1937 (10th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1937 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person, song or dance number in the list to display more information about that film, person, song or dance number Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Production

The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros.

Best Actor

Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Best Actress

Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Alice Brady in In Old Chicago, 20th Century-Fox.

Directing

The Awful Truth, Columbia. Leo McCarey.

Art Direction

Lost Horizon, Columbia. Stephen Goosson.

Assistant Director

In Old Chicago, 20th Century-Fox. Robert Webb.

Cinematography

The Good Earth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Karl Freund.

Dance Direction

Hermes Pan for the “Fun House” number from A Damsel in Distress, RKO Radio.

Film Editing

Lost Horizon, Columbia. Gene Havlick and Gene Milford.

Music

(Scoring)

One Hundred Men and a Girl, Universal. Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department. (No composer credit)

(Song)

Sweet Leilani from Waikiki Wedding, Paramount. Music and lyrics by Harry Owens.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

The Old Mill, Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. Walt Disney, Producer.

(Color)

Penny Wisdom, Pete Smith; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Pete Smith Specialties Series] Pete Smith, Producer.

(One-reel)

The Private Life of the Gannets, Skibo Productions; Educational. (UK)

(Two-reel)

Torture Money, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Crime Doesn’t Pay Series]

Sound Recording

The Hurricane, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; United Artists. United Artists Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director.

Writing

(Original Story)

A Star Is Born, Selznick International Pictures; United Artists. William A. Wellman and Robert Carson.

(Screenplay)

The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros. Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg.

Special Award

To Mack Sennett “for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius, Mack Sennett.” [ [Statuette]]

TO Edgar Bergen for his outstanding comedy creation, “Charlie McCarthy.” [ [Wooden Statuette]]

To The Museum of Modern Art Film Library for its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts. [ [Scroll Certificate]]

To W. Howard Greene for the color photography of A Star Is Born. [ [Plaque]]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Darryl F. Zanuck

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Agfa Ansco Corporation for Agfa Supreme and Agfa Ultra Speed pan motion picture negatives.

(Class II)

To Walt Disney Productions, Ltd., for the design and application to production of the Multi-Plane Camera.

To Eastman Kodak Company for two fine-grain duplicating film stocks.

To Farciot Edouart and Paramount Pictures, Inc. for the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup.

To Douglas Shearer and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department for a method of varying the scanning width of variable density sound tracks (squeeze tracks) for the purpose of obtaining an increased amount of noise reduction.

(Class III)

To John Arnold and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Camera Department for their improvement of the semi automatic follow focus device and its application to all of the cameras used by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio.

To John Livadary, Director of Sound Recording for Columbia Pictures Corporation, for the application of the bi-planar light valve to motion picture sound recording.

To Thomas T. Moulton and the United Artists Studio Sound Department for the application to motion picture sound recording of volume indicators which have peak reading response and linear decibel scales.

To RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc. for the introduction of the modulated high-frequency method of determining optimum photographic processing conditions for variable width sound tracks.

To Joseph E. Robbins and Paramount Pictures, Inc. for an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the sound proofing of gasoline generators and water pumps.

To Douglas Shearer and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department for the design of the film drive mechanism as incorporated in the ERPI 1010 reproducer.