1937 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
THE AWFUL TRUTH
Columbia; Leo McCarey
DEAD END
United Artists; Samuel Goldwyn & Merritt
Hulberg
THE GOOD EARTH
MGM; Irving Thalberg & Albert Lewin
GRAND ILLUSION
RAO / World Pictures; Frank Rollmer & Albert
Pinkovich
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Warner Bros; Henry Blanke
LOST HORIZON
Columbia; Frank Capra
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
United Artists; David O. Selznick
SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
RKO / Disney; Walt Disney
A STAR IS BORN
United Artists; David O. Selznick
WAY OUT WEST
MGM; Stan Laurel
Also Considered:
ANGEL (Ernst Lubitsch); CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (Louis D.
Lighton); A DAY AT THE RACES (Lawrence Weingarten); HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (Walter Wanger); IN OLD CHICAGO (Darryl F. Zanuck); MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey & Adolph Zukor); NIGHT
MUST FALL (Hunt Stromberg); NOTHING SACRED (David O. Selznick); ONE HUNDRED MEN & A GIRL (Charles R. Rogers & Joe Pasternak); STAGE DOOR (Pandro S. Berman)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Brian Aherne as "David Garrick" - THE GREAT
GARRICK
Humphrey Bogart as "Frank Taylor" - BLACK
LEGION
Pierre Fresnay as "Capt. Boeldieu" - GRAND
ILLUSION
Jean Gabin as "Lt. Maréchal" - GRAND
ILLUSION
Cary Grant as "Jerry Warriner" - THE AWFUL
TRUTH
Fredric March as "Norman Maine" - A STAR IS
BORN
Robert Montgomery as "Danny" - NIGHT MUST
FALL
Victor Moore as "Barkley Cooper" - MAKE WAY FOR
TOMORROW
Paul Muni as "Emile Zola" - THE LIFE OF EMILE
ZOLA
Spencer Tracy as "Manuel Fidello" - CAPTAINS
COURAGEOUS
Also Considered:
Fred Astaire (A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS); Charles Boyer
(HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT); Ronald Colman (LOST HORIZON); Ronald Colman (THE PRISONER OF ZENDA); Henry Fonda (SLIM); Jean Gabin (PEPE LE MOKO); Oliver Hardy (WAY OUT WEST); Stan Laurel (WAY
OUT WEST); Herbert Marshall (ANGEL); Paul
Muni (THE GOOD EARTH)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jean Arthur as "Mary Smith" - EASY LIVING
Beulah Bondi as "Lucy Cooper" - MAKE WAY FOR
TOMORROW
Marlene Dietrich as "Maria 'Angel' Barker" -
ANGEL
Irene Dunne as "Lucy Warriner" - THE AWFUL
TRUTH
Greta Garbo as "Marguerite Gautier" -
CAMILLE
Janet Gaynor as "Esther Blodgett" - A STAR IS
BORN
Carole Lombard as "Hazel Flagg" - NOTHING
SACRED
Luise Rainer as "O-Lan" - THE GOOD EARTH
Ginger Rogers as “Jean Maitland” - STAGE
DOOR
Barbra Stanwyck as "Stella Dallas" - STELLA
DALLAS
Also Considered:
Jean Arthur (HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT); Claudette Colbert
(TOVARICH); Marion Davies (EVER SINCE EVE); Deanna Durbin (ONE HUNDRED MEN & A GIRL); Joan Fontaine (A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS); Judy Garland (EVERYBODY SING); Katharine Hepburn (STAGE DOOR);
Anna Neagle (VICTORIA THE GREAT); Rosalind Russell (NIGHT MUST FALL); Shirley Temple (HEIDI)
BEST DIRECTOR
Frank Capra - LOST HORIZON
John Cromwell - THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
William Dieterle - THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
John Ford - THE HURRICANE
Sidney Franklin - THE GOOD EARTH
Gregory La Cava - STAGE DOOR
Leo McCarey - THE AWFUL TRUTH
Jean Renoir - GRAND
ILLUSION
William Wellman - A STAR IS BORN
William Wyler - DEAD END
Also Considered:
Frank Borzage (HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT); Victor Fleming
(CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS); James W. Horne (WAY OUT WEST); William K. Howard (FIRE OVER ENGLAND); Henry King (IN OLD CHICAGO); Mitchell Liesen (EASY LIVING); Leo McCarey (MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW);
Robert Stevenson (KING SOLOMON'S MINES); Richard Thorpe (NIGHT MUST FALL); Sam Wood (A DAY AT THE RACES)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Edward Arnold as "J.B. Ball" - EASY LIVING
Ralph Bellamy as "Daniel Leeson" - THE AWFUL
TRUTH
Humphrey Bogart as "Baby Face Martin" - DEAD
END
Charles Boyer as "Napoleon Bonaparte" -
CONQUEST
Melville Cooper as "M. Picard" - THE GREAT
GARRICK
Thomas Mitchell as "Dr. Kersaint" - THE
HURRICANE
Joseph Schildkraut as "Capt. Alfred Dreyfus" - THE LIFE
OF EMILE ZOLA
Erich Von Stroheim as "Capt. Von Rauffenstein" - GRAND
ILLUSION
H.B. Warner as "Chang" - LOST HORIZON
Roland Young as "Mr. Cosmo Topper" - TOPPER
Also Considered:
Freddie Bartholomew (CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS); Henry Daniell
(CAMILLE); Melvyn Douglas (ANGEL); Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (THE PRISONER OF ZENDA); Gordon Harker (THE FROG); Jean
Hersholt (HEIDI); Sam Jaffe (LOST HORIZON); Basil Rathbone (TOVARICH); Mickey Rooney (A FAMILY AFFAIR); George E. Stone (ALCATRAZ ISLAND)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Fay Bainter as "Anita Cooper" - MAKE WAY FOR
TOMORROW
Alice Brady as "Belle Fawcett" - IN OLD
CHICAGO
Billie Burke as "Mrs. Clara Topper" - TOPPER
Andrea Leeds as "Kay Hamilton" - STAGE DOOR
Sharon Lynne as "Lola Marcel" - WAY OUT WEST
Marjorie Main as "Mrs. Martin" - DEAD END
Anne Shirley as "Laurel Dallas" - STELLA
DALLAS
Claire Trevor as "Francey" - DEAD END
May Whitty as "Mrs. Bramson" - NIGHT MUST
FALL
Jane Wyatt as "Sondra Bizet" - LOST HORIZON
Also Considered:
Heather Angel (PORTIA ON TRIAL); Mary Astor (THE
HURRICANE); Fanny Brice (EVERYBODY SING); Margaret Dumont (A DAY AT THE RACES); Sara Haden (A FAMILY AFFAIR); Wendy Hiller (LANCASHIRE LUCK); Gloria Holden (THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA); Isabel
Jewell (MARKED WOMAN); Esther Muir (A DAY AT THE RACES); Ann Sheridan (BLACK LEGION)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
THE AWFUL TRUTH
Viña Delmar
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly & Dale Van
Every
DEAD END
Lillian Hellman
THE GOOD EARTH
Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger & Claudine
West
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald & Geza
Herczeg
LOST HORIZON
Robert Riskin
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW
Viña Delmar
NIGHT MUST FALL
John Van Druten
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
John L. Balderston
STAGE DOOR
Morrie Ryskind & Anthony Veiller
Also Considered:
ANGEL (Samson Raphaelson); CAMILLE (Zoe Akins, Frances
Marion & James Hilton); A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (P.G. Wodehouse, Ernest Pagano & S.K. Lauren); THE GREAT GARRICK (Ernest Vajda); PEPE LE MOKO (Julien Duvivier & Henri LaBarthe); SNOW
WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill de Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank & Webb Smith); STELLA DALLAS (Sarah Y. Mason &
Victor Heerman); TOPPER (Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch & Eddie Moran); WEE WILLIE WINKIE (Ernest Pascal & Julien Josephson); YOUNG & INNOCENT (Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood &
Anthony Armstrong)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
BLACK LEGION
Abem Finkel & William Wister Haines
A DAY AT THE RACES
Robert Pirosh, George Seaton & George
Oppenheimer
EASY LIVING
Preston Sturges
GRAND
ILLUSION
Jean Renoir & Charles
Spaak
IN OLD CHICAGO
Lamar Trotti & Sonya Levien
NOTHING SACRED
Ben Hecht
OH, MR. PORTER!
J.O.C. Orton, Val Guest & Marriott Edgar
ONE HUNDRED MEN & A GIRL
Bruce Manning, Charles Kenyon & James
Mulhauser
A STAR IS BORN
Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell & Robert
Carson
WAY OUT WEST
Jack Javne, Charles Rogers, Felix Adler & James
Parrott
Also Considered:
EVER SINCE EVE (Lawrence Riley, Earl Baldwin & Lillie
Hayward); EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY (Mae West); GOOD MORNING BOYS (Leslie Arliss, Marriott Edgar, Val Guest & Anthony Kimmins); HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (Gene Towne & Graham Baker);
LANCASHIRE LUCK (Ronald Gow & A.R. Rawlinson); MARKED WOMAN (Robert Rossen & Abem Finkel); THIS IS MY AFFAIR (Allen Rivkin & Lamar Trotti); VOGUES OF 1938 (Sam Spewack & Bella
Spewack); WELLS FARGO (Paul Schofield, Gerald Geraghty & Frederick Jackson); YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (Gene Towne & C. Graham Baker)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS ALI BABA'S FORTY THIEVES
Max Fleischer
SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
Walt Disney
THE TALE OF THE FOX
Louis Nalpas & Roger Richebe
Also Considered:
DONALD'S OSTRICH (Walt Disney); LITTLE HIAWATHA (Walt Disney); THE OLD MILL (Walt Disney)
BEST ART DIRECTION
DEAD END
Richard Day
FIRE OVER ENGLAND
Lazare Meerson
THE GOOD EARTH
Cedric Gibbons
GRAND ILLUSION
Eugene Lourie
IN OLD CHICAGO
William S. Darling & Rudolph Sternad
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Anton Grot
LOST
HORIZON
Stephen
Goosson
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
Lyle Wheeler
VOGUES OF 1938
Alexander Toluboff
WEE WILLIE WINKIE
William S. Darling & David S. Hall
Also Considered:
CONQUEST (Cedric Gibbons & William A. Horning); A
DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (Carroll Clark); EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY (Wiard Ihnen); THE HURRICANE (Richard Day); MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND (John Victor Mackay); SEVENTH HEAVEN (William S. Darling); SNOW
WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (Kenneth Anderson, Tom Codrick & Hugh Hennessy); SOULS AT SEA (Roland Anderson & Hans Dreier); STAGE DOOR (Van Nest Polglase); A STAR IS BORN (Lansing
Holden & Lyle Wheeler)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
DEAD END
Gregg Toland
THE GOOD EARTH
Karl Freund
GRAND ILLUSION
Christian Matras
THE HURRICANE
Bert Glennon
IN OLD CHICAGO
J. Peverell Marley
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Tony Gaudio
LOST
HORIZON
Joseph
Walker
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
James Wong Howe
A STAR IS BORN
W. Howard Greene
WINGS OVER HONOLULU
Joseph Valentine
Also Considered:
ANGEL (Charles Lang); THE AWFUL TRUTH (Joseph Walker);
CONQUEST (Karl Freund); A DAY AT THE RACES (Joseph Ruttenberg); HEIDI (Arthur Miller); MAYTIME (Oliver T. Marsh); NIGHT MUST FALL (Ray June); STELLA DALLAS (Rudolph Maté); TOPPER (Norbert
Brodine); WELLS FARGO (Theodor Sparkuhl)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
CONQUEST
Adrian
FIRE OVER
ENGLAND
Rene
Hubert
THE GOOD EARTH
Herbert Neuwirth
IN OLD CHICAGO
Royer
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Milo Anderson & Ali Hubert
ONE HUNDRED MEN & A GIRL
Vera West
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
Ernest Dryden
A STAR IS BORN
Omar Kiam
VICTORIA THE GREAT
Doris Zinkeisen
VOGUES OF 1938
Helen Taylor
Also Considered:
ANGEL (Travis Banton); CAMILLE (Adrian); DEAD END (Omar
Kiam); LOST HORIZON (Ernest Dryden); MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND (Eloise); NOTHING SACRED (Walter Plunkett); STAGE DOOR (Claire Cramer); STELLA DALLAS (Omar Kiam); TOVOVICH (Orry-Kelly); WEE
WILLIE WINKIE (Gwen Wakeling)
BEST FILM EDITING
THE AWFUL TRUTH
Al Clark
DEAD END
Daniel Mandell
FIRE OVER ENGLAND
Jack Dennis
THE GOOD EARTH
Basil Wrangell
GRAND ILLUSION
Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet & Renee
Lichtig
THE HURRICANE
Lloyd Nosler
LOST HORIZON
Gene Havlick & Gene Milford
ONE HUNDRED MEN & A GIRL
Bernard W. Burton
THE PRISONER OF
ZENDA
Hal C. Kern & James E.
Newcom
A STAR IS BORN
James E. Newcom
Also Considered:
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (Elmo Vernon); HEIDI (Allen McNeill);
IN OLD CHICAGO (Barbara McLean); KING SOLOMON'S MINES (Michael Gordon); THE LAST GANGSTER (Ben Lewis); THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (Warren Low); NIGHT MUST FALL (Robert J. Kern); STELLA DALLAS
(Sherman Todd); TOPPER (William Terhune); WELLS FARGO (Hugh Bennett)
BEST MAKEUP
THE GOOD
EARTH
Jack Dawn & Max
Factor
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Perc Westmore & Gordon Bau
A STAR IS BORN
Elizabeth Arden
Also Considered:
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (credit unknown); SH! THE OCTOPUS (credit unknown); VICTORIA THE GREAT (Guy Pearce & Patricia Pearce)
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
Franz Waxman
DEAD END
Alfred Newman
THE GOOD EARTH
Herbert Stothart
THE HURRICANE
Alfred Newman
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Max Steiner
LOST
HORIZON
Dimitri
Tiomkin
PORTIA ON TRIAL
Alberto Colombo
THE PRINCE & THE PAUPER
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
Alfred Newman
A STAR IS BORN
Max Steiner
Also Considered:
ANGEL (Frederick Hollander); CAMILLE (Herbert Stothart);
CONQUEST (Herbert Stothart); FIRE OVER ENGLAND (Richard Addinsell); GRAND ILLUSION (Joseph Kosma); IN OLD CHICAGO (Louis Silvers); NIGHT MUST FALL (Edward Ward); QUALITY STREET (Roy Webb);
SOULS AT SEA (Boris Morros); STELLA DALLAS (Alfred Newman)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE
THE AWFUL TRUTH
Morris Stoloff
A DAY AT THE RACES
Franz Waxman
MAKE A WISH
Hugo Reisenfeld
MAYTIME
Herbert Stothart
ONE HUNDRED MEN & A GIRL
Charles Previn & Frank Skinner
SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN
DWARFS
Frank Churchill, Leigh
Harline & Paul J. Smith
SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
Victor Schertzinger
STAGE DOOR
Roy Webb
TOPPER
Marvin Hatley
WAY OUT WEST
Marvin Hatley
Also Considered:
A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (George Gershwin); EVERYBODY SING
(William Axt); THE FIREFLY (Herbert Stothart); HOLLYWOOD HOTEL (George Barnes & Charles Rosher); MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (George Antheil & Victor Young); MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND
(Alberto Colombo); MR. DODD TAKES THE AIR (Adolph Deutsch); ON THE AVENUE (Charles Maxwell & Cyril J. Mockridge); SHALL WE DANCE? (Nathaniel Shilkret); WAIKIKI WEDDING (Boris
Morros)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Hooray For Hollywood" - HOLLYWOOD HOTEL
Richard Whiting & Johnny Mercer
"In The Still Of The Night" - ROSALIE
Cole Porter
"Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" - SHALL WE
DANCE?
George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
"Remember Me" - MR. DODD TAKES THE AIR
Harry Warren & Al Dubin
"Someday My Prince Will
Come" - SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
Frank Churchill & Larry
Morey
"Sweet Leilani" - WAIKIKI WEDDING
Harry Owens
"That Old Feeling" - VOGUES OF 1938
Sammy Fain & Lew Brown
"They All Laughed" - SHALL WE DANCE?
George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
"Whispers In The Dark" - ARTISTS &
MODELS
Frederick Hollander & Leo Robin)
"Whistle While We Work" - SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN
DWARFS
Frank Churchill & Larry Morey
Also Considered:
"All God's Children Got Rhythm" - A DAY AT THE RACES
(Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurmann & Gus Kahn); "Angel" - ANGEL (Frederick Hollander & Leo Robin); "A Foggy Day" - A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin); "The Folks
Who Live On The Hill" - HIGH, WIDE & HANDSOME (Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II); "Heigh Ho" - SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (Frank Churchill & Larry
Morey); "I've
Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" - ON THE AVENUE (Irving Berlin); "In Our Little Wooden Shoes" - HEIDI (Lew Pollack & Sidney D. Mitchell); "My Dreams Are Gone With The Wind" - THE AWFUL TRUTH
(Ben Oakland & Milton Drake); "They Can't Take That Away From Me" - SHALL WE DANCE? (George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin); "With A Smile & A Song" - SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
(Frank Churchill & Larry Morey)
BEST SOUND
GRAND ILLUSION
Joseph de Bretagne
THE
HURRICANE
Thomas
Moulton
IN OLD CHICAGO
E.H. Hansen
LOST HORIZON
John Livardary
MAYTIME
Douglas Shearer
ONE HUNDRED MEN & A GIRL
Homer Tasker
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
Oscar Lagerstrom
SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
Purv Pullen
TOPPER
Elmer Raguse
WELLS FARGO
Loren L. Ryder
Also Considered:
DEAD END (Frank Maher); FIRE OVER ENGLAND (A.W. Watkins);
THE GIRL SAID NO (A.E. Kaye); THE GOOD EARTH (Douglas Shearer); HITTING A NEW HIGH (John Aalberg); KING
SOLOMON'S MINES (Peter Birch); THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (Nathan Levinson); THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (Oscar Lagerstrom); SOULS AT SEA (John Cope & Harry Mills); STAGE DOOR (John L. Cass); A
STAR IS BORN (Oscar Lagerstrom)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE HURRICANE
James Basevi, Ray Binger & R.T. Layton
IN OLD CHICAGO
H. Bruce Humberstone & Daniel B. Clark
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
Jack Cosgrove
SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
Norman Ferguson & Hamilton Luske
TOPPER
Roy Seawright
Also Considered:
FIRE OVER ENGLAND (Ned Mann, Edward Cohen & Lawrence
Butler); THE GOOD EARTH (James Basevi, Dave Friedman & James Curtis Havens); LOST HORIZON (Roy Davidson & Harry Redmond, Jr.); THE OLD MILL (Wilfred Jackson); SLIM (Byron
Haskin)
Most Wins:
3 - Grand Illusion; Lost Horizon; Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
2- The Hurricane
1 - Captains Courageous; Fire Over England; The Good Earth; In Old Chicago; The Life of Emile Zola; The Prisoner of Zenda; Stage Door
Most Nominations:
10 - Dead End; The Good Earth; Grand Illusion; The Life of Emile Zola; Lost Horizon; The Prisoner of Zenda; A Star is Born
8 - The Awful Truth
7 - The Hurricane; In Old Chicago; Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
5 - One Hundred Men & A Girl; Stage Door; Topper