ACADEMY AWARDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 6

ACADEMY AWARDS

BEST FILM PERFORMANCES i BETTE DAVIS AND SPENCER TRACY ! The complete list of awards made iby the Academy of Motion Picture - Arts and Sciences for performances - | during the previous 12 months, as the < j result of a vote among 12.000 persons *. in the industry, were announced at , the eleventh annual dinner of the aca- • I demy as follows: | Best performance by an actress: ‘ i Bette Davis, for her work in "Jezebel.” ; Best performance by an actor: i Spencer Tracy for his work in "Boys’ Town.” Most outstanding film: ‘"You Cant • Take It W’ith You.” produced at the

, j Columbia Studios under the direction ! i of Frank Capra. I i Best supporting actor: Walter Brcn- , I nan. for his work in "Kentucky." , | Best supporting actress: Fay Bain- . ter. for her work in "Jezebel.” j Direction: Frank Capra, for “You j Can’t Take It With Yod.” ’ I Original story: Dore Schary and | Eleanor Griffin, for "Boys' Town.” j Screen play and dialogue: George Bernard Shaw. “Pygmalion.” Adaptation of screen play: W. P. Lipscomb. Cecil Lewis and lan Dalrypmle. “Pygmallion.” " Hal B. Wallis, head of the production department at Warner Brothers, was presented with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial award, offered for the c most consistent high quality of pro--1 duction by an individual producer. l - SPECIAL AWARDS r J Special awards were presented the . ; following: j Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney, I juvenile player "for their significant 1 contribution in bringing to the screen j the spirit and personification of youth.”

Art direction: To Carl Weyle for “Adventures of Robin Hood.” Photography: Joseph Ruttenburg, for "The Great Waltz.” j Sound record: T. T. Moulton, for j “Cowboy and the Lady.” Film editing: Ralph Dawson, for "Adventures of Robin Hood.” Best original mus'cal score: Eric Wolfgang Kimgold, for “Adventures ol Robin Hood.” Best musical scoring: Alfred Newman, for “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” Best song: Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin, for "Thanks fo the Memory” in "Big Broadcast of 1938.” Best colour photography: To Metro-Goldvvyn-Mayer, for "Sweethearts.” "SNOW WHITE /ND SEVEN DAWRFS” j j A special award was given Wall i Disney for his product o of "Snow : White and the Seven Dwarfs,” as “a j significant innovation” which "pioni eered a great new entertainment field i in motion-picture cartons.” j Other special awards were given to j M.-G.-M. for its one-reel subject, "That | Mothers Might Live”: to Warner ; Brothers, for its two-reel production : j of "The Declaration of Independence”; jto Walt Disney for the carton, “FerI dinand the Bull.” ! Harry M. Warne. of Warner i Brothers, also received a special award • for “patriotic service” in production j of historical short subjects.