1937 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1937 Academy Awards were presented March 10, 1938 at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

Outstanding Production

The Awful Truth (Columbia)

Captains Courageous (MGM)

Dead End (Goldwyn; United Artists)

The Good Earth (MGM)

In Old Chicago (Twentieth 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; United Artists)

Best Actor

Charles Boyer, Conquest

Fredric March, A Star Is Born

Robert Montgomery, Night Must Fall

Paul Muni, The Life of Emile Zola

Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous

Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous

Archive Photos

Best Actress

Irene Dunne, The Awful Truth

Greta Garbo, Camille

Janet Gaynor, A Star Is Born

Luise Rainer, The Good Earth

Barbara Stanwyck, Stella Dallas

Actor in a Supporting Role

Ralph Bellamy, The Awful Truth

Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane

Joseph Schildkraut, The Life of Emile Zola

H. B. Warner, Lost Horizon

Roland Young, Topper

Actress in a Supporting Role

Alice Brady, In Old Chicago

Andrea Leeds, Stage Door

Anne Shirley, Stella Dallas

Claire Trevor, Dead End

Dame May Whitty, Night Must Fall

Directing

William Dieterle, The Life of Emile Zola

Sidney Franklin, The Good Earth

Gregory La Cava, Stage Door

Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth

William Wellman, A Star Is Born

Writing

Original Story	Niven Busch, In Old Chicago
	Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg, The Life of Emile Zola
	Hans Kraly, One Hundred Men and a Girl
	Robert Lord, Black Legion
	William A. Wellman and Robert Carson, A Star Is Born
Screenplay	Alan Campbell, Robert Carson and Dorothy Parker, A Star Is Born
	Vina Delmar, The Awful Truth
	John Lee Mahin, Marc Connolly and Dale Van Every, Captains Courageous
	Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller, Stage Door

Cinematography

Karl Freund, The Good Earth

Gregg Toland, Dead End

Joseph Valentine, Wings Over Honolulu

Art Direction

Carroll Clark, A Damsel in Distress

William S. Darling and David Hall, Wee Willie Winkie

Richard Day, Dead End

Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson, Souls at Sea

Cedric Gibbons and William Horning, Conquest

Stephen Goosson, Lost Horizon

Anton Grot, The Life of Emile Zola

Wiard Ihnen, Every Day's a Holiday

John Victor Mackay, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Jack Otterson, You're a Sweetheart

Alexander Toluboff, Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

Lyle Wheeler, The Prisoner of Zenda

Sound Recording

Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Lost Horizon

Grand National Studio Sound Dept., The Girl Said No

Hal Roach Studio Sound Dept., Topper

MGM Studio Sound Dept., Maytime

Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Wells Fargo

RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., Hitting a New High

Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., In Old Chicago

United Artists Studio Sound Dept., The Hurricane

Universal Studio Sound Dept., One Hundred Men and a Girl

Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., The Life of Emile Zola

Assistant Director

C. C. Coleman, Jr., Lost Horizon

Russ Saunders, The Life of Emile Zola

Eric Stacey, A Star Is Born

Hal Walker, Souls at Sea

Robert Webb, In Old Chicago

Music

Song	“Remember Me,” Mr. Dodd Takes the Air, Harry Warren, music; Al Dubin, lyrics
	*“Sweet Leilani,” Waikiki Wedding, Harry Owens, music and lyrics*
	“That Old Feeling,” Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938, Sammy Fain, music; Lew Brown, lyrics
	“They Can't Take That Away From Me,” Shall We Dance, George Gershwin, music; Ira Gershwin, lyrics
	“Whispers in the Dark,” Artists and Models, Frederick Hollander, music; Leo Robin, lyrics
Score	Columbia Studio Music Dept., Lost Horizon
	Goldwyn Studio Music Dept., The Hurricane
	Grand National Studio Music Dept., Something to Sing About
	Hal Roach Studio Music Dept., Way Out West
	MGM Studio Music Dept., Maytime
	Paramount Studio Music Dept., Souls at Sea
	Principal Productions, Make a Wish
	Republic Studio Music Dept., Portia on Trial
	RKO Radio Studio Music Dept., Quality Street
	Selznick International Pictures Music Dept., The Prisoner of Zenda
	Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Music Dept., In Old Chicago
	Universal Studio Music Dept., One Hundred Men and a Girl
	Walt Disney Studio Music Dept., Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
	Warner Bros. Studio Music Dept., The Life of Emile Zola

Film Editing

Bernard W. Burton, One Hundred Men and a Girl

Al Clark, The Awful Truth

Gene Havlick and Gene Milford, Lost Horizon

Elmo Vernon, Captains Courageous

Basil Wrangell, The Good Earth

Dance Direction

Busby Berkeley, “The Finale,” Varsity Show

Bobby Connolly, “Too Marvelous for Words,” Ready, Willing and Able

Dave Gould, “All God's Children Got Rhythm,” A Day at the Races

Sammy Lee, “Swing Is Here to Stay,” Ali Baba Goes to Town

Hermes Pan, “Fun House,” A Damsel in Distress

LeRoy Prinz, “Luau,” Waikiki Wedding

Short Subjects

Cartoon	Educated Fish (Color Classics Series) (Paramount)
	The Little Match Girl (Charles Mintz, producer; Columbia)
	The Old Mill (Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio)
One-Reel	A Night at the Movies (Robert Benchley Series) (MGM)
	The Private Life of the Gannetts (Skibo Productions; Educational)
	Romance of Radium (Pete Smith Specialties Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM)
Two-Reel	Deep South (Radio Musical Comedies Series) (RKO Radio)
	Should Wives Work? (Leon Errol Comedies Series) (RKO Radio)
	Torture Money (Crime Doesn't Pay Series) (MGM)
Color	The Man Without a Country (Broadway Brevities Series) (Warner Bros.)
	Penny Wisdom (Pete Smith Specialties Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM)
	Popular Science J-7-1 (Popular Science Series) (Paramount)

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

(Not necessarily given each year )

Darryl F. Zanuck

Special Awards

To Mack Sennett for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen

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

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