Outstanding Production

• The Awful Truth
• Captains Courageous
• Dead End
• The Good Earth
• In Old Chicago
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Lost Horizon
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Stage Door
• A Star Is Born

Best Actor

• Charles Boyer, Conquest
• Fredric March, A Star Is Born
• Robert Montgomery, Night Must Fall
• Paul Muni, The Life of Emile Zola
• Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous

Best Actress

• Irene Dunne, The Awful Truth
• Greta Garbo, Camille
• Janet Gaynor, A Star Is Born
• Luise Rainer, The Good Earth
• Barbara Stanwyck, Stella Dallas

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Ralph Bellamy, The Awful Truth
• Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane
• Joseph Schildkraut, The Life of Emile Zola
• H. B. Warner, Lost Horizon
• Roland Young, Topper

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Alice Brady, In Old Chicago
• Andrea Leeds, Stage Door
• Anne Shirley, Stella Dallas
• Claire Trevor, Dead End
• Dame May Whitty, Night Must Fall

Directing

• William Dieterle, The Life of Emile Zola
• Sidney Franklin, The Good Earth
• Gregory La Cava, Stage Door
• Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth
• William Wellman, A Star Is Born

Writing

• Original Story
  • Niven Busch, In Old Chicago
  • Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg, The Life of Emile Zola
  • Hans Kraly, One Hundred Men and a Girl
  • Robert Lord, Black Legion
  • William A. Wellman and Robert Carson, A Star Is Born
• Screenplay
  • Alan Campbell, Robert Carson and Dorothy Parker, A Star Is Born
  • Vina Delmar, The Awful Truth
  • John Lee Mahin, Marc Connolly and Dale Van Every, Captains Courageous
  • Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller, Stage Door

Cinematography

• Karl Freund, The Good Earth
• Gregg Toland, Dead End
• Joseph Valentine, Wings Over Honolulu

Art Direction

• Carroll Clark, A Damsel in Distress
• William S. Darling and David Hall, Wee Willie Winkie
• Richard Day, Dead End
• Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson, Souls at Sea
• Cedric Gibbons and William Horning, Conquest
• Stephen Goosson, Lost Horizon
• Anton Grot, The Life of Emile Zola
• Wiard Ihnen, Every Day's a Holiday
• John Victor Mackay, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
• Jack Otterson, You're a Sweetheart
• Alexander Toluboff, Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
• Lyle Wheeler, The Prisoner of Zenda

Sound Recording

• Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Lost Horizon
• Grand National Studio Sound Dept., The Girl Said No
• Hal Roach Studio Sound Dept., Topper
• MGM Studio Sound Dept., Maytime
• Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Wells Fargo
• RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., Hitting a New High
• Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., In Old Chicago
• United Artists Studio Sound Dept., The Hurricane
• Universal Studio Sound Dept., One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., The Life of Emile Zola

Assistant Director

• C. C. Coleman, Jr., Lost Horizon
• Russ Saunders, The Life of Emile Zola
• Eric Stacey, A Star Is Born
• Hal Walker, Souls at Sea
• Robert Webb, In Old Chicago

Music

• Song
  • "Remember Me", Mr. Dodd Takes the Air, Harry Warren, music; Al Dubin, lyrics
  • "Sweet Leilani", Waikiki Wedding, Harry Owens, music and lyrics
  • "That Old Feeling", Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938, Sammy Fain, music; Lew Brown, lyrics
  • "They Can't Take That Away From Me", Shall We Dance, George Gershwin, music; Ira Gershwin, lyrics
  • "Whispers in the Dark", Artists and Models, Frederick Hollander, music; Leo Robin, lyrics
• Score
  • Columbia Studio Music Dept., Lost Horizon
  • Goldwyn Studio Music Dept., The Hurricane
  • Grand National Studio Music Dept., Something to Sing About
  • Hal Roach Studio Music Dept., Way Out West
  • MGM Studio Music Dept., Maytime
  • Paramount Studio Music Dept., Souls at Sea
  • Principal Productions, Make a Wish
  • Republic Studio Music Dept., Portia on Trial
  • RKO Radio Studio Music Dept., Quality Street
  • Selznick International Pictures Music Dept., The Prisoner of Zenda
  • Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Music Dept., In Old Chicago
  • Universal Studio Music Dept., One Hundred Men and a Girl
  • Walt Disney Studio Music Dept., Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Warner Bros. Studio Music Dept., The Life of Emile Zola

Film Editing

• Bernard W. Burton, One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Al Clark, The Awful Truth
• Gene Havlick and Gene Milford, Lost Horizon
• Elmo Vernon, Captains Courageous
• Basil Wrangell, The Good Earth

Dance Direction

• Busby Berkeley, "The Finale", Varsity Show
• Bobby Connolly, "Too Marvelous for Words", Ready, Willing and Able
• Dave Gould, "All God's Children Got Rhythm", A Day at the Races
• Sammy Lee, "Swing Is Here to Stay", Ali Baba Goes to Town
• Hermes Pan, "Fun House", A Damsel in Distress
• LeRoy Prinz, "Luau", Waikiki Wedding

Short Subjects

• Cartoon
  • Educated Fish (Color Classics Series)
  • The Little Match Girl (Charles Mintz,Columbia)
  • The Old Mill (Walt Disney Productions)
• One-Reel
  • A Night at the Movies (Robert Benchley Series)
  • The Private Life of the Gannetts (Skibo, Educational)
  • Romance of Radium (Pete Smith Specialties Series)
• Two-Reel
  • Deep South (Radio Musical Comedies Series)
  • Should Wives Work? (Leon Errol Comedies Series)
  • Torture Money (Crime Doesn't Pay Series)
• Color
  • The Man Without a Country (Broadway Brevities Series)
  • Penny Wisdom (Pete Smith Specialties Series)
  • Popular Science J-7-1 (Popular Science Series)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (Not necessarily given each year )

• Darryl F. Zanuck

Special Awards

• To Mack Sennett for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen
• To Edgar Bergen for his outstanding comedy creation, Charlie McCarthy
• To the Museum of Modern Art Film Library for its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present, and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts
• To W. Howard Greene for the color photography of A Star Is Born

Facts:

• Winners Announced: March 10, 1938
• Held at: Biltmore Hotel (Biltmore Bowl)
• Host: Bob 'Bazooka' Burns
• Eligibility Year: 1937