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The Academy Award for Best Dance Direction was presented from 1935 to 1937, after which it was discontinued due to pressure from the directors' branch. It is the only category for which a Marx Brothers film received an Oscar nomination, for the dance number All God's Chillun Got Rhythm in A Day at the Races (1937).
YearFilm (s)Dance Number (s)Nominees1935 (8th) [1]Broadway Melody of 1936 Folies Bergère de ..."I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling" ...1935 (8th) [1]All the King's Horses The Big Broadcast ..."Viennese Waltz" "It's the Animal in Me"1935 (8th) [1]Broadway Hostess Go into Your Dance"Playboy from Paree" "Latin from ...1935 (8th) [1]"Lullaby of Broadway" "The Words Are in ...1. Broadway Melody of 1936. 1935 1h 41m Approved. 6.7 (2K) Rate. A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist. Director Roy Del Ruth W.S. Van Dyke Stars Jack Benny Eleanor Powell Robert Taylor.
* Dance Direction - "I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling" from "Broadway Melody of 1936" Outstanding Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Writing (Original Story) - Moss Hart
Five of the ten Best Picture nominees in 1936 were MGM pictures: The Great Ziegfeld, Libeled Lady, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, and A Tale of Two Cities. In the mid-1930s, the trend was toward major film biographies (or biopics), and there were two among the Best Picture nominees in 1936.
- Outstanding Production
- Directing
- Assistant Director
- Dance Direction
- Actor
- Actress
- Actor in A Supporting Role
- Actress in A Supporting Role
- Writing
- Music
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...
Dance Direction Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners in the category of Dance Direction. The symbol appears next to the winner for each year.
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Feb 8, 2014 · Best Dance Direction—aka the award for outstanding choreography in a motion picture—is one that should have lasted for much longer than it actually did.
