1927-1928

ACTRESS-Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise)

ACTOR-Emil Jannings (Way of All Flesh, Last Command

DIRECTORS-Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven), Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS-Wings (Paramount), Sunrise (Fox)

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (Sunrise)

ART DIRECTION-William Cameron Menzies (Temptation, The Dove)

WRITING ACHIEVEMENTS-Ben Hecht (Underworld), Benjamin Glazer (Seventh Heaven)

TITLE WRITING-Joseph W. Farnham (Telling the World, Fair Co-ed)

ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT-Roy J. Pomeroy (Wings)

FOR MAKING AN EPOCH IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY-Warner Bros. for producing The Jazz Singer.

1928-1929

ACTRESS-Mary Pickford (Coquette)

ACTOR-Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)

DIRECTION-Frank Lloyd (Weary River, Divine Lady, Drag)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION-The Broadway Melody (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Clyde DeVinna (White Shadows of the South Seas)

ART DIRECTION-Cedric Gibbons (Bridge of San Luis Rey)

WRITING-Hans Kraly (The Patriot)

1929-1930

ACTRESS-Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)

ACTOR-George Arliss (Disraeli)

DIRECTION-Lewis Milestone (All Quite on the Western Front)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION-All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal)

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Joseph T. Tucker and Willard Vander Veer (With Byrd at the South Pole)

ART DIRECTION-Herman Rosse (King of Jazz)

SOUND RECORDING-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio (The Big House)

WRITING-Frances Marion (The Big House)

1930-1931

ACTRESS-Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)

ACTOR-Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)

DIRECTION-Norman Taurog (Skippy)

BEST PRODUCED PICTURE-Cimarron (Radio Pictures)

ORIGINAL STORY-John Monk Saunders (Dawn Patrol)

ADAPTATION-Howard Estabrook (Cimarron)

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Floyd Crosby (Tabu)

ART DIRECTION-Max Ree (Cimarron)

SOUND RECORDING-Paramount (SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS)

NOISE REDUCTION RECORDING EQUIPMENT-Electrical Research Products, RCA Photophone and RKO Radio Pictures

SUPER-SENSITIVE PANCHROMATIC FILM-Du Pont Film Mfg. Co. and Eastman Kodak Co.

HONORABLE MENTION FOR SYNCHRO-PROJECTION COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHY-Fox Film Co.

1931-1932

ACTRESS-Helen Hayes (Sin of Madelon Claudet)

ACTOR-Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

EXTRA AWARD-Wallace Beery (The Champ)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION-Grand Hotel (M-G-M)

DIRECTION-Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)

ORIGINAL STORY-Frances Marion (The Champ)

ADAPTATION-Edwin Burke (Bad Girl)

PHOTOGRAPHY-Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express)

ART DIRECTION-Gordon Wiles (Transatlantic)

SOUND RECORDING-Paramount (Shanghai Express, A Broken Lullaby, One Hour With You, etc.)

SHORT SUBJECTS-Flowers and Trees (Walt Disney), A Wrestling Swordfish (Mack Sennett), Laurel Hardy in The Music Box (Hal Roach)

SPECIAL AWARD-Walt Disney (for creation of Mickey Mouse)

CERTIFICATE OF HONORABLE MENTION-Technicolor

HONORABLE MENTION-Eastman Kodak Co

ACTRESS-Katherine Hepburn (Morning Glory)

ACTOR-Charles Laughton (Henry VIII)

DIRECTION-Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION-Cavalcade (Fox)

ORIGINAL STORY-Robert Lord (One Way Passage)

ADAPTATION-Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman (Little Women)

PHOTOGRAPHY-Charles Lang (Farewell to Arms)

SHORT SUBJECTS-Three Little Pigs (Walt Disney); So This is Harris (RKO Radio); Krakotoa (Educational

1933-1934

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION-It Happened One Night (Columbia)

ACTRESS-Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)

ACTOR-Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)

DIRECTION-Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)

ORIGINAL STORY-Arthur Caesar (Manhattan Melodrama)

SCREENPLAY-Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night)

ART DIRECTION-The Merry Widow

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Victor Milner (Cleopatra)

SOUND RECORDING-One Night of Love

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-Johnny Waters

SHORT SUBJECTS-Tortoise and the Hare, La Cucaracha, City of Wax

SCORING-One Night of Love

MUSICAL COMPOSITION-The Continental

1934-1935

BEST PRODUCTION-Mutiny on the Bounty (M-G-M)

ACRESSS-Bette Davis (Dangerous)

ACTOR-Victor McLaglen (The Informer)

DIRECTION-John Ford (The Informer)

ORIGINAL STORY-Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (The Scoundrel)

SCREENPLAY-Dudley Nichols (The Informer)

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Hal Mohr (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

ART DIRECITON-Richard Day (The Dark Angel)

SOUND RECORDING-William Steinkampf (Naughty Marietta)

MUSICAL COMPOSITION-Lullaby of Broadway from Gold-Diggers of 1935; Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by Al Dubin

DANCE DIRECTION-Dave Gould (I’ve a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ from Broadway Melody of 1936 and Straw Hat number from Folies Bergere)

FILM EDITING-Ralph Dawson (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

ASSISTANT DIRECTION-Clem Beauchamp (Lives of a Bengal Lancer)

SCORING-Max Steiner (The Informer)

SHORT SUBJECTS-Cartoon Three Orphan Kittens (Walt Disney); Comedy: How to Sleep (M-G-M); Novelty; Wings Over Mont Everest (Educational)

1935-1936

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION-The Great Ziegfeld (M-G-M)

ACTRESS-Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)

ACTOR-Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Gail Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)

SUPPORTING ACTOR-Walter Brennan (Come and Get It)

DIRECTOR-Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Iowa)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-Jack Sullivan (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

ORIGINAL STORY-Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

SCREENPLAY-Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Tony Gaudio (Anthony Adverse)

ART DIRECITON-Richard Day (Dodsworth)

SOUND RECORDING-M-G-M Sound Department, headed by Douglas Shearer (San Francisco)

MUSICAL COMPOSITION-The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time; music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Dorothy Fields

DANCE DIRECTOR-Seymour Felix (A Pretty Girl Number from The Great Ziegfeld)

FILM EDITING-Ralph Dawson (Anthony Adverse)

SCORING-Leo Forbstein (Anthony Adverse)

SHORT SUBJECTS-One-reeler: Board of Education (M-G-M-Hal Roach); Two-reeler: The Public Pays M-G-M-Jack Chertok); Cartoon: Country Counsin United Artists-Disney); Color Subject: Give Me Liberty (Warner Bros.)

SPECIAL AWARD-The March of Time, as a distinct novelty

1936-1937

BEST PRODUCTION-The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros.)

ACTRESS-Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)

ACTOR-Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Alice Brady (In Old Chicago)

SUPPORTING ACTOR-Joseph Schildkraut (The Life of Emile Zola)

DIRECTION-Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-Robert Webb (In Old Chicago)

ORIGINAL STORY-William A. Wellman, Robert Carson (A Star Is Born)

SCREENPLAY-Norman Riley Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg (The Life of Emile Zola)

CINEMATOGRAPHY-Karl Freund (The Good Earth)

ART DIRECTOR-Stephen Gooson (The Lost Horizon)

SOUND RECORDING-Thomas Moulton (The Hurricane)

MUSICAL COMPOSITION-"Sweet Leilani," by Harry Owens (Waikiki Wedding)

DANCE DIRECTION-Hermes Pan (A Damsel in Distress

FILM EDITING-Gene Havlick, Gene Melford (Lost Horizon)

SCORING-100 Men and a Girl (Universal)

SHORT SUBJECTS-One-reeler: The Private Life of the Ganets (Educational); Two-reeler: Torture Money (M-G-M); Cartoon: The Old Mill (Walt Disney); Color Subject: Penny Wisdom (Pete Smith-M-G-M)

THALBERG PLAQUE-Darryl F. Zanuck

SPECIAL AWARDS-Mack Sennett, Edgar Bergen, W. Howard Green, Museum of Modern Art Film Library

1937-1938

BEST PRODUCTION-You Can’t Take It With You (Columbia)

ACTRESS-Bette Davis (Jezebel)

ACTOR-Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Fay Bainter (Jezebel)

SUPPORTING ACTOR-Walter Brennan (Kentucky)

DIRECTION-Frank Capra (You Can’t Take It With You)

ORIGINAL STORY-Dore Schary and Eleanore Griffin (Boys Town)

SCREENPLAY-George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)

ADAPTATION-W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple (Pygmalion)

CINEMATOGRAPHY---Joseph Ruttenberg (The Great Waltz)

ART DIRECTION-Carl Weil (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

SOUND RECORDING-T. Moulton (The Cowboy and the Lady)

MUSICAL COMPOSITION-"Thanks for the Memory," by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin (The Big Broadcast of 1938)

FILM EDITING-Ralph Dawson (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

ORIGINAL SCORE-Eric Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

SCORING-Alfred Newman (Alexander’s Ragtime Band)

SHORT SUBJECTS-One reeler: That Mothers Might Live (M-G-M); Two-reeler: The Declaration of Independence (Warner Bros.); Cartoon: Ferdinand the Bull (Walt Disney-RKO Radio)

THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD-Hal B. Wallis

SPECIAL AWARDS-H. M. Warner, Oliver Marsh and Allen Davies, Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney, Walt Disney, Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouard and Loren Ryder, J. Arthur Ball

1938-1939

BEST PRODUCTION-Gone With the Wind (Selznick International-M-G-M)

ACTRESS-Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)

ACTOR-Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Hattie McDaniel (Gone With the Wind)

SUPPORTING ACTOR-Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach)

DIRECTION-Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind)

ORIGINAL STORY-Louis R. Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

SCREENPLAY-Sidney Howard (Gone With the Wind)

ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE-Herbert Stothart (The Wizard of Oz)

SCORING-Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, Joan Leipold, Leo Shuken (Stagecoach)

SONG-E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen ("Over the Rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz)

ART DIRECTION-Lyle Wheeler (Gone With the Wind)

FILM EDITING-Hal Kern, James Newcom (Gone With the Wind)

SOUND RECORDING-Bernard B. Brown (When Tomorrow Comes)

BLACK AND WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY-Gregg Toland (Wuthering Heights)

COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY-Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan (Gone With the Wind)

SPECIAL EFFECTS-E. H. Hansen (The Rains Came)

SHORT SUBJECTS-Cartoon: The Ugly Duckling (Walt Disney); One-reeler: Busy Little Bears (Paramount); More Than One Reel; Sons of Liberty (Warner Bros.)

THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD-David O. Selznick

SPECIAL AWARDS-Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Technicolor, The Motion Picture Relief Fund, Judy Garland, William Cameron Menzies

1939-1940

BEST PRODUCTION-Rebecca (Selznick International-UA)

ACTRESS-Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)

ACTOR-James Steward (The Philadelphia Story)

SUPPORTING ACTOR-Walter Brennan (The Westerner)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)

DIRECTION-John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)

ORIGINAL STORY-Benjamin Glazer,John S. Toldy (Arise My Love)

SCREENPLAY-Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY-Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty)

ORIGINAL SCORE-Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington (Pinocchio)

SONG-Music, Ned Washington; lyric, Leigh Harline (When You Wish Upon a Star-Pinocchio)

SCORING-Alfred Newman (Tin Pan Alley)

ART DIRECTION, BLACK AND WHITE-Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse (Pride and Prejudice)

ART DIRECTOR, COLOR-Vincent Korda (The Thief of Bagdad)

FILM EDITING-Anne Bauchens (North West Mounted Police)

SOUND RECORDING-Douglas Shearer (Strike Up the Band)

BLACK AND WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY-George Barnes (Rebecca)

COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY-George Perinal (The Theif of Bagdad)

PHOTOGRAPHIC EFFECTS-Lawrence Butler (The Thief of Bagdad)

SOUND EFFECTS-Jack Whitney (The Thief of Bagdad)

SHORT SUBJECTS-Cartoon: The Milky Way (M-G-M); One-reeler: Quicker’n a Wink (M-G-M); Two-reeler: Teddy the Rough Rider (Warners)

SPECIAL AWARDS-Bob Hope, Col. Nathan Levinson

1940-1941

BEST PRODUCTION-How Green Was My Valley (20^{th Century-Fox)}

ACTRESS-Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)

ACTOR-Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)

SUPPORTING ACTOR-Donald Crisp (How Green Was My Valley)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS-Mary Astor (The Great Lie)

DIRECTION-John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)

ORIGINAL STORY-Harry Segall (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)

SCREENPLAY-Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY-John Mankiewicz, Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)

THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD-Walt Disney

ART DIRECTION, BLACK AND WHITE-Richard Day, Nathan Juran (How Green Was My Valley)

ART DIRECTION, COLOR-Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary (Blossoms in the Dust)

CINEMATOGRAPHY, BLACK AND WHITE-Arthur Miller (How Green Was My Valley)

CINEMATOGRAPHY, COLOR-Ernest Palmer, Ray Rennahan (Blood and Sand)

SOUND RECORDING-Jack Whitney, General Service Studios (That Hamilton Woman)

SHORT SUBJECTS-Cartoon: Lenda Paw (Walt Disney); one-reeler: Of Pups and Puzzles (M-G-M); Two-reeler: Main Street on the March (M-G-M)

FILM EDITING-William Holmes (Sergeant York)

SPECIAL EFFECTS, PHOTOGRAPHIC-Farciot Edouard, Gordon Jennings (I Wanted Wings)

SPECIAL EFFECTS, SOUND-Louis Mesenkop (I Wanted Wings)

MUSICAL PICTURE SCORE-Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace (Dumbo)

DRAMATIC PICTURE SCORE-Bernard Hermann (All That Money Can Bnuy)

SONG-"The Last Time I Saw Paris," music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II (Lady Be Good)

DOCUMENTARIES-Two-reeler: Churchill’s Island (Canadian Film Board-United Artists). Features: Kukan (Reynold Scott-Adventure Films) and Target for Tonight (British Information Library-Warner Bros.)

INTERIOR DECORATION, BLACK AND WHITE-Thomas Little (How Green Was My Valley)

INTERIOR DECORATION, COLOR-Edwin B. Willis (Blossoms in the Dust)

SPECIAL AWARDS-Walt Disney, William Garrity, John A. Hawkins, RCA Manufacturing Co. (use of sound in Fantasia); Leopold Stokowsky and Associates (unique creation of visualized music in Fantasia)