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!
