Angels With Dirty Faces awards
National Board of Review
- Best Acting (winner)
- James Cagney
- 1938
New York Film Critics Circle
- Best Actor (winner)
- James Cagney
- 1938
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Best Actor (nominee)
- James Cagney
- 1938
- Best Director (nominee)
- Michael Curtiz
- 1938
- Best Original Story (nominee)
- Rowland Brown
- 1938



