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9th Academy Awards

FieldValue
number9
awardAcademy Awards
dateMarch 4, 1937
siteBiltmore Hotel
hostGeorge Jessel
best_picture*The Great Ziegfeld*
most_wins*Anthony Adverse* (4)
most_nominations*Anthony Adverse*, *Dodsworth* and *The Great Ziegfeld* (7)
last8th
next10th

The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California to honor films released in 1936. They were hosted by George Jessel, with music by the Victor Young Orchestra, with Spike Jones on drums. This year marked the introduction of the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories, and was the first year that the awards for directing and acting were fixed at five nominees per category.

Jessel assigned the wrong awards to the right winners of the newly-introduced supporting categories. The Great Ziegfeld was not a popular choice for Best Picture among members of the press, who felt that voters had been brainwashed by its lush gaudiness; they also felt that Luise Rainer's win of Best Actress for her performance was unjustified due to the short length of her role in the film.

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 and American Hustle at the 86th. It was also the first of four films to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture, followed by I Remember Mama (1948), Othello (1965), and Doubt (2008).

Winners and nominees

Awards

Nominees were announced on February 7, 1937. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Special Awards

  • To The March of Time for its significance to motion pictures and for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry - the newsreel.
  • To W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for the color cinematography of the Selznick International Production, The Garden of Allah.

Multiple nominations and awards

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

References

References

  1. "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org ([[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]).
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