Academy Awards®
Awards for 1936
Picture
Henry Blanke - Producer, ANTHONY ADVERSE
Samuel Goldwyn - Producer, Merritt Hulbert - Producer, DODSWORTH
* Hunt Stromberg - Producer, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Lawrence Weingarten - Producer, LIBELED LADY
Frank Capra - Producer, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
Irving Thalberg - Producer, ROMEO AND JULIET
John Emerson - Producer, Bernard H. Hyman - Producer, SAN FRANCISCO
Henry Blanke - Producer, THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR
David O. Selznick - Producer, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Joseph Pasternak - Producer, Charles R. Rogers - Producer, THREE SMART GIRLS
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
This award was instituted in 1936.
* Walter Brennan, COME AND GET IT
Mischa Auer, MY MAN GODFREY
Stuart Erwin, PIGSKIN PARADE
Basil Rathbone, ROMEO AND JULIET
Akim Tamiroff, THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
Supporting Actress
This award was instituted in 1936.
Alice Brady, MY MAN GODFREY
Beulah Bondi, THE GORGEOUS HUSSY
Bonita Granville, THESE THREE
Maria Ouspenskaya, DODSWORTH
* Gale Sondergaard, ANTHONY ADVERSE
Director
* Frank Capra, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
Gregory La Cava, MY MAN GODFREY
Robert Z. Leonard, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
W.S. Van Dyke, II
SAN FRANCISCO
William Wyler, DODSWORTH
Writing - Original Story
Norman Krasna, FURY
William Anthony McGuire, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Robert Hopkins, SAN FRANCISCO
* Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney, THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR
Adele Commandini, THREE SMART GIRLS
Writing - Screenplay
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, AFTER THE THIN MAN
Sidney Howard, DODSWORTH
Robert Riskin, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind, MY MAN GODFREY
* Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney, THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR
Art Direction
Anton Grot - Art Direction, ANTHONY ADVERSE
* Richard Day - Art Direction, DODSWORTH
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Eddie Imazu - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Art Direction, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
William S. Darling - Art Direction, LLOYD'S OF LONDON
Albert S. D'Agostino - Art Direction, Jack Otterson - Art Direction, THE MAGNIFICENT BRUTE
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, Frederic Hope - Art Direction, Edwin B. Willis - Art Direction, ROMEO AND JULIET
Perry Ferguson - Art Direction, WINTERSET
Cinematography
* Gaetano Gaudio, ANTHONY ADVERSE
Victor Milner, THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
George Folsey, THE GORGEOUS HUSSY
Film Editing
* Ralph Dawson, ANTHONY ADVERSE
Edward Curtiss, COME AND GET IT
William S. Gray, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Barbara McLean, LLOYD'S OF LONDON
Conrad A. Nervig, A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Otto Meyer, THEODORA GOES WILD
Assistant Director
Clem Beauchamp, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
William Cannon, ANTHONY ADVERSE
Joseph Newman, SAN FRANCISCO
Eric G. Stacey, THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
* Jack Sullivan, THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Dance Direction
Busby Berkeley, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937
"Love and War"
Bobby Connolly, CAIN AND MABEL
"1000 Love Songs"
* Seymour Felix, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
"A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody"
Dave Gould, BORN TO DANCE
"Swingin' the Jinx"
Jack Haskell, ONE IN A MILLION
"Skating Ensemble"
Russell Lewis, DANCING PIRATE
"The Finale"
Hermes Pan, SWING TIME
"Bojangles"
Score
* Leo Forbstein - Departmental Head (Warner Bros. Studio Music Department),
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Score, ANTHONY ADVERSE
Leo Forbstein - Departmental Head (Warner Bros. Studio Music Department),
Max Steiner - Score, THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Max Steiner - Departmental Head (Selznick International Pictures Music Department),
Max Steiner - Score, THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
Boris Morros - Departmental Head (Paramount Studio Music Department),
Werner Janssen - Score, THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
Nathaniel Shilkret - Departmental Head (RKO Radio Studio Music Department),
Nathaniel Shilkret - Score, WINTERSET
Song
Walter Donaldson - Music, Harold Adamson - Lyrics, SUZY
"Did I Remember"
Cole Porter - Music & Lyrics, BORN TO DANCE
"I've Got You Under My Skin"
Louis Alter - Music, Sideny Mitchell - Lyrics, TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
"A Melody from the Sky"
Arthur Johnston - Music, Johnny Burke - Lyrics, PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
"Pennies from Heaven"
* Jerome Kern - Music, Dorothy Fields - Lyrics, SWING TIME
"The Way You Look Tonight"
Richard A. Whiting - Music, Walter Bullock - Lyrics, SING, BABY, SING
"When Did You Leave Heaven"
Animated Short
* Walt Disney - Producer, THE COUNTRY COUSIN
Harman-Ising, OLD MILL POND
Paramount, SINBAD THE SAILOR
Short Subjects - One-Reel
This award was instituted in 1936.
* Hal Roach - Producer, BORED OF EDUCATION
Paramount, MOSCOW MOODS
Pete Smith - Producer, WANTED, A MASTER
Short Subjects - Two-Reel
This award was instituted in 1936.
Warner Bros.,
DOUBLE OR NOTHING
RKO,
DUMMY ACHE
* MGM,
THE PUBLIC PAYS
Short Subjects - Color
This award was instituted in 1936.
* Warner Bros.,
GIVE ME LIBERTY
MGM,
LA FIESTA DE SANTA BARBARA
Paramount, POPULAR SCIENCE J-6-2
Sound Recording
E.H. Hansen, BANJO ON MY KNEE
Nathan Levinson, THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Oscar Lagerstrom, DODSWORTH
Elmer A. Raguse, GENERAL SPANKY
John Livadary, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
* Douglas Shearer, SAN FRANCISCO
Franklin Hansen, THE TEXAS RANGERS
John O. Aalberg, THAT GIRL FROM PARIS
Homer G. Tasker, THREE SMART GIRLS
Class I (Statuette)
* Douglas Shearer, 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.
Class II (Plaque)
* RCA Manufacturing Company Inc.
For their rotary stabilizer sound head.
* E.C. Wente, Bell Telephone Laboratories, For their multicellular high-frequency horn and receiver.
Class III (Citation)
* RCA Manufacturing Company Inc.
For their development of a method of recording and printing sound records utilizing a restricted spectrum (known as ultra-violet light recording).
* Electrical Research Products Inc.
For the ERPI "Type Q" portable recording channel.
* RCA Manufacturing Company Inc.
For furnishing a practical design and specifications for a non-slip printer.
* United Artists Studio Corporation, For the development of a practical, efficient and quiet wind machine.
Honorary and Other Awards
* March Of Time, For its significance to motion pictures and for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry--the newsreel. Winner presented a Statuette.
* W. Howard Greene, Hal Rosson, THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
For the color cinematography of the Selznick International Production, THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. Winners presented Plaques.