Oscar Nominations and Winners (1937)

Best Picture

• The Awful Truth
• Captains Courageous
• Dead End
• The Good Earth
• In Old Chicago
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Lost Horizon
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Stage Door
• A Star Is Born

Best Director

• William Dieterle (The Life of Emile Zola)
• Sidney Franklin (The Good Earth)
• Gregory La Cava (Stage Door)
• Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)
• William Wellman (A Star Is Born)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Charles Boyer (Conquest)
• Fredric March (A Star Is Born)
• Robert Montgomery (Night Must Fall)
• Paul Muni (The Life of Emile Zola)
• Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Ralph Bellamy (The Awful Truth)
• Thomas Mitchell (The Hurricane)
• Joseph Schildkraut (The Life of Emile Zola)
• H. B. Warner (Lost Horizon)
• Roland Young (Topper)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth)
• Greta Garbo (Camille)
• Janet Gaynor (A Star Is Born)
• Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)
• Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Alice Brady (In Old Chicago)
• Andrea Leeds (Stage Door)
• Anne Shirley (Stella Dallas)
• Claire Trevor (Dead End)
• Dame May Whitty (Night Must Fall)

Best Original Story

• Black Legion (Robert Lord)
• In Old Chicago (Niven Busch)
• The Life of Emile Zola (Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg)
• One Hundred Men and a Girl (Hans Kraly)
• A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman and Robert Carson)

Best Screenplay

• The Awful Truth (Vina Delmar)
• Captains Courageous (John Lee Mahin, Marc Connolly and Dale Van Every)
• Stage Door (Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller)
• A Star Is Born (Alan Campbell, Robert Carson and Dorothy Parker)

Art Direction

• Conquest
• A Damsel in Distress
• Dead End
• Every Day's a Holiday
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Lost Horizon
• Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Souls at Sea
• You're a Sweetheart
• Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
• Wee Willie Winkie

Cinematography

• Dead End
• The Good Earth
• Wings Over Honolulu

Assistant Director

• In Old Chicago
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Lost Horizon
• Souls at Sea
• A Star Is Born

Film Editing

• The Awful Truth
• Captains Courageous
• The Good Earth
• Lost Horizon
• One Hundred Men and a Girl

Score

• The Hurricane
• In Old Chicago
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Lost Horizon
• Make a Wish
• Maytime
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Portia on Trial
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Quality Street
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Something to Sing About
• Souls at Sea
• Way Out West

Original Song

• "Remember Me" (Mr. Dodd Takes the Air) Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Al Dubin.
• "Sweet Leilani" (Waikiki Wedding) Music and lyrics by Harry Owens.
• "That Old Feeling" (Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938) Music by Sammy Fain. Lyrics by Lew Brown.
• "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (Shall We Dance) Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
• "Whispers in the Dark" (Artists and Models) Music by Frederick Hollander. Lyrics by Leo Robin.

Dance Direction

• Busby Berkeley, "The Finale" (Varsity Show)
• Bobby Connolly, "Too Marvelous for Words" (Ready, Willing and Able)
• Dave Gould, "All God's Children Got Rhythm" (A Day at the Races)
• Sammy Lee, "Swing Is Here to Stay" (Ali Baba Goes to Town)
• Hermes Pan, "Fun House" (A Damsel in Distress)
• LeRoy Prinz, "Luau" (Waikiki Wedding)

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Educated Fish
• The Little Match Girl
• The Old Mill

Live Action Short Film - One Reel

• A Night at the Movies
• The Private Life of the Gannetts
• Romance of Radium

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels - Black and White

• Deep South
• Should Wives Work?
• Torture Money

Live Action Short Film - Two Reels - Color

• The Man Without a Country
• Penny Wisdom
• Popular Science J-7-1

Sound

• The Girl Said No
• Hitting a New High
• The Hurricane
• In Old Chicago
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Lost Horizon
• Maytime
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
• Topper
• Wells Fargo