Oscar Rewrite: 1939

 

Best Picture: Gone with the Wind The Wizard of Oz

Best Director: Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind)  Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game)

Best Actor: Robert Donat (Goodbye Mr. Chips) Jimmy Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

Best Actress: Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)

Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach / GWTW / Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel (GWTW)   Margaret Hamilton (Wizard of Oz)

Best Original Screenplay: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington   Ninotchka

Best Adapted Screenplay: Gone With the Wind    Wuthering Heights

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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