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The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938, to honor films released in 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California and hosted by Bob Burns. Originally scheduled for March 3, 1938, the ceremony was postponed due to the Los Angeles flood of 1938.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oscars-strike/hollywood-writers-strike-clouds-oscars-idUSN1615156820080123 Hollywood writers strike clouds Oscars 2008-01-23 Reuters 2020-02-07https://www.filmsite.org/aa37.html 1937 Academy Awards Winners and History filmsite.org 2020-02-07http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1938 The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners 2011-08-09 Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093713/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/10th-winners.html July 6, 2011 live
This was the last year for two Oscars categories: Best Dance Direction, which this year saw the only nomination ever received by a Marx Brothers film (Dave Gould for "All God's Children Got Rhythm" in A Day at the Races), and Best Assistant Director.
The Life of Emile Zola was the first film to receive ten nominations and the second consecutive biographical film to win Best Picture, following the previous year's The Great Ziegfeld. Luise Rainer received the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Good Earth, earning her the distinctions of being the first actor to win two Academy Awards and the first to win consecutive acting awards, following her win for The Great Ziegfeld. Luise Rainer, who didn't think anyone could win in two consecutive years, stayed at home with her husband, playwright Clifford Odets, on the night of the ceremony. She was informed of her win by telephone, hastily dressed herself up, and rushed out the door to collect her second Oscar, which was said to have "jinxed her".Wallechinsky David Wallace Irving 1975 The People's Almanac https://archive.org/details/peoplesalmanac00wall/page/834/mode/2up Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. 834 0-385-04060-1
A Star Is Born was the first color film to receive a Best Picture nomination.
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length Technicolor animated feature film with sound and widely seen as one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, received only one nomination, for Best Original Score. The following year, the Academy presented Disney an Honorary Academy Award (consisting of one full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature statuettes on a stepped base) "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". This is a rare case of a film being recognized in two successive ceremonies.
This was the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture received multiple nominations.
Winners and nominees
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Awards
Nominations announced on February 6, 1938. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
#F9EFAA Outstanding Production
The Life of Emile Zola – Henry Blanke for Warner Bros.
The Awful Truth – Leo McCarey and Everett Riskin for Columbia
Captains Courageous – Louis D. Lighton for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dead End – Samuel Goldwyn and Merritt Hulbert for Samuel Goldwyn Prod. and United Artists
The Good Earth – Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In Old Chicago – Darryl F. Zanuck and Kenneth Macgowan for 20th Century Fox
Lost Horizon – Frank Capra for Columbia
One Hundred Men and a Girl – Charles R. Rogers and Joe Pasternak for Universal
Stage Door – Pandro S. Berman for RKO Radio
A Star Is Born – David O. Selznick for Selznick International and United Artists#F9EFAA Best Directing
Leo McCarey – The Awful Truth
Sidney Franklin – The Good Earth
William Dieterle – The Life of Emile Zola
Gregory La Cava – Stage Door
William Wellman – A Star Is Born#F9EFAA Best Actor
Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous as Manuel Fidello
Charles Boyer – Conquest as Napoleon Bonaparte
Fredric March – A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
Robert Montgomery – Night Must Fall as Danny
Paul Muni – The Life of Emile Zola as Émile Zola#F9EFAA Best Actress
Luise Rainer – The Good Earth as O-Lan
Irene Dunne – The Awful Truth as Lucy Warriner
Greta Garbo – Camille as Marguerite Gautier
Janet Gaynor – A Star Is Born as Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester
Barbara Stanwyck – Stella Dallas as Stella Dallas#F9EFAA Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Joseph Schildkraut – The Life of Emile Zola as Alfred Dreyfus
Ralph Bellamy – The Awful Truth as Dan Leeson
Thomas Mitchell – The Hurricane as Dr. Kersaint
H. B. Warner – Lost Horizon as Chang
Roland Young – Topper as Cosmo Topper#F9EFAA Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Alice Brady – In Old Chicago as Molly O'Leary
Andrea Leeds – Stage Door as Kay Hamilton
Anne Shirley – Stella Dallas as Laurel Dallas
Claire Trevor – Dead End as Francey
May Whitty – Night Must Fall as Mrs Bramson#F9EFAA Best Writing (Original Story)
A Star Is Born – William A. Wellman and Robert Carson Black Legion – Robert Lord
In Old Chicago – Niven Busch
The Life of Emile Zola – Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg
One Hundred Men and a Girl – Hanns Kräly
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#F9EFAA Best Writing (Screenplay)
The Life of Emile Zola – Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine, based on Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson
The Awful Truth – Viña Delmar, based on the play by Arthur Richman
Captains Courageous – John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, and Dale Van Every, based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling
Stage Door – Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller, based on the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
A Star Is Born – Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, and Dorothy Parker, based on a story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (One-Reel)
The Private Life of the Gannets – Skibo Productions and Educational
A Night at the Movies – MGM
Romance of Radium – Pete Smith and MGM#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)
Torture Money – MGM
Deep South – RKO Radio
Should Wives Work? – RKO Radio#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (Color)
Penny Wisdom – Pete Smith and MGM
The Man Without a Country – Warner Bros.
Popular Science J-7-1 – Paramount#F9EFAA Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
The Old Mill – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio
Educated Fish – Paramount
The Little Match Girl – Charles Mintz and Columbia#F9EFAA Best Music (Scoring)
One Hundred Men and a Girl – Universal Studio Music Department
The Hurricane – Goldwyn Studio Music Department
In Old Chicago – 20th Century Fox Studio Music Department
The Life of Emile Zola – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department
Lost Horizon – Columbia Studio Music Department
Make a Wish – Principal Productions
Maytime – MGM Studio Music Department
Portia on Trial – Republic Studio Music Department
The Prisoner of Zenda – Selznick International Pictures Music Department
Quality Street – RKO Radio Studio Music Department
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Walt Disney Studio Music Department
Something to Sing About – Grand National Studio Music Department
Souls at Sea – Paramount Studio Music Department
Way Out West – Hal Roach Studio Music Department#F9EFAA Best Music (Song)
"Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding – Music and Lyrics by Harry Owens
"Remember Me" from Mr. Dodd Takes the Air – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Al Dubin
"That Old Feeling" from Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Lew Brown
"They Can't Take That Away From Me" from Shall We Dance – Music by George Gershwin (posthumous nomination); Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
"Whispers in the Dark" from Artists and Models – Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyrics by Leo Robin#F9EFAA Best Sound Recording
The Hurricane – Thomas T. Moulton
The Girl Said No – A. E. Kaye
Hitting a New High – John Aalberg
In Old Chicago – E. H. Hansen
The Life of Emile Zola – Nathan Levinson
Lost Horizon – John P. Livadary
Maytime – Douglas Shearer
One Hundred Men and a Girl – Homer G. Tasker
Topper – Elmer A. Raguse
Wells Fargo – Loren L. Ryder#F9EFAA Best Dance Direction
A Damsel in Distress – Hermes Pan
Ali Baba Goes to Town – Sammy Lee
A Day at the Races – Dave Gould
Ready, Willing and Able – Bobby Connolly
Thin Ice – Harry Losee
Varsity Show – Busby Berkeley
Waikiki Wedding – LeRoy Prinz#F9EFAA Best Assistant Director
In Old Chicago – Robert Webb
Lost Horizon – C. C. Coleman Jr.
The Life of Emile Zola – Russ Saunders
Souls at Sea – Hal Walker
A Star Is Born – Eric G. Stacey#F9EFAA Best Art Direction
Lost Horizon – Stephen Goosson
Conquest – Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning
A Damsel in Distress – Carroll Clark
Dead End – Richard Day
Every Day's a Holiday – Wiard Ihnen
The Life of Emile Zola – Anton Grot
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round – John Victor Mackay
The Prisoner of Zenda – Lyle R. Wheeler
Souls at Sea – Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 – Alexander Toluboff
Wee Willie Winkie – William S. Darling and David S. Hall
You're a Sweetheart – Jack Otterson#F9EFAA Best Cinematography
The Good Earth – Karl Freund
Dead End – Gregg Toland
Wings over Honolulu – Joseph Valentine#F9EFAA Best Film Editing
Lost Horizon – Gene Havlick and Gene Milford
The Awful Truth – Al Clark
Captains Courageous – Elmo Veron
The Good Earth – Basil Wrangell
One Hundred Men and a Girl – Bernard W. Burton
Special awards
To Mack Sennett, for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius - Mack Sennett.
To Edgar Bergen for his outstanding comedy creation, Charlie McCarthy.
To The Museum of Modern Art Film Library for its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts.
To W. Howard Greene for the color photography of A Star Is Born.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Darryl F. Zanuck
Multiple nominations and awards
+ Films with multiple nominationsNominationsFilm 10 The Life of Emile Zola 7 Lost Horizon A Star Is Born 6 The Awful Truth In Old Chicago 5 The Good Earth One Hundred Men and a Girl 4 Captains Courageous Dead End Stage Door 3 The Hurricane Souls at Sea 2 Conquest A Damsel in Distress Maytime Night Must Fall The Prisoner of Zenda Stella Dallas Waikiki Wedding Topper Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
+ Films with multiple awardsAwardsFilm 3 The Life of Emile Zola 2 The Good Earth In Old Chicago Lost Horizon
See also
1937 in film
References
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