The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-07
TEN BEST MOVIE
 STARS CHOSEN
Five Actors, Actresses Are Picked for Excel
 lent Performances

Hollywood, Feb. 7-(UP)-Movie stars picked from their own ranks today the five actors and the five actresses they consider to have giv- en the best performances of the past year. From these 10, will be picked the best actor and the best actress.
 Last years winners, Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, were nominated again.
 Those nominated for the annual merit awards of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences, and the pictures in which they achieved distinction, were: Actors Muti, in the title role of "The Life of Emile Zola."
 Charles Boyer, as Napoleon of Conquest"
 Spencer Tracy, the Portuguese fisherman of Captains Courage ous."
 Fredric March, in "A Star is Born"
 Robert Montgomery, the killer in Night Must Fall"
 Actresses
 Greta Garbo, in Camille"
 Miss Rainer, the patient Chinese wife in Good Earth"
 Irene Dunne, the misunderstood wife of "The Awful Truth"
 Janet Gaynor, the country girl turned movie star, in "A Star Is Born"
 Barbara Stanwyck, the sacrificing mother, in Stella Dallas"
 Nominees were selected by the senior members of the screen actors guild. These are the higher-pa1d players. The vote for the final se- lection and others. Ballots will go out to the 15,OOO on Feb. Is and the awards will be announced at a ban- quet March 3.
 Ten Best Pictures
 Also voted upon were the 10 best pictures of the year and the Cham pions" in most of the specialized divisions of merchandising.
 Pictures nominated for 1887 were Awful Truth" Columbia; Cap tain's Courageous" M-G-M; Dead End" Samuel Goldwyn; Good Earth" M-G-M; "In Old Chicago" 2oth Century Fox; Life of Emile Zola." Warner Bros; "Lost Hori- zon," Columbia; "One Hundred Men and girl" Universal; Stage Door" RKO-Radio; "A Star Is Born," Selz- nick International.
 Best Actor, Actress
 Nominated for the best actor and actress in supporting role were:
 Ralph Bellamy in "The Awful Truth" Thomas Mitchell ill "Hur- ricane;;" Joseph Schildkraut in "The Life of Emile zola;" H. B. Warner in Lost Horizon;" Roland Young in Topper" Alice Brady in Tn Old Chicago" Andrea Leeds in Stage Door," Anne Shirley ill stella Dal- las;" Claire Trevor in Dead End" and Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall"
 Best Directors
 Directors nominated five of their number for outstanding work on a picture during the year; Leo Mo Carey (The Awful Truth; Sidney Franklin (The Good Earth); Will liam Dieterle (The Life of Emile zola); Gregory Lucava (Stage Door); and William Wellman GA Star Is Born).
 The screen writers guild nomin- ated for the best written screen play: "The Awful Truth" by Vina Delmar, Captain Courageous" by John Lee Mahin, Marc Connolly and Dale Van Every; "The Life of Emile Zola" by Norman Reilly Raine. Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg; Stage Door" by Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller, "A Star is Born" by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Robert Carson.
 Motion Picture Story
 Nominated for the pest original motion picture story were: Black Legion" by Robert Lord: Tn Old Chicago" by Niven Gusch: "The Life of Emile Zola" by Heinz Her aid and Geza Herczeg: "One Hun dred Men and a GirI' by Hans Kra- ly, and "A Star Is Born" by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson.
 Nominated for song writing hon. ors were Harry Warren and Al Du- bin Remember Me); Harry Owens (Sweet Lelanie); Lew Brown and Sammy Fain (That Old Feeling): The late George and Ira Gershwin (They Can't Take That Away From