| Victor Fleming – Gone With the Wind* Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips* Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* John Ford – Stagecoach* William Wyler – Wuthering Heights |
| Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Mr Chips* Clark Gable – Gone With the Wind as Rhett Butler* Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff* Mickey Rooney – Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran* James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson "Jeff" Smith | Vivien Leigh – Gone With the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara* Bette Davis – Dark Victory as Judith Traherne* Irene Dunne – Love Affair as Terry McKay* Greta Garbo – Ninotchka as Nina Ivanovna 'Ninotchka' Yakushova* Greer Garson – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Katherine |
| Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach as Doc Boone* Brian Aherne – Juarez as Maximilian I of Mexico* Harry Carey – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate* Brian Donlevy – Beau Geste as Sergeant Markoff* Claude Rains – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Senator Joseph Harrison "Joe" Paine | Hattie McDaniel – Gone With the Wind as Mammy* Olivia de Havilland – Gone with the Wind as Melanie Hamilton* Geraldine Fitzgerald – Wuthering Heights as Isabella Linton* Edna May Oliver – Drums Along the Mohawk as Mrs. McKlennar* Maria Ouspenskaya – Love Affair as Grandmother Janou |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lewis R. Foster* Bachelor Mother – Felix Jackson* Love Affair – Mildred Cram and Leo McCarey* Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel* Young Mr. Lincoln – Lamar Trotti | Gone With the Wind – Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell* Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Eric Maschwitz, R. C. Sherriff and Claudine West, based on the novel by James Hilton* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Sidney Buchman, based on a story by Lewis R. Foster* Ninotchka – Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Billy Wilder, based on a story by Melchior Lengyel* Wuthering Heights – Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, based on the novel by Emily Brontë |
| Busy Little Bears – Paramount Pictures* Information Please – RKO Radio* Prophet Without Honor – MGM* Sword Fishing – Warner Bros. | Sons of Liberty – Warner Bros.* Drunk Driving – MGM* Five Times Five – RKO Radio |
| The Ugly Duckling – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio* Detouring America – Warner Bros.* Peace on Earth – MGM* The Pointer – Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio | Stagecoach – Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken* Babes in Arms – Roger Edens and Georgie Stoll* First Love – Charles Previn* The Great Victor Herbert – Phil Boutelje and Arthur Lange* The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Alfred Newman* Intermezzo – Lou Forbes* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Dimitri Tiomkin* Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland* The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Erich Wolfgang Korngold* She Married a Cop – Cy Feuer* Swanee River – Louis Silvers* They Shall Have Music – Alfred Newman* Way Down South – Victor Young |
| The Wizard of Oz – Herbert Stothart* Dark Victory – Max Steiner* Eternally Yours – Werner Janssen* Golden Boy – Victor Young* Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner* Gulliver's Travels – Victor Young* The Man in the Iron Mask – Lud Gluskin and Lucien Moraweck* Man of Conquest – Victor Young* Nurse Edith Cavell – Anthony Collins* Of Mice and Men – Aaron Copland* The Rains Came – Alfred Newman* Wuthering Heights – Alfred Newman | "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz – Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Yip Harburg* "Faithful Forever" from Gulliver's Travels – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyrics by Leo Robin* "I Poured My Heart Into a Song" from Second Fiddle – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin* "Wishing" from Love Affair – Music and Lyrics by Buddy DeSylva |
| When Tomorrow Comes – Bernard B. Brown* Balalaika – Douglas Shearer* Gone With the Wind – Thomas T. Moulton* Goodbye, Mr. Chips – A. W. Watkins* The Great Victor Herbert – Loren L. Ryder* The Hunchback of Notre Dame – John O. Aalberg* Man of Conquest – Charles L. Lootens* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – John P. Livadary* Of Mice and Men – Elmer Raguse* The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Nathan Levinson* The Rains Came – Edmund H. Hansen | Gone With the Wind – Lyle R. Wheeler* Beau Geste – Hans Dreier and Robert Odell* Captain Fury – Charles D. Hall* First Love – Jack Otterson and Martin Obzina* Love Affair – Van Nest Polglase and Alfred Herman* Man of Conquest – John Victor Mackay* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lionel Banks* The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Anton Grot* The Rains Came – William S. Darling and George Dudley* Stagecoach – Alexander Toluboff* The Wizard of Oz – Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning* Wuthering Heights – James Basevi |
| Wuthering Heights – Gregg Toland* Stagecoach – Bert Glennon | Gone With the Wind – Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan* The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Sol Polito and W. Howard Greene |
| Gone With the Wind – Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom* Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Charles Frend* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Gene Havlick and Al Clark* The Rains Came – Barbara McLean* Stagecoach – Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer | The Rains Came – E. H. Hansen and Fred Sersen* Gone With the Wind – John R. Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns* Only Angels Have Wings – Roy Davidson and Edwin C. Hahn* The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – Byron Haskin and Nathan Levinson* Topper Takes a Trip – Roy Seawright* Union Pacific – Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and Loren L. Ryder* The Wizard of Oz – A. Arnold Gillespie and Douglas Shearer |