9th Academy Awards

9th Academy Awards
Date	March 4, 1937
Site	Biltmore Hotel
Host	George Jessel
Highlights
Best Picture	The Great Ziegfeld
Most awards	Anthony Adverse (4)
Most nominations	Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, and The Great Ziegfeld (7)

The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel; music was provided by the Victor Young Orchestra, which at the time featured Spike Jones on drums. This ceremony marked the first time in which the categories of Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress were awarded.

My Man Godfrey became the first film to receive nominations in all four acting categories, but did not win in any category. It is the only such film to not receive a nomination for Best Picture, and was the only one to lose all of its nominations until Sunset Boulevard at the 23rd Academy Awards.

With a win for Best Sound Recording for San Francisco, Douglas Shearer became the first person to win consecutive Academy Awards (following a win in the same category for Naughty Marietta the year before).

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Production	Best Director
The Great Ziegfeld Anthony Adverse Dodsworth Libeled Lady Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Romeo and Juliet San Francisco The Story of Louis Pasteur A Tale of Two Cities Three Smart Girls	Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Gregory La Cava – My Man Godfrey Robert Z. Leonard – The Great Ziegfeld W.S. Van Dyke – San Francisco William Wyler – Dodsworth
Best Actor	Best Actress
Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur Gary Cooper – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Walter Huston – Dodsworth William Powell – My Man Godfrey Spencer Tracy – San Francisco	Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld Irene Dunne – Theodora Goes Wild Gladys George – Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey Norma Shearer – Romeo and Juliet
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Walter Brennan – Come and Get It Mischa Auer – My Man Godfrey Stuart Erwin – Pigskin Parade Basil Rathbone – Romeo and Juliet Akim Tamiroff – The General Died at Dawn	Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse Beulah Bondi – The Gorgeous Hussy Alice Brady – My Man Godfrey Bonita Granville – These Three Maria Ouspenskaya – Dodsworth
Best Story	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney Fury – Norman Krasna The Great Ziegfeld – William Anthony McGuire San Francisco – Robert Hopkins Three Smart Girls – Adele Comandini	The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney After the Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Dodsworth – Sidney Howard Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Robert Riskin My Man Godfrey – Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind
Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel	Best Live Action Short Film, Two-Reel
Bored of Education – Hal Roach and MGM Moscow Moods – Paramount Wanted – A Master – Pete Smith and MGM	The Public Pays – MGM Double or Nothing – Warner Bros. Dummy Ache – RKO Radio
Best Live Action Short Film, Color	Best Animated Short Film
Give Me Liberty – Warner Bros. La Fiesta de Santa Barbara – Lewis Lewyn and MGM Popular Science J-6-2 – Paramount	The Country Cousin – Walt Disney Productions and United Artists The Old Mill Pond – Harman-Ising and MGM Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor – Paramount
Best Score	Best Song
Anthony Adverse – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department The Charge of the Light Brigade – Warner Bros. Studio Music Department The Garden of Allah – Selznick International Pictures Music Department The General Died at Dawn – Paramount Studio Music Department Winterset – RKO Radio Studio Music Department	"The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyric by Dorothy Fields "Did I Remember" from Suzy – Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyric by Harold Adamson "I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance – Music and Lyric by Cole Porter "A Melody From the Sky" from Trail of the Lonesome Pine – Music by Louis Alter; Lyric by Sidney Mitchell "Pennies from Heaven" from Pennies from Heaven – Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyric by Johnny Burke "When Did You Leave Heaven" from Sing, Baby Sing – Music by Richard A. Whiting; Lyric by Walter Bullock
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Dodsworth – Richard Day Anthony Adverse – Anton Grot The Great Ziegfeld – Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu and Edwin B. Willis Lloyds of London – William S. Darling The Magnificent Brute – Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson Romeo and Juliet – Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope and Edwin B. Willis Winterset – Perry Ferguson	Anthony Adverse – Tony Gaudio The General Died at Dawn – Victor Milner The Gorgeous Hussy – George Folsey
Best Sound Recording	Best Film Editing
San Francisco – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department Banjo on My Knee – E. H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department The Charge of the Light Brigade – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department Dodsworth – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department General Spanky – Elmer A. Raguse, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department The Texas Rangers – Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio Sound Department That Girl From Paris – John Aalberg, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department Three Smart Girls – Homer G. Tasker, Universal Studio Sound Department	Anthony Adverse – Ralph Dawson Come and Get It – Edward Curtiss The Great Ziegfeld – William S. Gray Lloyds of London – Barbara McLean A Tale of Two Cities – Conrad A. Nervig Theodora Goes Wild – Otto Meyer
Best Assistant Director	Best Dance Direction
The Charge of the Light Brigade – Jack Sullivan Anthony Adverse – William Cannon Garden of Allah – Eric G. Stacey The Last of the Mohicans – Clem Beauchamp San Francisco – Joseph M. Newman	The Great Ziegfeld – Seymour Felix Born to Dance – Dave Gould Cain and Mabel – Bobby Connolly Dancing Pirate – Russell Lewis Gold Diggers of 1937 – Busby Berkeley One in a Million – Jack Haskell Swing Time – Hermes Pan

Academy Honorary Awards

• W. Howard Greene
• Harold Rosson
• The March of Time

Multiple nominations and awards

The following twenty films received multiple nominations:

• 7 nominations: Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, and The Great Ziegfeld
• 6 nominations: My Man Godfrey and San Francisco
• 5 nominations: Mr. Deeds Go to Town
• 4 nominations: Romeo and Juliet and The Story of Louis Pasteur
• 3 nominations: The Charge of the Light Brigade, The General Died at Dawn, and Three Smart Girls
• 2 nominations: Born to Dance, Come and Get it, Garden of Allah, The Gorgeous Hussy, Lloyds of London, Swing Time, A Tale of Two Cities, Theodora Goes Wild, and Winterset

The following three films received multiple awards:

• 4 awards: Anthony Adverse
• 3 awards: The Great Ziegfeld and The Story of Louis Pasteur

See also

• 1936 in film
• List of films with all four Academy Award acting nominations