9th Academy Awards (1937)
Highlights of 9th Academy Awards ceremony
The 9th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1936.
The award ceremony was held on 4th March 1937.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Great Ziegfeld
Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth
Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur
A Tale of Two Cities
Three Smart Girls
Best Director
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Frank Capra
My Man Godfrey
- Gregory La Cava
The Great Ziegfeld
- Robert Z. Leonard
Dodsworth
- William Wyler
San Francisco
- W.S. Van Dyke
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Paul Muni
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Gary Cooper
Dodsworth
- Walter Huston
My Man Godfrey
- William Powell
San Francisco
- Spencer Tracy
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Great Ziegfeld
- Luise Rainer
Theodora Goes Wild
- Irene Dunne
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
- Gladys George
My Man Godfrey
- Carole Lombard
Romeo and Juliet
- Norma Shearer
Best Supporting Actor
Come and Get It
- Walter Brennan
My Man Godfrey
- Mischa Auer
Pigskin Parade
- Stuart Erwin
Romeo and Juliet
- Basil Rathbone
The General Died at Dawn
- Akim Tamiroff
Best Supporting Actress
Anthony Adverse
- Gale Sondergaard
The Gorgeous Hussy
- Beulah Bondi
My Man Godfrey
- Alice Brady
These Three
- Bonita Granville
Dodsworth
- Maria Ouspenskaya
Best Art Direction
Dodsworth
- Richard Day
The Magnificent Brute
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Otterson
Lloyds of London
- William S. Darling
Winterset
- Perry Ferguson
Romeo and Juliet
- Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope, Edwin B. Willis
The Great Ziegfeld
- Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, Edwin B. Willis
Best Cinematography
Anthony Adverse
- Gaetano Gaudio
The Gorgeous Hussy
- George Folsey
The General Died at Dawn
- Victor Milner
Best Film Editing
Anthony Adverse
- Ralph Dawson
Come and Get It
- Edward Curtiss
The Great Ziegfeld
- William S. Gray
Lloyds of London
- Barbara McLean
Theodora Goes Wild
- Otto Meyer
A Tale of Two Cities
- Conrad A. Nervig
Best Short Subject - One-reel
Bored of Education
Moscow Moods
Wanted - A Master
Best Short Subject - Two-reel
The Public Pays
Double or Nothing
Dummy Ache
Best Short Subject - Cartoon
The Country Cousin
Old Mill Pond
Sinbad the Sailor
Best Music - Song
Swing Time
for "The Way You Look Tonight"
Suzy
for "Did I Remember"
Born to Dance
for "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
for "A Melody From the Sky"
Pennies from Heaven
for "Pennies from Heaven"
Sing, Baby, Sing
for "When Did You Leave Heaven"
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
Three Smart Girls
- Adele Comandini
San Francisco
- Robert Hopkins
Fury
- Norman Krasna
The Great Ziegfeld
- William Anthony McGuire
Best Sound, Recording
San Francisco
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
General Spanky
The Texas Rangers
That Girl From Paris
Banjo on My Knee
Dodsworth
Three Smart Girls
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Best Writing, Screenplay
The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
After the Thin Man
- Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
My Man Godfrey
- Eric Hatch, Morris Ryskind
Dodsworth
- Sidney Howard
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Robert Riskin
Best Assistant Director
The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Jack Sullivan
The Last of the Mohicans
- Clem Beauchamp
Anthony Adverse
- William Cannon
San Francisco
- Joseph Newman
Garden of Allah
- Eric G. Stacey
Best Short Subject : Color
Give Me Liberty
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Popular Science J-6-2
Best Dance Direction
The Great Ziegfeld
- Seymour Felix
Gold Diggers of 1937
- Busby Berkeley
Cain and Mabel
- Bobby Connolly
Born to Dance
- Dave Gould
One in a Million
- Jack Haskell
Dancing Pirate
- Russell Lewis
Swing Time
- Hermes Pan
Special Awards
W. Howard Greene
Harold Rosson
Music : Best Score
Anthony Adverse
The General Died at Dawn
Winterset
The Garden of Allah
The Charge of the Light Brigade