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Oscar winners 1927 – 1939

Year	Best Picture	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress
1939	Gone With the Wind	Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind	Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind
1938	You Can’t Take It With You	Frank Capra, You Can’t Take It With You	Spencer Tracy, Boys Town	Bette Davis, Jezebel
1937	The Life of Emile Zola	Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth	Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous	Luise Rainer, The Good Earth
1936	The Great Ziegfeld	Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur	Luise Rainer, The Great Ziegfeld
1935	Mutiny on the Bounty	John Ford, The Informer	Victor McLaglen, The Informer	Bette Davis, Dangerous
1934	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra, It Happened One Night	Clark Gable, It Happened One Night	Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
1933	Cavalcade	Frank Lloyd, Cavalcade	Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII	Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory
1932	Grand Hotel	Frank Borzage, Bad Girl	Wallace Beery, The Champ Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931	Cimarron	Norman Taurog, Skippy	Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul	Marie Dressler, Min and Bill
1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front	George Arliss, Disraeli	Norma Shearer, The Divorce
1929	Wings*	Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven*	Emil Jannings, The Last Command*	Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven*
1928	The Broadway Melody	Frank Lloyd, The Divine Lady	Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona	Mary Pickford, Coquette
1927	* The 1927-1928 Oscars were held on May 16, 1929.	Frank Borzage	Emil Jennings	Janet Geyser