11th Academy Awards

11th Academy Awards
Date	February 23, 1939
Site	Biltmore Hotel
Host	No official host
Highlights
Best Picture	You Can't Take It with You
Most awards	The Adventures of Robin Hood (3)
Most nominations	You Can't Take it With You (7)
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The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host, as well as the first to have a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion) nominated for Best Picture.

This was the first of only two times in Oscar history that 3 of the 4 acting wins were by repeat winners; only Fay Bainter was a first timer. The only other time this happened was in 1994. In addition, Spencer Tracy became the first of only two lead actors to win two years in a row; the other one, Tom Hanks, also did so in 1994.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
You Can't Take It With You The Adventures of Robin Hood Alexander's Ragtime Band Boys Town The Citadel Four Daughters Grand Illusion Jezebel Pygmalion Test Pilot	Frank Capra – You Can't Take It With You Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces Michael Curtiz – Four Daughters Norman Taurog – Boys Town King Vidor – The Citadel
Best Actor	Best Actress
Spencer Tracy – Boys Town Charles Boyer – Algiers James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces Robert Donat – The Citadel Leslie Howard – Pygmalion	Bette Davis – Jezebel Fay Bainter – White Banners Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette Margaret Sullavan – Three Comrades
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Walter Brennan – Kentucky John Garfield – Four Daughters Gene Lockhart – Algiers Robert Morley – Marie Antoinette Basil Rathbone – If I Were King	Fay Bainter – Jezebel Beulah Bondi – Of Human Hearts Billie Burke – Merrily We Live Spring Byington – You Can't Take It With You Miliza Korjus – The Great Waltz
Best Story	Best Screenplay
Boys Town – Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary Alexander's Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin Angels with Dirty Faces – Rowland Brown Mad About Music – Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner Blockade – John Howard Lawson Test Pilot – Frank Wead	Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and W. P. Lipscomb Four Daughters – Lenore Coffee and Julius J. Epstein The Citadel – Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill and Frank Wead Boys Town – John Meehan and Dore Schary You Can't Take It With You – Robert Riskin
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel	Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
That Mothers Might Live – MGM The Great Heart – MGM Timber Toppers – 20th Century Fox	Declaration of Independence – Warner Bros. Swingtime in the Movies – Warner Bros. They're Always Caught – MGM
Best Animated Short Film	Best Score
Ferdinand the Bull – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Brave Little Tailor – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Good Scouts – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Hunky and Spunky – Paramount Mother Goose Goes Hollywood – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio	Alexander's Ragtime Band – Alfred Newman Carefree – Victor Baravalle Storm Over Bengal – Cy Feuer There Goes My Heart – Marvin Hatley Tropic Holiday – Boris Morros The Goldwyn Follies – Alfred Newman Mad About Music – Charles Previn and Frank Skinner Jezebel – Max Steiner Girls' School – Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone Sweethearts – Herbert Stothart The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman
Best Original Score	Best Song
The Adventures of Robin Hood – Erich Wolfgang Korngold Pacific Liner – Russell Bennett If I Were King – Richard Hageman Block-Heads – Marvin Hatley Blockade – Werner Janssen The Cowboy and the Lady – Alfred Newman Suez – Louis Silvers Marie Antoinette – Herbert Stothart The Young in Heart – Franz Waxman Army Girl – Victor Young Breaking the Ice – Victor Young	"Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938 – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin "Always and Always" from Mannequin – Music by Edward Ward; Lyric by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright "Change Partners" from Carefree – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin "The Cowboy and the Lady" from The Cowboy and the Lady – Music by Lionel Newman; Lyric by Arthur Quenzer "Dust" from Under Western Stars – Music and Lyric by Johnny Marvin "Jeepers Creepers" from Going Places – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Johnny Mercer "Merrily We Live" from Merrily We Live – Music by Phil Charig; Lyric by Arthur Quenzer "A Mist Over the Moon" from The Lady Objects – Music by Ben Oakland; Lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II "My Own" from That Certain Age – Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyric by Harold Adamson "Now It Can Be Told" from Alexander's Ragtime Band – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
The Adventures of Robin Hood – Carl J. Weyl The Goldwyn Follies – Richard Day If I Were King – Hans Dreier and John B. Goodman Marie Antoinette – Cedric Gibbons Holiday – Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks Merrily We Live – Charles D. Hall Alexander's Ragtime Band – Bernard Herzbrun and Boris Leven Mad About Music – Jack Otterson Carefree – Van Nest Polglase Algiers – Alexander Toluboff The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Lyle Wheeler	The Great Waltz – Joseph Ruttenberg Merrily We Live – Norbert Brodine Vivacious Lady – Robert de Grasse Jezebel – Ernest Haller Algiers – James Wong Howe Suez – Peverell Marley Army Girl – Ernest Miller and Harry Wild The Buccaneer – Victor Milner The Young in Heart – Leon Shamroy Mad About Music – Joseph Valentine You Can't Take It With You – Joseph Walker
Best Sound Recording	Best Film Editing
The Cowboy and the Lady – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department You Can't Take It With You – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department Merrily We Live – Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department Sweethearts – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department If I Were King – Loren L. Ryder, Paramount Studio Sound Department Army Girl – Charles L. Lootens, Republic Studio Sound Department Vivacious Lady – John Aalberg, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department Suez – Edmund H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department That Certain Age – Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio Sound Department Four Daughters – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department	The Adventures of Robin Hood – Ralph Dawson The Great Waltz – Tom Held Test Pilot – Tom Held You Can't Take It With You – Gene Havlick Alexander's Ragtime Band – Barbara McLean

Academy Honorary Award

• Harry M. Warner
• Walt Disney
• Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey
• Gordon Jenning, Jan Domela, Dev Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren Ryder, Harry Mills, Louis H. Mesenkop and Walter Oberst
• J. Arthur Ball

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Hal B. Wallis

Academy Juvenile Award

• Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 7 nominations: You Can't Take it With You
• 6 nominations: Alexander's Ragtime Band
• 5 nominations: Boys Town, Four Daughters, Jezebel, Merrily We Live
• 4 nominations: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Algiers, The Citadel, If I Were King, Mad About Music, Marie Antoinette, Pygmalion
• 3 nominations: Angels with Dirty Faces, Army Girl, Carefree, The Cowboy and the Lady, The Great Waltz, Suez, Test Pilot, The Young in Heart
• 2 nominations: Blockade, The Goldwyn Follies, Sweethearts, That Certain Age, Vivacious Lady

The following films received multiple awards.

• 3 wins: The Adventures of Robin Hood
• 2 wins: Boys Town, Jezebel, You Can't Take it With You

External links

• Official Website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences