9th Academy Awards (1936)
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- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyLuise RainerThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.Winner - Outstanding Direction
Nominated - Best Director for Robert Z. Leonard
Winner - Best Actress for Luise Rainer
Nominated - Best Story for William Anthony McGuire
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu and Edwin B. Willis
Nominated - Best Film Editing for William S. Gray
Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix - DirectorMervyn LeRoyMichael CurtizStarsFredric MarchOlivia de HavillandDonald WoodsIn 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Gale Sondergaard
Winner - Best Score
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Anton Grot
Winner - Best Cinematography for Tony Gaudio
Winner - Best Film Editing for Ralph Dawson
Nominated - Best Assistant Director for William Cannon - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonRuth ChattertonPaul LukasA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Director for William Wyler
Nominated - Best Actor for Walter Huston
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Maria Ouspenskaya
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Sidney Howard
Winner - Best Art Direction for Richard Day
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton - DirectorJack ConwayStarsJean HarlowWilliam PowellMyrna LoyWhen a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.Nominated - Outstanding Production
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge BancroftA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Winner - Best Director for Frank Capra
Nominated - Best Actor for Gary Cooper
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Robert Riskin
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John Livadary - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsNorma ShearerLeslie HowardJohn BarrymoreYoung love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Actress for Norma Shearer
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Basil Rathbone
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope and Edwin B. Willis - DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsClark GableJeanette MacDonaldSpencer TracyA Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Director for W.S. Van Dyke
Nominated - Best Actor for Spencer Tracy
Nominated - Best Story for Robert Hopkins
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer
Nominated - Best Assistant Direction for Joseph M. Newman - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniJosephine HutchinsonAnita LouiseThe biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Winner - Best Actor for Paul Muni
Winner - Best Story for Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney - DirectorJack ConwayRobert Z. LeonardStarsRonald ColmanElizabeth AllanEdna May OliverA pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Conrad A. Nervig - DirectorHenry KosterStarsBinnie BarnesCharles WinningerAlice BradyThree sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Story for Adele Comandini
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Homer G. Tasker - DirectorGregory La CavaStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice BradyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.Nominated - Best Director for Gregory La Cava
Nominated - Best Actor for William Powell
Nominated - Best Actress for Carole Lombard
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Mischa Auer
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Alice Brady
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind - DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsIrene DunneMelvyn DouglasThomas MitchellThe author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.Nominated - Best Actress for Irene Dunne
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Otto Meyer - DirectorWesley RugglesStarsGladys GeorgeArline JudgeJohn HowardGladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word for Carrie with singular brilliance. George plays the town trollop, who for the love of two orphaned children sets up a successful dry-cleaning business. Her past comes back to haunt her, but she perseveres, giving up all thoughts of personal happiness to provide a decent upbringing for her adopted family.Nominated - Best Actress for Gladys George
- DirectorHoward HawksWilliam WylerRichard RossonStarsEdward ArnoldJoel McCreaFrances FarmerAn ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Walter Brennan
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Edward Curtiss - DirectorDavid ButlerStarsStuart ErwinPatsy KellyJack HaleyMarried coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Stuart Erwin
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollAkim TamiroffAmid the anarchy of China, an American mercenary tangles with a ruthless warlord.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Akim Tamiroff
Nominated - Best Score
Nominated - Best Cinematography - DirectorClarence BrownStarsJoan CrawfordRobert TaylorLionel BarrymorePresident Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Beulah Bondi
Nominated - Best Cinematography for George Folsey - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMiriam HopkinsMerle OberonJoel McCreaTwo schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Bonita Granville
- DirectorFritz LangStarsSylvia SidneySpencer TracyWalter AbelWhen a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.Nominated - Best Story for Norman Krasna
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyJames StewartPrivate detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandSpanky and Alfalfa fake a tooth-ache to get out of school.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorFred WallerStarsYasha BunchukNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorArthur J. OrnitzGunther von FritschStarsPete SmithHorace B. CarpenterDave O'BrienA dog living in a junk yard finds out that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o' clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel
- DirectorErrol TaggartStarsRichard AlexanderBarbara BedfordHarry C. BradleyA protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorJoseph HenaberyStarsPhil HarrisLeah RayHarry TylerNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsEdgar KennedyFlorence LakeDot FarleyAn assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsJohn LitelNedda HarriganCarlyle Moore Jr.Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Color
- DirectorLouis LewynStarsEduardo Durant's Rhumba BandThe Spanish TroubadorsWarner BaxterHollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador", engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Señor Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and the Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Color
- DirectorRobert CarlisleStarsGayne WhitmanConsiders marvels of modern science: contact lenses, kitchen gadgets, bubble bath (with cheesecake), diatoms, Boulder Dam.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Color
- DirectorDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsPinto ColvigClarence NashMorty Citymouse invites his cousin Abner Countrymouse for a visit and shows him the ways of the big city, including traps, eating quietly, and busy traffic.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsHarland EvansThe Four BlackbirdsGeraldine HarrisThe fish and frogs gather at the old mill pond to hear a jazz concert. Performers include caricatures of Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and tap dancer Bill Robinson ("Bojangles").Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsJack MercerMae QuestelLou FleischerThe legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandPatric KnowlesA major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.Nominated - Best Score
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
Winner - Best Assistant Director for Jack Sullivan - DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsMarlene DietrichCharles BoyerTilly LoschThe star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.Nominated - Best Score
Nominated - Best Assistant Director for Eric G. Stacey - DirectorAlfred SantellStarsBurgess MeredithMargoEduardo CiannelliImmigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.Nominated - Best Score
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Perry Ferguson - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersVictor MooreRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.Winner - Best Song for "The Way You Look Tonight"
Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Hermes Pan - DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsJean HarlowFranchot ToneCary GrantBelieving that a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a struggling chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris where she meets and marries a World War I pilot (Cary Grant), whose carefree ways bring unexpected results.Nominated - Best Song "Did I Remember"
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsEleanor PowellJames StewartVirginia BruceOn leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.Nominated - Best Song "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Dave Gould - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsSylvia SidneyHenry FondaFred MacMurrayA railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.Nominated - Best Song for "A Melody From the Sky"
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBing CrosbyMadge EvansEdith FellowsLarry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help.Nominated - Best Song for "Pennies from Heaven"
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsAlice FayeAdolphe MenjouGregory RatoffNightclub singer Joan Warren's agent Nicky puts her into situations designed to advance her career.Nominated - Best Song for "When Did You Leave Heaven"
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerMadeleine CarrollFreddie BartholomewAn honest broker saves the day.Nominated - Best Art Direction for William S. Darling
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Barbara McLean - DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsVictor McLaglenBinnie BarnesJean DixonThe foreman of a blast furnace gets involved in a romantic triangle and stolen money.Nominated - Best Art Direction for Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaWalter BrennanBelieving he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for E. H. Hansen
- DirectorGordon DouglasFred C. NewmeyerStarsGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandPhillips HolmesRalph MorganA small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Elmer A. Raguse
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFred MacMurrayJack OakieJean ParkerTwo down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Franklin B. Hansen
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsLily PonsJack OakieGene RaymondNikki Martin (Lily Pons), a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love, leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean (Gene Raymond) and his band, the 'McLean Wildcats.' Windy immediately spites her, but Nikki falls in love with him and follows him to New York by stowing away on the ship his on. The ship's purser (Edgar Dearing) finds her hiding in Windy and the Wildcats room. She is locked up by authorities, and Windy and the band are fired. When the ship reaches New York, Nikki escapes off the ship and finds out the Wildcats apartment. They demand her to leave, fearing being implicated but she refuses. Claire (Lucille Ball), Windy's girlfriend shows up with Hammacher (Herman Bing), and offers the band a low-paying job at a roadhouse in another city. Anxious to depart, they accept. Nikki becomes the band's singer. Claire becomes jealous and reports her to the authorities, causing the band to flee again.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John Aalberg
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsRandolph ScottBinnie BarnesHenry WilcoxonDuring the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro -- Alice and Cora -- to safety through.Nominated - Best Assistant Director
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsMarion DaviesClark GableAllen JenkinsA talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Bobby Connolly
- DirectorLloyd CorriganStarsCharles CollinsFrank MorganSteffi DunaThe story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Russell Lewis
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsDick PowellJoan BlondellGlenda FarrellWhen two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Busby Berkeley
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsSonja HenieAdolphe MenjouDon AmecheAmerican theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Jack Haskell