9th Academy Awards nominees and winners

The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel. This ceremony marked the first time in which the categories of Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress were awarded.

Best Motion Picture Of The Year

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

Achievement in Directing

Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
Robert Z. Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld
William Wyler - Dodsworth

Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role

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

Best Performance by An Actress In A Leading Role

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

Best Performance by An 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

Best Performance by An 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

Best Writing, Screenplay

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

Best Writing, Original Story

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

Art Decoration

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

Achievement In Cinematography

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

Sound Recording

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

Assistant Director

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

Short Subjects: Cartoons

The Country Cousin
Old Mill Pond
Sinbad the Sailor

Short Subjects: One-Reel

Bored of Education
Moscow Moods
Wanted - A Master

Short Subjects: Two-Reel

Double or Nothing
Dummy Ache
The Public Pays

Short Subjects: Color

Give Me Liberty
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Popular Science J-6-2

Music: Best Song

"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
"The Way You Look Tonight" - Swing Time
"When Did You Leave Heaven" - Sing, Baby Sing

Music: Best Score

The General Died at Dawn
Winterset
The Garden of Allah
Anthony Adverse
The Charge of the Light Brigade

Film Editing

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

Dance Direction

Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1937
Bobby Connolly - Cain and Mabel
Seymour Felix - The Great Ziegfeld
Dave Gould - Born to Dance
Jack Haskell - One in a Million
Russell Lewis - Dancing Pirate
Hermes Pan - Swing Time
This award was only given out for three years (1935-1937).


Special Award

The March of Time
W. Howard Greene
Harold Rosson