9th Academy Awards

Date: March 4, 1937

Host: George Jessel

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Outstanding Production

• The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

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


Best Director

• Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)

Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey)

Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld)

W.S. Van Dyke (San Francisco)

William Wyler (Dodsworth)

Best Actor

• Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

Gary Cooper (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)

Walter Huston (Dodsworth)

William Powell (My Man Godfrey)

Spencer Tracy (San Francisco)

Best Actress

• Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)

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)

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)

Beulah Bondi (The Gorgeous Hussy)

Alice Brady (My Man Godfrey)

Bonita Granville (These Three)

Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)

Best Story

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

Norman Krasna (Fury)

William Anthony McGuire (The Great Ziegfeld)

Robert Hopkins (San Francisco)

Adele Comandini (Three Smart Girls)

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (After the Thin Man)

Sidney Howard (Dodsworth)

Robert Riskin (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)

Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind (My Man Godfrey)

Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel

• Hal Roach and MGM (Bored of Education)

Paramount (Moscow Moods)

Pete Smith and MGM (Wanted – A Master)

Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel

• MGM (The Public Pays)

Warner Bros. (Double or Nothing)

RKO Radio (Dummy Ache)

Best Live Action Short Film, Color

• Warner Bros. (Give Me Liberty)

Lewis Lewyn and MGM (La Fiesta de Santa Barbara)

Paramount (Popular Science J-6-2)

Best Animated Short Film

• Walt Disney Productions and United Artists (The Country Cousin)

Harman-Ising and MGM (The Old Mill Pond)

Paramount (Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor)

Best Score

• Warner Bros. Studio Music Department (Anthony Adverse)

Warner Bros. Studio Music Department (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

Selznick International Pictures Music Department (The Garden of Allah)

Paramount Studio Music Department (The General Died at Dawn)

RKO Radio Studio Music Department (Winterset)

Best Song

• Music by Jerome Kern; Lyric by Dorothy Fields ("The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time)

Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyric by Harold Adamson ("Did I Remember" from Suzy)

Music and Lyric by Cole Porter ("I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance)

Music by Louis Alter; Lyric by Sidney Mitchell ("A Melody From the Sky" from Trail of the Lonesome Pine)

Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyric by Johnny Burke ("Pennies from Heaven" from Pennies from Heaven)

Music by Richard A. Whiting; Lyric by Walter Bullock ("When Did You Leave Heaven" from Sing, Baby Sing)

Best Art Direction

• Richard Day (Dodsworth)

Anton Grot (Anthony Adverse)

Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu and Edwin B. Willis (The Great Ziegfeld)

William S. Darling (Lloyds of London)

Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson (The Magnificent Brute)

Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope and Edwin B. Willis (Romeo and Juliet)

Perry Ferguson (Winterset)

Best Cinematography

• Tony Gaudio (Anthony Adverse)

Victor Milner (The General Died at Dawn)

George Folsey (The Gorgeous Hussy)

Best Sound Recording

• Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department (San Francisco)

E. H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department (Banjo on My Knee)

Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department (Dodsworth)

Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department (General Spanky)

John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)

Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio Sound Department (The Texas Rangers)

John Aalberg, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department (That Girl From Paris)

Homer G. Tasker, Universal Studio Sound Department (Three Smart Girls)

Best Film Editing

• Ralph Dawson (Anthony Adverse)

Edward Curtiss (Come and Get It)

William S. Gray (The Great Ziegfeld)

Barbara McLean (Lloyds of London)

Conrad A. Nervig (A Tale of Two Cities)

Otto Meyer (Theodora Goes Wild)

Best Assistant Director

• Jack Sullivan (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

William Cannon (Anthony Adverse)

Eric G. Stacey (Garden of Allah)

Clem Beauchamp (The Last of the Mohicans)

Joseph M. Newman (San Francisco)

Best Dance Direction

• Seymour Felix (The Great Ziegfeld)

Dave Gould (Born to Dance)

Bobby Connolly (Cain and Mabel)

Russell Lewis (Dancing Pirate)

Busby Berkeley (Gold Diggers of 1937)

Jack Haskell (One in a Million)

Hermes Pan (Swing Time)

Films with multiple nominations

• Anthony Adverse (7)
• Dodsworth (7)
• The Great Ziegfeld (7)

My Man Godfrey (6)
San Francisco (6)
Mr. Deeds Go to Town (5)
Romeo and Juliet (4)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (4)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (3)
The General Died at Dawn (3)
Three Smart Girls (3)
Born to Dance (2)
Come and Get it (2)
Garden of Allah (2)
The Gorgeous Hussy (2)
Lloyds of London (2)
Swing Time (2)
A Tale of Two Cities (2)
Theodora Goes Wild (2)
Winterset (2)

Films with multiple awards

• Anthony Adverse (4)

The Great Ziegfeld (3)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (3)

Honorary Awards

• W. Howard Greene
• Harold Rosson
• The March of Time