow for Richard and England."
Michael Curtiz for The Adventures of Robin Hood
-Norman Tuarog for Boys Town
-Michael Curtiz for Angels With Dirty Faces
-Alfred Hitchcock for The Lady Vanishes
-Frank Capra for You Can't Take It With You

Best Actor

"There is no such thing as a bad boy."
Spencer Tracy as Father Flanegan in Boys Town
-Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood
-James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan in Angels With Dirty Faces
-J. Carrol Naish as Steve Murkil in King of Alcatraz
-Robert Donat as Dr. Andrew Manson in The Citadel

Best Actress

"I never break a promise."
Hedy Lamarr as Gaby in Algiers
-Bette Davis as Julie in Jezebel
-Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette
-Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood
-Jean Arthur as Alice Sycamore in You Can't Take it With You

Best Supporting Actor

"Well, I'm nothin'."
Mickey Rooney as Whitey Marsh in Boys Town
-John Garfield as Mickey Borden/Michael Bolgar in Four Daughters
-Basil Rathbone as Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood
-Humphrey Bogart as James Frazier in Angels With Dirty Faces
-James Stewart as Tony Kirby in You Can't Take It With You

Best Supporting Actress

"I never think you should judge any country by its politics. After all, we English are quite honest by nature, aren't we?"
Dame May Whitty as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes
-Fay Bainter as Aunt Belle in Jezebel
-Ann Sheridan as Laury Ferguson in Angels With Dirty Faces
-Ann Miller as Essie Carmichael in You Can't Take it With You
-Spring Byington as Penny Sycamore in You Can't Take it With You

Best Screenplay

"I know that a mother can take a whip to the toughest boy in the world, and he forgets it because he knows that she loves him."
Boys Town
-Angels With Dirty Faces
-The Lady Vanishes
-King of Alcatraz
-The Adventures of Robin Hood
-You Can't Take It With You

1937

Best Picture

Grand Illusion
-History Is Made At Night
-Dead End
-The Life of Emile Zola
-Stage Door

Best Director

"I think we can do nothing to stop the march of time."
Jean Renoir for Grand Illusion
-Frank Borzage for History Is Made At Night
-William Dieterle for The Life of Emile Zola
-William Wyler for Dead End
-Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth

Best Actor

"I never studied nothin'."
George Raft as Powdah in Souls at Sea
-Paul Muni as Emile Zola in The Life of Emile Zola
-Spencer Tracy as Manuel Fidello in Captains Courageous
-Edward G. Robinson as Joe Krozac in The Last Gangster
-Jean Gabin as Pepe le Moko in Pepe le Moko

Best Actress

"I like to hear the church bells, don't you, Grandfather?"
Shirley Temple as Heidi Kramer in Heidi
-Frances Farmer as Faith Wishart in Ebb Tide
-Irene Dunne as Lucy Warriner in The Awful Truth
-Ginger Rogers as Jean Maitland in Stage Door
-Janet Gaynor as Esther/Vicki in A Star is Born

Best Supporting Actor

"I admit nothing!"
Joseph Shildkraut as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola
-Lionel Stander as Curly in The Last Gangster
-Thomas Mitchell as Dr. Kersaint in The Hurricane
-H.B. Warner as Chang in Lost Horizan
-Humphrey Bogart as Baby Face Martin in Dead End

Best Supporting Actress

"What crazy kids we were. We were gonna get married. I bought a ring at the five and dime."
Claire Trevor as Francey in Dead End
-Dame May Whitty as Mrs. Bramson in Night Must Fall
-Alice Brady as Molly O'Leary in In Old Chicago
-May Robson as Grandmother Lettie in A Star is Born
-Rose Stradner as Talya Krozac in The Last Gangster

Best Screenplay

"What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?"
The Life of Emile Zola
-Grand Illusion
-Dead End
-Pepe le Moko
-A Star is Born
-The Awful Truth

1936

Best Picture

Modern Times
-Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
-Sabotage
-Fury
-My Man Godfrey

Best Director

"What's the use of trying?"
Charlie Chaplin for Modern Times
-Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
-Alfred Hitchcock for Sabotage
-Fritz Lang for Fury
-Gregory La Clava for My Man Godfrey

Best Actor

"Buck up - never say die. We'll get along."
Charlie Chaplin as A Factory Worker in Modern Times
-Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur
-Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
-Spencer Tracy as Joe Wilson in Fury
-William Powell as Godfrey in My Man Godfrey

Best Actress

"I love you Barney, any objections?"
Frances Farmer as Lotta in Come & Get It
-Carole Lombard as Irene Bullock in My Man Godfrey
-Norma Shearer as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet
-Greta Garbo as Marguerite Gautier in Camille
-Sylvia Sidney as Katherine Grant in Fury

Best Supporting Actor

"Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: Thou art a villain."
Basil Rathbone as Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet
-John Barrymore as Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet
-Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom in Come & Get It
-Peter Lorre as The General in Secret Agent
-Paul Lukas as Arnold Iselin in Dodsworth

Best Supporting Actress

"To most people, it's an awful let-down... To most people, it's a washout."
Jean Arthur as Babe Bennett in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
-Paulette Goddard as A Gamin in Modern Times
-Maria Ouspenskaya as Baroness Von Obersdorf in Dodsworth
-Alice Brady as Angelica Bullock in My Man Godfrey
-Edna May Oliver as Nurse to Juliet in Romeo & Juliet

Best Screenplay

"People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live."
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
-Sabotage
-Modern Times
-My Man Godfrey
-Fury
-Come & Get It

1935

Best Picture

Mutiny on the Bounty
-The Bride of Frankenstein
-The Informer
-Captain Blood
-The 39 Steps

Best Director

"When you're back in England with the fleet again, you'll hear the hue and cry against me. From now on they'll spell mutiny with my name."
Frank Lloyd for Mutiny on the Bounty
-James Whale for The Bride of Frankenstein
-Alfred Hitchcock for The 39 Steps
-John Ford for The Informer
-Michael Curtiz for Captain Blood

Best Actor

"During the recent heavy weather, I've had the opportunity to watch all of you at work on deck and aloft. You don't know wood from canvas! And it seems you don't want to learn! Well, I'll have to give you a lesson."
Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty
-Victor McLagen as Gypo Nolan in The Informer
-Errol Flynn as Peter Blood in Captain Blood
-Fred Astaire as Jerry Travers in Top Hat
-Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Actress

"It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters."
Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley/Monster's Bride in Bride of Frankenstein
-Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina in Anna Karenina
-Bette Davis as Joyce Heath in Dangerous
-Ginger Rogers as Dale Tremont in Top Hat
-Katherine Hepburn as Alice Adams in Alice Adams

Best Supporting Actor

"Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hatred. Good! I can use your hate."
Bela Lugosi as Dr. Richard Vollin in The Raven
-Preston Foster as Dan Gallagher in The Informer
-Franchot Tone as Byam in Mutiny on the Bounty
-Basil Rathbone as Marquis St. Evremonde in A Tale of Two Cities
-Colin Clive as Stephen Orlac in Mad Love

Best Supporting Actress

"How low am I, you painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach into your eyes!"
Olivia de Havilland as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream
-Una O'Connor as Mrs. McPhillip in The Informer
-Frances Drake as Yvonne Orlac in Mad Love
-Maureen O'Sullivan as Kitty in Anna Karenina
-Irene Ware as Jean Thatcher in The Raven

Best Screenplay

"And now the British think I'm with the Irish, and the Irish think I'm with the British. The long and short of it is I'm walkin' around without a dog to lick my trousers!"
The Informer
-Mutiny on the Bounty
-Bride of Frankenstein
-Captain Blood
-Mad Love
-The 39 Steps

1934

1934
Best Picture
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Thin Man
It Happened One Night*
Cleopatra
Jimmy The Gent

Best Director
W.S Van Dyke for The Thin Man
Frank Capra for It Happened One Night
Michael Cutiz for Jimmy the Gent
Cecil B. DeMille for Cleopatra*
Alfred Hitchcock for The Man Who Knew Too Much

Best Actor
Fred Astaire for The Gay Divorcee
Clark Gable for It Happened One Night*
Leslie Banks for The Man Who Knew Too Much
William Powell for The Thin Man
James Cagney for Jimmy The Gent

Best Actress
Bette Davis for On Human Bondage
Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night*
Myrna Loy for The Thin Man
Norma Shearer for The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Ginger Rogers for The Gay Divorcee

Best Supporting Actor
Henry Wilcoxon for Cleopatra
Peter Lorre for The Man Who Knew Too Much
Walter Connelly for It Happened One Night*
Bela Lugosi for The Black Cat
Lionel Barrymore for Treasure Island

Best Supporting Actress
Fay Wray for Viva Villa!
Louise Beavers for Imitation of Life
Julie Bishop for The Black Cat
Betty Grable for The Gay Divorcee*
Elissa Landi for The Count Of Monte Cristo

Best Screenplay
Treasure Island
It Happened One Night
Viva Villa!
The Thin Man*
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Cleopatra

1933

1933
Best Picture
Cavalcade
The Invisible Man
King Kong*
Little Women
The Emperor Jones

Best Director
George Cukor for Little Women*
Frank Capra for Lady for a Day
Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade
Fritz Lang for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Dudley Murphy for The Emporer Jones

Best Actor
Fredric March for Smilin' Through
Paul Robeson for The Emperor Jones*
Charles Laughton for The Private Life of Henry VIII
Leslie Howard for Berkeley Square
Claude Rains for The Invisible Man

Best Actress
Fay Wray for King Kong
Jean Harlow for Bombshell
Katherine Hepburn for Morning Glory*
Mae West for She Done Him Wrong
Barbara Stanwyck for Baby Face

Best Supporting Actor
Franchot Tone for Bombshell*
Paul Lukas for Little Women
John Wayne for Baby Face
Lionel Barrymore for Dinner at Eight
Robert Donat for The Private Life of Henry VIII

Best Supporting Actress
Merle Oberon for The Private Life of Henry VIII
Elsa Lancester for The Private Life of Henry VIII
Una O'Connor for Cavalcade*
Beryl Mercer for Smilin' Through
Jean Harlow for Dinner at Eight

Best Screenplay
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Dinner at Eight
She Done Him Wrong*
The Emperor Jones
Cavalcade
Bombshell

1932

1932
Best Picture
Freaks
The Mummy
I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang
Scarface*
A Farewell To Arms

Best Director
Howard Hawks for Scarface*
Mervyn LeRoy for I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang
Frank Borzage for A Farewell To Arms
Tod Browning for Freaks
Irving Pichel for The Most Dangerous Game

Best Actor
Paul Muni for Scarface
Paul Muni for I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang*
Gary Cooper for A Farewell To Arms
Boris Karloff for The Mummy
John Barrymore for Grand Hotel

Best Actress
Helen Hayes for A Farewell To Arms
Clara Bow for Hoop-La*
Greta Garbo for Grand Hotel
Miriam Hopkins for Trouble in Paradise
Jean Harlow for Red Dust

Best Supporting Actor
Charles Laughton for The Old Dark Horse
George Raft for Scarface*
Lionel Barrymore for Grand Hotel
Wallace Beery for Grand Hotel
Edward Horton for Trouble in Paradise

Best Supporting Actress
Ann Dvorak for Scarface
Glenda Farrell for I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang
Joan Crawford for Grand Hotel
Kay Francis for Trouble in Paradise
Fay Wray for The Most Dangerous Game*

Best Screenplay
I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang
Scarface*
Grand Hotel
Red Dust
A Farewell To Arms
The Most Dangerous Game

1931

1931
Best Picture
City Lights*
M
Dracula
The Public Enemy
Frankenstein

Best Director
James Whale for Frankenstein
William Wellman for The Public Enemy
Tod Browning for Dracula
Fritz Lang for M
Charlie Chaplin for City Lights*

Best Actor
James Cagney for The Public Enemy
Boris Karloff for Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi for Dracula
Charlie Chaplin for City Lights
Peter Lorre for M*

Best Actress
Loretta Young for Platinum Blonde*
Helen Chandler for Dracula
Greta Garbo for Mata Hari
Jean Harlow for The Public Enemy
Norma Shearer for A Free Soul

Best Supporting Actor
Edward Van Sloan for Dracula
Dwight Frye for Dracula
Colin Clive for Frankenstein*
Douglas Fairbanks for Little Caesar
Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul

Best Supporting Actress
Jean Harlow for Platinum Blonde
Glenda Farrell for Little Caesar
Mae Clarke for Frankenstein
Beryl Mercer for The Public Enemy*
Virginia Cherrill for City Lights

Best Screenplay
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Public Enemy*
Little Caesar
Platinum Blonde
M

1930

1930
Best Picture
Hell's Angels*
All Quiet On The Western Front
Murder!
Morocco
Abraham Lincoln

Best Director
Joseph Von Sternberg for Morocco
Howard Hughes for Hell's Angels*
D.W. Griffth for Abraham Lincoln
Lewis Milestone for All Quiet On The Western Front
Alfred Hitchcock for Murder!

Best Actor
Fredric March for The Royal Family of Broadway*
Gary Cooper for Morocco
Louis Wolheim for All Quiet On The Western Front
Walter Huston for Abraham Lincoln
Groucho Marx for Animal Crackers

Best Actress
Marie Dressler for Min & Bill
Ann Harding for Holiday
Marlene Dietrich for Morocco
Greta Garbo for Anna Christie
Norma Shearer for The Divorcee*

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Montgomery for The Divorcee
James Hall for Hell's Angels*
Adolphe Menjou for Morocco
E. Alyn Warren for Abraham Lincoln
Wallace Beery for The Big House

Best Supporting Actress
Una O'Connor for Murder!
Jean Harlow for Hell's Angels*
Kay Hammond for Abraham Lincoln
Una Merkel for Abraham Lincoln
Leila Hyams for The Big House

Best Screenplay
Abraham Lincoln
All Quiet On The Western Front
Hell's Angels
Morocco
The Big House
The Divorcee*