Best Films – 1937

Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille
FILM
The Awful Truth
d, scr: Leo McCarey
Camille
d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins
The Hurricane
d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe
Lost Horizon
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Night Must Fall
d: Richard Thorpe; scr: John Van Druten
Les Perles de la couronne / Pearls of the Crown
d: Sacha Guitry, Christian-Jacque; scr: Sacha Guitry
The Prisoner of Zenda
d: John Cromwell; scr: Wells Root, John G. Balderstone, Donald Ogden Stewart
Quality Street
d: George Stevens; scr: Mortimer Offner, Allan Scott
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
d: David Hand; scr: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon and others
A Star Is Born
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson

Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers in Stage Door
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Dead End
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
The Great Garrick
d: James Whale; scr: Ernest Vajda
Mannequin
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Lawrence Hazard
Maytime
d: Robert Z. Leonard; scr: Noel Langley
Stage Door
d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller
Topper
d: Norman Z. McLeod; scr: Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch, Eddie Moran

Irene Dunne, Cary Grant in The Awful Truth
ACTOR
Brian Aherne
The Great Garrick
Ronald Colman
Lost Horizon
Ronald Colman
The Prisoner of Zenda
Cary Grant
The Awful Truth
Sacha Guitry
Les Perles de la couronne
Fredric March
A Star Is Born
Joel McCrea
Dead End
Robert Montgomery
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Robert Montgomery
Night Must Fall
William Powell
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Janet Gaynor in A Star Is Born
ACTRESS
Constance Bennett
Topper
Joan Crawford
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Joan Crawford
Mannequin
Irene Dunne
The Awful Truth
Greta Garbo
Camille
Janet Gaynor
A Star Is Born
Katharine Hepburn
Quality Street
Carole Lombard
True Confession
Luise Rainer
The Good Earth
Sylvia Sidney
Dead End

Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion
SUPPORTING ACTOR
John Barrymore
Maytime
Colin Clive
History Is Made at Night
Henry Daniell
Camille
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
The Prisoner of Zenda
Neil Fitzgerald
Parnell
Pierre Fresnay
La Grande illusion / Grand Illusion
Etienne Girardot
The Great Garrick
Alan Mowbray
Topper
Erich von Stroheim
La Grande illusion
Ermete Zacconi
Les Perles de la couronne
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Eve Arden
Stage Door
Arletty
Les Perles de la couronne
Alice Brady
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Kathleen Harrison
Night Must Fall
Maria Ouspenskaya
Conquest
May Robson
A Star Is Born
Merle Tottenham
Night Must Fall
Claire Trevor
Dead End
Dame May Whitty
Night Must Fall
Cora Witherspoon
Quality Street

Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald in Maytime
CINEMATOGRAPHY
William H. Daniels
Camille
Karl Freund
Conquest
Karl Freund
The Good Earth
Karl Freund
Parnell
Bert Glennon
The Hurricane
James Wong Howe
The Prisoner of Zenda
Ray June
Night Must Fall
Oliver T. Marsh
Maytime
Gregg Toland
Dead End
Joseph Walker
Lost Horizon
MUSIC
Alfred Newman
The Hurricane
Alfred Newman
The Prisoner of Zenda
Herbert Stothart
Camille
Dmitri Tiomkin
Lost Horizon
Edward Ward
Night Must Fall
Roy Webb
Quality Street
SHORT FILM
The Old Mill
d: Wilfred Jackson
Penny Wisdom
d: David Miller
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