Best Films – 1937

Irene Dunne, Cary Grant in The Awful Truth

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

CHECK THESE OUT

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

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

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

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