Attached is short report listing some of the highlights of the 11th Academy Awards ceremony that was held on February 23, 1939 in downtown Los Angeles:
• Director Frank Capra received his third "Best Director" statue for
You Can't Take It with You
.
• Walt Disney was awarded an Oscar for the best animated short film, Ferdinand The Bull - in addition to a special award for his innovative work on
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
• The Best Screenplay Oscar went to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw for his efforts on Pygmalion.
An amusing, if blasphemous, article about the 1938 Oscars can be read here...
Click here to read about Marilyn Monroe.
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