THE HAMILTON AWARDS: 1937
BEST PICTUREBEST DIRECTOR
The Awful Truth (Columbia)* Frank Capra for Lost Horizon
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)(R.A.C. (Réalisation d'art cinématographique))John Cromwell for The Prisoner of Zenda
* Lost Horizon (Columbia)Alfred Hitchcock for Young and Innocent
The Prisoner of Zenda (United Artists)Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney Pictures/Buena Vista)Jean Renoir for Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)
BEST ACTORBEST ACTRESS
* Ronald Colman for Lost HorizonConstance Bennett for Topper
Ronald Colman for The Prisoner of Zenda* Madeleine Carroll for The Prisoner of Zenda
Jean Gabin for Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)Irene Dunne for The Awful Truth
Cary Grant for The Awful TruthJanet Gaynor for A Star is Born
Henry Fonda for You Only Live Once Sylvia Sidney for You Only Live Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTORBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ralph Bellamy for The Awful Truth* Mary Astor for The Prisoner of Zenda
* Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. for The Prisoner of ZendaBillie Burke for Topper
Edward Everett Horton for Lost HorizonMargaret Dumont for A Day at the Races
Sam Jaffe for Lost HorizonVivien Leigh for Fire Over England
Claude Rains for The Prisoner of ZendaJane Wyatt for Lost Horizon
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne for You Only Live OnceJohn L. Balderston, Wells Root, Donald Ogden Stewart for The Prisoner of Zenda
Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson for A Star is BornVina Delmar for The Awful Truth
Robert Pirosh, George Seaton,George Oppenheimer for A Day at the RacesJack Jevne, Eddie Moran, Eric Hatch for Topper
* Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir for Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)A.R. Rawlinson, Charles Bennett, Ralph Spence for King Solomon’s Mines
* Robert Riskin for Lost Horizon
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHYBEST FILM EDITING
W. Howard Greene for A Star is BornAl Clark for The Awful Truth
James Wong Howe for Fire Over England* Gene Havlick, Gene Milford for Lost Horizon
James Wong Howe for The Prisoner of ZendaHal C. Kern, James E. Newcom for The Prisoner of Zenda
Glen MacWilliams for King Solomon’s MinesDaniel Mandell for You Only Live Once
* Joseph Walker for Lost HorizonMarguerite Renoir for Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)
BEST COSTUME DESIGNBEST SONG
Milo Anderson for The Prince and the Pauper“Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin) from Shall We Dance
* Ernest Dryden for Lost Horizon“Someday my Prince Will Come” (Frank Churchill/Larry Morey)
Ernest Dryden for The Prisoner of Zendafrom Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
René Hubert for Fire Over England“They All Laughed” (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin) from Shall We Dance
Omar Kiam for A Star is Born“They Can’t Take That Away from Me” (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)
from Shall We Dance
* “Whistle While You Work” (Frank Churchill/Larry Morey)
fromSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCOREBEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL/COMEDY SCORE AND/OR ADAPTATION
Joseph Kosma for Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)George Bassman for A Day at the Races
Erich Wolfgang Korngold for The Prince and the Pauper* Leigh Harline, Frank Churchill, Paul Smith for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
* Alfred Newman for The Prisoner of ZendaT. Marvin Hatley for Topper
Max Steiner for A Star is BornT. Marvin Hatley for Way Out West
Dimitri Tiomkin for Lost Horizon
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGNBEST MAKE-UP DESIGN
The Awful Truth - BabsJohnstoneGrand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) - Raffels
Fire Over England - LazareMeerson, Frank Wells* Way Out West - Jack Dawn
* Lost Horizon - Stephen Goosson
The Prince and the Pauper - Robert Haas
The Prisoner of Zenda - Lyle Wheeler
BEST VISUAL EFFECTSBEST SOUND MIXING
Fire Over EnglandKing Solomon’s Mines
King Solomon’s Mines* Lost Horizon
* Lost HorizonThe Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of ZendaTopper
TopperSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMBEST DOCUMENTARYBEST ANIMATED FILM
* Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (France)no award given* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
HALL OF FAME
George Gershwin (1898-1937) (Composer) (The King of Jazz, The Song of the Flame, Delicious, Girl Crazy, The Flame Song, Shall We Dance, A Damsel in Distress, The Goldwin Follies)
Jean Harlow(1911-1937) (Actress) (Hell’s Angels, The Public Enemy, Goldie, Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Bombshell, Reckless, China Seas, Riffraff, Suzy, Libeled Lady, Saratoga)
Max Schreck(1879-1936) (Actor) (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror, The Street, The Mysteries of a Hairdresser’s Shop, Luther, At the Edge of the World, Rasputin: The Holy Devil, The Tunnel)