Best Films – 1936

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Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat
Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat

FILM

Follow the Fleet
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor

Fury
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang

Libeled Lady
d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin

My Man Godfrey
d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch

Le Roman d’un tricheur / The Story of a Cheat
d, scr: Sacha Guitry

Show Boat
d: James Whale; scr: Oscar Hammerstein II

Theodora Goes Wild
d: Richard Boleslawsky; scr: Sidney Buchman

These Three
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman

 

Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton in Dodsworth
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton in Dodsworth

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César
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol

Club de femmes
d, scr: Jacques Deval

Desire
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young, Samuel Hoffenstein

Dodsworth
d: William Wyler; scr: Sidney Howard

Partie de campagne / A Day in the Country
d, scr: Jean Renoir

The Petrified Forest
d: Archie Mayo; scr: Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves

The Plainsman
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: Waldemar Young, Harold Lamb, Lynn Riggs

Romeo and Juliet
d: George Cukor; scr: Talbot Jennings

Swing Time
d: George Stevens; scr: Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott

 

William Powell, Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey
William Powell, Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey

ACTOR

Gary Cooper
Desire

Gary Cooper
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Gary Cooper
The Plainsman

Melvyn Douglas
Theodora Goes Wild

Sacha Guitry
Le Roman d’un tricheur

Leslie Howard
The Petrified Forest

Walter Huston
Dodsworth

William Powell
Libeled Lady

William Powell
My Man Godfrey

Raimu
César

 

Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

ACTRESS

Jean Arthur
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Jean Arthur
The Plainsman

Irene Dunne
Show Boat

Irene Dunne
Theodora Goes Wild

Miriam Hopkins
These Three

Carole Lombard
Love Before Breakfast

Carole Lombard
My Man Godfrey

Ginger Rogers
Follow the Fleet

Norma Shearer
Romeo and Juliet

Sylvia Sidney
Fury

 

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mischa Auer
My Man Godfrey

John Barrymore
Romeo and Juliet

Douglas Dumbrille
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Eugene Pallette
My Man Godfrey

Claude Rains
Anthony Adverse

Basil Rathbone
Romeo and Juliet

Arthur Treacher
Stowaway

H. B. Warner
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

 

Paulette Goddard in Modern Times
Paulette Goddard in Modern Times

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Alice Brady
My Man Godfrey

Spring Byington
Theodora Goes Wild

Catherine Doucet
These Three

Paulette Goddard
Modern Times

Harriet Hilliard
Follow the Fleet

Hattie McDaniel
Show Boat

Marguerite Moreno
Le Roman d’un tricheur

Luise Rainer
The Great Ziegfeld

Elizabeth Risdon
Theodora Goes Wild

Gale Sondergaard
Anthony Adverse

 

Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet
Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet

CINEMATOGRAPHY

William H. Daniels
Romeo and Juliet

Robert de Grasse
A Woman Rebels

Tony Gaudio
Anthony Adverse

Bert Glennon
The Prisoner of Shark Island

W. Howard Greene, Harold Rosson
The Garden of Allah

Oliver T. Marsh, Ray June, George J. Folsey
The Great Ziegfeld

Rudolph Maté
Dodsworth

Claude Renoir, Jean Bourgoin
Partie de campagne

Sol Polito, Fred Jackman
The Charge of the Light Brigade

Gregg Toland
These Three

 

MUSIC

Joseph Kosma
Partie de campagne

Charles Chaplin
Modern Times

Herbert Stothart
Romeo and Juliet

 

SONG SCORE

Irving Berlin
Follow the Fleet

Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields
Swing Time

 

SHORT FILM

Double or Nothing
d: Roy Mack

 

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