10th Academy Awards

10th
Date	March 10, 1938
Site	Biltmore Hotel
Hosted by	Bob Burns
Highlights
Best Picture	The Life of Emile Zola

The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Originally scheduled to be held on March 3, 1938, the ceremony was postponed due to heavy flooding in Los Angeles. The host of the ceremony was Bob Burns.

This was the last year in which the categories of Best Dance Direction and Best Assistant Director were awarded, with the former providing the only nomination ever received by a Marx Brothers film (Dave Gould for the dance number "All God's Children Got Rhythm," in A Day at the Races).

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
The Life of Emile Zola The Awful Truth Captains Courageous Dead End The Good Earth In Old Chicago Lost Horizon One Hundred Men and a Girl Stage Door A Star Is Born	Leo McCarey – The Awful Truth William Dieterle – The Life of Emile Zola Sidney Franklin – The Good Earth Gregory La Cava – Stage Door William Wellman – A Star Is Born
Best Actor	Best Actress
Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous Charles Boyer – Conquest Fredric March – A Star Is Born Robert Montgomery – Night Must Fall Paul Muni – The Life of Emile Zola	Luise Rainer – The Good Earth Irene Dunne – The Awful Truth Greta Garbo – Camille Janet Gaynor – A Star Is Born Barbara Stanwyck – Stella Dallas
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Joseph Schildkraut – The Life of Emile Zola Ralph Bellamy – The Awful Truth Thomas Mitchell – The Hurricane H. B. Warner – Lost Horizon Roland Young – Topper	Alice Brady – In Old Chicago Andrea Leeds – Stage Door Anne Shirley – Stella Dallas Claire Trevor – Dead End Dame May Whitty – Night Must Fall
Best Story	Best Adapted Screenplay
A Star Is Born – William A. Wellman and Robert Carson In Old Chicago – Niven Busch The Life of Emile Zola – Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg One Hundred Men and a Girl – Hans Kraly Black Legion – Robert Lord	Stage Door – Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller A Star Is Born – Alan Campbell, Robert Carson and Dorothy Parker The Awful Truth – Viña Delmar Captains Courageous – John Lee Mahin, Marc Connolly and Dale Van Every
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel	Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
The Private Life of the Gannets – Skibo Productions and Educational A Night at the Movies – MGM Romance of Radium – Pete Smith and MGM	Torture Money – MGM Deep South – RKO Radio Should Wives Work? – RKO Radio
Best Live Action Short Film, Color	Best Animated Short Film
Penny Wisdom – Pete Smith and MGM The Man Without a Country – Warner Bros. Popular Science J-7-1 – Paramount	The Old Mill – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Educated Fish – Paramount The Little Match Girl – Charles Mintz and Columbia
Best Score	Best Song
One Hundred Men and a Girl – Universal Studio Music Department Lost Horizon – Columbia Studio Music Department The Hurricane – Goldwyn Studio Music Department Something to Sing About – Grand National Studio Music Department Way Out West – Hal Roach Studio Music Department Maytime – MGM Studio Music Department Souls at Sea – Paramount Studio Music Department Make a Wish – Principal Productions Portia on Trial – Republic Studio Music Department Quality Street – RKO Radio Studio Music Department The Prisoner of Zenda – Selznick International Pictures Music Department In Old Chicago – Twentieth Century Fox Studio Music Department Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Walt Disney Studio Music Department The Life of Emile Zola – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department	"Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding – Music and Lyric by Harry Owens "Remember Me" from Mr. Dodd Takes the Air – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Al Dubin "That Old Feeling" from Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Lew Brown "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from Shall We Dance – Music by George Gershwin; Lyric by Ira Gershwin "Whispers in the Dark" from Artists and Models – Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyric by Leo Robin
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Lost Horizon – Stephen Goosson A Damsel in Distress – Carroll Clark Wee Willie Winkie – William S. Darling and David S. Hall Dead End – Richard Day Souls at Sea – Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson Conquest – Cedric Gibbons and William Horning The Life of Emile Zola – Anton Grot Every Day's a Holiday – Wiard Ihnen Manhattan Merry-Go-Round – John Victor Mackay You're a Sweetheart – Jack Otterson Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 – Alexander Toluboff The Prisoner of Zenda – Lyle Wheeler	The Good Earth – Karl Freund Dead End – Gregg Toland Wings Over Honolulu – Joseph Valentine
Best Sound Recording	Best Film Editing
The Hurricane – United Artists Studio Sound Department Lost Horizon – Columbia Studio Sound Department The Girl Said No – Grand National Studio Sound Department Topper – Hal Roach Studio Sound Department Maytime – MGM Studio Sound Department Wells Fargo – Paramount Studio Sound Department Hitting a New High – RKO Radio Studio Sound Department In Old Chicago – Fox Studio Sound Department One Hundred Men and a Girl – Universal Studio Sound Department The Life of Emile Zola – Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department	Lost Horizon – Gene Havlick and Gene Milford One Hundred Men and a Girl – Bernard W. Burton The Awful Truth – Al Clark Captains Courageous – Elmo Vernon The Good Earth – Basil Wrangell
Best Assistant Director	Best Dance Direction
In Old Chicago – Robert Webb Lost Horizon – C. C. Coleman, Jr. The Life of Emile Zola – Russ Saunders A Star Is Born – Eric G. Stacey Souls at Sea – Hal Walker	A Damsel in Distress – Hermes Pan Varsity Show – Busby Berkeley Ready, Willing and Able – Bobby Connolly A Day at the Races – Dave Gould Ali Baba Goes to Town – Sammy Lee Waikiki Wedding – LeRoy Prinz

Academy Honorary Award

• Mack Sennett
• Edgar Bergen
• Museum of Modern Art Film Library
• W. Howard Greene

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Darryl F. Zanuck