Awards
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- William LeBaron for RKO Pictures – Cimarron
- Winfield Sheehan for Fox Film Corporation – East Lynne
- Howard Hughes for United Artists – The Front Page
- Adolph Zukor for Paramount Pictures – Skippy
- Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Trader Horn
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- Norman Taurog – Skippy
- Clarence Brown – A Free Soul
- Lewis Milestone – The Front Page
- Wesley Ruggles – Cimarron
- Josef von Sternberg – Morocco
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Lionel Barrymore – A Free Soul
- Jackie Cooper – Skippy
- Richard Dix – Cimarron
- Fredric March – The Royal Family of Broadway
- Adolphe Menjou – The Front Page
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- Marie Dressler – Min and Bill
- Marlene Dietrich – Morocco
- Irene Dunne – Cimarron
- Ann Harding – Holiday
- Norma Shearer – A Free Soul
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| Best Story |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- The Dawn Patrol – John Monk Saunders
- The Doorway to Hell – Rowland Brown
- Laughter – Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart
- The Public Enemy – John Bright and Kubec Glasmon
- Smart Money – Lucien Hubbard and Jose Jackson
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- Cimarron – Howard Estabrook
- The Criminal Code – Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr.
- Holiday – Horace Jackson
- Little Caesar – Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee
- Skippy – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz
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| Best Sound Recording |
- Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
- MGM Studio Sound Department
- RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
- Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- Cimarron – Max Rée
- Just Imagine – Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras
- Morocco – Hans Dreier
- Svengali – Anton Grot
- Whoopee! – Richard Day
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- Tabu – Floyd Crosby
- Cimarron – Edward Cronjager
- Morocco – Lee Garmes
- The Right to Love – Charles Lang
- Svengali – Barney McGill
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