Best Short Film, 1938

Awards presented February 23, 1939

The "Color" category was eliminated as unnecessary since so many short films were being made in color.

The nominees were ... 

(Cartoon) 
(One-Reel)  
(Two-Reel) 
And the Oscar went to ... 
(Cartoon) 

An adaptation of a story by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, with narration by Don Wilson. 


(One-Reel) 
That Mothers Might Live, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the nineteenth-century Hungarian physician who stressed cleanliness in the delivery room as a way to reduce puerperal fever, which frequently killed women who had just given birth. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, with Shepperd Strudwick as Semmelweis. 

(Two-Reel) 
Declaration of Independence, Warner Bros. 

A dramatization of the signing of the Declaration, with John Litel as Thomas Jefferson and Ted Osborne as Caesar Rodney, who cast the deciding vote in favor of revolution. 
  

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