98th Annual Ronalds (film nominations)

Your post confirms my suspicions that my present DVD for METROPOLIS is the ''almost-complete'' version. I'll need to get the latest Kino version once the price comes down.

The nominations and awards for 1915-2004 were all decided in 2004, working backwards. (I was born in 1966.) Later years were mostly decided two weeks after the year was over....since there's usually one major contender leftover to see after New York and L.A. already have. The 2012 holdover THIS year was ZERO DARK THIRTY.

1927, of course, is the time when the actual Academy awards began. Or 1927-8, technically. So you can expect overlapping nominations for certain films. Sometimes they even choose the right winners. Since they often don't, that's why I took action.

 

Excepting GREED and CLEOPATRA, I've seen all the Best Picture winners, and between 66-80 percent of the acting nominees for the silent years. While early films are coming out on DVD more often, some remain currently lost. GREED is still not yet out on DVD, incomplete or otherwise. In order to maintain five major nominees per category, there are occasional ''best guesses'' for nominations for the acting. By 1930 if not earlier, with very rare exceptions, all acting noms have been seen and all winners are awarded sight seen.

1927

BEST PICTURE

The General
It
The Jazz Singer
Napoleon
Wings

BEST DIRECTOR

Clarence G. Badger, IT
Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, THE GENERAL
Cecil B. DeMille, KING OF KINGS
Abel Gance, NAPOLEON
William A. Wellman, WINGS

BEST ACTOR

Richard Arlen, WINGS
Albert Dieudonne, NAPOLEON
Buster Keaton, THE GENERAL
Charles Rogers, WINGS
H.B. Warner, KING OF KINGS

BEST ACTRESS

Clara Bow, IT
Clara Bow, WINGS
Virginia Grey, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Marion Mack, THE GENERAL
May McAvoy, THE JAZZ SINGER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Gary Cooper, WINGS
Abel Gance, NAPOLEON
Vladimir Roudenko, NAPOLEON
Gunboat Smith, WINGS
Henry B. Walthall, WINGS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Suzanne Bianchetti, NAPOLEON
Yvette Dieudonne, NAPOLEON
Margarita Fischer, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Marguerite Gance, NAPOLEON
Jaqueline Logan, KING OF KINGS

BST SCREENPLAY

Al Boasberg, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton and Charles
Smith, THE GENERAL
Alfred A. Cohn, THE JAZZ SINGER
Abel Gance, NAPOLEON
Elinor Glyn, Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton, IT
Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton, WINGS

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

William Axt and Erno Rapee, KING OF KINGS
Gaylord Carter, WINGS
Carmine Coppola, Carl Davis and Arthur Honegger,
NAPOLEON
Robert Israel, THE GENERAL
Louis Silvers, et, al., THE JAZZ SINGER

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The General
It
King of Kings
Napoleon
Wings

BEST ART DIRECTION

It
King of Kings
Napoleon
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wings

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

It
The Jazz Singer
King of Kings
Napoleon
Wings

BEST EDITING
The General
It
The Jazz Singer
Napoleon
Wings

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The General
The Jazz Singer
King of Kings
Napoleon
Wings

SPECIAL SOUND AWARD

The Jazz Singer

 

1928

BEST PICTURE

The Last Command
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Spies
Storm Over Asia
Un Chien Andalou

BEST DIRECTOR

Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, UN CHIEN ANDALOU
Carl Theodore Dreyer, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Fritz Lang, SPIES
Vsevolod Pudovkin, STORM OVER ASIA
Josef Von Sternberg, THE LAST COMMAND

BEST ACTOR

Pierre Batchef, UN CHIEN ANDALOU
Valery Inkijinoff, STORM OVER ASIA
Emil Jannings, THE LAST COMMAND
Buster Keaton, STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, SPIES

BEST ACTRESS

Evelyn Brent, THE LAST COMMAND
Maria Falconetti, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Simonne Mareuil, UN CHIEN ANDALOU
Gerda Maurus, SPIES
Olga Tschechowa, MOULIN ROUGE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ian Hunter, EASY VIRTUE
Brandon Hurst, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
Tom McGuire, STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
William Powell, THE LAST COMMAND
Babe Ruth, SPEEDY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Marion Byron, STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
Lien Deyers, SPIES
Marguerite Gance, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Anel Sudakevich, STORM OVER ASIA
Loretta Young, LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH

BEST SCREENPLAY

Lajos Biro, John F. Goodrich and Josef Von Steinberg, THE
LAST COMMAND
Osip Brik and I. Novokshenov, STORM OVER ASIA
Salvador Dali and Louis Bunuel, UN CHIEN ANDALOU
Joseph Delteil and Carl Theodore Dreyer, THE PASSION OF
JOAN OF ARC
Fritz Lang and Thea Von Harbou, SPIES

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Werner R. Heymann, SPIES
Douglas M. Protsik, EASY VIRTUE
Rafal Rozmus, THE LAST COMMAND
Ole Schmidt, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Richard Wagner, UN CHIEN ANDALOU

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Moulin Rouge
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Spies
Storm Over Asia
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

BEST ART DIRECTION

Moulin Rouge
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Spies
Storm Over Asia
Un Chien Andalou

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Last Command
Moulin Rouge
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Spies
Storm Over Asia

BEST EDITING

The Fall of the House of Usher
Spies
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Storm Over Asia
Un Chien Andalou

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Same as above, but Spies wins.

BEST SOUND
None....

 

1929

BEST PICTURE

Blackmail
The Cocoanuts
The Manxman
Noah's Ark
The Taming of the Shrew

BEST DIRECTOR

Michael Curtiz, NOAH'S ARK
Allan Dwan, THE IRON MASK
Alfred Hitchcock, BLACKMAIL
Alfred Hitchcock, THE MANXMAN
Sam Taylor, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

BEST ACTOR

George Arliss, DISRAELI
Donald Calthrop, BLACKMAIL
Ronald Colman, BULLDOG DRUMMOND
Douglas Fairbanks, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Groucho Marx, THE COCOANUTS

BEST ACTRESS

Louise Brooks, PANDORA'S BOX
Dolores Costello, NOAH'S ARK
Anny Ondra, BLACKMAIL
Anny Ondra, THE MANXMAN
Mary Pickford, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Noah Beery, NOAH'S ARK
Chico Marx, THE COCOANUTS
Harpo Marx, THE COCOANUTS
Zeppo Marx, THE COCOANUTS
Cyril Ritchard, BLACKMAIL

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sara Allgood, BLACKMAIL
Margaret Dumont, THE COCOANUTS
Clare Greet, THE MANXMAN
Dorothy Jordan, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Myrna Loy, NOAH'S ARK

BEST SCREENPLAY

Jack Cunningham, Douglas Fairbanks and Lotta Woods, THE
IRON MASK
Alfred Hitchcock and Benn W. Levy, BLACKMAIL
Fritz Lang and Thea Von Harbou, WOMAN IN THE MOON
Morrie Ryskind, THE COCOANUTS
Elliott Stannard, THE MANXMAN

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Irving Berlin, THE COCOANUTS
Hubert Bath, BLACKMAIL
Nacio Herb Brown, THE BROADWAY MELODY
Gus Edwards, Nacio Herb Brown, et. al., THE HOLLYWOOD
REVUE OF 1929
Willy Schmidt-Gentner, WOMAN IN THE MOON

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Iron Mask
The Man with a Camera
Noah's Ark
The Taming of the Shrew
Woman in the Moon

BEST ART DIRECTION

Disraeli
The Iron Mask
Noah's Ark
The Taming of the Shrew
Woman in the Moon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Cocoanuts
The Iron Mask
The Manxman
Noah's Ark
The Taming of the SDhrew

BEST EDITING

Blackmail
The Iron Mask
The Man with a Camera
The Mysterious Island
Noah's Ark

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Iron Mask
The Man with a Camera
The Mysterious Island
Noah's Ark
Woman in the Moon

BEST SOUND

Blackmail
The Broadway Melody
The Cocoanuts
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Noah's Ark

 

1930

BEST PICTURE

Abraham Lincoln
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Crackers
Little Caesar
Murder!

BEST DIRECTOR

D.W. Griffith, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Alfred Hitchcock, MURDER!
Mervyn LeRoy, LITTLE CAESAR
Lewis Milestone, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Josef Von Sternberg, MOROCCO

BEST ACTOR

Lew Ayres, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
John Barrymore, MOBY DICK
Walter Huston, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Herbert Marshall, MURDER!
Edward G. Robinson, LITTLE CAESAR

BEST ACTRESS

Norah Baring, MURDER!
Marlene Dietrich, MOROCCO
Glenda Farrell, LITTLE CAESAR
Kay Hammond, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Maureen O'Sullivan, JUST IMAGINE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., LITTLE CAESAR
Noble Johnson, MOBY DICK
Adolphe Menjou, MOROCCO
Henry B. Walthall, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Louis Wolheim, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Joan Bennett, MOBY DICK
Margaret Dumont, ANIMAL CRACKERS
Beryl Mercer, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Una Merkel, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Una O'Connor, MURDER!

BEST SCREENPLAY

Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott and Del Andrews, ALL
QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Stephen Vincent Benet, John W. Considine, Jr, and Gerrit
Lloyd, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Francis Edward Faragoh, LITTLE CAESAR
Alfred Hitchcock, Walter C. Mycroft and Alma Reville,
MURDER!
George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar and Harry
Ruby, ANIMAL CRACKERS

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Hugo Friedhofer and Arthur Kay, JUST IMAGINE
Karl Hajos, MOROCCO
Max Reese and Harry Ruby, ANIMAL CRACKERS
John Reynders, MURDER!
Heinz Roemheld, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Big Trail
Just Imagine
Moby Dick
Morocco

BEST ART DIRECTION

Abraham Lincoln
All Quiet on the Western Front
Just Imagine
Moby Dick
Morocco

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Abraham Lincoln
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Crackers
Just Imagine
Little Caesar

BEST EDITING

Just Imagine
Little Caesar
Moby Dick
Morocco
Murder!

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Dawn Patrol
The Fire Fighters
Hell's Angels
Just Imagine
Moby Dick

BEST SOUND

All Quiet on the Western Front
Just Imagine
Little Caesar
Moby Dick
Morocco

 

1931

BEST PICTURE

City Lights
Dracula
Frankenstein
M
The Public Enemy

BEST DIRECTOR

Tod Browning, DRACULA
Charles Chaplin, CITY LIGHTS
Fritz Lang, M
William A. Wellman, THE PUBLIC ENEMY
James Whale, FRANKENSTEIN

BEST ACTOR

James Cagney, THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Colin Clive, FRANKENSTEIN
Boris Karloff, FRANKENSTEIN
Peter Lorre, M
Bela Lugosi, DRACULA

BEST ACTRESS

Mae Clarke, FRANKENSTEIN
Helen Chandler, DRACULA
Jean Harlow, THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Marian Marsh, SVENGALI
Lupita Tover, DRACULA (alternate Spanish version)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Dwight Frye, DRACULA
Dwight Frye, FRANKENSTEIN
Edward Van Sloan, DRACULA
Edward Van Sloan, FRANKENSTEIN
Edward Woods, THE PUBLIC ENEMY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Joan Blondell, THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Virginia Cherrill, CITY LIGHTS
Mae Clarke, THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Frances Dade, DRACULA
Beryl Mercer, THE PUBLIC ENEMEY

BEST SCREENPLAY

John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh and Garrett Fort,
FRANKENSTEIN
Charles Chaplin, CITY LIGHTS
Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston and Garrett Fort, DRACULA
Harvey Thew, THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Thea Von Harbou and Fritz Lang, M

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Charles Chaplin, CITY LIGHTS
L.E. DeFrancesco, PARDON US
Philip Glass, DRACULA
Bernard Kaun, FRANKENSTEIN
John Leipold, et. al., MONKEY BUSINESS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

City Lights
Dracula
Frankenstein
M
Svengali

BEST ART DIRECTION

(exactly same as above)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

City Lights
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Public Enemy
Svengali

BEST EDITING

Dracula
Frankenstein
Hell Divers
M
The Public Enemy

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Dracula
Dracula (alternate Spanish version)
Frankenstein
Hell Divers
Svengali

BEST SOUND

Dracula
Frankenstein
M
The Public Enemy
Svengali

 

1932

BEST PICTURE

Blonde Venus
Freaks
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Most Dangerous Game
Scarface

BEST DIRECTOR

Tod Browning, FREAKS
Howard Hawks, SCARFACE
Mervyn LeRoy, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, THE MOST
DANGEROUS GAME
Josef Von Sternberg, BLONDE VENUS

BEST ACTOR

Leslie Banks, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Boris Karloff, THE MUMMY
Joel McCrea, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Paul Muni, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Paul Muni, SCARFACE

BEST ACTRESS

Marlene Dietrich, BLONDE VENUS
Ann Dvorak, SCARFACE
Greta Garbo, GRAND HOTEL
Maureen O'Sullivan, TARZAN, THE APE MAN
Fay Wray, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Robert Armstrong, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Cary Grant, BLONDE VENUS
Boris Karloff, SCARFACE
Dickie Moore, BLONDE VENUS
George Raft, SCARFACE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Daisy Hilton, FREAKS
Violet Hilton, FREAKS
Karen Morley, SCARFACE
Inez Palange, SCARFACE
Helen Vinson, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG

BEST SCREENPLAY

James Ashmore Creelman, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Jules Furthman and S.K. Lauren, BLONDE VENUS
Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A
CHAIN GANG
Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin and W.R.
Burnett, SCARFACE
Tod Robbins, FREAKS

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

William Axt, SMILIN' THROUGH
Jay Chernis, SIGN OF THE CROSS
Sam Coslow, BLONDE VENUS
Bernard Kaun, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Max Steiner, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blonde Venus
Grand Hotel
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy

BEST ART DIRECTION

Blonde Venus
Freaks
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Blonde Venus
Freaks
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy
Scarface

BEST EDITING

Freaks
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy
Scarface
Tarzan, the Ape Man

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Freaks
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy
Tarzan, the Ape Man

BEST SOUND

Freaks
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy
Scarface
Tarzan, the Ape Man

 

1933

BEST PICTURE

Duck Soup
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Invisible Man
King Kong
Little Women

BEST DIRECTOR

Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, KING KONG
George Cukor, LITTLE WOMEN
Leo McCarey, DUCK SOUP
Mervyn LeRoy, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
James Whale, THE INVISIBLE MAN

BEST ACTOR

Robert Armstrong, KING KONG
Bruce Cabot, KING KONG
King Kong, KING KONG
Groucho Marx, DUCK SOUP
Claude Rains, THE INVISIBLE MAN

BEST ACTRESS

Katharine Hepburn, LITTLE WOMEN
Ruby Keeler, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
Hedy Lamarr, ECSTASY
Gloria Stuart, THE INVISIBLE MAN
Fay Wray, KING KONG

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Guy Kibbee, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
Paul Lukas, LITTLE WOMEN
Chico Marx, DUCK SOUP
Harpo Marx, DUCK SOUP
Dick Powell, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Joan Bennett, LITTLE WOMEN
Frances Dee, LITTLE WOMEN
Margaret Dumont, DUCK SOUP
Edna Mae Oliver, LITTLE WOMEN
Jean Parker, LITTLE WOMEN

BEST SCREENPLAY

David Boehm, Ben Markson and Avery Hopwood, GOLD
DIGGERS OF 1933
James Creelman and Ruth Rose, KING KONG
DuBose Heyward, THE EMPEROR JONES
Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, DUCK SOUP
Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, LITTLE WOMEN

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, DUCK SOUP
Max Steiner, KING KONG
Max Steiner, LITTLE WOMEN
Herbert Stothart, QUEEN CHRISTINA
Harry Warren, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ecstasy
The Emperor Jones
Gold Diggers of 1933
King Kong
Sons of the Desert

BEST ART DIRECTION

Alice in Wonderland
Duck Soup
Gold Diggers of 1933
King Kong
Little Women

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Alice in Wonderland
Duck Soup
Gold Diggers of 1933
Little Women
The Three Musketeers

BEST EDITING

Duck Soup
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Invisible Man
King Kong
The Three Musketeers

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Invisible Man
Island of Lost Souls
King Kong
Son of Kong
The Three Musketeers

BEST SOUND

Gold Diggers of 1933
The Invisible Man
Island of Lost Souls
King Kong
Son of Kong

 

1934

BEST PICTURE

It Happened One Night
The Lost Patrol
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Treasure Island
Triumph of the Will

BEST DIRECTOR

Victor Fleming, TREASURE ISLAND
John Ford, THE LOST PATROL
Howard Hawks, TWENTIETH CENTURY
Alfred Hitchcock, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Leni Riesenthal, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

BEST ACTOR

Leslie Banks, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Wallace Beery, TREASURE ISLAND
Jackie Cooper, TREASURE ISLAND
Clark Gable, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Victor McLaglen, THE LOST PATROL

BEST ACTRESS

Edna Best, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Claudette Colbert, IMITATION OF LIFE
Claudette Colbert, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Carole Lombard, TWENTIETH CENTURY
Myrna Loy, MANHATTAN MELODRAMA

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lionel Barrymore, TREASURE ISLAND
Boris Karloff, THE LOST PATROL
Otto Kruger, TREASURE ISLAND
Peter Lorre, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Charles ''Chic'' Sale, TREASURE ISLAND

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Louise Beavers, IMITATION OF LIFE
Rochelle Hudson, IMITATION OF LIFE
Dorothy Peterson, TREASURE ISLAND
Nova Pillbeam, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Fredi Washington, IMITATION OF LIFE

BEST SCREENPLAY

Garrett Fort and Dudley Nichols, THE LOST PATROL
Oliver H.P. Garrett and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, MANHATTAN
MELODRAMA
Edwin Greenwood, A.R. Rawlinson and Emlyn Williams, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
John Lee Mahin, TREASURE ISLAND
Robert Riskin, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

William Axt, MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
Howard Jackson, Loius Silvers, et. al., TWENTIETH CENTURY
Alfred Newman, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Max Steiner, THE LOST PATROL
Herbert Stothart, TRASURE ISLAND

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Cleopatra
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Lost Patrol
Treasure Island
Twentieth Century

BEST ART DIRECTION

It Happened One Night
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Treasure Island
Triumph of the Will
Twentieth Century

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Imitation of Life
It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
Treasure Island
Twentieth Century

BEST EDITING

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Lost Patrol
Manhattan Melodrama
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Treasure Island

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Black Cat
Cleopatra
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Treasure Island

BEST SOUND

Blue Steel
The Lost Patrol
Manhattan Melodrama
Treasure Island
Twentieth Century

 

1935

BEST PICTURE

Captain Blood
Crime and Punishment
Mutiny on the Bounty
The 39 Steps
A Tale of Two Cities

BEST DIRECTOR

Jack Conway, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Michael Curtiz, CAPTAIN BLOOD
Alfred Hitchcock, THE 39 STEPS
Frank Lloyd, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
James Whale, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

BEST ACTOR

Ronald Colman, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Robert Donat, THE 39 STEPS
Errol Flynn, CAPTAIN BLOOD
Clark Gable, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Charles Laughton, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

BEST ACTRESS

Elizabeth Allan, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Madeleine Carroll, THE 39 STEPS
Olivia DeHavilland, CAPTAIN BLOOD
Elsa Lanchester, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Loretta Young, THE CALL OF THE WILD

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Edward Arnold, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Basil Rathbone, CAPTAIN BLOOD
Basil Rathbone, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Henry B. Walthall, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Donald Woods, A TALE OF TWO CITIES

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Spring Byington, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Valerie Hobson, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Movita, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Elisabeth Risdon, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Blanche Yurka, A TALE OF TWO CITIES

BEST SCREENPLAY

Charles Bennett, THE 39 STEPS
William Hurlbut and John L. Balderston, BRIDE OF
FRANKENSTEIN
Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman and Carey Wilson, MUTINY
ON THE BOUNTY
W.P. Lipscomb and S.L. Behrman, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Dudley Nichols, THE INFORMER

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, CAPTAIN BLOOD
Alfred Newman, LES MISERABLES
Herbert Stothart, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Herbert Stothart, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Franz Waxman, BRISE OF FRANKENSTEIN

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Bride of Frankenstein
The Call of the Wild
Captain Blood
Mutiny on the Bounty
A Tale of Two Cities

BEST ART DIRECTION

Bride of Frankenstein
The Call of the Wild
Les Miserables
Mutiny on the Bounty
A Tale of Two Cities

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Bride of Frankenstein
Captain Blood
Les Miserables
Mutiny on the Bounty
A Tale of Two Cities

BEST EDITING

Bride of Frankenstein
Captain Blood
Mutiny on the Bounty
A Tale of Two Cities
The 39 Steps

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Bride of Frankenstein
The Call of the Wild
Captain Blood
Mark of the Vampire
Mutiny on the Bounty

BEST SOUND

Bride of Frankenstein
The Call of the Wild
Captain Blood
Mutiny on the Bounty
The 39 Steps

 

Wow, you panned The 39 Steps there, I would have had that as the winner in quite a few more of those categories. Best movie & best director, for sure.

 

There isn't enough love for Bride of Frankenstein on that list. It's easily the best of the Universal Horror cycle.

 

What the Dickens got into me? Now I'm a huge Hitchcock fan as it happens (and so far he's won for BLACKMAIL), but while 39 STEPS is an established classic probably unnominated by the real Academy awards, I'm more familiar with CITIES. You may well be right, because unlike CITIES, I haven't seen it in full. Or BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN either.
And STEPS very likely better than CAPTAIN BLOOD or CRIME IN PUNISHMENT, since BLOOD is a warm-up to livelier Errol Flynn films, while PUNISHMENT has a boderline-corny ending and is no match for Dostoevsky's novel.

 

1936

BEST PICTURE

The Last of the Mohicans
Modern Times
The Petrified Forest
San Francisco
Secret Agent

BEST DIRECTOR

Charles Chaplin, MODERN TIMES
Alfred Hitchcock, SECRET AGENT
Archie L. Mayo, THE PETRIFIED FOREST
William Cameron Menzies, THINGS TO COME
W.S. Van Dyke, SAN FRANCISCO

BEST ACTOR

Charles Chaplin, MODERN TIMES
Clark Gable, SAN FRANCISCO
John Gielgud, SECRET AGENT
Randolph Scott, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Spencer Tracy, SAN FRANCISCO

BEST ACTRESS

Binnie Barnes, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Madeleine Carroll, SECRET AGENT
Paulette Goddard, MODERN TIMES
Jeanette McDonald, SAN FRANCISCO
Sylvia Sidney, SABOTAGE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

John Barrymore, ROMEO AND JULIET
Humphrey Bogart, THE PETRIFIED FOREST
Bruce Cabot, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Peter Lorre, SECRET AGENT
Robert Young, SECRET AGENT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Heather Angel, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Edna Mae Oliver, ROMEO AND JULIET
Lilli Palmer, SECRET AGENT
Jessie Ralph, SAN FRANCISCO
Margaretta Scott, THINGS TO COME

BEST SCREENPLAY

Charles Bennett, SABOTAGE
Charles Chaplin, MODERN TIMES
Campbell Dixon and Charles Bennett, SECRET AGENT
Robert Hopkins and Anita Loos, SAN FRANCISCO
Charles Kenyon and Delmer Dawes, THE PETRIFIED
FOREST

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Arthur Bliss, THINGS TO COME
Charles Chaplin, MODERN TIMES
Herbert Stothart, ROMEO AND JULIET
Herbert Stothart, SAN FRANCISCO
Roy Webb, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Last of the Mohicans
Modern Times
The Petrified Forest
San Francisco
Things to Come

BEST ART DIRECTION

Modern Times
The Petrified Forest
San Francisco
Secret Agent
Things to Come

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Last of the Mohicans
The Petrified Forest
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
Things to Come

BEST EDITING

The Last of the Mohicans
Modern Times
Sabotage
San Francisco
Secret Agent

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Modern Times
Sabotage
San Francisco
Secret Agent
Things to Come

BEST SOUND

The Last of the Mohicans
Modern Times
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
Secret Agent

 

1937

BEST PICTURE

A Day at the Races
Lost Horizon
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
They Won't Forget
Way Out West

BEST DIRECTOR

Frank Capra, LOST HORIZON
Victor Fleming, CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
Alfred Hitchcock, YOUNG AND INNOCENT
Mervyn LeRoy, THEY WON'T FORGET
Jean Renoir, GRAND ILLUSION

BEST ACTOR

Ronald Colman, LOST HORIZON
Oliver Hardy, WAY OUT WEST
Stan Laurel, WAY OUT WEST
Groucho Marx, A DAY AT THE RACES
Claude Rains, THEY WON'T FORGET

BEST ACTRESS

Adriana Caselotti. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
Gloria Dickson, THEY WON'T FORGET
Maureen O'Sullivan, A DAY AT THE RACES
Nova Pilbeam, YOUNG AND INNOCENT
Jane Wyatt, LOST HORIZON

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Chico Marx, A DAY AT THE RACES
Harpo Marx, A DAY AT THE RACES
Thomas Mitchell, LOST HORIZON
Harry Stockwell, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
H.B. Warner, LOST HORIZON

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Margaret Dumont, A DAY AT THE RACES
Isabell Jewell, LOST HORIZON
Lucille LaVerne, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
Margo, LOST HORIZON
Lana Turner, THEY WON'T FORGET

BEST SCREENPLAY

Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood and Anthony Armstrong,
YOUNG AND INNOCENT
Eric Hatch, Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran, TOPPER
Jean Renoir and Charles Spaak, GRAND ILLUSION
Robert Riskin, LOST HORIZON
Robert Rossen and Aben Kandel, THEY WON'T FORGET

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith, SNOW
WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
Alfred Newman, THE HURRICANE
Alfred Newman, THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
Dimitri Tiomkin, LOST HORIZON
Farnz Waxman, CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Captains Courageous
Dead End
Grand Illusion
Lost Horizon
The Prisoner of Zenda

BEST ART DIRECTION

Captains Courageous
Dead End
Grand Illusion
Lost Horizon
Young and Innocent

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

A Day at the Races
Lost Horizon
They Won't Forget
Way Out West
Young and Innocent

BEST EDITING

Grand Illusion
Lonesome Ghosts
Lost Horizon
Snow White and the Seven Dwafs
Young and Innocent

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Captains Courageous
The Hurricane
Lost Horizon
The Prisoner of Zenda
Topper

BEST SOUND

Captains Courageous
Grand Illusion
Lonesome Ghosts
Lost Horizon
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

 

I expect to be presenting the 1939 entries Saturday morning EST instead of Friday. Below are the nominees for 1938.

BEST PICTURE

The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Angels with Dirty Faces
Block-Heads
The Lady Vanishes

BEST DIRECTOR

Michael Curtiz, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dimitri Vasilyev, ALEXANDER NEVSKY
Victor Fleming, TEST PILOT
Alfred Hitchcock, THE LADY VANISHES

BEST ACTOR

James Cagney, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
Errol Flynn, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Oliver Hardy, BLOCK-HEADS
Stan Laurel, BLOCK-HEADS
Pat O'Brien, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES

BEST ACTRESS

Olivia DeHavilland, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Margaret Lockwood, THE LADY VANISHES
Myrna Loy, TEST PILOT
Norma Shearer, MARIE ANTOINETTE
Penny Singleton, BLONDIE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Humphrey Bogart, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
Walter Brennan, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Alan Hale, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Claude Rains, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Basil Rathbone, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ann Gillis, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Margaret Hamilton, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Una O'Connor, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Ann Sheridan, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
Dame May Whitty, THE LADY VANISHES

BEST SCREENPLAY

Sidney Gilliatt and Frank Launder, THE LADY VANISHES
John Meehan and Dore Schary, BOYS TOWN
Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde, BRINGING UP BABY
Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller, THE ADVENTURES OF
ROBIN HOOD
John Wexler and Warren Duff, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN
HOOD
Max Steiner, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Max Steiner, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
Farnz Waxman, A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Franz Waxman, TEST PILOT

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alexander Nevsky
Angels with Dirty Faces
Test Pilot

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alexander Nevsky
A Christmas Carol
Marie Antoinette

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alexander Nevsky
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Lady Vanishes

BEST EDITING

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alexander Nevsky
Angels with Dirty Faces
Block-Heads
Test Pilot

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alexander Nevsky
Block-Heads
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Test Pilot

BEST SOUND

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alexander Nevsky
Angels with Dirty Faces
Block-Heads
The Lady Vanishes

 

1939

BEST PICTURE

Drums Along the Mohawk
Five Came Back
Gunga Din
Jesse James
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz

BEST DIRECTOR

Frank Capra, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Victor Fleming, THE WIZARD OF OZ
John Ford, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
John Ford, STAGECOACH
Lewis Milestone, OF MICE AND MEN
George Stevens, GUNGA DIN

BEST ACTOR

Lon Chaney, Jr., OF MICE AND MEN
Henry Fonda, JESSE JAMES
Cary Grant, GUNGA DIN
Tyrone Power, JESSE JAMES
James Stewart, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
John Wayne, STAGECOACH

BEST ACTRESS

Jean Arthur, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Claudette Colbert, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
Judy Garland, THE WIZARD OF OZ
Maureen O'Hara, JAMAICA INN
Claire Trevor, STAGECOACH

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ray Bolger, THE WIZARD OF OZ
Joseph Calleia, FIVE CAME BACK
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., GUNGA DIN
Jack Haley, THE WIZARD OF OZ
Bert Lahr, THE WIZARD OF OZ
Victor McLaglen, GUNGA DIN
Claude Rains, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Lucille Ball, FIVE CAME BACK
Billie Burke, THE WIZARD OF OZ
Betty Field, OF MICE AND MEN
Joan Fontine, GUNGA DIN
Margaret Hamilton, THE WIZARD OF OZ

BEST SCREENPLAY

Sidney Buchman, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol,
GUNGA DIN
Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, THE
WIZARD OF OZ
Eugene Solow, OF MICE AND MEN
Lamar Trotti, YOUNG MR. LINCOLN

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Harold Arlen, THE WIZARD OF OZ
Gerard Carbonara, STAGECOACH
Aaron Copland, OF MICE AND MEN
Alfred Newman, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
Alfred Newman, GUNGA DIN
Louis Silvers, JESSE JAMES
Max Steiner, GONE WITH THE WIND
Dimitri Tiomkin, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Drums Along the Mohawk
Gone with the Wind
Of Mice and Men
Satgecoach
The Wizard of Oz

BEST ART DIRECTION

Gone with the Wind
Gunga Din
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Of Mice and Men
The Wizard of Oz

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Drums Along the Mohawk
Gone with the Wind
Jamaica Inn
Jesse James
The Wizard of Oz

BEST EDITING

Drums Along the Mohawk
Five Came Back
Gunga Din
Jesse James
Stagecoach

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Five Came Back
Gone with the Wind
Gulliver's Travels
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz

BEST SOUND

Gunga Din
Jesse James
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz

WORST TITLE

Five Came Back
(ummmm....spoiler alert??)

 

1940

BEST PICTURE

Fantasia
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Foreign Correspondent
The Great Dictator
The Return of Frank James

BEST DIRECTOR

Charles Chaplin, THE GREAT DICTATOR
Michael Curtiz, THE SEA HAWK
Alfred Hitchcock, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Fritz Lang, THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES
Raoul Walsh, DARK COMMAND

BEST ACTOR

Charles Chaplin, THE GREAT DICTATOR
Larry (Buster) Crabbe, FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE
UNIVERSE
Henry Fonda, THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES
Laurence Olivier, REBECCA
John Wayne, DARK COMMAND

BEST ACTRESS

Laraine Day, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Joan Fontaine, REBECCA
Paulette Goddard, THE GREAT DICTATOR
Gene Tierney, THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES
Claire Trevor, DARK COMMAND

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

John Carradine, THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES
Jackie Cooper, THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES
Roy Rogers, DARK COMMAND
George Sanders, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Frank Shannon, FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Judith Anderson, REBECCA
Fay Bainter, OUR TOWN
Carol Hughes, FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE
Brenda Marshall, THE SEA HAWK
Gale Page, KNUTE ROCKNE, ALL-AMERICAN

BEST SCREENPLAY

Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison, FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT
Robert Buckner, KNUTE ROCKNE, ALL-AMERICAN
Charles Chaplin, THE GREAT DICTATOR
Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harison, REBECCA
Thornton Wilder, Frank Craven and Harry Chandlee, OUR
TOWN

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Paul Dukas, Modest Mussorgsky, Amilcare Ponchielli, Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, and Ptyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, FANTASIA
Ralph Freed, FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE
Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith, PINOCCHIO
Alfred Newman, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, THE SEA HAWK

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Foreign Correspondent
The Great Dictator
Rebecca
The Return of Frank James
The Sea Hawk

BEST ART DIRECTION

Fantasia
Foreign Correspondent
Our Town
Rebecca
The Sea Hawk

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Great Dictator
Our Town
Rebecca
The Return of Frank James
The Sea Hawk

BEST EDITING

Fantasia
Foreign Correspondent
The Mark of Zorro
The Return of Frank James
The Sea Hawk

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Foreign Correspondent
The Great Dictator
The Sea Hawk
The Thief of Bagdad

BEST SOUND

Fantasia
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Foreign Correspondent
The Great Dictator
The Sea Hawk

 

1941

BEST PICTURE

Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Sergeant York
Suspicion
The Wolf Man

BEST DIRECTOR

Howard Hawks, SERGEANT YORK
Alfred Hitchcock, SUSPICION
John Huston, THE MALTESE FALCON
Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE
William Wyler, THE LITTLE FOXES

BEST ACTOR

Humphrey Bogart, THE MALTESE FALCON
Lon Chaney, Jr., THE WOLF MAN
Gary Cooper, SERGEANT YORK
Cary Grant, SUSPICION
Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE

BEST ACTRESS

Mary Astor, CITIZEN KANE
Ingrid Bergman, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Bette Davis, THE LITTLE FOXES
Joan Fontaine, SUSPICION
Maureen O'Hara, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

William Alland, CITIZEN KANE
Nigel Bruce, SUSPICION
Joseph Cotten, CITIZEN KANE
Sydney Greenstreet, THE MALTESE FALCON
Peter Lorre, THE MALTESE FALCON

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Dorothy Comingore, CITIZEN KANE
Agnes Moorehead, CITIZEN KANE
Maria Ouspenskaya, THE WOLF MAN
Ruth Warrick, CITIZEN KANE
Teresa Wright, THE LITTLE FOXES

BEST SCREENPLAY

Harry Chandlee, Adem Finkel, John Huston and Howard Koch,
SERGEANT YORK
Lillian Hellman, THE LITTLE FOXES
John Huston, THE MALTESE FALCON
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles, CITIZEN KANE
Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison and Alma Reville,
SUSPICION

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Adolph Deutsch, THE MALTESE FALCON
Bernard Herrmann, CITIZEN KANE
Charles Previn, THE WOLF MAN
Max Steiner, SERGEANT YORK
Franz Waxman, SUSPICION

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
The Sea Wolf
Sergeant York
Suspicion

BEST ART DIRECTION

Citizen Kane
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
Sergeant York

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Citizen Kane
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
Sergeant York
Suspicion

BEST EDITING

Citizen Kane
High Sierra
Sergeant York
Suspicion
The Wolf Man

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Adventures of Captain Marvel
Dive Bomber
Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde
Suspicion
The Wolf Man

BEST SOUND

Citizen Kane
The Sea Wolf
Sergeant York
Suspicion
The Wolf Man