The Oscars Academy Awards: 1937

The Academy Awards:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1937 (10th)

Charles Boyer -- Conquest {"Napoleon Bonaparte"}

Fredric March -- A Star Is Born {"Norman Maine (Alfred Hinkel)"}

Robert Montgomery -- Night Must Fall {"Danny"}

Paul Muni -- The Life of Emile Zola {"Emile Zola"}

*	Spencer Tracy -- Captains Courageous {"Manuel"}

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Ralph Bellamy -- The Awful Truth {"Daniel Leeson"}

Thomas Mitchell -- The Hurricane {"Doctor Kersaint"}

*	Joseph Schildkraut -- The Life of Emile Zola {"Captain Alfred Dreyfus"}

H. B. Warner -- Lost Horizon {"Chang"}

Roland Young -- Topper {"Cosmo Topper"}

ACTRESS

Irene Dunne -- The Awful Truth {"Lucy Warriner"}

Greta Garbo -- Camille {"Marguerite Gautier (Camille)"}

Janet Gaynor -- A Star Is Born {"Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester"}

*	Luise Rainer -- The Good Earth {"O-Lan"}

Barbara Stanwyck -- Stella Dallas {"Stella Dallas"}

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

*	Alice Brady -- In Old Chicago {"Molly O'Leary"}

Andrea Leeds -- Stage Door {"Kaye Hamilton"}

Anne Shirley -- Stella Dallas {"Laurel Dallas"}

Claire Trevor -- Dead End {"Francie"}

Dame May Whitty -- Night Must Fall {"Mrs. Bramson"}

ART DIRECTION

Conquest -- Cedric Gibbons, William Horning

A Damsel in Distress -- Carroll Clark

Dead End -- Richard Day

Every Day's a Holiday -- Wiard Ihnen

The Life of Emile Zola -- Anton Grot

*	Lost Horizon -- Stephen Goosson

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round -- John Victor Mackay

The Prisoner of Zenda -- Lyle Wheeler

Souls at Sea -- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 -- Alexander Toluboff

Wee Willie Winkie -- William S. Darling, David Hall

You're a Sweetheart -- Jack Otterson

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

*	In Old Chicago -- Robert Webb

The Life of Emile Zola -- Russ Saunders

Lost Horizon -- C. C. Coleman, Jr.

Souls at Sea -- Hal Walker

A Star Is Born -- Eric Stacey

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Dead End -- Gregg Toland

*	The Good Earth -- Karl Freund

Wings over Honolulu -- Joseph Valentine

DANCE DIRECTION

Busby Berkeley -- "The Finale" number from Varsity Show

Bobby Connolly -- "Too Marvelous for Words" number from Ready, Willing and Able

Dave Gould -- "All God's Children Got Rhythm" number from A Day at the Races

Sammy Lee -- "Swing Is Here to Stay" number from Ali Baba Goes to Town

Harry Losee -- "Prince Igor Suite" number from Thin Ice

*	Hermes Pan -- "Fun House" number from A Damsel in Distress

LeRoy Prinz -- "Luau" number from Waikiki Wedding

DIRECTING

*	The Awful Truth -- Leo McCarey

The Good Earth -- Sidney Franklin

The Life of Emile Zola -- William Dieterle

Stage Door -- Gregory La Cava

A Star Is Born -- William Wellman

FILM EDITING

The Awful Truth -- Al Clark

Captains Courageous -- Elmo Veron

The Good Earth -- Basil Wrangell

*	Lost Horizon -- Gene Havlick, Gene Milford

One Hundred Men and a Girl -- Bernard W. Burton

MUSIC (Scoring)

The Hurricane -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Department, Alfred Newman, head of department (Score by Alfred Newman)

In Old Chicago -- 20th Century-Fox Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department (no composer credit)

The Life of Emile Zola -- Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)

Lost Horizon -- Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin)

Make a Wish -- Principal Productions, Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, musical director (Score by Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld)

Maytime -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)

*	One Hundred Men and a Girl -- Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department (no composer credit)

Portia on Trial -- Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Alberto Colombo)

The Prisoner of Zenda -- Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, musical director (Score by Alfred Newman)

Quality Street -- RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, musical director (Score by Roy Webb)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith)

Something to Sing About -- Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (Score by Victor Schertzinger)

Souls at Sea -- Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder)

Way Out West -- Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score by Marvin Hatley)

MUSIC (Song)

"Remember Me" from Mr. Dodd Takes the Air -- Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Al Dubin

*	"Sweet Leilani" from Waikiki Wedding -- Music and Lyrics by Harry Owens

"That Old Feeling" from Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 -- Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Lew Brown

"They Can't Take That Away From Me" from Shall We Dance -- Music by George Gershwin; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

"Whispers In The Dark" from Artists and Models -- Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyrics by Leo Robin

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

The Awful Truth -- Columbia

Captains Courageous -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Dead End -- Samuel Goldwyn Productions

The Good Earth -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

In Old Chicago -- 20th Century-Fox

*	The Life of Emile Zola -- Warner Bros.

Lost Horizon -- Columbia

One Hundred Men and a Girl -- Universal

Stage Door -- RKO Radio

A Star Is Born -- Selznick International Pictures

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

Educated Fish -- Paramount

The Little Match Girl -- Charles Mintz, Producer

*	The Old Mill -- Walt Disney, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (Color)

The Man without a Country -- Warner Bros.

*	Penny Wisdom -- Pete Smith, Producer

Popular Science J-7-1 -- Paramount

SHORT SUBJECT (One-reel)

A Night at the Movies -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

*	The Private Life of the Gannets -- Skibo Productions

Romance of Radium -- Pete Smith, Producer

SHORT SUBJECT (Two-reel)

Deep South -- RKO Radio

Should Wives Work? -- RKO Radio

*	Torture Money -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

SOUND RECORDING

The Girl Said No -- Grand National Studio Sound Department, A. E. Kaye, Sound Director

Hitting a New High -- RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director

*	The Hurricane -- United Artists Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director

In Old Chicago -- 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director

The Life of Emile Zola -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director

Lost Horizon -- Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director

Maytime -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director

One Hundred Men and a Girl -- Universal Studio Sound Department, Homer G. Tasker, Sound Director

Topper -- Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director

Wells Fargo -- Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director

WRITING (Original Story)

Black Legion -- Robert Lord

In Old Chicago -- Niven Busch

The Life of Emile Zola -- Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg

One Hundred Men and a Girl -- Hans Kraly

*	A Star Is Born -- William A. Wellman, Robert Carson

WRITING (Screenplay)

The Awful Truth -- Vina Delmar

Captains Courageous -- John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every

*	The Life of Emile Zola -- Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg

Stage Door -- Morris Ryskind, Anthony Veiller

A Star Is Born -- Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson

SPECIAL AWARD

To Mack Sennett, "for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius - Mack Sennett."

*	To Edgar Bergen for his outstanding comedy creation, "Charlie McCarthy."

*	To The Museum of Modern Art Film Library for its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts.

*	To W. Howard Greene for the color photography of A Star Is Born. (This Award was recommended by a committee of leading cinematographers after viewing all the color pictures made during the year.)

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

*	Darryl F. Zanuck

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class I)

*	To AGFA ANSCO CORPORATION for Agfa Supreme and Agfa Ultra Speed pan motion picture negatives. [Film]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)

*	To WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, LTD. for the design and application to production of the Multi-Plane Camera. [Cartoon Process]

*	To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for two fine-grain duplicating film stocks. [Film]

*	To FARCIOT EDOUART and PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC. for the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup. [Special Photographic]

*	To DOUGLAS SHEARER and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for a method of varying the scanning width of variable density sound tracks (squeeze tracks) for the purpose of obtaining an increased amount of noise reduction. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)

*	To JOHN ARNOLD and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO CAMERA DEPARTMENT for their improvement of the semi-automatic follow focus device and its application to all of the cameras used by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio. [Photography]

*	To JOHN LIVADARY, Director of Sound Recording for Columbia Pictures Corporation, for the application of the bi-planar light valve to motion picture sound recording. [Sound]

*	To THOMAS T. MOULTON and the UNITED ARTISTS STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the application to motion picture sound recording of volume indicators which have peak reading response and linear decibel scales. [Sound]

*	To RCA MANUFACTURING CO., INC. for the introduction of the modulated high-frequency method of determining optimum photographic processing conditions for variable width sound tracks. [Laboratory]

*	To JOSEPH E. ROBBINS and PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC. for an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the sound proofing of gasoline generators and water pumps. [Stage Operations]

*	To DOUGLAS SHEARER and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design of the film drive mechanism as incorporated in the ERPI 1010 reproducer. [Sound]