Academy Awards 1937 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Leading Actor	Best Leading Actress
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Best Adapted Screenplay	Best Live Action Short
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Song
Best Sound Mixing	Best Production Design
Best Cinematography	Best Film Editing
Best Short Subject, One-reel	Best Short Subject, Two-reel
Best Writing, Original Story	Best Music, Score
Best Assistant Director	Best Dance Direction

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Best Picture

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Anthony Adverse
• Dodsworth
• Libeled Lady
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Romeo and Juliet
• San Francisco
• The Great Ziegfeld
• The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Three Smart Girls

Best Director

• Dodsworth (William Wyler)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
• My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
• San Francisco (W.S. Van Dyke)
• The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard)

Best Leading Actor

• Dodsworth (Walter Huston)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Gary Cooper)
• My Man Godfrey (William Powell)
• San Francisco (Spencer Tracy)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur (Paul Muni)

Best Leading Actress

• My Man Godfrey (Carole Lombard)
• Romeo and Juliet (Norma Shearer)
• The Great Ziegfeld (Luise Rainer)
• Theodora Goes Wild (Irene Dunne)
• Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (Gladys George)

Best Supporting Actor

• Come and Get It (Walter Brennan)
• My Man Godfrey (Mischa Auer)
• Pigskin Parade (Stuart Erwin)
• Romeo and Juliet (Basil Rathbone)
• The General Died at Dawn (Akim Tamiroff)

Best Supporting Actress

• Anthony Adverse (Gale Sondergaard)
• Dodsworth (Maria Ouspenskaya)
• My Man Godfrey (Alice Brady)
• The Gorgeous Hussy (Beulah Bondi)
• These Three (Bonita Granville)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• After the Thin Man
• Dodsworth
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• My Man Godfrey
• The Story of Louis Pasteur

Best Live Action Short

• Give Me Liberty
• La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
• Popular Science

Best Animated Short Film

• Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
• The Country Cousin
• The Old Mill Pond

Best Original Song

• Born to Dance ("I've Got You Under My Skin")
• Pennies from Heaven ("Pennies from Heaven (1936)")
• Sing, Baby, Sing ("When Did You Leave Heaven")
• Suzy ("Did I Remember")
• Swing Time ("The Way You Look Tonight")
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ("A Melody from the Sky")

Best Sound Mixing

• Banjo on My Knee
• Dodsworth
• General Spanky
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• San Francisco
• That Girl from Paris
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• The Texas Rangers
• Three Smart Girls

Best Production Design

• Anthony Adverse
• Dodsworth
• Lloyds of London
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Great Ziegfeld
• The Magnificent Brute
• Winterset

Best Cinematography

• Anthony Adverse
• The General Died at Dawn
• The Gorgeous Hussy

Best Film Editing

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Anthony Adverse
• Come and Get It
• Lloyds of London
• The Great Ziegfeld
• Theodora Goes Wild

Best Short Subject, One-reel

• Bored of Education
• Moscow Moods
• Wanted -- A Master

Best Short Subject, Two-reel

• Double or Nothing
• Dummy Ache
• The Public Pays

Best Writing, Original Story

• Fury
• San Francisco
• The Great Ziegfeld
• The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Three Smart Girls

Best Music, Score

• Anthony Adverse
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• The Garden of Allah
• The General Died at Dawn
• Winterset

Best Assistant Director

• Anthony Adverse (William H. Cannon)
• San Francisco (Joseph M. Newman)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (Jack Sullivan)
• The Garden of Allah (Eric Stacey)
• The Last of the Mohicans (Clem Beauchamp)

Best Dance Direction

• Born to Dance
• Cain and Mabel
• Dancing Pirate
• Gold Diggers of 1937
• One in a Million
• Swing Time
• The Great Ziegfeld