Victor Fleming
Though nominated for Best Picture of 1939, "Of Mice and Men" had the shared misfortune of competing with a veritable pantheon of Hollywood films: "The Wizard of Oz" (Victor Fleming), "Stagecoach" (John Ford), "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (Sam Wood), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (Frank Capra), "Dark Victory" (Edmund Goulding), "Love Affair" (Leo McCarey), "Ninotchka" (Ernst Lubitsch), "Wuthering Heights" (William Wyler), and the winner, "Gone with the Wind" (Victor Fleming)."