Awards and festivals: 1939

Best Picture

Gone With The Wind
The Wizard Of Oz
Stagecoach
Wuthering Heights
Ninotchka
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
Dark Victory
Love Affair
Goodbye Mr Chips
Of Mice And Men

Best Director

William Wyler – Wuthering Heights
Victor Fleming – Gone With The Wind
John Ford – Stagecoach
Frank Capra – Mr Smith Goes To Washington
Sam Wood – Goodbye Mr Chips

Best Actor

Mickey Rooney – Babes In Arms
Clark Gable – Gone With The Wind
Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights
James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Robert Donat – Goodbye Mr Chips

Best Actress

Bette Davis – Dark Victory
Greta Garbo – Ninotchka
Vivien Leigh – Gone With The Wind
Irene Dunne – Love Affair
Greer Garson – Goodbye Mr Chips

Best Supporting Actor

Brian Donlevy – Beau Geste
Claude Rains – Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach
Harry Carey – Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Brian Aherne – Juarez

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Ouspenskaya – Love Affair
Hattie McDaniel – Gone With The Wind
Olivia de Havilland – Gone With The Wind
Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights
Edna May Oliver – Drums Along The Mohawk

Best Original Story

Young Mr Lincoln – Lamar Trotti

Bachelor Mother – Felix Jackson
Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel
Mr Smith Goes To Washington – Lewis R. Foster
Love Affair – Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey

Best Screenplay

Ninotchka – Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Billy Wilder
Gone With The Wind – Sidney Howard
Wuthering Heights – Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Mr Smith Goes To Washington – Sidney Buchman
Goodbye Mr Chips

Best Black And White Cinematography

Gunga Din
Only Angels Have Wings
Wuthering Heights
Stagecoach
First Love
The Great Victor Herbert
Lady Of The Tropics
Juarez

Awards and festivals