10th Academy Awards

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. Host of the ceremony was Bob Burns.

Winners and nominees
Winners are highlighted in boldface.


Best Motion Picture Of The Year

The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Dead End
The Good Earth
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door
A Star Is Born

Achievement in Directing

William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
Gregory La Cava - Stage Door
Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
William Wellman - A Star Is Born

Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role

Charles Boyer - Conquest
Fredric March - A Star Is Born
Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall
Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola
Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous

Best Performance by An Actress In A Leading Role

Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth
Greta Garbo - Camille
Janet Gaynor - A Star Is Born
Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas

Best Performance by An Actor In a Supporting Role

Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth
Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane
Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola
H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon
Roland Young - Topper

Best Performance by An Actress In a Supporting Role

Alice Brady - In Old Chicago
Andrea Leeds - Stage Door
Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas
Claire Trevor - Dead End
Dame May Whitty - Night Must Fall

Best Writing, Screenplay

Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, and Dorothy Parker - A Star Is Born
Vina Delmar - The Awful Truth
John Lee Mahin, Marc Connolly, and Dale Van Every - Captains Courageous
Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller - Stage Door

Best Writing, Original Story

Niven Busch - In Old Chicago
Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg - The Life of Emile Zola
Hans Kraly - One Hundred Men and a Girl
Robert Lord - Black Legion
William A. Wellman and Robert Carson - A Star Is Born

Art Decoration

Carroll Clark - A Damsel in Distress
William S. Darling and David Hall - Wee Willie Winkie
Richard Day - Dead End
Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson - Souls at Sea
Cedric Gibbons and William Horning - Conquest
Stephen Goosson - Lost Horizon
Anton Grot - The Life of Emile Zola
Wiard Ihnen - Every Day's a Holiday
John Victor Mackay - Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Jack Otterson - You're a Sweetheart
Alexander Toluboff - Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
Lyle Wheeler - The Prisoner of Zenda

Achievement In Cinematography

Karl Freund - The Good Earth
Gregg Toland - Dead End
Joseph Valentine - Wings Over Honolulu

Sound Recording

Lost Horizon
The Girl Said No
Topper
Maytime
Wells Fargo
Hitting a New High
In Old Chicago
The Hurricane
One Hundred Men and a Girl
The Life of Emile Zola

Assistant Director

C. C. Coleman, Jr. - Lost Horizon
Russ Saunders - The Life of Emile Zola
Eric Stacey - A Star Is Born
Hal Walker - Souls at Sea
Robert Webb - In Old Chicago

Short Subjects: Cartoons

Educated Fish
The Little Match Girl
The Old Mill

Short Subjects: One-Reel

A Night at the Movies
The Private Life of the Gannets
Romance of Radium

Short Subjects: Two-Reel

Deep South
Should Wives Work?
Torture Money

Short Subjects: Color

The Man Without a Country
Penny Wisdom
Popular Science J-7-1

Music: Best Song

"Remember Me" - Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
"Sweet Leilani" - Waikiki Wedding
"That Old Feeling" - Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
"They Can't Take That Away From Me" - Shall We Dance
"Whispers in the Dark" - Artists and Models

Music: Best Score

Lost Horizon
The Hurricane
Something to Sing About
Way Out West
Maytime
Souls at Sea
Make a Wish
Portia on Trial
Quality Street
The Prisoner of Zenda
In Old Chicago
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Life of Emile Zola

Film Editing

Bernard W. Burton - One Hundred Men and a Girl
Al Clark - The Awful Truth
Gene Havlick and Gene Milford - Lost Horizon
Elmo Vernon - Captains Courageous
Basil Wrangell - The Good Earth

Dance Direction

Busby Berkeley - Varsity Show
Bobby Connolly - Ready, Willing and Able
Dave Gould - A Day at the Races
Sammy Lee - Ali Baba Goes to Town
Hermes Pan - A Damsel in Distress
LeRoy Prinz - Waikiki Wedding
This award was only given out for three years (1935-1937).


Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Darryl F. Zanuck
Not necessarily given each year


Special Award

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