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11th Academy Awards

FieldValue
number11
awardAcademy Awards
dateFebruary 23, 1939
siteBiltmore Hotel
hostFrank Capra
best_picture*You Can't Take It with You*
most_wins*The Adventures of Robin Hood* (3)
most_nominations*You Can't Take it with You* (7)
last10th
next12th

The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and hosted by Frank Capra.

Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards, to be followed by John Ford (who would go on to win four) and William Wyler. La Grande Illusion was the first non-English language film to be nominated for Best Picture.

This was the first of only two times in Oscar history in which three of the four acting winners had won before; only Fay Bainter was a first-time award winner. The only other time that this happened was at the 67th Academy Awards in 1994. Fay Bainter was the first performer in the Oscars history to receive two acting nominations in the same year, while Spencer Tracy became the first of two actors to win Best Actor two years in a row; the other, Tom Hanks, also did so in 1994.

George Bernard Shaw's screenplay win for Pygmalion made him the first—and, for over 77 years, only—person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award until Bob Dylan received Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 after having won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2001. Shaw protested his win, roaring, from London:

Radio coverage was banned at the ceremony. A reporter, George Fischer from Los Angeles' Mutual Radio Network station, KHJ, which had been reporting from the Academy Awards since 1930, locked himself in a booth and was able to broadcast for about 12 minutes before security guards broke down the door. Partial radio coverage was subsequently permitted again, beginning with the 1942 ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Awards

Nominees were announced on February 5, 1939. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Special Awards

  • To Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement. (Shared; miniature statuette)
  • To Harry M. Warner in recognition of patriotic service in the production of historical short subjects presenting significant episodes in the early struggle of the American people for liberty. (Scroll)
  • To Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon. (One statuette and seven miniature statuettes, representing the Seven Dwarfs, on a stepped base.) This is a rare case of a film being recognized in two succeeding ceremonies, as the film was also nominated for Best Score the previous year at the 10th Academy Awards.
  • To Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, Sweethearts. (Plaque)
  • For outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount production, Spawn of the North. Special Effects by Gordon Jennings, assisted by Jan Domela, Dev Jennings, Irmin Roberts and Art Smith. Transparencies by Farciot Edouart, assisted by Loyal Griggs. Sound Effects by Loren Ryder, assisted by Harry Mills, Louis H. Mesenkop and Walter Oberst. (Plaque)
  • To J. Arthur Ball for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of color in Motion Picture Photography. (Scroll)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

  • Hal B. Wallis

Multiple nominations and awards

NominationsFilm
7*You Can't Take It with You*
6*Alexander's Ragtime Band*
5*Boys Town*
*Four Daughters*
*Jezebel*
*Merrily We Live*
4*The Adventures of Robin Hood*
*Algiers*
*The Citadel*
*If I Were King*
*Mad About Music*
*Marie Antoinette*
*Pygmalion*
3*Angels with Dirty Faces*
*Army Girl*
*Carefree*
*The Cowboy and the Lady*
*The Great Waltz*
*Suez*
*Test Pilot*
*The Young in Heart*
2*Blockade*
*The Goldwyn Follies*
*Sweethearts*
*That Certain Age*
*Vivacious Lady*
AwardsFilm
3*The Adventures of Robin Hood*
2*Boys Town*
*Jezebel*
*You Can't Take It with You*

References

Notes

References

  1. "The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org ([[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]).
  2. "Every Oscar Host in History: See the Full List From Douglas Fairbanks to Jimmy Kimmel". Oscars.org ([[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]).
  3. Holroyd, Michael. (1997). "Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition". [[Chatto & Windus]].
  4. Pascal, Valerie. (1971). "The Disciple and his Devil: Gabriel Pascal and Bernard Shaw". [[Michael Joseph (publisher).
  5. (11 July 2013). "Historical Dictionary of British Cinema". [[Lexington Books.
  6. Dunning, John. (1998). "On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio". [[Oxford University Press]].
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