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Academy Awards, USA: 1937

Oscar

Date:	4 March (banquet)
Host:	George Jessel
Location:	Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:	For the first time awards are presented for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, but the winners receive plaques instead of statuettes for the first seven years. All plaques were later replaced with statuettes. From 1935 to 1938 best score is considered a music department achievement and the award is given to the department head instead of to the composer(s).

Best Picture


Winner:
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - M-G-M
Other Nominees:
	A Tale of Two Cities (1935) - M-G-M Anthony Adverse (1936) - Warner Bros. Dodsworth (1936) - Samuel Goldwyn Productions Libeled Lady (1936) - M-G-M Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Columbia Romeo and Juliet (1936) - M-G-M San Francisco (1936) - M-G-M The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) - Cosmopoliatan Three Smart Girls (1936) - Universal

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) - Paul Muni (I)
Other Nominees:
	Dodsworth (1936) - Walter Huston Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Gary Cooper (I) My Man Godfrey (1936) - William Powell (I) San Francisco (1936) - Spencer Tracy

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Luise Rainer
Other Nominees:
	My Man Godfrey (1936) - Carole Lombard (I) Romeo and Juliet (1936) - Norma Shearer Theodora Goes Wild (1936) - Irene Dunne Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936) - Gladys George

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Come and Get It (1936) - Walter Brennan
Other Nominees:
	My Man Godfrey (1936) - Mischa Auer Pigskin Parade (1936) - Stuart Erwin Romeo and Juliet (1936) - Basil Rathbone The General Died at Dawn (1936) - Akim Tamiroff

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Anthony Adverse (1936) - Gale Sondergaard
Other Nominees:
	Dodsworth (1936) - Maria Ouspenskaya My Man Godfrey (1936) - Alice Brady The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) - Beulah Bondi These Three (1936) - Bonita Granville

Best Director


Winner:
	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Frank Capra
Other Nominees:
	Dodsworth (1936) - William Wyler My Man Godfrey (1936) - Gregory La Cava San Francisco (1936) - W.S. Van Dyke The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Robert Z. Leonard

Best Assistant Director


Winner:
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Jack Sullivan (I)
Other Nominees:
	Anthony Adverse (1936) - William H. Cannon San Francisco (1936) - Joseph M. Newman The Garden of Allah (1936) - Eric Stacey (I) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) - Clem Beauchamp

Best Writing, Original Story


Winner:
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) - Pierre Collings; Sheridan Gibney
Other Nominees:
	Fury (1936) - Norman Krasna San Francisco (1936) - Robert E. Hopkins The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - William Anthony McGuire Three Smart Girls (1936) - Adele Comandini

Best Writing, Screenplay


Winner:
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) - Pierre Collings; Sheridan Gibney
Other Nominees:
	After the Thin Man (1936) - Frances Goodrich; Albert Hackett Dodsworth (1936) - Sidney Howard (I) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Robert Riskin My Man Godfrey (1936) - Eric Hatch (I); Morrie Ryskind

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Anthony Adverse (1936) - Tony Gaudio
Other Nominees:
	The General Died at Dawn (1936) - Victor Milner The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) - George J. Folsey

Best Art Direction


Winner:
	Dodsworth (1936) - Richard Day (I)
Other Nominees:
	Anthony Adverse (1936) - Anton Grot Lloyd's of London (1936) - William S. Darling Magnificent Brute (1936) - Albert S. D'Agostino; Jack Otterson Romeo and Juliet (1936) - Cedric Gibbons; Fredric Hope; Edwin B. Willis The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Cedric Gibbons; Eddie Imazu; Edwin B. Willis Winterset (1936) - Perry Ferguson

Best Sound, Recording


Winner:
	San Francisco (1936) - Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)
Other Nominees:
	Banjo on My Knee (1936) - Edmund H. Hansen (20th Century-Fox SSD) Dodsworth (1936) - Oscar Lagerstrom (United Artists SSD) General Spanky (1936) - Elmer Raguse (Hal Roach SSD) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD) That Girl from Paris (1936) - John Aalberg (RKO Radio SSD) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD) The Texas Rangers (1936) - Franklin Hansen (Paramount SSD) Three Smart Girls (1936) - Homer G. Tasker (Universal SSD)

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Anthony Adverse (1936) - Ralph Dawson
Other Nominees:
	A Tale of Two Cities (1935) - Conrad A. Nervig Come and Get It (1936) - Edward Curtiss Lloyd's of London (1936) - Barbara McLean (I) The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - William S. Gray Theodora Goes Wild (1936) - Otto Meyer (I)

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Swing Time (1936) - Jerome Kern (music); Dorothy Fields (lyrics) - For the song "The Way You Look Tonight".
Other Nominees:
	Born to Dance (1936) - Cole Porter - For the song "I've Got You Under My Skin". Pennies from Heaven (1936) - Arthur Johnston (music); Johnny Burke (II) (lyrics) - For the song "Pennies from Heaven (1936)". Sing, Baby, Sing (1936) - Richard A. Whiting (music); Walter Bullock (lyrics) - For the song "When Did You Leave Heaven". Suzy (1936) - Walter Donaldson (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics) - For the song "Did I Remember". The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) - Louis Alter (music); Sidney D. Mitchell (lyrics) - For the song "A Melody from the Sky".

Best Music, Score


Winner:
	Anthony Adverse (1936) - Leo F. Forbstein (head of department); Warner Bros. Studio Music Deprtment - Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Other Nominees:
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Leo F. Forbstein (head of department); Warner Bros. Studio Music Deprtment - Score by Max Steiner (I). The Garden of Allah (1936) - Max Steiner (I) (head of department); Selznick International Pictures Music Department - Score by Max Steiner (I). The General Died at Dawn (1936) - Boris Morros; Paramount Studio Music Department - Score by Werner Janssen. Winterset (1936) - Nathaniel Shilkret (head of department); RKO Radio Studio Music Department - Score by Nathaniel Shilkret.

Best Short Subject, Two-reel


Winner:
	The Public Pays (1936) - M-G-M
Other Nominees:
	Double or Nothing (1936) - Warner Bros. Dummy Ache (1936) - RKO Radio

Best Short Subject, One-reel


Winner:
	Bored of Education (1936) - Hal Roach (I)
Other Nominees:
	Moscow Moods (1936) - Paramount Wanted -- A Master (1936) - Pete Smith (I)

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	The Country Cousin (1936) - Walt Disney
Other Nominees:
	Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936) - Paramount The Old Mill Pond (1936) - Hugh Harman; Rudolf Ising

Best Short Subject, Color


Winner:
	Give Me Liberty (1936) - Warner Bros.
Other Nominees:
	La fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935) - M-G-M Popular Science (1935/II) - Paramount

Best Dance Direction


Winner:
	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Seymour Felix - For "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody".
Other Nominees:
	Born to Dance (1936) - Dave Gould (I) - For "Swingin' the Jinx". Cain and Mabel (1936) - Bobby Connolly - For "1000 Love Songs". Dancing Pirate (1936) - Russell Lewis (II) - For "The Finale". Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) - Busby Berkeley - For "Love and War". One in a Million (1936) - Jack Haskell (I) - For "Skating Ensemble". Swing Time (1936) - Hermes Pan - For "Bojangles of Harlem".

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	March of Time - For its significance to motion pictures and for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry - the newsreel. The Garden of Allah (1936) - W. Howard Greene; Harold Rosson - For the color cinematography of the Selznick International Production The Garden of Allah (plaque).

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	Douglas Shearer; M-G-M SSD - For the development of a practical two-way horn system and a biased Class A push-pull recording system.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winners:
	RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc. - For their rotary stabilizer sound head. E.C. Wente; Bell Telephone Laboratories - For their multi-cellular high-frequency horn and receiver.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	Electrical Research Products Inc. - For the ERPI "Type Q" portable recording channel. RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc. - For furnishing a practical design and specifications for a non-slip printer. RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc. - For their development of a method of recording and printing sound records utilizing a restricted spectrum (known as ultra-violet light recording). United Artists Studio Corp. - For the development of a practical, efficient and quiet wind machine.