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It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture for producer Hunt Stromberg, Best Actress for Luise Rainer, and Best Dance Direction for Seymour Felix, and was nominated for four others.
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer and Frank Capra. Best Actor winner for The Story of Louis Pasteur, Best Actress winner for The Great Ziegfeld, and Best Directing winner for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. View More Memorable Moments.
Best Actress in a Leading Role. Luise Rainer. 1937 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. Robert Z. Leonard. 1937 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Original Story. William Anthony McGuire. 1937 Nominee Oscar.
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Anthony Adverse – Warner Bros. Dodsworth – Samuel Goldwyn Productions The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Libeled Lady – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Columbia Romeo and Juliet – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer San Francisco – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Story of Louis Pasteur – Cosmopolitan A Tale of Two Cities – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Three Smar...
Dodsworth – William Wyler The Great Ziegfeld – Robert Z. Leonard Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Frank Capra My Man Godfrey – Gregory La Cava San Francisco– W. S. Van Dyke
Anthony Adverse – William Cannon The Charge of the Light Brigade – Jack Sullivan The Garden of Allah – Eric G. Stacey The Last of the Mohicans – Clem Beauchamp San Francisco– Joseph Newman
Busby Berkeley – “Love and War” number – Gold Diggers of 1937 Bobby Connolly – “1000 Love Songs” number – Cain and Mabel Seymour Felix – “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” number – The Great Ziegfeld Dave Gould – “Swingin’ the Jinx” number – Born to Dance Jack Haskell – “Skating Ensemble” number – One in a Million Russell Lewis – “The Finale” number ...
Gary Cooper – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Walter Huston – Dodsworth Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur William Powell – My Man Godfrey Spencer Tracy – San Francisco
Irene Dunne – Theodora Goes Wild Gladys George – Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld Norma Shearer – Romeo and Juliet
Mischa Auer – My Man Godfrey Walter Brennan – Come and Get It Stuart Erwin – Pigskin Parade Basil Rathbone – Romeo and Juliet Akim Tamiroff – The General Died at Dawn
Beulah Bondi – The Gorgeous Hussy Alice Brady – My Man Godfrey Bonita Granville – These Three Maria Ouspenskaya – Dodsworth Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse
Fury – Norman Krasna The Great Ziegfeld – William Anthony McGuire San Francisco – Robert Hopkins The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney Three Smart Girls– Adele Comandini
“Did I Remember” – Suzy – Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyrics by Harold Adamson “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” – Born to Dance – Music, Lyrics by Cole Porter “A Melody From The Sky” – Trail of the Lonesome Pine – Music by Louis Alter; Lyrics by Sidney Mitchell “Pennies From Heaven” – Pennies from Heaven – Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyrics by Johnny Burk...
The Great Ziegfeld was not a popular choice for Best Picture among members of the press, who felt that voters had been brainwashed by its lush gaudiness; they also felt that Luise Rainer's win of Best Actress for her performance was unjustified due to the short length of her role in the film.
[Only a handful of actors/actresses have won two consecutive acting awards: Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Spencer Tracy for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938); Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968); Jason Robards for Best Supporting Actor for ...
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Feb 8, 2013 · Some say she won because of the $2 million budget MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer spent on the film (though this doesn’t make since to me, since it also won Best Picture). Others say it’s because of the broken hearted telephone call to Ziegfeld, congratulating him on his marriage to Billie Burke.
