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Academy Awards, March 10, 1938


Oscar
 

Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California,

Best Picture
Winner:
 

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Henry Blanke


Other Nominees:
 

  • Awful Truth, The (1937) - Leo McCarey, Everett Riskin

  • Captains Courageous (1937) - Louis D. Lighton

  • Dead End (1937) - Samuel Goldwyn, Merritt Hulburd

  • Good Earth, The (1937) - Irving Thalberg, Albert Lewin

  • In Old Chicago (1937) - Darryl F. Zanuck, Kenneth Macgowan

  • Lost Horizon (1937) - Frank Capra

  • One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) - Charles R. Rogers, Joe Pasternak

  • Stage Door (1937) - Pandro S. Berman

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - David O. Selznick


 

Best Actor
Winner:
 

  • Captains Courageous (1937)- Spencer Tracy


Other Nominees:
 

  • Conquest (1937) - Charles Boyer

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Paul Muni

  • Night Must Fall (1937) - Robert Montgomery

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - Fredric March

Best Actress
Winner:
 

  • Good Earth, The (1937) - Luise Rainer


Other Nominees:
 

  • Awful Truth, The (1937) - Irene Dunne

  • Camille (1937) - Greta Garbo

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - Janet Gaynor

  • Stella Dallas (1937) - Barbara Stanwyck


Best Supporting Actor
Winner:
 

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Joseph Schildkraut


Other Nominees:
 

  • Awful Truth, The (1937) - Ralph Bellamy

  • Hurricane, The (1937) - Thomas Mitchell

  • Lost Horizon (1937) - H.B. Warner

  • Topper (1937) - Roland Young

Best Supporting Actress
Winner:
 

  • In Old Chicago (1937) - Alice Brady


Other Nominees:
 

  • Dead End (1937) - Claire Trevor

  • Night Must Fall (1937) - Dame May Whitty

  • Stage Door (1937) - Andrea Leeds

  • Stella Dallas (1937) - Anne Shirley


Best Director
Winner:
 

  • Awful Truth, The (1937) - Leo McCarey


Other Nominees:
 

  • Good Earth, The (1937) - Sidney Franklin

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - William Dieterle

  • Stage Door (1937) - Gregory La Cava

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - William A. Wellman


 
 

Best Assistant Director
Winner:
 

  • In Old Chicago (1937) - Robert D. Webb


Other Nominees:
 

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Russell Saunders

  • Lost Horizon (1937) - Charles C. Coleman

  • Souls at Sea (1937) - Hal Walker

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - Eric Stacey


Best Writing, Original Story
Winner:
 

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - William A. Wellman,  Robert Carson


Other Nominees:
 

  • Black Legion (1936) - Robert Lord

  • In Old Chicago (1937) - Niven Busch

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg

  • One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) - Hanns Kräly

Best Writing, Screenplay
Winner:
 

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) -  Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine


Other Nominees:
 

  • Awful Truth, The (1937) - ViñaDelmar

  • Captains Courageous (1937)- Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every

  • Stage Door (1937) - Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker


Best Cinematography
Winner:
 

  • Good Earth, The (1937) - Karl Freund


Other Nominees:
 

  • Dead End (1937) - Gregg Toland

  • Wings Over Honolulu (1937)- Joseph A. Valentine


Best Art Direction
Winner:
 

  • Lost Horizon (1937) - Stephen Goosson


Other Nominees:

  • Conquest (1937) - Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning

  • Damsel in Distress, A (1937)- Carroll Clark

  • Dead End (1937) - Richard Day

  • Every Day's a Holiday (1937)- Wiard Ihnen

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Anton Grot

  • Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937) - John Victor MacKay

  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)- Lyle R. Wheeler

  • Souls at Sea (1937) - Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson

  • Vogues (1937) - Alexander Toluboff

  • Wee Willie Winkie (1937) - William S. Darling, David S. Hall

  • You're a Sweetheart (1937) - Jack Otterson


Best Sound, Recording
Winner:
 

  • Hurricane, The (1937) - Thomas T. Moulton (United Artists SSD)


Other Nominees:

  • Girl Said No, The (1937) - A.E. Kaye (Grand National SSD)

  • Hitting a New High (1937) - John Aalberg (RKO Radio SSD)

  • In Old Chicago (1937) - Edmund H. Hansen (20th Century-Fox SSD)

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD)

  • Lost Horizon (1937) - John P. Livadary (Columbia SSD)

  • Maytime (1937) - Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD)

  • One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) - Homer G. Tasker (Universal SSD)

  • Topper (1937) - Elmer Raguse (Hal Roach SSD)

  • Wells Fargo (1937) - Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD)


Best Film Editing
Winner:

  •   Lost Horizon (1937) - Gene Havlick, Gene Milford

Other Nominees:

  • Awful Truth, The (1937) - Al Clark

  • Captains Courageous (1937) - Elmo Veron

  • Good Earth, The (1937) - Basil Wrangell

  • One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) - Bernard W. Burton


Best Music, Song
Winner:
 

  • Waikiki Wedding (1937) - Harry Owens

               For the song "Sweet Leilani"

Other Nominees:
 

  • Artists & Models (1937) - Frederick Hollander (music), Leo Robin (lyrics)

             For the song "Whispers in the Dark"
 

  • Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937) - Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics)

             For the song "Remember Me"
 

  • Shall We Dance? (1937) - George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics)

             For the song "They Can't Take That Away from Me"
 

  • Vogues (1937) - Sammy Fain (music), Lew Brown (lyrics)

              For the song "That Old Feeling"
 

Best Music, Score
Winner:
 

  • One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) - Charles Previn


Other Nominees:

  • Hurricane, The (1937) - Alfred Newman

  • In Old Chicago (1937) - Louis Silvers

  • Life of Émile Zola, The (1937) - Max Steiner

  • Lost Horizon (1937) - Dimitri Tiomkin

  • Make a Wish (1937) - Hugo Riesenfeld

  • Maytime (1937) - Herbert Stothart

  • Portia on Trial (1937) - Alberto Colombo

  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937) - Alfred Newman<

  • Quality Street (1937) - Roy Webb

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith

  • Something to Sing About (1937) - Victor Schertzinger

  • Souls at Sea (1937) - W.Franke Harling, Milan Roder

  • Way Out West (1937) - Marvin Hatley

Best Short Subjects, Two-reel
Winner:
 

  • Torture Money (1937) - M-G-M


Other Nominees:
 

  • Deep South (1937) - RKO Radio

  • Should Wives Work? (1937) - RKO Radio

Best Short Subjects, One-reel
Winner:
 

  • Private Life of the Gannets (1934) - Educational


Other Nominees:
 

  • Night at the Movies, A (1937) - M-G-M

  • Romance of Radium (1937) - Pete Smith


Best Short Subjects, Color
Winner:
 

  • Penny Wisdom (1937) - Pete Smith


Other Nominees:
 

  • Man Without a Country, The (1937) - Warner Bros.

  • Popular Science (1937/I) - Paramount


Best Short Subjects, Cartoons
Winner:
 

  • Old Mill, The (1937) - Walt Disney


 Other Nominees:
 

  • Educated Fish (1937) - Paramount

  • Little Match Girl, The (1937) - Charles Mintz


Best Dance Direction
Winner:
 

  • Damsel in Distress, A (1937) - Hermes Pan

            For "Fun House"

Other Nominees:
 

  • Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937) - Sammy Lee

             For "Swing Is Here to Stay".
 

  • Day at the Races, A (1937) - Dave Gould

             For "All God's Children Got Rhythm".
 

  • Ready, Willing and Able (1937) - Bobby Connolly

             For "Too Marvelous for Words"
 

  • Thin Ice (1937) - Harry Losee

              For "Prince Igor Suite".
 

  • Varsity Show (1937) - Busby Berkeley

              For "The Finale"
 

  • Waikiki Wedding (1937) - Le Roy Prinz

              For "Luau".

Honorary Award
 

  • 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 (certificate).
 

  • Edgar Bergen

For his outstanding comedy creation, Charlie McCarthy (wooden statuette).
 

  • 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.
 

  • Star Is Born, A (1937) - W. Howard Greene

For the color photography of A Star Is Born. (plaque) This Award was recommended by a committee of leading cinematographers after viewing all the color pictures made during the year.
 

Academy Award of Merit

  • Agfa Ansco Corp.

For Agfa Supreme and Agfa Ultra Speed pan motion picture negatives.
 

Scientific and Engineering Award

  • Eastman Kodak Co.

For two fine-grain duplicating film stocks.
 

  • Walt Disney Prods. Ltd.

For the design and application to production of the Multi-Plane Camera.
 

  • Farciot Edouart

For the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup.
 

  • Douglas Shearer

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.
 

Technical Achievement Award

  • RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc.

For the introduction of the modulated high-frequency method of determining optimum photographic processing conditions for variable width sound tracks.
 

  • John Arnold

For their improvement of the semi-automatic follow focus device and its application to all of the cameras used by the M-G-M Studio.
 

  • John P. Livadary (director of Sound Recording for Columbia Pictures Corp.)

For the application of the biplanar light valve to motion picture sound recording.
 

  • Thomas T. Moulton

For the application to motion picture sound recording of volume indicators which have peak reading response and linear decibel scales.
 

  • Robbins, Joseph E.

For an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the soundproofing of gasoline generators and water pumps.
 

  • Douglas Shearer

For the design of the film drive mechanism as incorporated in the ERPI 1010 reproducer.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

  • Darryl F. Zanuck

 

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