9th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1937)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, March 4, 1937
  • For films released in: 1936
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 9th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Production

  • Anthony Adverse
    Warner Bros.
  • Dodsworth
    Samuel Goldwyn Productions
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Libeled Lady
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
    Columbia
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • San Francisco
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
    Cosmopolitan
  • A Tale of Two Cities
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Three Smart Girls
    Universal

Best Directing

  • Dodsworth
    William Wyler
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    Robert Z. Leonard
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
    Frank Capra
  • My Man Godfrey
    Gregory La Cava
  • San Francisco
    W.S. Van Dyke

Best Actor

  • Dodsworth
    Walter Huston
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
    Gary Cooper
  • My Man Godfrey
    William Powell
  • San Francisco
    Spencer Tracy
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
    Paul Muni

Best Actress

  • The Great Ziegfeld
    Luise Rainer
  • My Man Godfrey
    Carole Lombard
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Norma Shearer
  • Theodora Goes Wild
    Irene Dunne
  • Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
    Gladys George

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Come and Get It
    Walter Brennan
  • The General Died at Dawn
    Akim Tamiroff
  • My Man Godfrey
    Mischa Auer
  • Pigskin Parade
    Stuart Erwin
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Basil Rathbone

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Anthony Adverse
    Gale Sondergaard
  • Dodsworth
    Maria Ouspenskaya
  • The Gorgeous Hussy
    Beulah Bondi
  • My Man Godfrey
    Alice Brady
  • These Three
    Bonita Granville

Best Art Direction

  • Anthony Adverse
    Anton Grot
  • Dodsworth
    Richard Day
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu and Edwin B. Willis
  • Lloyds of London
    William S. Darling
  • The Magnificent Brute
    Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope and Edwin B. Willis
  • Winterset
    Perry Ferguson

Best Assistant Director

  • Anthony Adverse
    William Cannon
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
    Jack Sullivan
  • The Garden of Allah
    Eric G. Stacey
  • The Last of the Mohicans
    Clem Beauchamp
  • San Francisco
    Joseph Newman

Best Cinematography

  • Anthony Adverse
    Gaetano "Tony" Gaudio
  • The General Died at Dawn
    Victor Milner
  • The Gorgeous Hussy
    George Folsey

Best Dance Direction

  • Born to Dance
    Dave Gould [Swinging the Jinx number]
  • Cain and Mabel
    Bobby Connolly [1000 Love Songs number]
  • Dancing Pirate
    Russell Lewis [The Finale number]
  • Gold Diggers of 1937
    Busby Berkeley [Love and War number]
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    Seymour Felix [A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody number]
  • One in a Million
    Jack Haskell [Skating Ensemble number]
  • Swing Time
    Hermes Pan [Bojangles of Harlem number]

Best Film Editing

  • Anthony Adverse
    Ralph Dawson
  • Come and Get It
    Edward Curtiss
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    William S. Gray
  • Lloyds of London
    Barbara McLean
  • A Tale of Two Cities
    Conrad A. Nervig
  • Theodora Goes Wild
    Otto Meyer

Best Music (Scoring)

  • Anthony Adverse
    Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein [head of department] and Erich Wolfgang Korngold [Score by]
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
    Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein [head of department] and Max Steiner [Score by]
  • The Garden of Allah
    Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Max Steiner [head of department] and Max Steiner [Score by]
  • The General Died at Dawn
    Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros [head of department] and Werner Janssen [Score by]
  • Winterset
    RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret [head of department] and Nathaniel Shilkret [Score by]

Best Music (Song)

  • Born to Dance "I've Got You Under My Skin"
    Cole Porter [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Pennies from Heaven "Pennies from Heaven"
    Arthur Johnston [Music by] and Johnny Burke [Lyrics by]
  • Sing, Baby, Sing "When Did You Leave Heaven"
    Richard A. Whiting [Music by] and Walter Bullock [Lyrics by]
  • Suzy "Did I Remember"
    Walter Donaldson [Music by] and Harold Adamson [Lyrics by]
  • Swing Time "The Way You Look Tonight"
    Jerome Kern [Music by] and Dorothy Fields [Lyrics by]
  • Trail of the Lonesome Pine "A Melody from the Sky"
    Louis Alter [Music by] and Sidney Mitchell [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • The Country Cousin
    Walt Disney
  • Old Mill Pond
    Harman-Ising
  • Sinbad the Sailor
    Paramount

Best Short Subject (Color)

  • Give Me Liberty
    Warner Bros.
  • La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
    Lewis Lewyn
  • Popular Science J-6-2
    Paramount

Best Short Subject (One-reel)

  • Bored of Education
    Hal Roach
  • Moscow Moods
    Paramount
  • Wanted, a Master
    Pete Smith

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)

  • Double or Nothing
    Warner Bros.
  • Dummy Ache
    RKO Radio
  • The Public Pays
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Sound Recording

  • Banjo on My Knee
    20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department and E.H. Hansen [Sound Director]
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
    Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
  • Dodsworth
    United Artists Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]
  • General Spanky
    Hal Roach Studio Sound Department and Elmer A. Raguse [Sound Director]
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
    Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]
  • San Francisco
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
  • The Texas Rangers
    Paramount Studio Sound Department and Franklin B. Hansen [Sound Director]
  • That Girl from Paris
    RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and John O. Aalberg [Sound Director]
  • Three Smart Girls
    Universal City Studio Sound Department and Homer G. Tasker [Sound Director]

Best Writing (Screenplay)

  • After the Thin Man
    Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
  • Dodsworth
    Sidney Howard
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
    Robert Riskin
  • My Man Godfrey
    Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
    Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney

Best Writing (Original Story)

  • Fury
    Norman Krasna
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    William Anthony McGuire
  • San Francisco
    Robert Hopkins
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur
    Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney
  • Three Smart Girls
    Adele Comandini
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