Academy Awards 1937

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The 1937 Academy Awards took place on March 4, 1937 at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles . It was the 9th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, awards are always given to films from the previous year, in this case the films from 1936.

For the first time are best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actresses awarded. There was also one curiosity about the award: it was the only one in history in which both script awards went to the same film ( Louis Pasteur ) .

Statistics
(films with more than one nomination are listed)
N = nomination; S = victory
Movie N S.
A restless life 7th 4th
The great Ziegfeld 7th 3
Time of love, time of parting 7th 1
San Francisco 6th 1
My husband Godfrey 6th 0
Mr. Deeds is going into town 5 1
Louis Pasteur 4th 3
Romeo and Juliet 4th 0
Surat Khan's betrayal 3 1
Three cute girls 3 0
The general died at dawn 3 0
Swing time 2 1
Take what you can get 2 1
Escape from Paris 2 0
The garden of Allah 2 0
Born to dance 2 0
Theodora Goes Wild 2 0
Signals to London 2 0
Winter set 2 0
The Gorgeous Hussy 2 0

Moderation

George Jessel

Winners and nominees

Best movie

The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A Restless Life (Anthony Adverse) - Warner Bros.
Time of Love, Time of Farewell (Dodsworth) - Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Three cute girls (Three Smart Girls) - Universal
Escape from Paris (A Tale of Two Cities) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Louis Pasteur (The Story of Louis Pasteur) - Cosmopolitan Productions
Funny sinners (Libeled Lady) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Columbia
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
San Francisco - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Actor

Paul Muni - Louis Pasteur (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Walter Huston - Time of Love, Time of Parting (Dodsworth)
William Powell - My husband Godfrey (My Man Godfrey)
Spencer Tracy - San Francisco

Best main actress

Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)

Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild
Gladys George - The Second Mother (Valiant Is the Word for Carrie)
Carole Lombard - My husband Godfrey (My Man Godfrey)
Norma Shearer - Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

Best supporting actor

Walter Brennan - Take What You Can Get (Come and Get It)

Mischa Auer - Mein Mann Godfrey (My Man Godfrey)
Stuart Erwin - The Crux of the matter (Pigskin Parade)
Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn (The General Died at Dawn)

The best supporting actress

Gale Sondergaard - A Restless Life (Anthony Adverse)

Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy
Alice Brady - Mein Mann Godfrey (My Man Godfrey)
Bonita Granville - Infamous Lies (These Three)
Maria Ouspenskaya - Time of Love, Time of Farewell (Dodsworth)

Best director

Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)

Gregory La Cava - Mein Mann Godfrey (My Man Godfrey)
Robert Z. Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)
WS Van Dyke - San Francisco
William Wyler - Time of Love, Time of Farewell (Dodsworth)

Best assistant director

Jack Sullivan - The Treason of Surat Khan (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

Clem Beauchamp - The Last of the Mohicans (The Last of the Mohicans)
William H. Cannon - A Restless Life (Anthony Adverse)
Joseph Newman - San Francisco
Eric G. Stacey - The Garden of Allah (The Garden of Allah)

Best original story

Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney - Louis Pasteur (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

Adele Comandini - Three cute girls (Three Smart Girls)
Robert E. Hopkins - San Francisco
Norman Krasna - Blind Fury (Fury)
William Anthony McGuire - The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)

Best script

Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney - Louis Pasteur (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett - Thin Man, Case 2 (After the Thin Man)
Eric Hatch and Morrie Ryskind - Mein Mann Godfrey (My Man Godfrey)
Sidney Howard - Time of Love, Time of Farewell (Dodsworth)
Robert Riskin - Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

Best camera

Gaetano Gaudio - A Restless Life (Anthony Adverse)

George J. Folsey - The Gorgeous Hussy
Victor Milner - The General Died at Dawn (The General Died At Dawn)

Best production design

Richard Day - Time of Love, Time of Farewell (Dodsworth)

Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson - The Magnificent Brute
William S. Darling - Signals to London (Lloyds of London)
Cedric Gibbons , Fredric Hope and Edwin B. Willis - Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
Cedric Gibbons , Eddie Imazu and Edwin B. Willis - The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)
Anton Grot - A Restless Life (Anthony Adverse)
Perry Ferguson - winter set

Best tone

Douglas Shearer ( MGM SSD ) - San Francisco

John Aalberg ( RKO Radio SSD) - That Girl from Paris
EH Hansen ( Fox SSD ) - Mississippi melody (Banjo on My Knee)
Franklin B. Hansen ( Paramount SSD ) - Texas Rangers
Nathan Levinson ( Warner Bros. SSD) - The Treason of Surat Khan (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
John Livadary ( Columbia SSD ) - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Mr. Deeds Goes To Town)
Thomas T. Moulton ( United Artists SSD) - Time of Love, Time of Farewell (Dodsworth )
Elmer Raguse ( Hal Roach SSD) - General Spanky
Homer G. Tasker ( Universal SSD ) - Three cute girls (Three Smart Girls)

Best cut

Ralph Dawson - A Restless Life (Anthony Adverse)

Edward Curtiss - Take What You Can Get (Come and Get It)
William S. Gray - The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)
Barbara McLean - Signals to London (Lloyds of London)
Otto Meyer - Theodora Goes Wild
Conrad A. Nervig - Escape from Paris (A Tale of Two Cities)

Best film score

Leo Forbstein ( Warner Bros. Studio Music Department) - A Restless Life (Anthony Adverse)

Leo Forbstein ( Warner Bros. Studio Music Department) - Der Verrat des Surat Khan (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
Boris Morros ( Paramount Studio Music Department ) and Werner Janssen - The General Died at Dawn (The General Died At Dawn)
Nathaniel Shilkret ( RKO Radio Studio Music Department) - Winterset
Max Steiner ( Selznick International Pictures Music Department ) - The Garden of Allah (The Garden of Allah)

Best song

The Way You Look Tonight ( Swing Time ) - Music: Jerome Kern , Text: Dorothy Fields

Did I Remember ( Suzy ) - Music: Walter Donaldson , Text: Harold Adamson
I've Got You Under My Skin ( Born to Dance , Born to Dance) - Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter
A Melody from the Sky ( Kampf in den Berge , The Trail of the Lonesome Pine) - Music: Louis Alter , Text: Sidney D. Mitchell
Pennies from Heaven ( Pennies from Heaven ) - Music: Arthur Johnston , Text: Johnny Burke
When Did You Leave Heaven ( Sing, Baby, Sing ) - Music: Richard A. Whiting , Text: Walter Bullock

Best short film - cartoon

Walt Disney - The Country Cousin (The Country Cousin)

The Old Mill Pond - Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor - Paramount

Best short film - color

Warner Bros. - Give Me Liberty

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara - Lewis Lewyn
Popular Science J-6-2 - Paramount

Best short film - a film role

Hal Roach - Bored of Education

Moscow Moods - Paramount
Wanted - A Master - Pete Smith

Best short film - two film roles

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - The Public Pays

Double or Nothing - Warner Bros.
Dummy Ache - RKO Radio

Best dance director

Seymour Felix - The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)

Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1937
Bobby Connolly - Cain and Mabel (Cain and Mabel)
Dave Gould - Born to Dance (Born to Dance)
Jack Haskell - One in a Million
Russell Lewis - Dancing Pirate
Hermes Pan - Swing Time

Special awards

Honorary Oscar The March of Time
W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson
Academy Award of Merit Douglas Shearer and MGM SSD for the development of a practical two-way horn system and a biased Class A push-pull recording system
Science and Development Award Edward C. Wente and Bell Telephone Laboratories for their multi-cellular high-frequency horn and receiver
RCA-Victor for their rotary stabilizer sound head
Technical Merit Award RCA-Victor for their development of a method of recording and printing sound records utilizing a restricted spectrum (known as ultra-violet light recording)
Electrical Research Products Inc. for the ERPI 'Type Q' portable recording channel
RCA-Victor for furnishing a practical design and specifications for a non-slip printer
United Artists Studio Corp. for the development of a practical, efficient and quiet wind machine

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