Academy Awards 1936

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The 1936 Academy Awards took place on March 5, 1936 at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles . It was the 8th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the Academy Awards, awards are always given to films that were released in the previous year, in this case the films from 1935. At this Academy Awards, the external company PricewaterhouseCoopers was responsible for counting the votes cast for the first time .

Statistics
(films with more than one nomination are listed)
N = nomination; S = victory
Movie N S.
Mutiny on the Bounty 8th 1
The traitor 6th 4th
Bengali 6th 1
Under pirate flag 5 0
A midsummer night's dream 4th 2
I dance myself into your heart 4th 0
The wretched 4th 0
The way in the dark 3 1
Broadway tune 1936 3 1
David Copperfield 3 0
The gold diggers of 1935 2 1
Great Marietta 2 1
Alice Adams 2 0

Moderation

Frank Capra

Winners and nominees

Best movie

Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Alice Adams - RKO Radio
Broadway Melody of 1936 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Under Pirate Flag (Captain Blood) - Cosmopolitan Productions
David Copperfield - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Der Verräter (The Informer) - RKO Radio
The Misery (Les Misérables) - 20th Century Pictures
Bengali (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer) - Paramount Pictures
A Midsummer Night's Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Warner Bros.
Great Marietta (Naughty Marietta) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A Butler in America (Ruggles of Red Gap) - Paramount Pictures
I dance myself into your heart (Top Hat) - RKO Radio

Best director

John Ford - The Traitor (The Informer)

Michael Curtiz - Under the Jolly Roger (Captain Blood)
Henry Hathaway - Bengali (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)

Best Actor

Victor McLaglen - The Informer (The Informer)

Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Paul Muni - In Blind Fury (Black Fury)
Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)

Best main actress

Bette Davis - Dangerous

Elisabeth Bergner - Never Leave Me Again (Escape Me Never)
Claudette Colbert - Senior Physician Dr. Monet (Private Worlds)
Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams
Miriam Hopkins - Vanities Fair (Becky Sharp)
Merle Oberon - The road in the dark (The Dark Angel)

Best assistant director

Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing - Bengali (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)

Joseph Newman - David Copperfield
Eric Stacey - The Misery (Les Misérables)
Sherry Shourds - A Midsummer Night's Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Best original story

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur - A charming villain (The Scoundrel)

Mosshart - Broadway Melody of 1936 (Broadway Melody of 1936)
Don Hartman and Stephen Morehouse Avery - The Gay Deception
Darryl F. Zanuck aka Gregory Rogers - The FBI Agent ('G' Men)

Best adapted script

Dudley Nichols - The Traitor (The Informer)

Casey Robinson - Under the Jolly Roger (Captain Blood)
Achmed Abdullah , John L. Balderston , Grover Jones , William Slavens McNutt and Waldemar Young - Bengali (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
Talbot Jennings , Jules Furthman and Carey Wilson - Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)

Best camera

Hal Mohr - A Midsummer Night's Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Ray June - San Francisco in Gold Fever (Barbary Coast)
Victor Milner - Crusader - Richard the Lionheart (The Crusades)
Gregg Toland - The Misery (Les Misérables)

Best production design

Richard Day - The road in the dark (The Dark Angel)

Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson - Bengali (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark - I dance myself into your heart (Top Hat)

Best tone

Douglas Shearer - Great Marietta (Naughty Marietta)

Carl Dreher - I Dream Too Much
Edmund H. Hansen - Music at Midnight (Thanks a Million)
Franklin Hansen - Bengali (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
Gilbert Kurland - Bride of Frankenstein (Bride of Frankenstein)
Nathan Levinson - Under the Jolly Roger (Captain Blood)
John P. Livadary - Love Me Forever
Thomas T. Moulton - The road in the dark (The Dark Angel)
Republic SSD - 1,000 dollars a minute

Best cut

Ralph Dawson - A Midsummer Night's Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Margaret Booth - Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)
George Hively - The Traitor (The Informer)
Ellsworth Hoagland - Bengali (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
Robert J. Kern - David Copperfield
Barbara McLean - The Miserable (Les Misérables)

Best song

Lullaby of Broadway - The Gold Diggers of 1935

Cheek to Cheek - I dance myself into your heart (Top Hat)
Lovely to Look At - Roberta

Best film score

Max Steiner - The Traitor (The Informer)

Nat W. Finston - Mutiny on the Bounty (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Leo F. Forbstein - Under Pirate Flag (Captain Blood)
Irvin Talbot - Peter Ibbetson

Best short film - cartoon

The Three Orphan Kittens - Director: Walt Disney

In the Land of the Stuffed Animals (The Calico Dragon) - Directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising
Who Shot Robin? (Who Killed Cock Robin?) - Director: Walt Disney

Best Short Film - Comedy

How to Sleep - Director: Jack Chertok

Oh, My Nerves - Directed by Jules White
The defiled honor (Tit for Tat) - Director: Hal Roach

Best Short Film - Novelty

Wings Over Everest - Gaumont British and Skibo Productions

Camera Thrills - Universal Studios
Audioscopiks - Director: Pete Smith

Best dance director

Dave Gould - Broadway Melody of 1936 and Folies Bergère de Paris

Busby Berkeley - The Gold Diggers of 1935 (Gold Diggers of 1935)
Bobby Connolly - Broadway Hostess and Go Into Your Dance
Sammy Lee - King of Burlesque
Hermes Pan - I dance myself into your heart (Top Hat)
LeRoy Prinz - All the King's Horses and The Big Broadcast of 1936
Benjamin Zemach - She - Ruler of a sunken world (She)

Special awards

Honorary Oscar David Wark Griffith
Academy Award of Merit Agfa - Ansco Corporation for the Agfa infrared film
Science and Development Award Eastman Kodak Corporation for the Eastman Pola Screen
Technical Merit Award Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the development of anti-directional negative and positive development by means of jet turbulation, and the application of the method to all negative and print processing of the entire product of a major producing company
William A. Mueller from Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department for his method of dubbing, in which the level of the dialogue automatically controls the level of the accompanying music and sound effects
Mole-Richardson Company for their development of the 'Solar-spot' spot lamps
Douglas Shearer and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for their automatic control system for cameras and sound recording machines and auxiliary stage equipment
Electrical Research Products Inc. for their study and development of equipment to analyze and measure flutter resulting from the travel of the film through the mechanisms used in the recording and reproduction of sound
Paramount Productions for the design and construction of the Paramount transparency air turbine developing machine
Nathan Levinson for the method of intercutting variable density and variable area sound tracks to secure an increase in the effective volume range of sound recorded for motion pictures

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