Film Data for 1937
The Film Daily's Ten Best Pictures of 1937 (poll of 545 film critics and reviewers. Comprised of films released from November 1, 1936 to October 31, 1937. Source: The Film Daily 1938 Year Book)
1) The Life of Emile Zola- 453 votes
2) The Good Earth- 424 votes
3) Captains Courageous- 380 votes
4) Lost Horizon- 325 votes
5) A Star is Born- 287 votes
6) Romeo and Juliet (1936)- 251 votes
7) Stage Door- 235 votes
8) Dead End- 197 votes
9) Winterset (1936)- 165 votes
10) The Awful Truth- 160 votes
The Honor Roll (films with 10 or more votes):
11) Lloyds of London (1936)- 154 votes
12) 100 Men and a Girl- 152 votes
13) The Prisoner of Zenda- 146 votes
14) Camille- 121 votes
Maytime- 121 votes
16) Conquest- 107 votes
17) Night Must Fall- 84 votes
18) Stella Dallas- 74 votes
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)- 74 votes
20) The Plainsman (1936)- 69 votes
21) Topper- 67 votes
22) Make Way for Tomorrow- 65 votes
Rembrandt (1936)- 65 votes
24) They Won't Forget- 57 votes
25) Three Smart Girls (1936)- 56 votes
26) I Met Him in Paris- 50 votes
27) Heidi- 41 votes
28) One in a Million (1936)- 39 votes
29) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)- 36 votes
30) The Prince and the Pauper- 31 votes
Thin Ice- 31 votes
32) After the Thin Man (1936)- 30 votes
Kid Galahad- 30 votes
34) Black Legion- 22 votes
Parnell- 22 votes
36) Marked Woman- 21 votes
37) Green Light- 20 votes
38) Walt Disney Revue- 19
The Emperor's Candlesticks- 19 votes
Souls at Sea- 19 votes
41) Elephant Boy- 17 votes
42) The Road Back- 15 votes
Three Men on a Horse (1936)- 15 votes
Wake Up and Live- 15 votes
45) Wee Willie Winkie- 14 votes
46) Come and Get It (1936)- 13 votes
Maid of Salem- 13 votes
Seventh Heaven- 13 votes
Slave Ship- 13 votes
Waikiki Wedding- 13 votes
51) Ali Baba Goes to Town-11 votes
Double Wedding- 11 votes
The Garden of Allah (1936)- 11 votes
Quality Street- 11 votes
Vogues of 1938- 11 votes
56) Easy Living- 10 votes
Love is News- 10 votes
National Board of Review (Winners announced on December 30, 1937. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)
Best Picture
Night Must Fall
Rest of the Top Ten (Listed in order of preference):
The Life of Emile Zola
Black Legion
Camille
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Good Earth
They Won't Forget
Captains Courageous
A Star is Born
Stage Door
List based on popular appeal (Source: The 1938 Film Daily Year Book, which stated "On the basis of popular appeal the Review Committee of the National Board have chosen the following:")
The Good Earth
The Life of Emile Zola
Captains Courageous
Lost Horizon
Stage Door
A Star is Born
Dead End
The Prisoner of Zenda
Conquest
Camille
Best Acting (Listed in alphabetical order):
Harry Baur, The Golem
Humphrey Bogart, Black Legion
Charles Boyer, Conquest
Nikolai Cherkassov, Baltic Deputy
Danielle Darrieux, Mayerling
Greta Garbo, Camille
Robert Montgomery, Night Must Fall
Maria Ouspenskaya, Conquest
Luise Rainer, The Good Earth
Joseph Schildkraut, The Life of Emile Zola
Dame May Whitty, Night Must Fall
Mathias Wieman, The Eternal Mask
Best Foreign Film
The Eternal Mask (Austria/Switzerland)
Runners-up (in order of preference)
The Lower Depths (France)
Baltic Deputy (U.S.S.R.)
Mayerling (France)
The Spanish Earth (Spain)
Golgotha (France)
Elephant Boy (U.K.)
Rembrandt (U.K.) Also on 1936 list.
Janosik (Czechoslovakia)
The Wedding of Palo (Greenland/Denmark)
New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 30, 1937. Awards presented on January 9th, 1938 at the Rainbow Room in New York. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993)
Best Picture
The Life of Emile Zola (won on ballot II)
Runner-up: Captains Courageous
Best Director
Gregory LaCava for Stage Door (won on ballot I)
Runner-up: Victor Fleming for Captains Courageous
Best Actor
Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (won on ballot XII)
Runner-up: Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous
Best Actress
Greta Garbo in Camille (won on ballot XII)
Runner-up: Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door
Best Foreign Film
Mayerling (France)
The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 6, 1938. Awards were presented on March 10, 1938 the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Sources Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar)
Best Picture
The Awful Truth, Columbia. Produced by Leo McCarey, with Everett Riskin.
Captains Courageous, MGM. Produced by Louis D. Lighton.
Dead End, Goldwyn, UA. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn, with Merritt Hulbert.
The Good Earth, MGM. Produced by Irving Thalberg, with Albert Lewin.
In Old Chicago, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, with Kenneth MacGowan.
The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros. Produced by Henry Blanke.
Lost Horizon, Columbia. Produced by Frank Capra.
100 Men and a Girl, Universal. Produced by Charles R. Rogers, with Joe Pasternak.
Stage Door, RKO Radio. Produced by Pando S. Berman.
A Star is Born, Selznick International, UA. Produced by David O' Selznick.
Best Director
William Dieterle for The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros.).
Sidney Franklin for The Good Earth (MGM).
Gregory La Cava for Stage Door (RKO Radio).
Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth (Columbia).
William Wellman for A Star is Born (Selznick International, UA).
Best Actor
Charles Boyer in Conquest (MGM).
Fredric March in A Star is Born (Selznick International, UA).
Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall (MGM).
Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros.).
Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous (MGM).
Best Actress
Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth (RKO Radio).
Greta Garbo in Camille (MGM).
Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born (Selznick International, UA).
Luise Rainer in The Good Earth (MGM).
Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas (Goldwyn, UA).
Best Supporting Actor
Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth (RKO Radio).
Thomas Mitchell in The Hurricane (Goldwyn, UA).
Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros.).
H.B. Warner in Lost Horizon (Columbia).
Roland Young in Topper (Roach, MGM).
Best Supporting Actress
Alice Brady in In Old Chicago (20th Century-Fox).
Andrea Leeds in Stage Door (RKO Radio).
Anne Shirley in Stella Dallas (Goldwyn, UA).
Claire Trevor in Dead End (Goldwyn, UA).
Dame Mae Whitty in Night Must Fall (MGM).
Best Assistant Director
C.C. Coleman, Jr. for Lost Horizon (Columbia).
Russ Saunders for The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros.).
Eric Stacey for A Star is Born (Selznick International, UA).
Hal Walker for Souls at Sea (Paramount).
Robert Webb for In Old Chicago (20th Century-Fox).
Writing (Original Story)
Black Legion, Warner Bros. Robert Lord.
In Old Chicago, 20th Century-Fox. Niven Busch.
The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros. Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg.
100 Men and a Girl, Universal. Hans Kraly.
A Star is Born, Selznick International, UA. William A. Wellman and Robert Carson.
Writing (Screenplay)
The Awful Truth, Columbia. Vina Delmar.
Captains Courageous, MGM. Marc Connolly, John Lee Mahin and Dale Van Every.
The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros. Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg and Norman Reilly Raine.
Stage Door, RKO Radio. Morris Ryskind and Anthony Veiller.
A Star is Born, Selznick International, UA. Alan Campbell, Robert Carson and Dorothy Parker.
Best Interior Decoration
Conquest, MGM. Cedric Gibbons and William Horning.
A Damsel in Distress, RKO Radio. Carroll Clark.
Dead End, Goldwyn, UA. Richard Day.
Every Day's a Holiday, Major Prods., Paramount. Wiard Ihnen.
The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros. Anton Grot.
Lost Horizon, Columbia. Stephen Goosson.
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, Republic. John Victor MacKay.
The Prisoner of Zenda, Selznick, UA. Lyle Wheeler.
Souls at Sea, Paramount. Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson.
Vogues of 1938, Wanger, UA. Alexander Toluboff.
Wee Willie Winkie, 20th Century-Fox. William S. Darling and David Hall.
You're a Sweetheart, Universal. Jack Otterson.
Best Cinematography
Dead End, Goldwyn, UA. Gregg Toland.
The Good Earth, MGM. Karl Freund.
Wings over Honolulu, Universal. Joseph Valentine.
Film Editing
The Awful Truth, Columbia. Al Clark.
Captains Courageous, MGM. Elmo Vernon.
The Good Earth, MGM. Basil Wrangell.
Lost Horizon, Columbia. Gene Havlick and Gene Milford.
100 Men and a Girl, Universal. Bernard W. Burton.
Best Song
"Remember Me" (Mr. Dodd Takes the Air, Warner Bros.); Music by Harry Warren. Lyrics by Al Dubin.
"Sweet Leilani" (Waikiki Wedding, Paramount); Music and Lyrics by Harry Owens.
"That Old Feeling" (Vogues of 1938, Wanger, UA); Music by Sammy Fain. Lyrics by Lew Brown.
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" (Shall We Dance, RKO Radio); Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
"Whispers in the Dark" (Artists and Models, Paramount); Music by Frederick Hollander. Lyrics by Leo Robin.
Best Score
The Hurricane, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Music Dept., Alfred Newman, head. Score by Alfred Newman.
In Old Chicago, 20th Century-Fox Studio Music Dept., Louis Silvers, head. Score: no composer credit.
The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros. Studio Music Dept., Leo Forbstein, head. Score by Max Steiner.
Lost Horizon, Columbia Studio Music Dept., Morris Stoloff, head. Score by Dimitri Tiomkin.
Make a Wish, Principal Productions: Lesser, RKO Radio. Dr. Hugo Riesenfield, musical director. Score by Dr. Hugo Riesenfield.
Maytime, MGM Studio Music Dept., Nat W. Finston, head. Score by Herbert Stothart.
100 Men and a Girl, Universal Studio Music Dept., Charles Previn, head. Score: no composer credit.
Portia on Trial, Republic Studio Music Dept., Alberto Colombo, head. Score by Alberto Colombo.
The Prisoner of Zenda, Selznick International Pictures Music Dept., Alfred Newman, musical director. Score by Alfred Newman.
Quality Street, RKO Radio Studio Music Dept., Roy Webb, musical director. Score by Roy Webb.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney Studio Music Dept., Leigh Harline, head. Score by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith.
Something to Sing About, Grand National Studio Music Dept., C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director. Score by Victor Schertzinger.
Souls at Sea, Paramount Studio Music Dept., Boris Morros, head. Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder.
Way Out West, Hal Roach Studio Music Dept., Marvin Hatley, head. Score by Marvin Hatley.
Best Sound Recording
The Girl Said No, Grand National. A. E. Kaye.
Hitting a New High, RKO Radio. John Aalberg.
The Hurricane, Goldwyn, UA. Thomas Moulton.
In Old Chicago, 20th Century-Fox. E.H. Hansen.
The Life of Emile Zola, Warner Bros. Nathan Levinson.
Lost Horizon, Columbia. John Livadary.
Maytime, MGM. Douglas Shearer.
100 Men and a Girl, Universal. Homer Tasker.
Best Dance Direction
Busby Berkeley for "The Finale" number from Varsity Show (Warner Bros.).
Bobby Connolly for "Too Marvelous for Words" number from Ready Willing and Able (Warner Bros.).
Dave Gould for "All God's Children Got Rhythm" number from A Day at the Races (MGM).
Sammy Lee for "Swing Is Here to Stay" number from Ali Baba Goes to Town (20th Century-Fox).
Harry Losee for "Prince Igor Suite" number from Thin Ice (20th Century-Fox).
Hermes Pan for "Fun House" number from Damsel in Distress (RKO Radio).
Leroy Prinz for "Luau" number from Waikiki Wedding (Paramount).
Best Short Subject Cartoon
Educated Fish, Paramount.
The Little Match Girl, Charles Mintz, Columbia.
The Old Mill, Walt Disney, RKO Radio.
Best One-Reel Short Subject
A Night at the Movies, MGM (Robert Benchley).
Private Life of the Gannetts, Educational.
Romance of Radium, Pete Smith, MGM (Pete Smith Specialties).
Best Two-Reel Short Subject
Deep South, RKO Radio (Radio Musical Comedies).
Should Wives Work, RKO Radio (Leon Errol Comedies).
Torture Money, MGM (Crime Doesn't Pay).
Best Color Short Subject
The Man Without a Country, Warner Bros. (Broadway Brevities).
Penny Wisdom, Pete Smith, MGM (Pete Smith Specialties).
Popular Science J-7-1, Paramount.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Darryl F. Zanuck.
Special Awards
Mack Sennett for lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius- Mack Sennett (statuette).
Edgar Bergen for his outstanding comedy creation, Charlie McCarthy (wooden statuette).
The Museum of Modern Art Film Library for its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts (scroll certificate).
W. Howard Greene for the color photography of A Star is Born. (This Award was recommended by a committee of leading cinematographers after viewing all the color pictures made during the year- plaque).
Scientific or Technical Awards
Class I (Statuette)
Agfa ANSCO Corp. for Agfa Supreme and Agfa Ultra Speed pan motion picture negatives.
Class II (Plaque)
Walt Disney Prods., Ltd., for the design and application to production of the Multi-Plane Camera.
Eastman Kodak Co. for two fine-grain duplicating film stocks.
Farciot Edouart and Paramount Pictures, Inc., for the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup.
Douglas Shearer and the MGM Studio Sound Department for a method of varying the scanning width of variable density sound tracks (squeeze tracks) for the purpose of obtaining an increased amount of noise reduction.
Class III (Citation)
John Arnold and the MGM Studio Camera Department for their improvement of the semi-automatic follow focus device and its application to all of the camera used by the MGM Studio.
John Livadary, Director of Sound Recording for Columbia Pictures Corp., for the application of the biplanar light valve to motion picture sound recording.
Thomas T. Moulton and the United Artists Studio Sound Department for the application to motion picture sound recording of volume indicators which have peak reading response and linear decibel scales.
RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., for the introduction of the modulated high-frequency method of determining optimum photographic processing conditions for variable width sound tracks.
Joseph E. Robbins and Paramount Pictures, Inc., for an exceptional application of acoustic principles to the sound-proofing of gasoline generators and water pumps.
Douglas Shearer and the MGM Studio Sound Department for the design of the film drive mechanism as incorporated in the ERPI 1010 reproducer.
Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)
Best Foreign Film:
Un Carnet de Bal, Julien Duvivier
Best Italian Film:
Scipione l'Africano, Carmine Gallone
Best Direction:
Robert Flaherty, Zoltan Korda, Elephant Boy
Best Actor:
Emil Jannings, Der Herrscher
Best Actress:
Bette Davis, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad
Best Artistic Ensemble:
La Grande Illusion
Best Film With Colonial Subject:
Sentinelle di Bronzo, Romolo Marcellini
Best Screenplay:
Sacha Guitry, Les Peries de la Couronne
Best Photography:
Peverell Marley, Winterset
Best Scientific Film:
Martin Rikli, Rontgenstrahlen
Best Animated Cartoon:
Walt Disney, Hawaiian Holiday; Music Land; Old Mill; Alpine Climbers; Country Cousin; Mickey's Polo Team
Best Documentary:
Walter Ruttman, Mannesmann
Best Film Interpreting Natural and Artistic Beauties:
Luis Trenker, Condottieri
Best First Screening:
Victoria the Great, Herbert Wilcox
The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg.)
The Life of Emile Zola
The Good Earth
Stage Door
Captains Courageous
They Won't Forget
Make Way for Tomorrow
I Met Him in Paris
A Star is Born
Camille
Lost Horizon
The Top Box-Office Hits of 1937 (According to Variety. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg. Totals were not listed.)
1937 Films listed on the 1936/37 list:
Artists and Models
Captains Courageous
The Good Earth
Green Light
I Met Him in Paris
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Lost Horizon
Love is News
Maytime
Mountain Music
The Road Back
Shall We Dance
Slave Ship
A Star is Born
Swing High, Swing Low
Wake Up and Live
Wee Willie Winkie
You Can't Have Everything
1937 Films listed on the 1937/38 list:
The Firefly
The Hurricane
In Old Chicago
Rosalie
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Wells Fargo
Ten Big Pictures of 1937 (Source: National Box Office Digest Annual, May 1938, with estimated gross listed):
1) A Star is Born- $3,650,000
2) Saratoga- $3,550,000
3) After the Thin Men (1936)- $3,350,000
4) The Awful Truth- $2,550,000 (not a typo- entered at #4 with $2,550,000)
5) Waikiki Wedding- $3,300,000
6) The Plainsman (1936)- $3,250,000
7) Thin Ice- $3,200,000
8) Maytime- $3,200,000
9) Lost Horizon- $3,150,000
10) One in a Million (1936)- $2,800,000
The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1937 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Shirley Temple
1) Shirley Temple
2) Clark Gable
3) Robert Taylor
4) Bing Crosby
5) William Powell
6) Jane Withers
7) Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers
8) Sonja Henie
9) Gary Cooper
10) Myrna Loy
The Next Fifteen:
11) Bob Burns
12) Martha Raye
13) Jeanette MacDonald
14) Dick Powell
15) Wallace Beery
16) Joan Crawford
17) Joe E. Brown
18) Spencer Tracy
19) Claudette Colbert
20) Eleanor Powell
21) Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
22) Jack Benny
23) Nelson Eddy
24) William Powell & Myrna Loy
25) Bob Burns & Martha Raye
The Top Ten Western Stars of 1937 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) George Autry
2) William Boyd
3) Buck Jones
4) Dick Foran
5) George O'Brien
6) Tex Ritter
7) Bob Steele
8) The Three Mesquiteers
9) Charles Starrett
10) Ken Maynard
The Top Ten Box-Offices Stars of 1937 in Britain (according to The Motion Picture Herald)
British Stars:
2) George Formby
3) Jessie Matthews
4) Will Hay
5) Jack Buchanan
6) George Arliss
7) Charles Laughton & Tom Walls (tie)
8) Anna Neagle
9) Jack Hulbert
10) Paul Robeson
International Stars:
1) Shirley Temple
2) Clark Gable
3) Gracie Fields
4) Gary Cooper
5) George Formby
6) William Powell
7) Jeanette MacDonald
8) Robert Taylor
9) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
10) Laurel & Hardy
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