| Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* William Wyler – Dodsworth* Robert Z. Leonard – The Great Ziegfeld* Gregory La Cava – My Man Godfrey* W. S. Van Dyke – San Francisco |
| Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur as Louis Pasteur* Gary Cooper – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds* Walter Huston – Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth* William Powell – My Man Godfrey as Godfrey* Spencer Tracy – San Francisco as Father Tim Mullin | Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held* Irene Dunne – Theodora Goes Wild as Theodora Lynn/"Caroline Adams"* Gladys George – Valiant Is the Word for Carrie as Carrie Snyder* Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey as Irene Bullock* Norma Shearer – Romeo and Juliet as Juliet |
| Walter Brennan – Come and Get It as Swan Bostrom* Mischa Auer – My Man Godfrey as Carlo* Stuart Erwin – Pigskin Parade as Amos* Basil Rathbone – Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt* Akim Tamiroff – The General Died at Dawn as General Yang | Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse as Faith Paleologus* Beulah Bondi – The Gorgeous Hussy as Rachel Jackson* Alice Brady – My Man Godfrey as Angelica Bullock* Bonita Granville – These Three as Mary Tilford* Maria Ouspenskaya – Dodsworth as Baroness Von Obersdorf |
| The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney* Fury – Norman Krasna* The Great Ziegfeld – William Anthony McGuire* San Francisco – Robert Hopkins* Three Smart Girls – Adele Comandini | The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney* After the Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on a story by Dashiell Hammett* Dodsworth – Sidney Howard, based on the play by Howard and the novel by Sinclair Lewis* Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Robert Riskin, based on the story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland* My Man Godfrey – Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind, based on the story "1101 Park Avenue" by Hatch |
| Bored of Education – Hal Roach and MGM* Moscow Moods – Paramount* Wanted – A Master – Pete Smith and MGM | The Public Pays – MGM* Double or Nothing – Warner Bros.* Dummy Ache – RKO Radio |
| Give Me Liberty – Warner Bros.* La Fiesta de Santa Barbara – Louis Lewyn and MGM* Popular Science J-6-2 – Paramount | The Country Cousin – Walt Disney Productions and United Artists* The Old Mill Pond – Harman-Ising and MGM* Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor – Paramount |
| Anthony Adverse – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department* The Charge of the Light Brigade – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department* The Garden of Allah – Selznick International Pictures Music Department * The General Died at Dawn – Paramount Studio Music Department* Winterset – RKO Radio Studio Music Department | "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields* "Did I Remember" from Suzy – Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyrics by Harold Adamson* "I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance – Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter* "A Melody From the Sky" from Trail of the Lonesome Pine – Music by Louis Alter; Lyrics by Sidney Mitchell* "Pennies from Heaven" from Pennies from Heaven – Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyrics by Johnny Burke* "When Did You Leave Heaven" from Sing, Baby, Sing – Music by Richard A. Whiting; Lyrics by Walter Bullock |
| San Francisco – Douglas Shearer* Banjo on My Knee – Edmund H. Hansen* The Charge of the Light Brigade – Nathan Levinson* Dodsworth – Thomas T. Moulton* General Spanky – Elmer A. Raguse* Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – John P. Livadary * The Texas Rangers – Franklin Hansen* That Girl from Paris – John Aalberg* Three Smart Girls – Homer G. Tasker | Dodsworth – Richard Day* Anthony Adverse – Anton Grot* The Great Ziegfeld – Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, and Edwin B. Willis* Lloyds of London – William S. Darling* Magnificent Brute – Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson* Romeo and Juliet – Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope, and Edwin B. Willis* Winterset – Perry Ferguson |
| Anthony Adverse – Tony Gaudio* The General Died at Dawn – Victor Milner* The Gorgeous Hussy – George J. Folsey | Anthony Adverse – Ralph Dawson* Come and Get It – Edward Curtiss* The Great Ziegfeld – William S. Gray* Lloyds of London – Barbara McLean* A Tale of Two Cities – Conrad A. Nervig* Theodora Goes Wild – Otto Meyer |
| The Great Ziegfeld – Seymour Felix* Born to Dance – Dave Gould* Cain and Mabel – Bobby Connolly* Dancing Pirate – Russell Lewis* Gold Diggers of 1937 – Busby Berkeley* One in a Million – Jack Haskell* Swing Time – Hermes Pan | The Charge of the Light Brigade – Jack Sullivan* Anthony Adverse – William Cannon* Garden of Allah – Eric G. Stacey* The Last of the Mohicans – Clem Beauchamp* San Francisco – Joseph M. Newman |
