The 9th Academy Awards (1936): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
7 7 7 6 6 5 4 4 3 3 3	Anthony Adverse Dodsworth The Great Ziegfeld My Man Godfrey San Francisco Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Romeo and Juliet The Story of Louis Pasteur The Charge of Light Brigade The General Died at Dawn Three Smart Girls	4 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Anthony Adverse The Great Ziegfeld The Story of Louis Pasteur Bored of Education The Charge of Light Brigade Come and Get It The Country Cousin Dodsworth Give Me Liberty Mr. Deeds Goes to Town The Public Pays San Francisco Swing Time
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Outstanding Production)

• Anthony Adverse - Warner Bros.
• Dodsworth - Samuel Goldwyn Productions
• The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Libeled Lady - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Columbia
• Romeo and Juliet - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• San Francisco - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• The Story of Louis Pasteur - Cosmopolitan
• A Tale of Two Cities - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Three Smart Girls - Universal

DIRECTING

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

ACTOR

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

ACTRESS

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

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

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

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

• Anthony Adverse - William Cannon
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Jack Sullivan
• The Garden of Allah - Eric G. Stacey
• The Last of the Mohicans - Clem Beauchamp
• San Francisco - Joseph Newman

SCREENPLAY

• After the Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
• Dodsworth - Sidney Howard
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Robert Riskin
• My Man Godfrey - Eric Hatch, Morris Ryskind
• The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney

ORIGINAL STORY

• Fury - Norman Krasna
• The Great Ziegfeld - William Anthony McGuire
• San Francisco - Robert Hopkins
• The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
• Three Smart Girls - Adele Comandini

SONG

• "Did I Remember" - Suzy - Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
• "I've Got You Under My Skin" - Born To Dance - Music, Lyrics by Cole Porter
• "A Melody from the Sky" - Trail of the Lonesome Pine - Music by Louis Alter; Lyrics by Sidney Mitchell
• "Pennies from Heaven" - Pennies from Heaven - Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
• "The Way You Look Tonight" - Swing Time - Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
• "When Did You Leave Heaven" - Sing, Baby, Sing - Music by Richard A. Whiting; Lyrics by Walter Bullock

SCORING

• Anthony Adverse - Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
• The Garden of Allah - Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
• The General Died at Dawn - Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by Werner Janssen)
• Winterset - RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret, head of department (Score by Nathaniel Shilkret)

DANCE DIRECTION

• "1000 Love Songs" - Cain and Mabel - Bobby Connolly
• "Love and War" - Gold Diggers of 1937 - Busby Berkeley
• "Swingin' the Jinx" - Born To Dance - Dave Gould
• "Bojangles of Harlem" - Swing Time - Hermes Pan
• "Skating Ensemble" - One in a Million - Jack Haskell
• "The Finale" - Dancing Pirate - Russell Lewis
• "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" - The Great Ziegfeld - Seymour Feli

FILM EDITING

• Anthony Adverse - Ralph Dawson
• Come and Get It - Edward Curtiss
• The Great Ziegfeld - William S. Gray
• Lloyds of London - Barbara McLean
• A Tale of Two Cities - Conrad A. Nervig
• Theodora Goes Wild - Otto Meyer

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Anthony Adverse - Gaetano Gaudio
• The General Died at Dawn - Victor Milner
• The Gorgeous Hussy - George Folsey

ART DIRECTION

• Anthony Adverse - Anton Grot
• Dodsworth - Richard Day
• The Great Ziegfeld - Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, Edwin B. Willis
• Lloyds of London - William S. Darling
• The Magnificent Brute - Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Otterson
• Romeo and Juliet - Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope, Edwin B. Willis
• Winterset - Perry Ferguson

SOUND RECORDING

• Banjo on My Knee - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen (Sound Director)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson (Sound Director)
• Dodsworth - United Artists Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton (Sound Director)
• General Spanky - Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse (Sound Director)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary (Sound Director)
• San Francisco - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer (Sound Director)
• The Texas Rangers - Paramount Studio Sound Department, Franklin B. Hansen (Sound Director)
• That Girl from Paris - RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, J. O. Aalberg (Sound Director)
• Three Smart Girls - Universal Studio Sound Department, Homer G. Tasker (Sound Director)

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• The Country Cousin - Walt Disney
• Old Mill Pond - Harman-Ising
• Sinbad the Sailor - Paramount

SHORT SUBJECT (Color)

• La Fiesta de Santa Barbara - Lewis Lewyn
• Give Me Liberty - Warner Bros.
• Popular Science J-6-2 - Paramount

SHORT SUBJECT (One-Reel)

• Bored of Education - Hal Roach
• Moscow Moods - Paramount
• Wanted, a Master - Pete Smith

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-Reel)

• Double or Nothing - Warner Bros.
• Dummy Ache - RKO Radio
• The Public Pays - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

SPECIAL AWARDS

• To The March of Time for its significance to motion pictures and for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry - the newsreel.
• To W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for the color cinematography of the Selznick International Production, The Garden of Allah.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• To DOUGLAS SHEARER and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the development of a practical two-way horn system and a biased Class A push-pull recording system. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To E. C. WENTE and the BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES for their multi-cellular high-frequency horn and receiver. [Sound]
• To RCA MANUFACTURING CO., INC., for their rotary stabilizer sound head. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To RCA MANUFACTURING CO., INC., for furnishing a practical design and specifications for a non-slip printer. [Laboratory]
• To ELECTRICAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS, INC. for the ERPI 'Type Q' portable recording channel. [Sound]
• To RCA MANUFACTURING CO., INC., for their development of a method of recording and printing sound records utilizing a restricted spectrum (known as ultra-violet light recording). [Sound]
• To UNITED ARTISTS STUDIO CORP. for the development of a practical, efficient and quiet wind machine. [Stage Operations]