8th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1936)

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• Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 5, 1936
• For films released in: 1935

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 8th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Production

• Alice Adams
  RKO Radio
• Broadway Melody of 1936
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Captain Blood
  Cosmopolitan
• David Copperfield
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• The Informer
  RKO Radio
• Les Miserables
  20th Century
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Paramount
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  Warner Bros.
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Naughty Marietta
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Ruggles of Red Gap
  Paramount
• Top Hat
  RKO Radio

Best Directing

• The Informer
  John Ford
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Henry Hathaway
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Frank Lloyd

Best Actor

• The Informer
  Victor McLaglen
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Clark Gable
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Charles Laughton
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Franchot Tone

Best Actress

• Alice Adams
  Katharine Hepburn
• Becky Sharp
  Miriam Hopkins
• Dangerous
  Bette Davis
• The Dark Angel
  Merle Oberon
• Escape Me Never
  Elisabeth Bergner
• Private Worlds
  Claudette Colbert

Best Art Direction

• The Dark Angel
  Richard Day
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
• Top Hat
  Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark

Best Assistant Director

• David Copperfield
  Joseph Newman
• Les Miserables
  Eric Stacey
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing

Best Cinematography

• Barbary Coast
  Ray June
• The Crusades
  Victor Milner
• Les Miserables
  Gregg Toland
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  Hal Mohr
  Note: Mr. Mohr was not an official nomination. He was a write-in candidate and remains the only person to have won an Oscar without being nominated for it.

Best Dance Direction

• All the King's Horses
  LeRoy Prinz ["Viennese Waltz" number]
• Big Broadcast of 1936
  LeRoy Prinz ["It's the Animal in Me" number]
• Broadway Hostess
  Bobby Connolly ["Playboy from Paree" number]
• Broadway Melody of 1936
  David Gould ["I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling" number]
• Folies Bergere
  David Gould ["Straw Hat" number]
• Go into Your Dance
  Bobby Connolly ["Latin from Manhattan" number]
• Gold Diggers of 1935
  Busby Berkeley ["Lullaby of Broadway" and "The Words Are In My Heart" numbers]
• King of Burlesque
  Sammy Lee ["Lovely Lady" and "Too Good To Be True" numbers]
• She
  Benjamin Zemach ["Hall of Kings" number]
• Top Hat
  Hermes Pan ["Piccolino" and "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails" numbers]

Best Film Editing

• David Copperfield
  Robert J. Kern
• The Informer
  George Hively
• Les Miserables
  Barbara McLean
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Ellsworth Hoagland
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  Ralph Dawson
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Margaret Booth

Best Music (Scoring)

• The Informer
  RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner [head of department] and Max Steiner [Score by]
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston [head of department] and Herbert Stothart [Score by]
• Peter Ibbetson
  Paramount Studio Music Department, Irvin Talbot [head of department] and Ernst Toch [Score by]

Best Music (Song)

• Gold Diggers of 1935 "Lullaby of Broadway"
  Harry Warren [Music by] and Al Dubin [Lyrics by]
• Roberta "Lovely to Look At"
  Jerome Kern [Music by], Dorothy Fields [Lyrics by] and Jimmy McHugh [Lyrics by]
• Top Hat "Cheek to Cheek"
  Irving Berlin [Music and Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• The Calico Dragon
  Harman-Ising
• Three Orphan Kittens
  Walt Disney
• Who Killed Cock Robin?
  Walt Disney

Best Short Subject (Comedy)

• How to Sleep
  Jack Chertok
• Oh, My Nerves
  Jules White
• Tit for Tat
  Hal Roach

Best Short Subject (Novelty)

• Audioscopiks
  Pete Smith
• Camera Thrills
  Universal
• Wings over Mt. Everest
  Gaumont British and Skibo Productions

Best Sound Recording

• $1,000 a Minute
  Republic Studio Sound Department
• Bride of Frankenstein
  Universal Studio Sound Department and Gilbert Kurland [Sound Director]
• Captain Blood
  Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
• The Dark Angel
  United Artists Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]
• I Dream Too Much
  RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and Carl Dreher [Sound Director]
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Paramount Studio Sound Department and Franklin B. Hansen [Sound Director]
• Love Me Forever
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]
• Naughty Marietta
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
• Thanks a Million
  20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and E.H. Hansen [Sound Director]

Best Writing (Screenplay)

• The Informer
  Dudley Nichols
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Waldemar Young [Screenplay by], John L. Balderston [Screenplay by], Achmed Abdullah [Screenplay by], Grover Jones [Adaptation by] and William Slavens McNutt [Adaptation by]
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman and Carey Wilson

Best Writing (Original Story)

• Broadway Melody of 1936
  Moss Hart
• The Gay Deception
  Don Hartman and Stephen Avery
• The Scoundrel
  Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur