Oscars 1937 Winners (My Version)

Best Picture!

Winner: Modern Times!

Nominees:
Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth
The Great Ziegfeld
Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Three Smart Girls

Best Director!

Winner: Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times!

Nominees:
William Wyler - Dodsworth
Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
W.S. Van Dyke - San Francisco

Best Actor!

Winner: Gary Cooper, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town!

Nominees:
Walter Huston - Dodsworth
Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
William Powell - My Man Godfrey
Spencer Tracy - San Francisco

Best Actress!

Winner: Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey!

Nominees:
Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild
Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
Norma Shearer - Romeo and Juliet

Best Supporting Actor!

Winner: Humphrey Bogart, The Petrified Forest!

Nominees:
Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey
Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet
Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn

Best Supporting Actress!

Winner: Alice Brady, My Man Godfrey!

Nominees:
Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy
Bonita Granville - These Three
Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth
Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse

Best Original Screenplay!

Winner: Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times!

Nominees:
William Anthony McGuire - The Great Ziegfeld
Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers and George Oppenheimer - Libeled Lady
Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney - The Story of Louis Pasteur
Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott - Swing Time

Best Adapted Screenplay!

Winner: Robert Riskin, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town!

Nominees:
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett - After the Thin Man
Sidney Howard - Dodsworth
Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind - My Man Godfrey
Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney - The Story of Louis Pasteur

Best Story!

Winner: Modern Times!

Nominees:
The Great Ziegfeld
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Three Smart Girls

Best Live Action Short - One-Reel!

Winner: Bored of Education!

Nominees:
Moscow Moods
Wanted – A Master

Best Live Action Short - Two-Reel!

Winner: The Public Pays!

Nominees:
Double or Nothing
Dummy Ache

Best Live Action Short - Color!

Winner: Give Me Liberty!

Nominees:
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Popular Science J-6-2

Best Animated Short!

Winner: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor!

Nominees:
The Country Cousin
The Old Mill Pond

Best Score!

Winner: Modern Times!

Nominees:
Anthony Adverse
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The General Died at Dawn
Winterset

Best Song!

Winner: Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields - The Way You Look Tonight, Swing Time!

Nominees:
Walter Donaldson and Harold Adamson - Did I Remember, Suzy
Cole Porter - I've Got You Under My Skin, Born to Dance
Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke - Pennies from Heaven, Pennies from Heaven
Richard A. Whiting and Walter Bullock - When Did You Leave Heaven, Sing, Baby Sing

Best Art Direction!

Winner: Dodsworth!

Nominees:
Anthony Adverse
The Great Ziegfeld
Lloyds of London
Romeo and Juliet

Best Cinematography!

Winner: Anthony Adverse!

Nominees:
The General Died at Dawn
The Gorgeous Hussy

Best Sound Recording!

Winner: San Francisco!

Nominees:
Dodsworth
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
That Girl From Paris
Three Smart Girls

Best Film Editing!

Winner: Modern Times!

Nominees:
Anthony Adverse
Come and Get It
The Great Ziegfeld
Theodora Goes Wild

Best Assistant Director!

Winner: William Cannon, Anthony Adverse!

Nominees:
Jack Sullivan - The Charge of the Light Brigade
Eric G. Stacey - Garden of Allah
Clem Beauchamp - The Last of the Mohicans
Joseph M. Newman - San Francisco

Best Dance Direction!

Winner: The Great Ziegfeld!

Nominees:
Born to Dance
Dancing Pirate
Gold Diggers of 1937
Swing Time