Oscar Rewrite: 1938

 

Best Picture: You Can’t Take it With You     Bringing Up Baby

Best Director: Frank Capra (You Can’t Take it With You)   Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby)

Best Actor: Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)   Errol Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

Best Actress: Bette Davis (Jezebel  Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby)

Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan (Kentucky) Claude Rains (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

Best Supporting Actress: Fay Bainter (Jezebel)

Best Original Screenplay: Boys Town (Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary)    Bringing Up Baby

Best Adapted Screenplay: Pygmalion The Lady Vanishes

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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