1939 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Winner
![Boys Town Spencer Tracy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/boys-town-norman-taurog-image.jpg)
Boys Town
Spencer Tracy
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn’t have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to do something about. An advocate of child…
1939 Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
![Algiers Charles Boyer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/algiers-john-cromwell-image.jpg)
Algiers
Charles Boyer
![Angels with Dirty Faces James Cagney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/angels-with-dirty-faces-michael-curtiz-image.jpg)
Angels with Dirty Faces
James Cagney
![Pygmalion Leslie Howard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pygmalion-image.jpg)
Pygmalion
Leslie Howard
![The Citadel Robert Donat](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-citadel-king-vidor-image.jpg)