The11th National Board of Review Awards were announced on 24 December 1939.^[1]

1. Confessions of a Nazi Spy
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Stagecoach
4. Ninotchka
5. Young Mr. Lincoln
6. Crisis
7. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
8. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
9. The Roaring Twenties
10. U-Boat 29

1. Port of Shadows
2. Harvest
3. Alexander Nevsky
4. The End of the Day
5. Robert Koch

• Best American Film:Confessions of a Nazi Spy
• Best Foreign Film:Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows), France
• Best Acting:
  • James Cagney -The Roaring Twenties
  • Bette Davis -Dark Victory andThe Old Maid
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald -Dark Victory andWuthering Heights
  • Henry Fonda -Young Mr. Lincoln
  • Jean Gabin -Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows)
  • Greta Garbo -Ninotchka
  • Francis Lederer -Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  • Paul Lukas -Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  • Thomas Mitchell -Stagecoach
  • Laurence Olivier -Wuthering Heights
  • Flora Robson -We Are Not Alone
  • Michel Simon -Le quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) andThe End of the Day^[2]

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1939

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