Recap / Ninth Academy Awards

The 9th Academy Awards

Host: George Jessel

Air Date: March 4, 1937

Outstanding Production

• The Great Ziegfeld (winner)
• Anthony Adverse
• Dodsworth
• Libeled Lady
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Romeo and Juliet
• San Francisco (1936)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur
• A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
• Three Smart Girls

Best Actor

• Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur (winner)
• Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Walter Huston - Dodsworth
• William Powell - My Man Godfrey
• Spencer Tracy - San Francisco (1936)

Best Actress

• Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld (winner)
• Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild
• Gladys George - Valiant Is The Word For Carrie
• Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey
• Norma Shearer - Romeo and Juliet

Best Supporting Actor

• Walter Brennan - Come And Get It (winner)
• Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey
• Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade
• Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet
• Akim Tamiroff - The General Died At Dawn

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Director

• Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (winner)
• William Wyler - Dodsworth
• Robert Z Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld
• Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
• WS Van Dyke - San Francisco (1936)

Best Original Story

• The Story of Louis Pasteur (winner)
• Fury
• The Great Ziegfeld
• San Francisco (1936)
• Three Smart Girls

Best Screenplay

• The Story of Louis Pasteur (winner)
• After the Thin Man
• Dodsworth
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• My Man Godfrey

Best Short Subject (One-Reel)

• Bored of Education (winner)
• Moscow Moods
• Wanted—A Master

Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)

• The Public Pays (winner)
• Double Or Nothing
• Dummy Ache

Best Short Subject (color)

• Give Me Liberty (winner)
• La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
• Popular Science J 62

Best short Subject (cartoon)

• The Country Cousin (winner)
• The Old Mill Pond
• Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Best Scoring

• Anthony Adverse (winner)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• The Garden Of Allah
• The General Died At Dawn
• Winterset

Best Song

• "The Way You Look Tonight" - Swing Time (winner)
• "Did I Remember" - Suzy
• "I've Got You Under My Skin" - Born To Dance
• "A Melody From the Sky" - Trail Of The Lonesome Pine
• "Pennies from Heaven" - Pennies from Heaven
• "When Did You Leave Heaven" - Sing Baby Sing

Best Sound Recording

• San Francisco (1936) (winner)
• Banjo On My Knee
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Dodsworth
• General Spanky
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• The Texas Rangers
• That Girl From Paris
• Three Smart Girls

Best Art Direction

• Dodsworth (winner)
• Anthony Adverse
• The Great Ziegfeld
• Lloyds Of London
• The Magnificent Brute
• Romeo and Juliet
• Winterset

Best Cinematography

• Anthony Adverse (winner)
• The General Died At Dawn
• The Gorgeous Hussy

Best Film Editing

• Anthony Adverse (winner)
• Come And Get It
• The Great Ziegfeld
• Lloyds Of London
• A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
• Theodora Goes Wild

Best Dance Direction

• The Great Ziegfeld (winner)
• Born To Dance
• Cain And Mabel
• Dancing Pirate
• Gold Diggers of 1937
• One In A Million
• Swing Time

Best Assistant Director

• Jack Sullivan - The Charge of the Light Brigade (winner)
• William Cannon - Anthony Adverse
• Eric G Stacey - Garden Of Allah
• Clem Beauchamp - The Last Of The Mohicans 1936''
• Joseph M Newman - San Francisco (1936)

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