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| 10 March (banquet) |
| Bob Burns (I) |
| Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| - The ceremony is postponed on short notice one week because of heavy rainfall in the Los Angeles area.
- From 1935 to 1938 best score is considered a music department achievement and the award is given to the department head instead of to the composer(s).
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| | Awarded to: | | | - Museum of Modern Art Film Library
- For its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts (certificate).
- Edgar Bergen
- For his outstanding comedy creation, Charlie McCarthy (wooden statuette).
- Mack Sennett
- For his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a special award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius, Mack Sennett.
- A Star Is Born (1937) - W. Howard Greene
- For the color photography of A Star Is Born. (plaque)
- This award was recommended by a committee of leading cinematographers after viewing all the color pictures made during the year.
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| | Winner: | | | - Agfa Ansco Corp.
- For Agfa Supreme and Agfa Ultra Speed pan motion picture negatives.
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| | Winners: | | | - Eastman Kodak Co.
- For two fine-grain duplicating film stocks.
- Walt Disney Prods. Ltd.
- For the design and application to production of the Multi-Plane Camera.
- Farciot Edouart; Paramount Pictures, Inc.
- For the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup.
- Douglas Shearer; M-G-M Studio Sound Dept.
- For a method of varying the scanning width of variable density sound tracks (squeeze tracks) for the purpose of obtaining an increased amount of noise reduction.
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| | Winners: | | | - RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc.
- For the introduction of the modulated high-frequency method of determining optimum photographic processing conditions for variable width sound tracks.
- John Arnold (I); M-G-M Studio Camera Dept.
- For their improvement of the semi-automatic follow focus device and its application to all of the cameras used by the M-G-M Studio.
- John P. Livadary (director of Sound Recording for Columbia Pictures Corp.)
- For the application of the biplanar light valve to motion picture sound recording.
- Thomas T. Moulton; United Artists SSD
- For the application to motion picture sound recording of volume indicators which have peak reading response and linear decibel scales.
- Joseph E. Robbins; Paramount Pictures, Inc.
- For an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the soundproofing of gasoline generators and water pumps.
- Douglas Shearer; M-G-M SSD
- For the design of the film drive mechanism as incorporated in the ERPI 1010 reproducer.
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