8th Academy Awards (1936)

Best Picture

Mutiny on the Bounty
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Informer
Les Miserables
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Naughty Marietta

Best Director

The Informer - John Ford
Captain Blood - Michael Curtiz
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Henry Hathaway
Mutiny on the Bounty - Frank Lloyd

Best Actor in a Leading Role

The Informer - Victor McLaglen
Mutiny on the Bounty - Clark Gable
Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Laughton
Mutiny on the Bounty - Franchot Tone

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Dangerous - Bette Davis
Escape Me Never - Elisabeth Bergner
Private Worlds - Claudette Colbert
Alice Adams - Katharine Hepburn
Becky Sharp - Miriam Hopkins
The Dark Angel - Merle Oberon

Best Cinematography

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Hal Mohr
Barbary Coast - Ray June
The Crusades - Victor Milner
Les Miserables - Gregg Toland

Best Film Editing

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ralph Dawson
Mutiny on the Bounty - Margaret Booth
The Informer - George Hively
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Ellsworth Hoagland
David Copperfield - Robert J. Kern
Les Miserables - Barbara McLean

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

Three Orphan Kittens
The Calico Dragon
Who Killed Cock Robin?

Best Music - Song

Gold Diggers of 1935 for "Lullaby of Broadway"
Top Hat for "Cheek to Cheek"
Roberta for "Lovely to Look At"

Best Writing, Motion Picture Story

The Scoundrel - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart
The Gay Deception - Don Hartman, Stephen Avery

Best Sound, Recording

Naughty Marietta
Love Me Forever
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1,000 Dollars a Minute
I Dream Too Much
Thanks a Million
The Dark Angel
Bride of Frankenstein
Captain Blood

Best Assistant Director

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Clem Beauchamp, Paul Wing
David Copperfield - Joseph Newman
Les Miserables - Eric Stacey

Best Dance Direction

Broadway Melody of 1936 - Dave Gould
Folies Bergere - Dave Gould
Gold Diggers of 1935 - Busby Berkeley
Broadway Hostess - Bobby Connolly
King of Burlesque - Sammy Lee
Top Hat - Hermes Pan
All the King's Horses - LeRoy Prinz
The Big Broadcast of 1936 - LeRoy Prinz
She - Benjamin Zemach

Special Awards

David Wark Griffith

Music : Best Score

The Informer
Mutiny on the Bounty
Peter Ibbetson
Captain Blood

Best Writing Adaptations

The Informer - Dudley Nichols
Mutiny on the Bounty - Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Waldemar Young, Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings, Carey Wilson
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt

Interior Decoration

The Dark Angel - Richard Day
Top Hat - Carroll Clark, Van Nest Polglase
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson

Short Subject : Comedy

How to Sleep - Nick Grinde
Oh, My Nerves - Del Lord
Tit for Tat - Charley Rogers

Short Subject : Novelty

Wings Over Everest
Audioscopiks
Camera Thrills