1937 Shortlist [deadline Feb 29th]

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Best Film
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
A Day at the Races
La grande illusion
Lost Horizon
Make Way for Tomorrow
Ninjô kami fûsen / Humanity and Paper Balloons
Pépé le Moko
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Zu Neuen Ufern / To New Shores

Best Director
Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)
Leo McCarey (Make Way for Tomorrow)
Frank Capra (Lost Horizon)
Jean Renoir (La grande illusion)
Julien Duvivier (Pepe le Moko)

Best Actor
Cary Grant (The Awful Truth)
Jean Gabin (Pépé le Moko)
Paul Muni (The Life of Emile Zola)
Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
Victor Moore (Make Way for Tomorrow)

Best Actress
Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)
Beulah Bondi (Make Way for Tomorrow)
Ginger Rogers (Stage Door)
Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth)
Jean Arthur (Easy Living)

Best Supporting Actor
Asta, aka Skippy (The Awful Truth)
Erich von Stroheim (La grande illusion)
Jean Gabin (La grande illusion)
Marcel Dalio (La grande illusion)

Best Supporting Actress
Ann Miller (Stage Door)
Bette Davis (Kid Galahad)
Dita Parlo (La grande illusion)
Maureen O'Sullivan (A Day at the Races)
Michiko Kuwano (Shukujo Wa Nani o Wasureta Ka / What Did the Lady Forget)

Best Writing
The Awful Truth
Dead End
La grande illusion
Make Way for Tomorrow
You Only Live Once

Best Cinematography
The Good Earth
La grande illusion
Lost Horizon
Pépé le moko
You Only Live Once

Best Music
Dimitri Tiomkin (Lost Horizon)
Frank Churchill, Paul Smith & Leigh Harline (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
George Gershwin (Shall We Dance)

Best Short Film
Clock Cleaners (Ben Sharpsteen)
Little Hiawatha (David Hand)
The Little Match Girl (Arthur Davis)
The Old Mill (Wilfred Jackson)
Trade Tattoo (Len Lye)

Best Documentary
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage
The Spanish Earth

notes - low turnout for the supporting acting slots. usually 5 pts doesn't get you in but for supporting actress there was only one with >5 pts so I included all the 5pts otherwise it would've been a declared win for Dita. There was an annoying tie for 5th best actor slot, Grant got it over Bartholomew & Fonda due to having 3 separate votes.
For director I had to assume weirdboy was giving points to McCarey for Awful Truth and Duvivier for Pepe. If that was wrong it'll mess up the numbers and cause awkward ties, so let's say it's right


All film nominees, ranked by points: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls033276636/

[Lammetje]

Is this the first time an animal makes it to the shortlist?

[brokenface]

Is this the first time an animal makes it to the shortlist?

I think that was Klaus Kinski. Asta is the first dog.

[Caracortada]

Who's supposed to be the male leading role in "La Grande Illusion"? They're all nominated as supporting role, including Jean Gabin.

[brokenface]

Been too long since I seen it to remember exactly how much screentime they get but Gabin's the biggest role, for sure. Some people nominated him in lead but he got more points as support.

He got nominated lead for Pepe le Moko too, so he can't complain too much

[Fergenaprido]

I just watched it this month; I would definitely consider Gabin the lead, with the aristocratic French officer as a potential co-lead. Everyone else I would consider supporting.

[sushantv10]

Its Basically

La grande illusion
Vs
Make Way for Tomorrow