Academy Awards 1937 Nominations

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Outstanding Production	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Writing (Original Story)	Best Screenplay
Best Live Action Short Subject (Color)	Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)
Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)	Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
Best Scoring	Best Song
Best Sound Recording	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Film Editing
Best Assistant Director	Best Dance Direction

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Outstanding Production

• 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 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 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 Actor in a Supporting Role

• 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 Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Writing (Original Story)

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

Best Screenplay

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

Best Live Action Short Subject (Color)

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

Best Live Action Short Subject (One-reel)

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

Best Live Action Short Subject (Two-reel)

• Double or Nothing
• Dummy Ache
• The Public Pays

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

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

Best Scoring

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

Best 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 Recording

• 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 Art Direction

• 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 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