1936 (9th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1936 (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 Great Ziegfeld, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Best Actor

Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur, Cosmopolitan; Warner Bros.-First National.

Best Actress

Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Walter Brennan in Come and Get It, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; United Artists.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse, Warner Bros.

Directing

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Columbia. Frank Capra.

Art Direction

Dodsworth, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; United Artists. Richard Day.

Assistant Director

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Warner Bros. Jack Sullivan.

Cinematography

Anthony Adverse, Warner Bros. Gaetano Gaudio.

Dance Direction

Seymour Felix for the “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” number from The Great Ziegfeld, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Film Editing

Anthony Adverse, Warner Bros. Ralph Dawson.

Music

(Scoring)

Anthony Adverse, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department. (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)

(Song)

The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time, RKO Radio. Music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

The Country Cousin, Walt Disney Productions; United Artists. [Silly Symphony Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

(Color)

Give Me Liberty, Warner Bros. [Broadway Brevities Series]

(One-reel)

Bored of Education, Hal Roach; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Our Gang Series] Hal Roach, Producer.

(Two-reel)

The Public Pays, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Crime Doesn’t Pay Series]

Sound Recording

San Francisco, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director.

Writing

(Original Story)

The Story of Louis Pasteur, Cosmopolitan; Warner Bros.-First National. Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney.

(Screenplay)

The Story of Louis Pasteur, Cosmopolitan; Warner Bros.-First National. Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney.

Special Award

To March of Time. for its significance to motion pictures and for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry—the newsreel. [ [Statuette]]

To W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for the color cinematography of the Selznick International Production, The Garden of Allah. [ [Plaque]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Douglas Shearer and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department for the development of a practical two-way horn system and a biased Class A push-pull recording system.

(Class II)

To E. C. Wente and Bell Telephone Laboratories for their multi-cellular high-frequency horn and receiver.

To RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., for their rotary stabilizer sound head.

(Class III)

To RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., for their development of a method of recording and printing sound records utilizing a restricted spectrum (known as ultra-violet light recording).

To Electrical Research Products, Inc. for the ERPI “Type Q” portable recording channel.

To RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., for furnishing a practical design and specifications for a non-slip printer.

To United Artists Studio Corp. for the development of a practical, efficient and quiet wind machine.