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The 1936 Retro Nominees Are...

I've written a lot about these films by now. You've seen my write-ups of Oscar's nominees, you've seen the Top Ten, you've seen the full list of 71 films screened. Only 31 of those films are named here. In 18 categories, these are the nominees for the 1936 Retro Hollmann Awards:


Best Original Song

Follow the Fleet - "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan"
music and lyrics by Irving Berlin

San Francisco - "San Francisco"
music by Bronislau Kaper and Walter Jurmann
lyrics by Gus Kahn

Show Boat - "I Still Suits Me"
music by Jerome Kern
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Swing Time - "A Fine Romance"
music by Jerome Kern
lyrics by Dorothy Fields

Swing Time - "The Way You Look Tonight"
music by Jerome Kern
lyrics by Dorothy Fields


Best Actor
Errol Flynn as Major Geoffrey Vickers
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Clark Gable as Blackie Norton
San Francisco
Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth
Dodsworth
Charles Laughton as Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt
Spencer Tracy as Joe Wilson
Fury


Best Ensemble
Ah, Wilderness!
Anything Goes
Banjo on My Knee
Moonlight Murder
These Three


Best Supporting Actor
John Barrymore as Mercutio
Romeo and Juliet
Leo Carrillo as Gino D'Acosta
Moonlight Murder
Roger Livesey as Beggar Saul
Rembrandt
Basil Rathbone as Tybalt
Romeo and Juliet
Paul Robeson as Joe
Show Boat


Best Visual Effects
Ceiling Zero
Fred Jackman, special effects
The Devil-Doll
The Invisible Ray
John P. Fulton, special cinematographer
Raymond Lindsay, special effects
San Francisco
James Basevi / Russell A. Cully / A. Arnold Gillespie, special effects
Max Fabian, special photographic effects
Things to Come
Ned Mann, special effects director
Edward Cohen, special effects photographer
George J. Teague, special photographic effects
Ross Jacklin / Harry Zech, special effects


Best Sound

The Charge of the Light Brigade
Harold Hanks, sound recordist
Nathan Levinson / C.A. Riggs, sound

The Great Ziegfeld
Douglas Shearer, recording director

San Francisco
Douglas Shearer, recording director

Swing Time
Hugh McDowell, Jr., recordist
George Marsh, sound cutter

A Tale of Two Cities
Douglas Shearer, recording director


Best Adapted Screenplay
After the Thin Man
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
from characters created by Dashiell Hammett
Ah, Wilderness!
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
from the play by Eugene O'Neill
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh
story by Michael Jacoby
from the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dodsworth
Sidney Howard
from his play and the novel by Sinclair Lewis
These Three
Lillian Hellman
from her play The Children's Hour


Best Score
Anthony Adverse
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Devil-Doll
Franz Waxman
Dracula's Daughter
Heinz Roemheld
The Garden of Allah
Max Steiner
Modern Times
Charles Chaplin


Best Supporting Actress
Mary Astor as Edith Cortright
Dodsworth
Bonita Granville as Mary Tilford
These Three
Luise Rainer as Anna Held
The Great Ziegfeld
Elisabeth Risdon as Aunt Mary
Theodora Goes Wild
Blanche Yurka as Madame Therese De Farge
A Tale of Two Cities


Best Production Design
Anthony Adverse
Anton Grot, art direction
The Charge of the Light Brigade
John Hughes, art direction
Dodsworth
Richard Day, art direction
Sydney Moore, set decoration
Modern Times
Charles D. Hall, production design
J. Russell Spencer, settings
Things to Come
Vincent Korda, settings designer


Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Devil-Doll
Robert J. Schiffer, makeup artist
The Great Ziegfeld
Norbert A. Myles / Robert J. Schiffer, makeup artists
Max Factor, wig supervisor
The Green Pastures
Rembrandt
Stuart Freeborn, makeup artist
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Clay Campbell / Norbert A. Myles, makeup artists


Best Costume Design
The Garden of Allah
Ernest Dryden
The Green Pastures
Milo Anderson
Romeo and Juliet
Adrian / Oliver Messel
Show Boat
Doris Zinkeisen
Theodora Goes Wild
Bernard Newman


Best Director
Richard Boleslawski
The Garden of Allah
Charles Chaplin
Modern Times
Fritz Lang
Fury
W.S. Van Dyke
San Francisco
William Wyler
Dodsworth


Best Actress
Ruth Chatterton as Fran Dodsworth
Dodsworth
Irene Dunne as Theodora Lynn
Theodora Goes Wild
Paulette Goddard as A Gamin
Modern Times
Myrna Loy as Connie Allenbury
Libeled Lady
Jeanette MacDonald as Mary Blake
San Francisco


Best Film Editing

The Charge of the Light Brigade
George Amy

Fury
Frank Sullivan

Modern Times
Charles Chaplin / Willard Nico

Swing Time
Henry Berman

San Francisco
Tom Held


Best Cinematography
Dodsworth
Rudolph Maté
The Garden of Allah
W. Howard Greene / Virgil Miller / Harold Rosson
Mary of Scotland
Joseph H. August
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Bert Glennon
San Francisco
Oliver T. Marsh


Best Original Screenplay

Fury
Bartlett Cormack and Fritz Lang
story by Norman Krasna

Modern Times
Charles Chaplin

Moonlight Murder
Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
story by Albert J. Cohen and Robert T. Shannon

Rembrandt
Carl Zuckmayer
scenario by June Head

Theodora Goes Wild
Sidney Buchman
story by Mary Eunice McCarthy


Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Charge of the Light Brigade
produced by Hal B. Wallis / Harry M. Warner / Jack L. Warner
Dodsworth
produced by Samuel Goldwyn
Fury
produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Modern Times
produced by Charles Chaplin
San Francisco
produced by John Emerson / Bernard H. Hyman


San Francisco leads with nine nominations. The awards will be given out over a two-day period, starting Thursday.

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