And the Winner Still Is Season 3: The 1938 Oscars

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Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for a third season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is….

They break down the Best Picture nominees and discuss the major categories like Director and the Actresses. As well as a few of their own personal snubs and under-appreciated films from each year.

This episode, they discuss the 1938 Oscars, including Best Picture winner, You Can’t Take It with You. Elsewhere in the episode, they talk about what a crowd-pleaser The Adventures of Robin Hood still is, the bonkers yet satisfying plotting of Four Daughters, and wonder how the classic screwball comedy, Bringing Up Baby, didn’t make it into the Oscar race.

The other nominees for Picture that year were Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Boys Town, Four Daughters, Jezebel, The Grand Illusion, Pygmalion, Test Pilot, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Citadel.

For the other major categories, the nominees for the 1938 Oscars were:

Best Director:

Frank Capra – You Can’t Take It with You
King Vidor – The Citadel
Michael Curtiz – Four Daughters
Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces
Norman Taurog – Boys Town

Best Actor:

Spencer Tracy – Boys Town
Charles Boyer – Algiers
James Cagney – Angels with Dirty Faces
Leslie Howard – Pygmalion
Robert Donat – The Citadel

Best Supporting Actor:

Walter Brennan – Kentucky
Gene Lockhart – Algiers
John Garfield – Four Daughters
Basil Rathbone – If I Were King
Robert Morley – Marie Antoinette

Best Actress:

Bette Davis – Jezebel
Fay Bainte – White Banners
Margaret Sullavan – Three Comrades
Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette
Wendy Hiller – Pygmalion

Best Supporting Actress:

Fay Bainter – Jezebel
Beulah Bondi – Of Human Hearts
Billie Burke – Merrily We Live
Miliza Korjus – The Great Waltz
Spring Byington – You Can’t Take It with You

Listen to the previous episode here.