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Past Winners

1939 Oscar Winners

Best Picture
  • Gone With the Wind
  • Dark Victory
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Love Affair
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Ninotchka
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Stagecoach
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Wuthering Heights
Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Mickey Rooney, Babes in Arms
  • Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
  • James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights 
Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind
  • Bette Davis, Dark Victory
  • Greer Garson, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • Irene Dunne, Love Affair
  • Greta Garbo, Ninotchka
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Thomas Mitchell, Stagecoach 
  • Brian Donlevy, Beau Geste
  • Brian Aherne, Juarez
  • Harry Carey, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Claude Rains, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington  
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
  • Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind
  • Edna May Oliver, Drums Along the Mohawk
  • Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind
  • Maria Ouspenskaya, Love Affair
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wuthering Heights
Best Director
  • 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

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