Pygmalion, was nominated for four Oscras, inlcuding Best Picture, winning one for the
Screenplay by George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, and W. P. Lipscomb.

Jean Renoir's masterpiece “Grand Illusion” (“La Grande Illusion”) was the first foreign-language film to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. A separate category for foreign films was established in 1956.

“Four Daughters” was nominated for four Oscars: Best Picture (produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke), Supporting Actor for John Garfield
Screenplay for Lenore Coffee and Julius Epstein
Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson.

The Citadel was nominated for four Oscars: Picture, Director King Vidor (who never won a legit Oscar), Actor Robert Donat, and Screenplay by Ian Dalrymple, Elizabeth Hill, and Frank Wead.

Spencer Tracy won a second consecutive Best Actor for “Boys Town,” thus becoming the Oscar-winner to achieve that, following Luise Rainer, who won the Best Actress in 1936 and 1937. This was Tracy third consecutive nod, the first was in 1936 for “San Francisco.”