9th Academy Awards

9th Academy Awards
9th Academy Awards
Date	March 4, 1937
Site	Biltmore Hotel
Hosted by	George Jessel
Highlights
Best Picture	The Great Ziegfeld
Most awards	Anthony Adverse (4)
Most nominations	Anthony Adverse , Dodsworth and The Great Ziegfeld (7)
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Last updated December 01, 2024

The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California ^[1] to honor films released in 1936. They were hosted by George Jessel, with music by the Victor Young Orchestra, with Spike Jones on drums. This year marked the introduction of the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories, and was the first year that the awards for directing and acting were fixed at five nominees per category.

Jessel assigned the wrong awards to the right winners of the newly-introduced supporting categories. The Great Ziegfeld was not a popular choice for Best Picture among members of the press, who felt that voters had been brainwashed by its lush gaudiness; they also felt that Luise Rainer's win of Best Actress for her performance was unjustified due to the short length of her role in the film.^[2]

My Man Godfrey became the first film to receive nominations in all four acting categories, but did not win in any category. It is the only such film to not receive a nomination for Best Picture, and was the only one to lose all of its nominations until Sunset Boulevard at the 23rd Academy Awards and American Hustle at the 86th. It was also the first of four films to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture, followed by I Remember Mama (1948), Othello (1965), and Doubt (2008).

Winners and nominees

Frank Capra; Best Director winner

Paul Muni; Best Actor winner

Luise Rainer; Best Actress winner

Walter Brennan; Best Supporting Actor winner

Gale Sondergaard; Best Supporting Actress winner

Pierre Collings; Best Original Story and Best Screenplay co-winner

Hal Roach; Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel co-winner

Jerome Kern; Best Song co-winner

Awards

Nominees were announced on February 7, 1937. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[1]

Outstanding Production The Great Ziegfeld – Hunt Stromberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ‡ Anthony Adverse – Henry Blanke for Warner Bros. Dodsworth – Samuel Goldwyn and Merritt Hulbert for Samuel Goldwyn Prod. and United Artists Libeled Lady – Lawrence Weingarten for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Frank Capra for Columbia Romeo and Juliet – Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer San Francisco – John Emerson and Bernard H. Hyman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Story of Louis Pasteur – Henry Blanke for Warner Bros. A Tale of Two Cities – David O. Selznick for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Three Smart Girls – Joe Pasternak and Charles R. Rogers for Universal	Best Director Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ‡ William Wyler – Dodsworth Robert Z. Leonard – The Great Ziegfeld Gregory La Cava – My Man Godfrey W. S. Van Dyke – San Francisco
Best Actor *Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur* as Louis Pasteur** ‡ Gary Cooper – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds Walter Huston – Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth William Powell – My Man Godfrey as Godfrey Spencer Tracy – San Francisco as Father Tim Mullin	Best Actress *Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld* as Anna Held** ‡ Irene Dunne – Theodora Goes Wild as Theodora Lynn/"Caroline Adams" Gladys George – Valiant Is the Word for Carrie as Carrie Snyder Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey as Irene Bullock Norma Shearer – Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
Best Supporting Actor *Walter Brennan – Come and Get It* as Swan Bostrom*‡ Mischa Auer – My Man Godfrey* as Carlo Stuart Erwin – Pigskin Parade as Amos Basil Rathbone – Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt Akim Tamiroff – The General Died at Dawn as General Yang	Best Supporting Actress *Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse* as Faith Paleologus*‡ Beulah Bondi – The Gorgeous Hussy* as Rachel Jackson Alice Brady – My Man Godfrey as Angelica Bullock Bonita Granville – These Three as Mary Tilford Maria Ouspenskaya – Dodsworth as Baroness Von Obersdorf
Best Original Story The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney ‡ Fury – Norman Krasna The Great Ziegfeld – William Anthony McGuire San Francisco – Robert Hopkins Three Smart Girls – Adele Comandini	Best Screenplay The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney ‡ After the Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on a story by Dashiell Hammett Dodsworth – Sidney Howard, based on the play by Howard and the novel by Sinclair Lewis Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Robert Riskin, based on the story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland My Man Godfrey – Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind, based on the story "1101 Park Avenue" by Hatch
Best Live Action Short Subject, One-Reel Bored of Education – Hal Roach and MGM ‡ Moscow Moods – Paramount Wanted – A Master – Pete Smith and MGM	Best Live Action Short Subject, Two-Reel The Public Pays – MGM ‡ Double or Nothing – Warner Bros. Dummy Ache – RKO Radio
Best Live Action Short Subject, Color Give Me Liberty – Warner Bros. ‡ La Fiesta de Santa Barbara – Louis Lewyn and MGM Popular Science J-6-2 – Paramount	Best Short Subject, Cartoon The Country Cousin – Walt Disney Productions and United Artists ‡ The Old Mill Pond – Harman-Ising and MGM Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor – Fleischer Studios and Paramount
Best Scoring Anthony Adverse – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department ‡ The Charge of the Light Brigade – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department The Garden of Allah – Selznick International Pictures Music Department The General Died at Dawn – Paramount Studio Music Department Winterset – RKO Radio Studio Music Department	Best Song *"The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time* – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields** ‡ "Did I Remember" from Suzy – Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyrics by Harold Adamson "I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance – Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter "A Melody From the Sky" from Trail of the Lonesome Pine – Music by Louis Alter; Lyrics by Sidney Mitchell "Pennies from Heaven" from Pennies from Heaven – Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyrics by Johnny Burke "When Did You Leave Heaven" from Sing, Baby, Sing – Music by Richard A. Whiting; Lyrics by Walter Bullock
Best Sound Recording San Francisco – Douglas Shearer ‡ Banjo on My Knee – Edmund H. Hansen The Charge of the Light Brigade – Nathan Levinson Dodsworth – Thomas T. Moulton General Spanky – Elmer A. Raguse Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – John P. Livadary The Texas Rangers – Franklin Hansen That Girl from Paris – John Aalberg Three Smart Girls – Homer G. Tasker	Best Art Direction Dodsworth – Richard Day ‡ Anthony Adverse – Anton Grot The Great Ziegfeld – Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, and Edwin B. Willis Lloyd's of London – William S. Darling The Magnificent Brute – Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson Romeo and Juliet – Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope, and Edwin B. Willis Winterset – Perry Ferguson
Best Cinematography Anthony Adverse – Tony Gaudio ‡ The General Died at Dawn – Victor Milner The Gorgeous Hussy – George J. Folsey	Best Film Editing Anthony Adverse – Ralph Dawson ‡ Come and Get It – Edward Curtiss The Great Ziegfeld – William S. Gray Lloyd's of London – Barbara McLean A Tale of Two Cities – Conrad A. Nervig Theodora Goes Wild – Otto Meyer
Best Dance Direction The Great Ziegfeld – Seymour Felix‡ Born to Dance – Dave Gould Cain and Mabel – Bobby Connolly Dancing Pirate – Russell Lewis Gold Diggers of 1937 – Busby Berkeley One in a Million – Jack Haskell Swing Time – Hermes Pan	Best Assistant Director The Charge of the Light Brigade – Jack Sullivan ‡ Anthony Adverse – William Cannon Garden of Allah – Eric G. Stacey The Last of the Mohicans – Clem Beauchamp San Francisco – Joseph M. Newman

Academy Honorary Awards

W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson "for the color cinematography of the Selznick International Production, The Garden of Allah ".
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".

Multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
7	Anthony Adverse
	Dodsworth
	The Great Ziegfeld
6	My Man Godfrey
6	San Francisco
5	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
4	Romeo and Juliet
4	The Story of Louis Pasteur
3	The Charge of the Light Brigade
	The General Died at Dawn
	Three Smart Girls
2	Born to Dance
	Come and Get It
	The Garden of Allah
	The Gorgeous Hussy
	Lloyd's of London
	Swing Time
	A Tale of Two Cities
	Theodora Goes Wild
	Winterset

Films with multiple awards
Awards	Film
4	Anthony Adverse
3	The Great Ziegfeld
The Story of Louis Pasteur

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References

1 2 "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
↑ Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 834. ISBN 0-385-04060-1.

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[Oscars1937-1] 1 2 "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2011.

[Oscars_'36_Notes-2] Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 834. ISBN 0-385-04060-1.

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