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