The nominees were ...
- Brian Aherne in Juarez
- Harry Carey in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Brian Donlevy in Beau Geste
- Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach
- Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
... when they should have been ...
- Charles Coburn in Bachelor Mother
- Ray Bolger in The Wizard of Oz
- Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach
- Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Sig Rumann in Ninotchka
And the Oscar went to ...
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| Thomas Mitchell |
In the same year, Mitchell could have been nominated (and would probably have won) for Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Only Angels Have Wings. Though he had made a silent film in 1923, Mitchell had been a stage actor until 1936, when he came to Hollywood and became one of the most valuable character players in the movies. In the 1950s he moved into television, where he won an Emmy in 1953, the same year in which he won a Tony award for his performance in the musical Hazel Flagg, becoming one of the nine actors with the Oscar-Emmy-Tony trifecta.
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| Claire Trevor and Mitchell in Stagecoach |
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