1939 Academy Awards – Original Story Winner and Nominees

Boys Town

Eleanore Griffin

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn’t have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to do something about. An advocate of child…

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin

Angels with Dirty Faces

Rowland Brown

Blockade

John Howard Lawson

Mad About Music

Marcella Burke

Test Pilot

Frank Wead