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