Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1940

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

The Shop Around the Corner – WINNER!

- Rebecca
- His Girl Friday
- Pinocchio
- Fantasia
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Thief of Bagdad

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Ahí está el detalle / You’re Missing the Point – WINNER! (tied)
Juninatten / A Night in June – WINNER! (tied)

- Sans lendemain / There’s No Tomorrow
- Paradis perdu / Four Flights to Love

BEST ACTOR

Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath) – WINNER!

- Cary Grant (His Girl Friday)
- Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator)
- Laurence Olivier (Rebecca)
- James Stewart (The Shop Around the Corner)
- Conrad Veidt (The Thief of Bagdad)

BEST ACTRESS

Joan Fontaine (Rebecca) – WINNER!

- Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)
- Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday)
- Bette Davis (The Letter)
- Vivien Leigh (Waterloo Bridge)
- Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

John Carradine (The Grapes of Wrath) – WINNER!

- Walter Brennan (The Westerner)
- Jack Oakie (The Great Dictator)
- John Qualen (The Grapes of Wrath)
- James Stephenson (The Letter)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Judith Anderson (Rebecca) – WINNER!

- Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)
- Ida Lupino (They Drive by Night)
- Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story)
- Lucile Watson (Waterloo Bridge)

BEST DIRECTOR

John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath) – WINNER!

- Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca)
- Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday)
- Ernst Lubitsch (The Shop Around the Corner)
- Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

His Girl Friday (Charles Lederer; from the play ‘The Front Page’ by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur) – WINNER!

- The Shop Around the Corner (Samson Raphaelson; from the play by Miklós László)
- The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart; from the play by Philip Barry)
- Rebecca (Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Philip MacDonald & Michael Hogan; from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier)
- The Grapes of Wrath (Nunnally Johnson; from the novel by John Steinbeck)
- The Thief of Bagdad (Lajos Biró & Miles Malleson; from ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ by Scheherazade)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin) – WINNER!

- The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
- Remember the Night (Preston Sturges)
- You’re Missing the Point (Humberto Gómez Landero & Juan Bustillo Oro)
- There’s No Tomorrow (Hans Wilhelm, Jean Jacot & André-Paul Antoine)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Thief of Bagdad (Georges Perinal & Osmond Borradaile) – WINNER!

- The Grapes of Wrath (Gregg Toland)
- Rebecca (George Barnes)
- The Letter (Tony Gaudio)
- Stranger on the Third Floor (Nicholas Musuraca)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Thief of Bagdad (Miklos Rozsa) – WINNER!

- The Letter (Max Steiner)
- Rebecca (Franz Waxman)
- The Sea Hawk (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
- The Great Dictator (Meredith Willson & Charles Chaplin)
- The Mark of Zorro (Alfred Newman)
- Our Town (Aaron Copland)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Fantasia (Edward H. Plumb – musical director, Leopold Stokowski – conductor; compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Paul Dukas, Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Amilcare Ponchielli, Modest Mussorgsky & Franz Schubert) – WINNER!

- Pinocchio (Leigh Harline & Ned Washington – original songs)
- The Grapes of Wrath (Alfred Newman – musical direction; adapted from traditional American melodies including “Red River Valley”)
- Down Argentine Way (Harry Warren & Mack Gordon, et. al. – original songs; Emil Newman – musical director)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (Cole Porter, et. al. – original & adapted songs; Alfred Newman – musical director)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (Edward Ward – original song music & musical director, Chet Forrest & Bob Wright – original lyrics)
- Strike Up the Band (Roger Edens & Arthur Freed – original songs, various adapted songs; Georgie Stoll – musical director)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“I’ve Got No Strings”, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington (Pinocchio) – WINNER! (tied)
“When You Wish Upon a Star”, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington (Pinocchio) – WINNER! (tied)

- “Hi Diddle Dee Dee”, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington (Pinocchio)
- “Down Argentine Way”, Harry Warren & Mack Gordon (Down Argentine Way)
- “The Man’s in the Navy”, Frederick Hollander & Frank Loesser (Seven Sinners)
- “Paradis perdu”, Hans May & Roger Fernay (Paradis perdu)

BEST SOUND

Fantasia – WINNER!

- The Sea Hawk
- Foreign Correspondent
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Thief of Bagdad

BEST FILM EDITING

Foreign Correspondent (Dorothy Spencer) – WINNER!

- Rebecca (W. Donn Hayes)
- The Grapes of Wrath (Robert L. Simpson)
- The Thief of Bagdad (Charles Crichton)
- The Great Dictator (Willard Nico)
- His Girl Friday (Gene Havlick)

BEST ART DIRECTION

The Thief of Bagdad (Vincent Korda) – WINNER!

- Rebecca (Lyle R. Wheeler – art director, Joseph B. Platt – interior designer, Howard Bristol – interior decorator)
- The Grapes of Wrath (Richard Day & Mark-Lee Kirk – art directors, Thomas Little – set decorator)
- Foreign Correspondent (Alexander Golitzen)
- The Great Dictator (J. Russell Spencer)
- Pride and Prejudice (Cedric Gibbons – art director, Edwin B. Willis – set decorator)
- The Sea Hawk (Anton Grot)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Thief of Bagdad (John Armstrong, Oliver Messel & Marcel Vertès) – WINNER!

- The Grapes of Wrath (Gwen Wakeling)
- The Great Dictator (Wyn Ritchie & Ted Tetrick)
- The Mark of Zorro (Travis Banton)
- Pride and Prejudice (Adrian)
- The Sea Hawk (Orry-Kelly)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

The Thief of Bagdad (Lawrence W. Butler) – WINNER!

- The Sea Hawk (Byron Haskins & Hans F. Koenekamp)
- Foreign Correspondent (Paul Eagler)
- The Long Voyage Home (Ray Binger & R. T. Layton)
- Fantasia (Dan MacManus, Joshua Meador, Gail Papineau, Leonard – Pickley, Miles E. Pike, John Reed, et al.)

BEST SHORT FILM

You Ought to Be In Pictures – WINNER!

- Puss Gets the Boot
- A Wild Hare
- London Can Take It!
- The Milky Way
- Mr. Duck Steps Out
- Quicker N’ a Wink!

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

Bobby Connolly & Albertina Rasch for the choreography of “Begin the Beguine” (Broadway Melody of 1940) – WINNER!

Fixing The Oscars 2.0 – 1930

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!

- Animal Crackers
- The Dawn Patrol
- Morocco
- The Big Trail
- City Girl
- Journey’s End

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Der blaue Engel / The Blue Angel – WINNER!

- L’âge d’or / The Golden Age
- Zemlya / Earth
- Sous les toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris
- Le sang d’un poète / The Blood of a Poet
- Menschen am Sonntag / People on Sunday

BEST ACTOR

Emil Jannings (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

- Groucho Marx (Animal Crackers)
- Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Charles Farrell (City Girl)
- Colin Clive (Journey’s End)
- Semyon Svashenko (Earth)

BEST ACTRESS

Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

- Marlene Dietrich (Morocco)
- Greta Garbo (Anna Christie)
- Lya Lys (L’âge d’or)
- Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
- Mary Duncan (City Girl)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers) – WINNER!

- Adolphe Menjou (Morocco)
- Gaston Modot (Under the Roofs of Paris)
- Wallace Beery (The Big House)
- Louis Wolheim (All Quiet on the Western Front)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Margaret Dumont (Animal Crackers) – WINNER!

- Marie Dressler (Anna Christie)
- Yuliya Solntseva (Earth)
- Jean Harlow (Hell’s Angels)
- Raquel Torres (The Sea Bat)

BEST DIRECTOR

Luis Buñuel (L’âge d’or) – WINNER!

- Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel)
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Earth)
- René Clair (Under the Roofs of Paris)
- Jean Cocteau (The Blood of a Poet)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

L’âge d’or (Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí) – 23 votes – WINNER!
Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair) – 11 votes
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko) – 10 votes
The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks, Dan Totheroh, Seton I. Miller & John Monk Saunders) – 9 votes
The Big House (Frances Marion, Joseph Farnham & Martin Flavin) – 8 votes

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

All Quiet on the Western Front (George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson & Del Andrews; from the novel “Im Westen nichts Neues” by Erich Maria Remarque) – WINNER!

- The Blue Angel (Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller, Robert Liebmann & Heinrich Mann; from the novel “Professor Unrat” by Mann)
- Animal Crackers (Morrie Ryskind; from the play by George S. Kaufman, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Ryskind)
- Morocco (Jules Furthman; from the play “Amy Jolly” by Benno Vigny)
- Journey’s End (Joseph Moncure March & Gareth Gundrey; from the play by R.C. Sherriff)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Arthur Edeson (All Quiet on the Western Front) – WINNER!

- Daniil Demutsky (Earth)
- Georges Périnal (The Blood of a Poet)
- Lee Garmes (Morocco)
- Albert Duverger (L’âge d’or)

BEST SCORE (including original and adapted/song/musical)

Friedrich Holländer (original songs); Franz Waxman (orchestrator) (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

- Raoul Moretti (original songs & music), Vincent Scotto (original music), René Nazelles (original lyrics); Armand Bernard (music arranger) (Under the Roofs of Paris)
- Georges Auric (original music) (The Blood of a Poet)
- Max Reese (original music), Harry Ruby (original songs), Bert Kalmar (original lyrics) (Animal Crackers)
- W. Franke Harling (original music and songs), Richard A. Whiting (original songs), Leo Robin (original lyrics); additional original music by Karl Hajos, Herman Hand, Sigmund Krumgold & John Leipold (Monte Carlo)
- Werner R. Heymann (original songs and music), Robert Gilbert (original lyrics) (Three Good Friends)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt” / “Falling in Love Again,” Friedrich Holländer (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

- “Ein Freund, ein guter Freund”, Werner R. Heymann & Robert Gilbert (Three Good Friends)
- “Ich bin die fesche Lola”, Friedrich Holländer (The Blue Angel)
- “Sous les toits de Paris”, Raoul Moretti & René Nazelles (Under the Roofs of Paris)

BEST SOUND

All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!

- Westfront 1918

BEST FILM EDITING

Luis Buñuel (L’âge d’or) – WINNER! (tied)
Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Earth) – WINNER! (tied)

- Edgar Adams & Milton Carruth (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Jean Cocteau (The Blood of a Poet)
- René Le Hénaff (Under the Roofs of Paris)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Hans Dreier (Morocco) – WINNER!

- Lazare Meerson (Under the Roofs of Paris)
- Jean d’Eaubonne (The Blood of a Poet)
- Pierre Schild (set decorator) (L’âge d’or)
- Otto Hunte & Emil Hasler (The Blue Angel)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Travis Banton (Morocco) – WINNER!

- René Hubert (Under the Roofs of Paris)
- Tihamer Varady (The Blue Angel)
- Uncredited (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Sam Benson, Earl Moser (The Big Trail)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Uncredited (All Quiet on the Western Front) – WINNER! (tied)
Fred Jackman (The Dawn Patrol) – WINNER! (tied)

BEST SHORT FILM

À propos de Nice – WINNER!

- Night Owls
- Another Fine Mess
- The Golf Specialist
- Cuckoo Murder Case
- Pioneer Days
- Swing You Sinners!

Fixing the Oscars – 2008

Best Picture – English Language

Slumdog Millionaire WINNER!
WALL-E WINNER!

- The Hurt Locker
- Gran Torino
- Food, Inc
- In Bruges

Best Picture – Non-Enlish Language

Vals Im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir) WINNER!

- Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)
- Entre les murs (The Class)
- Un conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale)
- Le silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence)

Best Actor

Sean Penn (Milk) WINNER!

- Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
- Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
- Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
- Colin Farrell (In Bruges)

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) WINNER!

- Kate Winslet (The Reader)
- JeeJa Yanin (Chocolate)
- Arta Dobroshi (Lorna’s Silence)
- Angelina Jolie (Changeling)

Best Supporting Actor

Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky) WINNER!

- Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
- Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles)
- Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
- Jean-Paul Roussillon (A Christmas Tale)
- Jérémie Renier (Lorna’s Silence)

Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz (Vicky Christina Barcelona) WINNER!

- Lina Leandersson (Let the Right One In)
- Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
- Laura Garcia (Leonera – Lion’s Den)
- Viola Davis (Doubt)
- Elsa Zylberstein (I’ve Loved You So Long)

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) WINNER!

- Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) WINNER!
- Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
- Thomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In)

Best Original Screenplay

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) WINNER!

- Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter & Jim Reardon (WALL-E) WINNER!
- Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Lorna’s Silence)
- Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir)
- Courtney Hunt (Frozen River)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, from the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup) WINNER!

- Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, from the play by Morgan)
- François Bégaudeau, Laurent Cantet & Robin Campillo (The Class, from the novel Entre les murs by Bégaudeau)
- John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In, from the novel Låt den rätte komma in by Lindqvist)
- Ella Lemhagen (Patrik Age 1.5, from the play Patrik 1,5 by Michael Druker)
- David Hare (The Reader, from the novel Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink)
- Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues, from Ramayana by Valmiki)

Best Cinematography

Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire) WINNER!

- Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker)
- Tom Stern (Changeling)
- Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight)
- Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Original Score

A. R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) WINNER!

- Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
- Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker)
- Tarô Iwashiro (Chi bi – Red Cliff)
- Johan Söderqvist (Let the Right One In)

Best Adapted/Song/Musical Score

Sita Sings the Blues (recordings by Annette Hanshaw selected by Nina Paley) WINNER!

- High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Jennifer Hammond & Fred Kron, music arrangers; original and adapted songs by Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Jamie Houston, Adam Anders, Nikki Hassman, Andy Dodd, Adam Watts. Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn et. al.)
- Mamma Mia! (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson, adapted songs; Martin Lowe, musical director; Becky Bentham, music supervisor; Göran Arnberg, orchestrator & vocal coach)
- Were the World Mine (Jessica Fogle, music director & original songs; Cory James Krueckeberg, original lyrics; Tim Sandusky, music producer)
- Cadillac Records (Terence Blanchard, music director/conductor; Bath Amy Rosenblatt, music supervisor; adapted songs by McKinley Morganfield, Elias McDaniel, Chester Burnett, Chuck Berry, Walter Jacobs, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon et. al.; original song “Once in a Lifetime” by Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring & Jody Street)
- Slumdog Millionaire (A. R. Rahman, music producer & original songs; Maya Arulpragasam, original & adapted songs; Keith Strachan & Matthew Strachan, composers of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” theme music)
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (music direction uncredited; songs & compositions by Giulia Tellarini, Maik Alemany, Alejandro Mazzoni, Jens Neumaier, Juan Serrano, Isaac Albéniz et. al.)

Best Original Song

“Jai Ho”, A. R. Rahman & Gulzar (Slumdog Millionaire) WINNER!

- “O Saya”, A. R. Rahman & Maya Arulpragasam (Slumdog Millionaire)
- “Down to Earth”, Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
- “Gake no ue no Ponyo” (“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”), Joe Hisaishi, Katsuya Kondô & Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo)
- “Gran Torino”, Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood & Michael Stevens (Gran Torino)
- “Loin de Paname”, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas (Faoubourg 36 – Paris 36)
- “Walk Away”, Jamie Houston (High School Musical 3: Senior Year)

Best Sound

The Hurt Locker WINNER!
WALL-E WINNER!

- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Dark Knight
- La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman)

Best Editing

Slumdog Millionaire WINNER!

- The Hurt Locker
- Frost/Nixon
- Let the Right One In
- Milk

Best Art Direction

Kelly Curley, Michele Laliberte, Randy Moore, Scott Plauche, Tom Reta (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) WINNER!
Mark Bartholomew, James Hambidge, Craig Jackson, Kevin Kavanaugh, Simon Lamont, Steven Lawrence, Naaman Marshall (The Dark Knight) WINNER!

- Adam Stockhausen, (Synecdoche, New York)
- Lino Fiorito (production design), Alessandra Mura (set decoration) (Il Divo)
- Patrick M. Sullivan Jr., (Changeling)
- Anthony Caron-Delion, Peter Francis, John Frankish, Paul Laugier, Csaba Stork, Mark Swain, Judit Varga (Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
- Alexis McKenzie Main, Jean-Yves Rabier, Matthieu Beutter (Paris 36)

Best Costume Design

Deborah Hopper (Changeling) WINNER!

- Michael O’Connor (The Duchess)
- Catherine Martin, (Australia)
- Timmy Yip, (Red Cliff)
- Lindy Hemming, (The Dark Knight)
- Madeline Fontaine, (Séraphine)
- Albert Wolsky, (Revolutionary Road)

Best Special Effects

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button WINNER!

- Iron Man
- The Dark Knight
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Martyrs

Best Short Film

Presto WINNER!

- The House of Small Cubes
- Smile Pinki
- Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
- This Way Up

Special Achievement Award

Panna Ritikri, for the fight coordination in Chocolate WINNER!

- Gerald Quist, for the make-up in Tropic Thunder

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1979

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Manhattan – WINNER!

- Apocalypse Now
- Alien
- All That Jazz
- Life of Brian
- Tess

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Stalker – WINNER!

- Die Ehe der Maria Braun / The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht/ Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Die Blechtrommel / The Tin Drum
- Sibiriada / Siberiade
- Fu_kushû suru wa ware ni ari / Vengeance Is Mine

BEST ACTOR

Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre) – WINNER!

- Peter Sellers (Being There)
- Roy Scheider (All That Jazz)
- Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
- Jack Lemmon (The China Syndrome)

BEST ACTRESS

Hanna Schygulla (The Marriage of Maria Braun)

- Sally Field (Norma Rae)
- Sigourney Weaver (Alien)
- Judy Davis (My Brilliant Career)
- Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome)
- Nastassja Kinski (Tess)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now) – WINNER!

- Michael O’Keefe (The Great Santini)
- Ian Holm (Alien)
- Bernard Blier (Buffet Froid)
- Paul Dooley (Breaking Away)
- Melvyn Douglas (Being There)
- David Warner (Time After Time)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan) – WINNER!

- Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
- Blythe Danner (The Great Santini)
- Marina Neyolova (Autumn Marathon)
- Lyudmila Gurchenko (Siberiade)

BEST DIRECTOR

Ridley Scott (Alien) – WINNER!

- Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
- Woody Allen (Manhattan)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
- Bob Fosse (All That Jazz)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Manhattan (Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman) – WINNER!

- Life of Brian (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones & Michael Palin)
- Alien (Dan O’Bannon & Ronald Shusett)
- Breaking Away (Steve Tesich)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fröhlich & Peter Märthesheimer)
- Real Life (Albert Brooks, Monica Mcgowan Johnson & Harry Shearer)
- Siberiade (Andrey Konchalovsky & Valentin Ezhov)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Being There (Jerzy Kosinski from his novel) – WINNER!

- Apocalypse Now (John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola; from the novel “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad)
- Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer; from the novel by Karl Alexander)
- The Tin Drum (Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff & Franz Seitz; from the novel by Günter Grass)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton; from the novel by Avery Corman)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Apocalypse Now (Vittorio Storaro) – WINNER!

- Manhattan (Gordon Willis)
- Tess (Ghislain Cloquet & Geoffrey Unsworth)
- The Black Stallion (Caleb Deschanel)
- Alien (Derek Vanlint)
- Siberiade (Levan Paatashvili)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Jerry Goldsmith) – WINNER!

- Tess (Philippe Sarde)
- Time After Time (Miklós Rózsa)
- Alien (Jerry Goldsmith)
- A Little Romance (Georges Delerue)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Popol Vuh)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Peter Townshend et. al. (original & adapted songs, musical director); John Entwhistle (musical director/producer); Roger Daltrey (musical director); Mike Shaw (music coordinator) (Quadrophenia) WINNER!

- George Gershwin (adapted compositions and songs); Tom Pierson (adaptor/arranger) (Manhattan)
- Ramones et. al. (original and adapted songs); Seymour Stein & Jonathan Brett (music consultants); Ed Stasium (musical director: Ramones) (Rock ‘n’ Roll High School)
- Ralph Burns (music supervisor); Stanley Lebowsky (music coordinator); songs by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Harry Nilsson, Stanley Lebowsky, Fred Tobias, Shelton Brooks, Felice & Boudleaux Bryant, et. al. (All That Jazz)
- Phill Sawyer (music production coordinator); songs by Dion, The Four Seasons, The Shirelles et. al. (The Wanderers)
- Felix Mendelssohn, Gioachino Rossini, Friedrich von Flotow et. al. (adapted compositions); Patrick Williams (music adaptor); Lionel Newman (conductor) (Breaking Away)
- Johannes Brahms (adapted compositions); Philippe Sarde (musical director) (Buffet froid)
- Peter Townshend et. al. (adapted songs); John Entwhistle (musical director); original and archival performances by the Who [Roger Daltrey, John Entwhistle, Keith Moon & Peter Townshend] (The Kids Are Alright)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“It Goes Like It Goes” (Norma Rae), David Shire & Norman Gimbel (Norma Rae) – WINNER! (tied)
“Rock ‘n’ Roll High School”, Ramones [Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee & Marky Ramone] (Rock ‘n’ Roll High School) – WINNER! (tied)

- “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, Eric Idle (Life of Brian)
- “The Rainbow Connection”, Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher (The Muppet Movie)
- “Honoo No Takaramono” (a.k.a. “Fire Treasure”/”Treasure of the Flame”), Yuji Ohno & Jun Hashimoto (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro)
- “Moonraker”, John Barry & Hal David (Moonraker)
- “The Rose”, Amanda McBroom (The Rose)

BEST SOUND

Alien – WINNER!

- Apocalypse Now
- The Tin Drum
- The Black Stallion
- The Marriage of Maria Braun
- Moonraker
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture

BEST FILM EDITING

All That Jazz (Alan Heim) – WINNER!

- Alien (Terry Rawlings & Peter Weatherley)
- Apocalypse Now (Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg & Walter Murch)
- Manhattan (Susan E. Morse)
- The Black Stallion (Robert Dalva)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Alien (Michael Seymour – production designer; Rogert Christian & Leslie Dilly – art directors; Ian Whittaker – set decorator) – WINNER!

- All That Jazz (Philip Rosenberg – production designer; Gary Brink & Edward Stewart – set decorators)
Apocalypse Now (Dean Tavoularis – production designer; Angelo Graham – art director, George R. Nelson – set decorator)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Henning von Gierke – production designer)
- Stalker (Aleksandr Bojm & Andrei Tarkovsky – production designers, Rash_it Safiullin – set decorator)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Harold Michelson – production designer, Leon Harris & Joseph R. Jennings & John Vallone – art directors, Linda De Scenna – set decorator)
- Tess (Pierre Guffroy – production designer, Jack Stephens – art director)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

All That Jazz (Albert Wolsky) – WINNER!
Tess (Anthony Powell) – WINNER!

- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Gisela Storch)
- Agatha (Shirley Russell)
- Alien (John Mollo)
- The Warriors (Bobbie Mannix)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Alien – 38 votes – WINNER!

- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- The Black Hole
- Moonraker
- 1941

BEST SHORT FILM

Every Child – WINNER!

- House of Flame
- Taratata
- Harpya
- It’s So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House
- Log Driver’s Waltz
- Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
- Refleksy

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Bob Fosse for the choreography of All That Jazz – WINNER!

- Ott the horse for his performance as “Whiskey” in The Villain
- Jim Henson, Frank Oz, et al. for the puppet design and performance in The Muppet Movie

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1969

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Midnight Cowboy – WINNER!

- The Wild Bunch
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
- Kes
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Z – WINNER!

- L’armée des ombres / Army of Shadows
- Ma nuit chez Maud / My Night at Maud’s
- Spalovac mrtvol / The Cremator
- La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmmerung) / The Damned

BEST ACTOR

Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy) – WINNER! (tied)
Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy) – WINNER! (tied)

- Alan Bates (Women in Love)
- Rudolf Hrusínský (The Cremator)
- Peter O’Toole (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

BEST ACTRESS

Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) – WINNER!

- Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
- Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days)
- Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)
- Liza Minnelli (The Sterile Cuckoo)
- Liv Ullmann (The Passion of Anna)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Robert Ryan (The Wild Bunch) – WINNER!

- Jack Nicholson (Easy Rider)
- Gig Young (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
- Helmut Berger (The Damned)
- Colin Welland (Kes)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Pamela Franklin (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) – WINNER!

- Catherine Burns (Last Summer)
- Susannah York (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
- Ingrid Thulin (The Damned)
- Simone Signoret (Army of Shadows)

BEST DIRECTOR

Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) – WINNER!

- Costa-Gavras (Z)
- John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)
- Jean-Pierre Melville (Army of Shadows)
- Juraj Herz (The Cremator)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt; from the novel by James Leo Herlihy) – WINNER!

- Z (Jorge Semprún; from the novel by Vasilis Vasilikos)
- The Cremator (Ladislav Fuks and Juraj Herz; from the novel by Fuks)
- Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville; from the novel by Joseph Kessel)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Jay Presson Allen; from the novel by Muriel Spark)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman) – WINNER!

- The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière)
- The Damned (Luchino Visconti, Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco)
- Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer)
- The Wild Bunch (Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah and Roy N. Sickner)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Wild Bunch (Lucien Ballard) – WINNER!

- Fellini Satyricon (Giuseppe Rotunno)
- The Cremator (Stanislav Mitola)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Conrad Hall)
- Easy Rider (Laszlo Kovacs)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Wild Bunch (Jerry Fielding) – WINNER!

- Z (Mikis Theodorakis)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Burt Bacharach)
- Battle of Britain (Ron Goodwin)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (Georges Delerue)
- The Cremator (Zdenek Liska)
- The Valley of Gwangi (Jerome Moross)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Hello, Dolly! (Jerry Herman – adapted songs; Lennie Hayton & Lionel Newman – conductors) – WINNER!

- Paint Your Wagon (Frederick Loewe, André Previn & Alan Jay Lerner – original songs; Nelson Riddle – conductor)
- Medea (Elsa Morante – musical collaborator; selected from recordings of traditional North African music)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (John Green & Albert Woodbury – conductors; songs and compositions by John Green, Richard Whiting, Nacio Herb Brown, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren et. al.)
- Easy Rider (Music director uncredited; songs by Mars Bonfire, Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Robbie Robertson, Jimi Hendrix, Antonia Duren et. al.)
- Sweet Charity (Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields – adapted songs; Joseph Gershenson – music supervisor)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“We Have All the Time in the World”, John Barry & Hal David (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) – WINNER!

- “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, Burt Bacharach & Hal David (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
- “Jean”, Rod McKuen (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- “True Grit”, Elmer Bernstein & Don Black (True Grit)
- “Come Saturday Morning”, Fred Karlin & Dory Previn (The Sterile Cuckoo)
- “Get a Bloomin’ Move On” a.k.a. “The Self-Preservation Society”, Quincy Jones & Don Black (The Italian Job)

BEST SOUND

The Wild Bunch – WINNER!

- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Battle Of Britain
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Milky Way
- They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

BEST FILM EDITING

Midnight Cowboy (Hugh A. Robertson) – WINNER! (tied)
Z (Françoise Bonnot) – WINNER! (tied)

- The Wild Bunch (Lou Lombardo)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Frederic Steinkamp)
- The Cremator (Jaromír Janácek)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Fellini Satyricon (Luigi Scaccianoce, production designer; Luigi Scaccianoce and Giorgio Giovanni, art directors) – WINNER!

- Anne of the Thousand Days (Maurice Carter, production designer; Lionel Couch, art director; Peter Howitt and Patrick McLoughlin, set decorators)
- Hello, Dolly! (John De Cuir – production designer; Jack Martin Smith and Herman A. Blumenthal – art directors; Walter M. Scott, George James Hopkins, and Raphael Bretton – set decorators)
- The Damned (Vincenzo Del Prato, production designer; Pasquale Romano, art director)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Harry Horner, production designer; Frank R. McKelvy, set decorator)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Anne of the Thousand Days (Margaret Furse) – WINNER!

- Fellini Satyricon (Danilo Donati)
- Hello, Dolly! (Irene Sharaff)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Donfeld)
- Women in Love (Shirley Russell)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – WINNER!

- Battle of Britain
- Marooned
- La Residencia
- The Wild Bunch

BEST SHORT FILM

Vinni-Pukh / Winnie the Pooh – WINNER!

- Bambi Meets Godzilla
- It’s Tough to Be a Bird
- Ballerina on the Boat
- En marchant / Walking
- Of Men and Demons
- Spheres

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Gordon Bau and James E. Reynolds for the makeup of The Illustrated Man – WINNER!

- Bob Fosse for the choreography of Sweet Charity

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1959

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

North by Northwest – WINNER!

- Some Like It Hot
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Ben-Hur
- The Nun’s Story
- Rio Bravo

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Les quatre cents coups / The 400 Blows – WINNER

- Hiroshima mon amour
- Nazarin
- Ballada o soldate / Ballad of a Soldier
- Nobi / Fires on the Plain
- Orfeu Negro / Black Orpheus

BEST ACTOR

Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot) – WINNER!

- Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows)
- Cary Grant (North by Northwest)
- James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder)
- Francisco Rabal (Nazarin)

BEST ACTRESS

Audrey Hepburn (The Nun’s Story) – WINNER!

- Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot)
- Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
- Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima mon amour)
- Machiko Kyo (Floating Weeds)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

James Mason (North by Northwest) – WINNER!

- Stephen Boyd (Ben-Hur)
- Joe E. Brown (Some Like It Hot)
- George C. Scott (Anatomy of a Murder)
- Orson Welles (Compulsion)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Lee Remick (Anatomy of a Murder) – WINNER!

- Susan Kohner (Imitation of Life)
- Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life)
- Marga Lopez (Nazarin)
- Zhanna Prokhorenko (Ballad of a Soldier)

BEST DIRECTOR

Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest) – WINNER!

- François Truffaut (The 400 Blows)
- Otto Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder)
- Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour)
- Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond) [from the screenplay "Fanfaren der Liebe" by Robert Thoeren & Michael Logan] – WINNER!

- Anatomy of a Murder (Wendell Mayes) [from the novel by John D. Voelker]
- Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro & Emilio Carballido) [from the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós]
- The Nun’s Story (Robert Anderson) [from the novel by Kathryn Hulme]
- Room at the Top (Neil Paterson) [from the novel by John Braine]

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Hiroshima mon amour (Marguerite Duras) – WINNER!

- The 400 Blows (François Truffaut & Marcel Moussy)
- North by Northwest (Ernest Lehman)
- Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai & Valentin Ezhov)
- La grande guerra / The Great War (Luciano Vincenzoni, Mario Monicelli, Agenore Incrocci & Furio Scarpelli)

BEST COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ben-Hur (Robert L. Surtees) – WINNER! (tied)
North by Northwest (Robert Burks) – WINNER! (tied)

- Black Orpheus (Jean Bourgoin)
- The Nun’s Story (Franz Planer)
- Imitation of Life (Russell Metty)

BEST BLACK-AND-WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ballad Of A Soldier (Vladimir Nikolayev, Era Saveleva) – WINNER!

- The 400 Blows (Henri Decaë)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Sacha Vierny, Takahashi Michio)
- Some Like It Hot (Charles Lang, Jr.)
- Nazarin (Gabriel Figueroa)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

North by Northwest (Bernard Herrmann) – WINNER!

- Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington)
- Ben-Hur (Miklos Rozsa)
- The Nun’s Story (Franz Waxman)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Georges Delerue & Giovanni Fusco)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Alfred Newman)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG/MUSICAL SCORE

Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin – original songs; Andre Previn – music supervisor; Ken Darby – music associate) – WINNER!

- Some Like It Hot (Matty Malneck – song supervisor)
- Black Orpheus (Antonio Carlos Jobim & Luiz Bonfá – original and adapted songs and compositions)
- Sleeping Beauty (George Bruns – original songs, music adaptor; Tom Adair – original lyrics; other songs and adapted compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchikovsky, Sammy Fain, Jack Lawrence, et. al.)
- The Five Pennies (Sylvia Fine – original songs; Leith Stevens – conductor)
- Li’l Abner (Gene De Paul & Johnny Mercer – adapted songs; Nelson Riddle & Joseph J. Lilley – conductors)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“High Hopes” (A Hole in the Head), Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn – WINNER! (tied)
“Once Upon a Dream” (Sleeping Beauty), Sammy Fain & Jack Lawrence – WINNER! (tied)

- “Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam” (Kaagaz Ke Phool), S. D. Burman & Kaifi Azmi
- “Ek Do Teen Chaar Aur Paanch” (Kaagaz Ke Phool), S. D. Burman & Kaifi Azmi
- “The Best of Everything” (The Best of Everything), Alfred Newman & Sammy Cahn
- “Imitation of Life” (Imitation of Life), Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster

BEST SOUND

Ben-Hur – WINNER!

- North by Northwest
- The Nun’s Story
- Hiroshima mon amour
- Nazarin

BEST FILM EDITING

North by Northwest (George Tomasini) – WINNER!

- Ben-Hur (Ralph E. Winters & John D. Dunning)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi & Anne Sarraute)
- Pickpocket (Raymond Lamy)
- The 400 Blows (Marie-Josephe Yoyotte)

BEST COLOR ART DIRECTION

Ben-Hur (Vittorio Valentini – production designer; William Horning & Edward Larfagno – art directors; Hugh Hunt – set decorator) – WINNER!

- North by Northwest (Robert Boyle – production designer; William Horning & Merrill Pye – art directors; Henry Grace & Frank McKelvy – set decorators)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Willy Schatz – production designer; Helmut Nentwig & Schatz – art directors)
- Floating Weeds (Tomoo Shimogawara – production designer & art director; Iwao Iwami – set designer)
- Imitation of Life (Alexander Golitzen & Richard Riedel – art directors; Russell Gausman & Julia Heron – set decorators)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (Franz Bachelin, Herman Blumenthal & Lyle R. Wheeler – art directors; Joseph Kish & Walter M. Scott – set decorators)
- Pillow Talk (Richard Riedel – art director; Russell Gausman & Ruby Levitt – set decorators)

BEST BLACK-AND-WHITE ART DIRECTION

Some Like It Hot (Ted Haworth – art director; Edward G. Boyle – set decorator) – WINNER!

- Suddenly, Last Summer (Oliver Messell – production designer; William Kellner – art director; Scott Slimon & Francisco Prosper – set decorators)
- A Bucket of Blood (Dan Haller – art director)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (George W. Davis & Lyle R. Wheeler – art directors; Stuart Reiss & Walter M. Scott – set decorators)
- Kaagaz Ke Phool (M. R. Achrekar – art director; Baburao & L. G. Patil – assistants)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Ben-Hur (Elizabeth Haffenden) – WINNER!

- Some Like It Hot (Orry-Kelly)
- Imitation of Life (Bill Thomas & Jean Louis)
- Black Orpheus (Uncredited)
- Floating Weeds (Uncredited)
- The Mouse That Roared (Anthony Mendelson)
- Solomon and Sheba (Ralph Jester)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Günter Brosda & Claudia Hahne-Herberg)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Ben-Hur – WINNER!

- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Darby O’Gill and the Little People
- North by Northwest
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare

BEST SHORT FILM

Donald In Mathmagicland – WINNER!

- La merle / Blackbird
- Moonbird
- Bulanda and the Devil
- The Golden Fish
- The Lion and the Song
- Mexicali Schmoes
- Noah’s Ark
- When Angels Fall Down

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

Ben-Hur for its stunt work – WINNER!

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1949

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

The Third Man – WINNER!

- White Heat
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- The Heiress
- On the Town

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Banshun / Late Spring – WINNER!

- Jour de fête
- Le Silence de la Mer / The Silence of the Sea
- Nora inu / Stray Dog
- Cisaruv slavík / The Emperor’s Nightingale

BEST ACTOR

James Cagney (White Heat) – WINNER!

- Richard Todd (The Hasty Heart)
- Toshiro Mifune (Stray Dog)
- Joseph Cotten (The Third Man)
- Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)
- Kirk Douglas (Champion)
- Chishu Ryu (Late Spring)

BEST ACTRESS

Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress) – WINNER!

- Setsuko Hara (Late Spring)
- Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice)
- Patricia Neal (The Fountainhead)
- Ingrid Bergman (Under Capricorn)
- Katharine Hepburn (Adam’s Rib)
- Deborah Kerr (Edward, My Son)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets) – WINNER!

- Ralph Richardson (The Heiress)
- Orson Welles (The Third Man)
- Juano Hernandez (Intruder in the Dust)
- Paul Douglas (A Letter to Three Wives)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Margaret Wycherly (White Heat) – WINNER!

- Betty Garrett (On the Town)
- Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men)
- Elizabeth Patterson (Intruder in the Dust)
- Judy Holliday (Adam’s Rib)
- Ann Miller (On the Town)
- Nicole Stéphane (Le Silence de la Mer)

BEST DIRECTOR

Carol Reed (The Third Man) – WINNER!

- William Wyler (The Heiress)
- Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring)
- Raoul Walsh (White Heat)
- Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Graham Greene (The Third Man) – WINNER!

- Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts & Virginia Kellogg (White Heat)
- T.E.B. Clarke (Passport to Pimlico)
- Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani & Gianni Puccini (Bitter Rice)
- Garson Kanin & Ruth Gordon (Adam’s Rib)
- Robert Pirosh (Battleground)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Robert Hamer & John Dighton [from the novel "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal" by Roy Horniman] (Kind Hearts and Coronets) – WINNER!

- Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Vera Caspary [from the novel by John Klempner] (A Letter to Three Wives)
- Augustus Goetz & Ruth Goetz [from the novel "Washington Square" by Henry James] (The Heiress)
- Kogo Noda & Yasujiro Ozu [from the novel "Father and Daughter" by Kazuo Hirotsu] (Late Spring)
- Robert Rossen [from the novel by Robert Penn Warren] (All the King’s Men)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Third Man (Robert Krasker) – WINNER!

- The Heiress (Leo Tover)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Winton C. Hoch)
- Le Silence de la Mer (Henri Decaë)
- The Passionate Friends (Guy Green)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Third Man (Anton Karas) – WINNER!

- Samson and Delilah (Victor Young)
- The Fountainhead (Max Steiner)
- Jour de fête (Jean Yatove)
- The Queen of Spades (Georges Auric)
- The Red Pony (Aaron Copland)
- Beyond the Forest (Max Steiner)
- White Heat (Max Steiner)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG/MUSICAL SCORE

The Heiress (Aaron Copland – original music; Van Cleave – orchestrator) – 28 votes (16 Adapted, 12 Original) – WINNER!

- On the Town (Leonard Bernstein – adapted songs and compositions; Roger Edens – original songs; Betty Comden & Adolph Green – adapted and original lyrics; Lennie Hayton – musical director)
- Bitter Rice (uncredited)
- Jolson Sings Again (Harry M. Woods, Harry Warren, Al Dubin, et. al. – adapted songs; Morris Stoloff – musical director)
- Neptune’s Daughter (Frank Loesser – original songs; George Stoll – musical director)
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green – original songs; Adolph Deutsch – musical director)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, Frank Loesser (Neptune’s Daughter) – WINNER!

- “Prehistoric Man”, Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green (On the Town)
- “Count on Me”, Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green (On the Town)
- “The Headless Horseman”, Don Raye & Gene de Paul (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
- “Ichabod”, Don Raye & Gene de Paul (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
- “My Foolish Heart”, Victor Young & Ned Washington (My Foolish Heart)
- “Through a Long and Sleepless Night”, Alfred Newman & Mack Gordon (Come to the Stable)
- “You’re Awful”, Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green (On the Town)

BEST SOUND

Twelve O’Clock High – WINNER!

- White Heat
- The Third Man
- Stray Dog
- Battleground

BEST FILM EDITING

The Third Man (Oswald Hafenrichter) – WINNER!

- White Heat (Owen Marks)
- Le Silence de la Mer (Henri Decaë and Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Stray Dog (Toshio Gotô and Yoshi Sugihara)
- Twelve O’Clock High (Barbara McLean)

BEST ART DIRECTION

The Heiress (Harry Horner – production designer; Harry Horner and John Meehan – art directors; Emile Kuri – set decorator) – WINNER!

- The Third Man (Joseph Bato, John Hawkesworth and Vincent Korda – set designer; Ferdinand Bellan and James Sawyer – art directors; Dario Simoni – set decorator)
- Jour de fête (René Moulaert – set decorator; André Pierdel – property master)
- Madame Bovary (Cedric Gibbons and Jack Martin Smith – art directors; Richard Pefferle and Edwin B. Willis – set decorators)
- Samson and Delilah (Hans Dreier, Walter H. Tyler and John Meehan – art directors; Sam Comer, Ray Moyer and Maurice Goodman – set decorators)
- Fabiola (Veniero Colasanti – set decorator; Giuseppe Della Torre – art advisor; Demofilo Fidani – assistant production designer; Franco Lolli and Aldo Tommasini – set designers)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Heiress (Edith Head & Gile Steele) – Winner!

- On the Town (Helen Rose)
- Madame Bovary (Walter Plunkett and Valles)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Anthony Mandleson)
- Under Capricorn (Roger K. Furse and Julia Squire)
- Prince of Foxes (Vittorio Nino Novarrese)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Mighty Joe Young (Willis O’Brien, Ray Harryhausen, et. al.) – WINNER!

- Twelve O’Clock High (Fred Sersen)
- Battleground (Uncredited)
- White Heat (Roy Davidson and Hans F. Koenekamp)
- Samson and Delilah (Barney Wolff)

BEST SHORT FILM

Bad Luck Blackie – Winner!

- Begone Dull Care
- Le sang des bêtes / The Blood of the Beasts
- Long-Haired Hare
- Fast and Furry-ous
- For Scent-imental Reasons
- High Diving Hare
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Little Rural Riding Hood

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly for the choreography of On the Town – WINNER!

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1939

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Gone with the Wind – WINNER!

- The Wizard of Oz
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Stagecoach
- The Four Feathers
- Ninotchka

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

La règle du jeu / The Rules of the Game – WINNER!

- Le jour se lève / Daybreak
- La fin du jour / The End of the Day
- Zangiku monogatari / The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

BEST ACTOR

Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) – WINNER!

- James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
- Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind)
- Marcel Dalio (La règle du jeu)
- Henry Fonda (Young Mr. Lincoln)
- Charles Laughton (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights)

BEST ACTRESS

Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) – WINNER!

- Judy Garland (The Wizard of Oz)
- Greta Garbo (Ninotchka)
- Bette Davis (Dark Victory)
- Jean Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Bert Lahr (The Wizard of Oz) – WINNER! (tied)
Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach) – WINNER! (tied)

- Jules Berry (Le jour se lève)
- Jean Renoir (La règle du jeu)
- Brian Aherne (Juarez)
- John Barrymore (Midnight)
- Moore Marriott (Ask a Policeman)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind) – WINNER!

- Arletty (Le jour se lève)
- Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind)
- Margaret Hamilton (The Wizard of Oz)
- Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

BEST DIRECTOR

Jean Renoir (La règle du jeu) – WINNER!

- Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)
- John Ford (Stagecoach)
- Marcel Carné (Le jour se lève)
- Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
- Victor Fleming (The Wizard of Oz)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Jean Renoir & Carl Koch (La règle du jeu) – WINNER!

- Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Edwin Justus Mayer & Franz Schulz (Midnight)
- Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch & Melchior Lengyel (Ninotchka)
- Jacques Prévert & Jacques Viot (Le jour se lève)
- Sidney Buchman & Lewis R. Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Sidney Howard [from the novel by Margaret Mitchell] (Gone with the Wind) – WINNER!

- Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf [from the book by L. Frank Baum] (The Wizard of Oz)
- Dudley Nichols [from the story "The Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox] (Stagecoach)
- R.C. Sheriff, Claudine West & Eric Maschwitz [from the novel by James Hilton] (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
- Yoshikata Yoda & Matsutaro Kawaguchi [from the serial by Shofu Muramatsu] (The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum)
- Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur [from the novel by Emily Brontë] (Wuthering Heights)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Gone with the Wind (Ernest Haller, Ray Rennhan) – WINNER!

- Wuthering Heights (Gregg Toland)
- La règle du jeu (Jean Bachelet, Alain Renoir)
- Stagecoach (Bert Glennon)
- The Wizard of Oz (Harold Rosson)

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE

Max Steiner (Gone with the Wind) – WINNER!

- Aaron Copland (Of Mice and Men)
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex)
- Max Steiner (Dark Victory)
- Alfred Newman (Wuthering Heights)
- Miklos Rozsa (The Four Feathers)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg (original songs); Herbert Stothart & George Stoll (music adaptation & conducting); Murray Cutter, Ken Darby & Paul Marquardt (orchestral and vocal arrangements) (The Wizard of Oz) – WINNER!

- Louis Gruenberg, Richard Hagemen, Franke Harling, John Leipold & Leo Shuken (adaptors of songs by Stephen Foster et. al.) (Stagecoach)
- Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart (songs from stage version); Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed (original and adapted songs); Stephen Foster et. al. (adapted songs); George Stoll (musical director); Roger Edens (music adaptor) (Babes in Arms)

BEST SONG

“Over the Rainbow”, Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg (The Wizard of Oz) – WINNER!

- “If I Only Had a Brain”, Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg (The Wizard of Oz)
- “We’re Off to See the Wizard”, Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg (The Wizard of Oz)
- “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”, Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg (At the Circus)
- “Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness”, Edmund Goulding & Elsie Janis (Dark Victory)
- “See What the Boys in the Back Room will Have”, Frederick Hollander & Frank Loesser (Destry Rides Again)

BEST SOUND

Gone with the Wind – WINNER!

- The Wizard of Oz
- Stagecoach
- Gunga Din
- Union Pacific

BEST FILM EDITING

Hal C. Kern & James E. Newcom (Gone with the Wind) – WINNER!

- Blanche Sewell & Margaret Booth (The Wizard of Oz)
- Otho Lovering & Dorothy Spencer (Stagecoach)
- Al Clark & Gene Havlick (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
- Viola Lawrence (Only Angels Have Wings)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Cedric Gibbons & Elmer Sheeley (The Wizard of Oz) WINNER!

- Lyle R. Wheeler & William Cameron Menzies (Gone with the Wind)
- Van Nest Polglase (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Lionel Banks (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
- Alexandre Trauner (Le Jour se Lève)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Adrian (The Wizard of Oz) – WINNER!

- Walter Plunkett (Gone with the Wind)
- Omar Kiam (Wuthering Heights)
- Walter Plunkett (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Orry-Kelly (The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

The Wizard of Oz – WINNER!

- Gone with the Wind
- The Rains Came
- Only Angels Have Wings
- Union Pacific

BEST SHORT FILM

Peace on Earth – WINNER!

- The Ugly Duckling
- Rhythm on the Reservation
- Small Fry
- Detouring America
- Love on the Wing

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Jack Dawn for the makeup design of The Wizard of Oz – WINNER!

- Perc Westmore for the makeup design of The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1929

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE PICTURE

Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera) – WINNER!

- Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box)
- Arsenal
- Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl)
- Asphalt

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Hallelujah! – WINNER!

- A Cottage on Dartmoor
- The Cocoanuts
- Blackmail
- The Love Parade

BEST ACTOR

Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade) WINNER! (tied)
Uno Henning (A Cottage on Dartmoor) WINNER! (tied)

- Chico Marx (The Cocoanuts)
- Groucho Marx (The Cocoanuts)
- Harpo Marx (The Cocoanuts)

BEST ACTRESS

Louise Brooks (Die Büchse der Pandora) – WINNER!

- Anna May Wong (Piccadilly)
- Helen Morgan (Applause)
- Gloria Swanson (Queen Kelly)
- Jeanne Eagels (The Letter)
- Ita Rina (Erotikon)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lupino Lane (The Love Parade) – WINNER!

- Donald Calthrop (Blackmail)
- Hans Adalbert Schlettow (A Cottage on Dartmoor)
- Francis Lederer (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah!) – WINNER!

- Seena Owen (Queen Kelly)
- Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody)
- Marie Prevost (The Godless Girl)
- Margaret Dumont (The Cocoanuts)
- Lillian Roth (The Love Parade)

BEST DIRECTOR

Dziga Vertov (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) – WINNER!

- G. W. Pabst (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- King Vidor (Hallelujah!)
- Anthony Asquith (A Cottage on Dartmoor)
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Arsenal)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Ladislaus Vajda [from the plays "Die Büchse der Pandora" and "Erdgeist" by Frank Wedekind] (Die Büchse der Pandora) – WINNER!

- Alfred Hitchcock, Benn W. Levy & Charles Bennett [from the play by Bennett] (Blackmail)
- Morrie Ryskind [from the play by George S. Kaufman] (The Cocoanuts)
- Rudolf Leonhardt [from the novel by Margarete Böhme] (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen)
- Ernest Vajda & Guy Bolton [from the play "The Prince Consort" by Leon Xanrof] (The Love Parade)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Akira Fushimi & Yasujirô Ozu ( Gakusei romance: Wakaki hi – Days of Youth) – WINNER!

- Wanda Tuchock, Ransom Rideout, Richard Schayer & King Vidor (Hallelujah!)
- Anthony Asquith & Herbert Price (A Cottage on Dartmoor)
- Jeanie Macpherson (The Godless Girl)
- Erich von Stroheim (Queen Kelly)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Chelovek s kino-apparatom – WINNER!

- Die Büchse der Pandora
- Arsenal
- Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
- Hallelujah!

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed (original songs) (The Broadway Melody) – WINNER!

- Victor Schertzinger & Clifford Grey (original songs) (The Love Parade)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Singin’ in the Rain”, Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed (Hollywood Revue of 1929) – WINNER!

- “You Were Meant for Me”, Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed (The Broadway Melody)
- “Waiting at the End of the Road”, Irving Berlin (Hallelujah!)
- “Swanee Shuffle”, Irving Berlin (Hallelujah)

BEST FILM EDITING

Dziga Vertov (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) – WINNER!

- Josep Fleisler (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Arsenal)
- Emile de Ruelle (Blackmail)
- Hugh Wynn (Hallelujah!)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Cedric Gibbons (Hallelujah!) – WINNER!

- Cedric Gibbons & Mitchell Leisen (Dynamite)
- Harold Miles (Queen Kelly)
- W.C. Arnold (Blackmail)
- Hans Rouc (Mocny Czlowiek)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Ernö Metzner (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) – WINNER!

- Gottlieb Hesch (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- Uncredited (Piccadilly)
- Travis Banton (The Love Parade)
- Paul Burns (The Iron Mask)
- Max Rée (Queen Kelly)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Chelovek s kino-apparatom – WINNER!

BEST SHORT FILM

Un Chien Andalou – WINNER!

- The Skeleton Dance
- Big Business
- Regen
- Wrong Again

Fixing The Oscars: Best Actress Winners

1927: Janet Gaynor (Sunrise)
1928: Mlle. Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
1929: Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box)
1930: Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel)

1931: Dorothea Wieck (Madchen in Uniform)
1932: Greta Garbo (Grand Hotel)
1933: Greta Garbo (Queen Christina)
1934: Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage)
1935: Bette Davis (Dangerous)
1936: Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey)
1937: Katharine Hepburn (Stage Door)
1938: Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion)
1939: Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)
1940: Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)

1941: Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve)
1942: Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)
1943: Jean Arthur (The More the Merrier) / Lisbeth Movin (Day of Wrath)
1944: Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity)
1945: Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
1946: Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)
1947: Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)
1948: Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
1949: Olivia De Havilland (The Heiress)
1950: Bette Davis (All About Eve)

1951: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Kinuyo Tanaka (The Life of Oharu)
1953: Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
1954: Judy Garland (A Star is Born)
1955: Jane Wyman (All That Heaven Allows)
1956: Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
1957: Giulietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
1958: Rosalind Russell (Auntie Mame)
1959: Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot)
1960: Janet Leigh (Psycho)

1961: Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim)
1962: Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
1963: Julie Harris (The Haunting)
1964: Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
1965: Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)
1966: Bibi Andersson (Persona)
1967: Audery Hepburn (Wait Until Dark)
1968: Mia Farrow (Rosemary’s Baby)
1969: Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1970: Catherine Deneuve (Tristana)

1971: Jane Fonda (Klute)
1972: Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)
1973: Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist)
1974: Faye Dunaway (Chinatown)
1975: Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1976: Geneviève Bujold (Obsession) / Liv Ullmann (Face to Face)
1977: Gena Rowlands (Opening Night)
1978: Liv Ullmann (Autumn Sonata)
1979: Hanna Schygulla (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
1980: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)

1981: Kathleen Turner (Body Heat)
1982: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
1983: Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
1984: Carmen Maura (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!)
1985: Norma Aleandro (La Historia oficial)
1986: Mia Farrow (Hannah and Her Sisters)
1987: Stéphane Audran (Babettes gæstebud)
1988: Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons)
1989: Nicole Kidman (Dead Calm)
1990: Gong Li (Ju Dou)

1991: Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern)
1992: Emma Thompson (Howard’s End)
1993: Juliette Binoche (Three Colors: Blue) / Holly Hunter (The Piano)
1994: Faye Wong (Chungking Express)
1995: Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas)
1996: Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)
1997: Pam Grier (Jackie Brown)
1998: Fernanda Montenegro (Central do Brasil)
1999: Reese Witherspoon (Election)
2000: Björk (Dancer in the Dark)

2001: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)
2002: Renee Zellweger (Chicago)
2003: Charlize Theron (Monster)
2004: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)
2005: Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl)
2006: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
2007: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)