1938 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Cinemanolis]

PICTURE
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Angels with Dirty Faces
*Bringing Up Baby
You Can’t Take It With You
La Grande Illusion

DIRECTOR
Michael Curtiz - Angels with Dirty Faces
Howard Hawkes - Bringing Up Baby
Frank Capra - You Can’t Take It With You
*Jean Renoir - La Grande Illusion
Jean Renoir – La Bete Humaine

ACTOR
Leslie Howard - Pygmalion
James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces
*Cary Grant - Bringing Up Baby
Jean Gabin - La Bete Humaine
Robert Donat – The Citadel

ACTRESS
*Bette Davis - Jezebel
Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion
Katharine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby
Margaret Sullivan – Three Comrades
Claudette Colbert – Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

SUPPORTING ACTOR
John Garfield – Four Daughters
*Lionel Barrymore - You Can’t Take It With You
Erich Von Stroheim - La Grande Illusion
Clarence Kolb - Merrily We Live
Julien Carette - La Grande Illusion
Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Fay Bainter - Jezebel
Dame May Whitty – The Lady Vanishes
Spring Bryington - You Can’t Take It With You
*Billie Burke - Merrily We Live
Beulah Bondi - Of Human Hearts

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Angels with Dirty Faces
Bringing Up Baby
Merrily We Live
Of Human Hearts
*La Grande Illusion

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jezebel
Pygmalion
Holiday
*You Can’t Take It With You
The Lady Vanishes
La Bete Humaine

[Greg]

I'm glad to see the love for Bringing Up Baby. It is among my all-time-top-20-favorite films and that and Singin' In The Rain are the films I have laughed out loud at the most.

[ksrymy]

BEST PICTURE
01. Port of Shadows (dir. Marcel Carné)
02. Bringing Up Baby (dir. Howard Hawks)
03. Alexander Nevsky (dir. Sergei Eisenstein & Dmitriy Vasilev)
04. The Lady Vanishes (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
05. Olympia (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)
06. La Bête Humaine (dir. Jean Renoir)
07. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (dir. Mark Donskoy)
08. Jezebel (dir. William Wyler)
09. The Shining Hour (dir. Frank Borzage)
10. Pygmalion (dir. Anthony Asquith)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Marcel Carné, Port of Shadows
02. Leni Riefenstahl, Olympia
03. Sergei Eisenstein & Dmitriy Vasilev, Alexander Nevsky
04. Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby
05. Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes

BEST ACTOR
01. Jean Gabin, Port of Shadows
02. Cary Grant, Bringing Up Baby
03. Charles Laughton, Sidewalks of London
04. James Cagney, Angels with Dirty Faces
05. Jean Gabin, La Bête Humaine

BEST ACTRESS
01. Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
02. Bette Davis, Jezebel
03. Joan Crawford, The Shining Hour
04. Claudette Colbert, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
05. Ginger Rogers, Vivacious Lady

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Walter Pidgeon, The Shopworn Angel
02. Michel Simon, Port of Shadows
03. Joseph Calleia, Algiers
04. Lew Ayres, Holiday
05. Robert Morley, Marie Antoinette

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Beulah Bondi, Of Human Hearts
02. Varvara Massalitinova, The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
03. Barbara O'Neil, The Toy Wife
04. Fay Bainter, The Shining Hour
05. Valerie Hobson, The Drum

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Bringing Up Baby (Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, based on the story by Hagar Wilde)
02. Port of Shadows (Jacques Prévert, based on the novel by Pierre Dumarchais)
03. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Mark Donskoy, Ilya Gruzdev, based on books by Maxim Gorky)
04. The Shining Hour (Jane Murfin, Ogden Nash, based on the play by Keith Winter)
05. The Lady Vanishes (Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, based on the story "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, Esfir Tobak)
02. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl)
03. La Bête Humaine (Suzanne de Troeye, Marguerite Renoir)
04. The Lady Vanishes (R. E. Dearing)
05. Pygmalion (David Lean)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. Olympia (Wilfried Basse, Werner Bundhausen)
02. Port of Shadows (Eugen Schüfftan)
03. Algiers (James Wong Howe)
04. Alexander Nevsky (Eduard Tisse)
05. The Drum (Georges Périnal, Osmond Borradaile)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. Algiers (Alexander Toluboff)
02. The Buccaneer (Roland Anderson, Hans Dreier)
03. Marie Antoinette (Cedric Gibbons)
04. Jezebel (Robert M. Haas)
05. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, Nikolai Solovyov)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. Marie Antoinette (Adrian, Gile Steele)
02. The Buccaneer (Dwight Franklin, Natalie Visart)
03. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, Konstantin Eliseev)
04. The Great Waltz (Adrian)
05. Jezebel (Orry-Kelly)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Prokofiev)
02. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Lev Shvarts)
03. Jezebel (Max Steiner)
04. Pygmalion (Arthur Honegger)
05. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Alexander Nevsky ("Vstavajte, ljudi russkie!," music and lyrics by Sergei Prokofiev)
02. Alexander's Ragtime Band ("Now It Can Be Told," music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, performed by Alice Faye)
03. Alexander Nevsky ("Pesnya ob Alexandr Nevsky," music and lyrics by Sergei Prokofiev)
04. Going Places ("Jeepers Creepers," music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, performed by Louis Armstrong)
05. Under Western Stars ("Dust," music and lyrics by Johnny Marvin, performed by Roy Rogers)

BEST SOUND
01. The Dawn Patrol (C. A. Riggs)
02. Suez (Roger Heman, Arthur von Kirbach)
03. Spawn of the North (Harry D. Mills, Walter Oberst)
04. The Adventures of Robin Hood (C. A. Riggs)
05. Alexander Nevsky (Vladimir Bogdankevich)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. A Woman's Face (uncredited)
02. Alexander Nevsky (uncredited)
03. Marie Antoinette (Jack Dawn)
04. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Perc Westmore)
05. Pygmalion (uncredited)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. Spawn of the North (Barney Wolff, Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings)
02. Topper Takes a Trip (Roy Seawright)
03. Maid's Night Out (Vernon L. Walker)
04. Test Pilot (A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus)
05. The Buccaneer (Barney Wolff, Farciot Edouart, Dewey Wrigley)

RESULTS
11 nominations: Alexander Nevsky (3 wins)
6 nominations: Port of Shadows (3 wins)
5 nominations: Bringing Up Baby (2 wins), Jezebel
4 nominations: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, The Lady Vanishes, Marie Antoinette (1 win), Olympia (1 win), Pygmalion, The Shining Hour
3 nominations: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Algiers (1 win), La Bête Humaine, The Buccaneer
2 nominations: The Drum, Spawn of the North (1 win)
1 nomination: Alexander's Ragtime Band, Angels with Dirty Faces, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Dawn Patrol (1 win), Going Places, The Great Waltz, Holiday, Maid's Night Out, Of Human Hearts, The Shopworn Angel, Sidewalks of London, Suez, Topper Takes a Trip, The Toy Wife, Under Western Stars, Vivacious Lady, A Woman's Face (1 win)

[Reza]

I told myself that I needed to go out of my way to watch Jean Arthur in another movie...and then I realized that I had seen her in over five. A fantastic comedienne.

Hope the 5 you saw her in included some of the following:

If You Could Only Cook (1935)
The Plainsman (1936)
History is Made at Night (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The More the Merrier (1943)

She is also great, ofcourse, in the Capra films.



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[Sabin]

I just watched You Can't Take It With You. I think it's some kind of sterling achievement for translated such madness to the screen but I can't help but think that a sharper (re: less sentimental) sensibility than Capra could have made it into something of a masterpiece. It's very well-staged though and a lot of fun as it careens from here to there until it becomes a little too enamored with saying something about the America that Wall Street forgets, though admittedly it was building to something of the sort. It's fun though, especially in the banter between James Stewart and Jean Arthur who have a fantastic chemistry together. Capra excels at staging seemingly impromptu intimacies between them that feel organic. I told myself that I needed to go out of my way to watch Jean Arthur in another movie...and then I realized that I had seen her in over five. A fantastic comedienne.

Was You Can't Take It With You considered a front-runner for the prize at all?

[Reza]

Who did you bump?

Minnie Dupree in The Young at Heart.



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[Big Magilla]

Who did you bump?

[Reza]

Finnaly got to see dizzy Burke in Merrily We Live. She made it to my list.

[Big Magilla]

Since my last comment I've gone back to the earlier of the New York or Los Angeles release date, which is what I'm most comfortable with.

In Old Chicago opened in Los Angeles on January 12, 1938, the last day to qualify for the 1937 awards so it remains technically a 1938 release.

I thought Brady's performance only marginally good. I liked her much better in The Gay Divorcee and My Man Godfrey.

[Reza]

I'm now back to trying to match the Academy's eligibility list, a daunting task, but one that ultimately makes more sense. If you're going to criticize their choices, it's only fair to substitute films and performances that were actually in contention, not pull something into the year of eligibility that wasn't there in the first palce.

Then you need to shift Alice Brady (In Old Chicago) back to the 1937 thread - the year for which she actually won her award.

And I might add - having reviewed this film only last night - that she is superb in it and deserved her win. What a contrast to the scatterbrain she played in My Man Godfrey. She also has such a distinctive voice - as all stars do.

[Big Magilla]

I wrote that two years ago when I was trying to conform to Oscar eligibility rules. I then went to New York opening dates, which are much easier to validate than Los Angeles opening dates. I'm now back to trying to match the Academy's eligibility list, a daunting task, but one that ultimately makes more sense. If you're going to criticize their choices, it's only fair to substitute films and performances that were actually in contention, not pull somehting into the year of eligibility that wasn't there in the first palce.



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[Reza]

Reza, technically The Lady Vanishes wasn't Oscar eligible until 1939.

But you have Hitchcock listed for 1938?

[Precious Doll]

Best Film

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. La Bete Humaine
3. Pygmalion
4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
5. The Citadel

Best Director

1. Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby
2. Leni Riefenstahl, Olympia
3. Jean Renoir, La Bete Humaine
4. Anthony Asquith, Pygmalion
5. David Hand, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Best Actor

1. Cary Grant, Bringing Up Baby
2. Jean Gabin, La Bete Humaine
3. Robert Donat, The Citadel
4. Leslie Howard, Pygmalion
5. James Stewart, Vivacious Lady

Best Actress

1. Katherine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
2. Wendy Hiller, Pygmalion
3. Simone Simon, La Bete Humaine
4. Bette Davis, Jezebel
5. Ginger Rogers, Vivacious Lady

Best Supporting Actor

1. Charles Ruggles, Bringing Up Baby
2. James Ellison, Vivacious Lady
3. Charles Coburn, Vivacious Lady
4. Pat O’Brien for Angels with Dirty Faces
5. Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces

Best Supporting Actress

1. Beulah Bondi, Vivacious Lady
2. May Robson, Bringing Up Baby
3. May Whitty, The Lady Vanishes
4. Ann Sheridan, Angels with Dirty Faces
5. Fay Bainter, Jezebel

Best Screenplay

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. La Marseillaise
3. Vivacious Lady
4. Angels with Dirty Faces
5. Mad About Music

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. La Bete Humaine
2. Pygmalion
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4. The Citadel
5. The Lady Vanishes

Best Cinematography

1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. Olympia
2. The Citadel
3. Jezebel
4. Angels with Dirty Faces
5. The Lady Vanishes

Best Editing

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. La Bete Humaine
3. J’Accuse
4. The Lady Vanishes
5. Pygmalion

Best Sound

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. Pygmalion
3. The Lady Vanishes
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Best Art Direction

1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. Jezebel
3. The Citadel
4. Pygmalion
5. Angels with Dirty Faces

Best Costume Design

1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. Jezebel
3. The Citadel
4. Pygmalion
5. Bringing Up Baby

Best Music

1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. Brining Up Baby
3. The Lady Vanishes
4. The Citadel
5. Angels with Dirty Faces

[MCAR]

Picture:
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Bringing Up Baby
Grand Illusion
Holiday
The Lady Vanishes

Actor:
James Cagney – Angels With Dirty Faces
Robert Donat – The Citadel
Erroll Flynn – The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Cary Grant – Bringing Up Baby
Michael Redgrave – The Lady Vanishes

Actress:
Bette Davis – Jezebel
Katharine Hepburn – Holiday
Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion
Margaret Lockwood – The Lady Vanishes
Margaret Sullavan – Three Comrades

Supporting Actor:
Lew Ayres – Holiday
John Garfield – Four Daughters
Robert Morley – Marie Antoinette
Basil Rathbone – The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Erich Von Stroheim – Grand Illusion

Supporting Actress:
Fay Bainter – Jezebel
Billie Burke – Merrily We Live
Minnie Dupree – The Young In Heart
May Robson – Bringing Up Baby
Dame May Whitty – The Lady Vanishes

Director:
George Cukor – Holiday
Michael Curtiz– The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Howard Hawks – Bringing Up Baby
Alfred Hitchcock – The Lady Vanishes
Jean Renoir – Grand Illusion

Original Screenplay:
R. Brown, W. Duff & J. Wexley – Angels With Dirty Faces
Norman Krasna & Virginia Van Upp – You And Me
S.I. Miller & N.R. Raine – The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Dudley Nichols & Hagar Wilde – Bringing Up Baby
Jean Renoir & Charles Spaak – Grand Illusion

Adapted Screenplay:
Charles Bennett & Paul Osborn – The Young In Heart
Sidney Buchman & David Ogden Stewart – Holiday
Sidney Gilliat & Frank Launder – The Lady Vanishes
Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb & G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion
Robert Riskin – You Can’t Take It With You

[Reza]

Yes, very sloppy of me. Have made the appropriate changes.



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