1936 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
DODSWORTH
United Artists; Samuel Goldwyn
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
MGM; Hunt Stromberg
MODERN TIMES
United Artists; Charles Chaplin
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
Columbia; Frank Capra
MY MAN GODFREY
Universal; Charles R. Rogers
SAN FRANCISCO
MGM; John Emerson, Bernard H. Hyman & W.S. Van
Dyke
SHOWBOAT
Universal; Carl Laemmle, Jr.
THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR
Warner Bros; Hal B. Wallis & Jack L.
Warner
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
MGM; David O. Selznick
THINGS TO COME
United Artists; Alexander Korda
Also Considered:
ANTHONY ADVERSE (Henry Blanke); THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT
BRIGADE (Samuel Bischoff, Hal B. Wallis, Harry M. Warner & Jack L. Warner); A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Pierre Braunberger); FURY (Joseph L. Mankiewicz); LIBELED LADY (Lawrence Weingarten); THE
PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND (Darryl F. Zanuck); REMBRANDT (Alexander Korda): SABOTAGE (Michael Balcon); SWING TIME (Pandro S. Berman); THREE SMART GIRLS (Joe Pasternak & Charles R.
Rogers)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Warner Baxter as "Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd" - THE
PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND
Ronald Colman as "Sydney Carton" - A TALE OF TWO
CITIES
Gary Cooper as "Longfellow Deeds" - MR. DEEDS GOES TO
TOWN
Walter Huston as "Sam Dodsworth" - DODSWORTH
Charles Laughton as "Rembrandt" - REMBRANDT
Paul Muni as "Louis Pasteur" - THE STORY OF LOUIS
PASTEUR
William Powell as "Godfrey Smith" - MY MAN
GODFREY
Raimu as "César Ollivier" - CÉSAR
Spencer Tracy as "Joe Wilson" - FURY
Roland Young as "George McWhirter Fotheringay" - THE MAN
WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES
Also Considered:
Fred Astaire (SWING TIME); Charles Chaplin (MODERN TIMES);
Errol Flynn (THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE); Clark Gable (SAN FRANCISCO); Leslie Howard (THE PETRIFIED FOREST); Fredric March (ANTHONY ADVERSE); Raymond Massey (THINGS TO COME); Ray Milland
(THE JUNGLE PRINCESS); William Powell (THE GREAT ZIEGFELD); William Powell (LIBELED LADY)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jean Arthur as "Babe Bennett" - MR. DEEDS GOES TO
TOWN
Marlene Dietrich as "Madeleine de Beaupre" -
DESIRE
Irene Dunne as "Theodora Lynn" - THEODORA GOES
WILD
Gracie Fields as "Grace Perkins" - QUEEN OF
HEARTS
Gladys George as "Carrie Snyder" - VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR
CARRIE
Jean Harlow as "Gladys Benton" - LIBELED
LADY
Carole Lombard as "Irene Bullock" - MY MAN
GODFREY
Luise Rainer as "Anna Held" - THE GREAT
ZIEGFELD
Norma Shearer as "Juliet Capulet" - ROMEO AND
JULIET
Sylvia Sidney as "Katherine Grant" - FURY
Also Considered:
Jean Arthur (THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD); Ruth Chatterton
(DODSWORTH); Frances Farmer (COME & GET IT); Myrna Loy (THE GREAT ZIEGFELD); Jeanette MacDonald (SAN FRANCISCO); Ethel Merman (ANYTHING GOES); Françoise Rosay (DRÔLE DE DRAME); Ginger
Rogers (SWING TIME); Rosalind Russell (CRAIG'S WIFE); Shirley Temple (DIMPLES)
BEST DIRECTOR
Frank Capra - MR. DEEDS GOES
TO TOWN
Charles Chaplin - MODERN TIMES
Michael Curtiz - THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
William Dieterle - THE STORY OF LOUIS
PASTEUR
Alfred Hitchcock - SABOTAGE
Gregory LaCava - MY MAN GODFREY
Fritz Lang - FURY
Robert Z. Leonard - THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
W.S. Van Dyke - SAN FRANCISCO
William Wyler - DODSWORTH
Also Considered:
Jack Conway (A TALE OF TWO CITIES); John Ford (THE
PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND); Alexander Korda (REMBRANDT); Henry Koster (THREE SMART GIRLS); Melvyn LeRoy (ANTHONY ADVERSE); William Cameron Menzies (THINGS TO COME); Rouben Mamoulien (THE GAY
DESPERADO); Jean Renoir (A DAY IN THE COUNTRY); George Stevens (SWING TIME); James Whale (SHOWBOAT)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mischa Auer as "Carlo" - MY MAN GODFREY
Walter Brennan as "Swan Bostrom" - COME & GET
IT
C. Henry Gordon as "Surat Khan" - THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT
BRIGADE
Oscar Homolka as "Karl Anton Verloc" -
SABOTAGE
Peter Lorre as "The General" - SECRET AGENT
Eugene Pallette as "Alexander Bullock" - MY MAN
GODFREY
Basil Rathbone as "Tybalt" - ROMEO AND
JULIET
Paul Robeson as "Joe" - SHOWBOAT
Akim Tamiroff as "General Yang" - THE GENERAL DIED AT
DAWN
Spencer Tracy as “Father Tim Mullin” - SAN
FRANCISCO
Also Considered:
John Barrymore (ROMEO AND JULIET); Humphrey Bogart (THE
PETRIFIED FOREST); Walter Connolly (LIBELED LADY); Stuart Erwin (PIGSKIN PARADE); John Halliday (DESIRE); Jack Holt (SAN FRANCISCO); Arthur Housman (OUR RELATIONS); Frank Morgan (DIMPLES);
Charles Ruggles (ANYTHING GOES); Michel Simon (DRÔLE DE DRAME)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary Astor as "Edith Cortright" - DODSWORTH
Beulah Bondi as "Rachel Jackson" - THE GORGEOUS
HUSSY
Alice Brady as "Angelica Bullock" - MY MAN
GODFREY
Deanna Durbin as "Penny" - THREE SMART GIRLS
Bonita Granville as "Mary Tilford" - THESE
THREE
Myrna Loy as "Connie Allenbury" - LIBELED
LADY
Helen Morgan as "Julie" - SHOWBOAT
Maria Ouspenskaya as "Baroness Von Obersdorf" -
DODSWORTH
Gale Sondergaard as "Faith Paleologus" - ANTHONY
ADVERSE
Blanche Yurka as "Madame Therese de Farge" - A TALE OF
TWO CITIES
Also Considered:
Fanny Brice (THE GREAT ZIEGFELD); Paulette Goddard (MODERN
TIMES); Gertrude Lawrence (REMBRANDT); Hattie McDaniel (SHOWBOAT); Edna May Oliver (ROMEO AND JULIET); Edna May Oliver (A TALE OF TWO CITIES); Gail Patrick (MY MAN GODFREY); Shirley Ross (SAN
FRANCISCO); Margaret Seddon (MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN); Simone Simon (GIRLS' DORMITORY)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
AFTER THE THIN MAN
Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Jean Renoir
DODSWORTH
Sidney Howard
DRÔLE DE DRAME
Marcel Carne & Jacques Prevert
MR. DEEDS GOES TO
TOWN
Robert
Riskin
MY MAN GODFREY
Morrie Ryskind & Eric Hatch
THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES
H.G. Wells & Lajos Biro
OUR RELATIONS
Jack Jevne, Charles Rogers, Felix Adler & Richard
Connell
SABOTAGE
Charles Bennett, Ian Hay & Helen Simpson
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
W.P. Lipscomb & S.N. Behrman
Also Considered:
ANTHONY ADVERSE (Sheridan Gibney & Milton Krims);
BANJO ON MY KNEE (Nunnally Johnson); THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (Michael Jacoby & Rowland Leigh); DESIRE (Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young & Samuel Hoffenstein); THE GENERAL
DIED AT DAWN (Clifford Odets); THE GREEN PASTURES (Sheridan Gibney); LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (Hugh Walpole); REMBRANDT (June Head & Lajos Biro); SHOWBOAT (Oscar Hammerstein II); THINGS TO
COME (H.G. Wells)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
FURY
Norman Krasna, Bartlett Cormack & Fritz Lang
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
William Anthony McGuire
LIBELED LADY
Wallace Sullivan, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers
& George Oppenheimer
MODERN
TIMES
Charles
Chaplin
THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND
Nunnally Johnson
SAN FRANCISCO
Anita Loos
THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR
Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney
SWING TIME
Howard Lindsay & Allan Scott
THEODORA GOES WILD
Mary McCarthy & Sidney Buchman
THREE SMART GIRLS
Adele Commandini
Also Considered:
BORED OF EDUCATION (Jack Jevne); BORN TO DANCE (Jack
McGowan & Sid Silvers); BULLETS OR BALLOTS (Seton I. Miller & Martin Mooney); CAIN & MABEL (Laird Doyle); CÉSAR (Marcel Pagnol); THE CRIMES OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir &
Jacques Prevert); THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD (Anthony Veiller & James Edward Grant); ONE IN A MILLION (Leonard Praskins & Mark Kelly); THE PLAINSMAN (Waldemar Young, Harold Lamb & Lynn
Riggs); THE TEXAS RANGERS (Louis Stevens, King Vidor & Elizabeth Hill)
BEST ART DIRECTION
ANTHONY ADVERSE
Anton Grot
DODSWORTH
Richard Day
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu & Edwin B.
Willis
LLOYDS OF LONDON
William S. Darling
MODERN TIMES
Charles D. Hall & J. Russell Spencer
REMBRANDT
Vincent Korda
ROMEO AND JULIET
Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope & Edwin B.
Willis
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Cedric Gibbons
THINGS TO
COME
William Cameron Menzies &
Vincent Korda
WINTERSET
Perry Ferguson
Also Considered:
ANYTHING GOES (Hans Dreier & Ernst Fegte); THE BELOVED
VAGABOND (Andrej Andrejew); DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (Albert D'Agostino); THE MAGNIFICENT BRUTE (Albert D'Agostino & Jack Otterson); MARY OF SCOTLAND (Van Nest Polglase); MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
(Stephen Goosson); SAN FRANCISCO (Cedric Gibbons); SHOWBOAT (Charles D. Hall); THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR (Robert M. Haas); SWING TIME (Van Nest Polglase)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANTHONY
ADVERSE
Tony
Gaudio
FURY
Joseph Ruttenberg
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
W. Howard Greene & Harold Rosson
THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
Victor Milner
THE GORGEOUS HUSSY
George Folsey
THE GREEN PASTURES
Hal Mohr
LLOYDS OF LONDON
Bert Glennon
THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND
Bert Glennon
SECRET AGENT
Bernard Knowles
THINGS TO COME
Georges Perinal
Also Considered:
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (Sol Polito); A DAY IN THE
COUNTRY (Claude Renoir); DODSWORTH (Rudolph Maté); THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (Oliver T. Marsh); MARY OF SCOTLAND (Joseph H. August); MODERN TIMES (Ira Morgan & Rollie Totheroh); MR. DEEDS GOES
TO TOWN (Joseph Walker); OUR RELATIONS (Rudolph Maté); REMBRANDT (Georges Perinal); A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Oliver T. Marsh)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ANTHONY ADVERSE
Milo Anderson
DRÔLE DE DRAME
Tchimoukoff
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Adrian
LLOYDS OF LONDON
Royer
MARY OF SCOTLAND
Walter Plunkett
REMBRANDT
John Armstrong
ROMEO AND JULIET
Adrian & Oliver Messel
SHOWBOAT
Doris Zinkeisen
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Dolly Tree
THINGS TO COME
John Armstrong, Rene Hubert & Cathleen Mann
Also Considered:
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (Milo Anderson); DODSWORTH
(Omar Kiam); THE GORGEOUS HUSSY (Adrian); LIBELED LADY (Dolly Tree); MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (Samuel Lange); MY MAN GODFREY (Travis Banton); THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND (Gwen Wakeling); SAN
FRANCISCO (Adrian); THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR (Milo Anderson); SWING TIME (Bernard Newman)
BEST FILM EDITING
ANTHONY ADVERSE
Ralph Dawson
BULLETS OR BALLOTS
Jack Killifer
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
George Amy
COME & GET IT
Edward Curtiss
FURY
Frank Sullivan
LLOYDS OF LONDON
Barbara McLean
SABOTAGE
Charles Frend
SAN
FRANCISCO
Tom Held
SHOWBOAT
Bernard W. Burton & Ted J. Kent
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Conrad A. Nervig
Also Considered:
BORN TO DANCE (Blanche Sewell); CESAR (Suzanne de Troeye);
DODSWORTH (Daniel Mandell); THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN (Eda Warren); THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (William S. Gray); MODERN TIMES (Charles Chaplin & Willard Nico); MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (Gene
Havlick); THEODORE GOES WILD (Otto Meyer); THINGS TO COME (Charles Crichton & Francis D. Lyon); TRIUMPH
OF THE WILL (Leni Riefenstahl)
BEST MAKEUP
THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
Charles Gemora & Wally Westmore
REMBRANDT
Stuart Freeborn
THE STORY OF LOUIS
PASTEUR
Clay Campbell & Norbert
A. Myles
Also Considered:
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (Jack Pierce); THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (Robert J. Schiffer & Norbert A. Myles); MY MAN GODFREY (Hugh Roman)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
ANTHONY ADVERSE
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Max Steiner
FURY
Franz Waxman
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
Max Steiner
THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
Werner Janssen
THE GREEN PASTURES
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
MODERN TIMES
Charles Chaplin
NIGHT MAIL
Benjamin Britten
THINGS TO
COME
Arthur
Bliss
WINTERSET
Nathaniel Shilkret
Also Considered:
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Joseph Kosma); GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937
(Heinz Roemheld); THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (Arthur Lange); MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (Howard Jackson); MY MAN GODFREY (Charles Previn); SABOTAGE (Louis Levy); SAN FRANCISCO (Herbert Stothart
& Edward Ward); SWING
TIME (Jerome Kern & Robert Russell Bennett); A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Herbert Stothart); TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE (Gerard Carbonara & Hugo Friedhofer)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Did I Remember" - SUZY
Walter Donaldson & Harold Adamson
"A Fine Romance" - SWING TIME
Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields
"I've Got You Under My Skin" - BORN TO
DANCE
Cole Porter
"Let's Face The Music & Dance" - FOLLOW THE
FLEET
Irving Berlin
"A Melody From The Sky" - TRAIL OF THE LONESOME
PINE
Louis Alter & Sidney Mitchell
"Pennies From Heaven" - PENNIES FROM
HEAVEN
Arthur Johnston & Johnny Burke
"San Francisco" - SAN FRANCISCO
Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurmann & Gus Kahn
"Smile" - MODERN TIMES
Charles Chaplin
"The Way You Look Tonight" - SWING TIME
Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields
"When Did You Leave Heaven?" - SING BABY
SING
Richard A. Whiting & Walter Bullock
Also Considered:
"Ah, Still Suits Me" - SHOWBOAT (Jerome Kern & Oscar
Hammerstein II); "Coney Island" - CAIN & MABEL (Harry Warren & Al Dubin); "Easy To Love" - BORN TO DANCE (Cole Porter); "I Love To Sing-A" - THE SINGING KID (Harold Arlen & E.Y.
Harburg); "I'm An Old Cowhand" - RHYTHM ON THE RANGE (Johnny Mercer); "Let Yourself Go" - FOLLOW THE FLEET (Irving Berlin); "Pick
Yourself Up" - SWING TIME (Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields); "Picture Me Without You" - DIMPLES (Jimmy McHugh & Ted Koehler); "Would You" - SAN FRANCISCO (Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur
Freed); "You Never Looked So Beautiful" - THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (Walter Donaldson & Harold Adamson)
BEST SOUND
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Nathan Levinson
DODSWORTH
Oscar Lagerstrom
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Douglas Shearer
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
John L. Cass
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
John Livardary
THE PETRIFIED FOREST
Charles Lang
SAN
FRANCISCO
Douglas
Shearer
SWING TIME
Clem Portman & John E. Tribby
THE TEXAS RANGERS
Franklin Hansen
THINGS TO COME
A.W. Watkins
Also Considered:
BANJO ON MY KNEE (E.H. Hansen); BULLETS OR BALLOTS (Oliver
S. Garretson); THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN (Louis Mesenkop & Harry Mills); GENERAL SPANKY (Elmer Raguse); THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (A.W. Watkins); NIGHT MAIL (W.H. Auden, Benjamin
Britten & Alberto Cavalcanti); SHOWBOAT (Gilbert Kurland); THAT
GIRL FROM PARIS (John Aalberg); THREE SMART GIRLS (Homer G. Tasker)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
FLASH GORDON
Ed Keyes
THE INVISIBLE RAY
John Fulton
MODERN TIMES
Bud Thackery
SAN FRANCISCO
James Basevi, Russell A. Cully & A. Arnold
Gillespie
THINGS TO COME
Ned Mann & Lawrence W. Butler
Also Considered:
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (Fred Jackman); DANCING
PIRATE (Willis O'Brien); THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (Ned Mann); SECRET AGENT (credit unknown); SHOWBOAT (John P. Fulton)
Most Wins:
4 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
3 - Things to Come
2 - San Francisco
1 - Anthony Adverse; The Great Ziegfeld; Modern Times; My Man Godfrey; Sabotage; The Story of Louis Pasteur; Swing Time; A Tale of Two Cities
Most Nominations:
7 - Dodsworth; The Great Ziegfeld; Modern Times; My Man Godfrey; A Tale of Two Cities; San Francisco; Things to Come
6 - Anthony Adverse; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
5 - The Charge of the Light Brigade; Fury; Showboat; The Story of Louis Pasteur