THE HAMILTON AWARDS: 1936
BEST PICTUREBEST DIRECTOR
Fury (MGM)Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Libeled Lady (MGM)Charles Chaplin for Modern Times
Modern Times (United Artists)Alfred Hitchcock for Sabotage
* Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Columbia)* Fritz Lang for Fury
Sabotage (Gaumont)Leni Riefenstahl for Olympia, Part 1 & 2 (Olympia 1. Teil-Fest der Völker
andOlympia 2. Teil-Fest der Schönheit)
BEST ACTORBEST ACTRESS
Charles Chaplin for Modern TimesJean Arthur for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
* Gary Cooper for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* Paulette Goddard for Modern Times
Errol Flynn for The Charge of the Light BrigadeJean Harlow for Libeled Lady
William Powell for My Man GodfreySylvia Sidney for Fury
Spencer Tracy for FurySylvia Sidney for Sabotage
BEST SUPPORTING ACTORBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
* Humphrey Bogart for The Petrified ForestLucy Beaumont for The Devil Doll
Patric Knowles for The Charge of the Light BrigadeAlice Brady for My Man Godfrey
Peter Lorre for Secret AgentHelen Broderick for Swing Time
Paul Robeson for Show Boat* Myrna Loy for Libeled Lady
James Stewart for After the Thin ManLilli Palmer for Secret Agent
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
* Charles Chaplin for Modern TimesCharles Bennett for Sabotage
Michel Jacoby, Rowland Leigh for The Charge of the Light BrigadeBartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang for Fury
Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmet Rogers, George Oppenheimer for Libeled LadyOscar Hammerstein II for Show Boat * Robert Riskin for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch for My Man Godfrey
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHYBEST FILM EDITING
Sol Polito for The Charge of the Light BrigadeGeorge Amy for The Charge of the Light Brigade
George Robinson for Dracula’s DaughterCharles Frend for Sabotage
Rollie Totheroh, Ira Morgan for Modern TimesCharles Frend for Secret Agent
Joseph Walker for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* Leni Riefenstahl for Olympia, Part 1 & 2 (Olympia 1. Teil-Fest der Völker and
* Willy Otto Zielke, Hans Ertl, Walter Frentz, Guzzi Lantschner, Olympia 2. Teil-Fest der Schönheit)
Kurt Neubert, Hans Scheib for Olympia, Part 1 & 2Frank Sullivan for Fury
(Olympia 1. Teil-Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil-Fest der Schönheit)
BEST COSTUME DESIGNBEST SONG
* Milo Anderson for The Charge of the Light Brigade“A Fine Romance” (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields) from Swing Time
Orry-Kelly for The Petrified Forest“Pick Yourself Up” (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields) from Swing Time
Joe Strassner for Sabotage* “The Way You Look Tonight” (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields) from Swing Time
Joe Strassner for Secret Agent
Vera West, Doris Zinkeisen for Show Boat
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCOREBEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL/COMEDY SCORE AND/OR ADAPTATION
Louis Levy for SabotageWilliam Axt for Libeled Lady
* Max Steiner for The Charge of the Light BrigadeVictor Baravalle, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II for Show Boat
Dimitri Tiomkin for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* Charles Chaplin for Modern Times
Franz Waxman for The Devil DollFrank Skinner for My Man Godfrey
Franz Waxman for Fury
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGNBEST MAKE-UP DESIGN
After the Thin Man - Cedric Gibbons, Harry McAfee, Edwin B. WillisDracula’s Daughter - Jack Pierce, Otto Lederer
* The Charge of the Light Brigade - John Hughes* Show Boat - Jack Pierce
Dracula’s Daughter - Albert S. D’Agostino
Secret Agent - Otto Werndorff, Albert Jullion
Show Boat - Charles D. Hall
BEST VISUAL EFFECTSBEST SOUND MIXING
The Charge of the Light BrigadeThe Charge of the Light Brigade
* The Devil DollMr. Deeds Goes to Town
Modern TimesModern Times
Sabotage* Olympia, Part 1 & 2 (Olympia 1. Teil-Fest der Völker and
Swing TimeOlympia 2. Teil-Fest der Schönheit)
Swing Time
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMBEST DOCUMENTARYBEST ANIMATED FILM
* Olympia, Part 1&2 (Olympia 1. Teil-Fest der Völker and* Olympia, Part 1&2(Olympia 1. Teil-Fest der Völkerno award given
(Olympia 2. Teil-Fest der Schönheit) (Germany) andOlympia 2. Teil-Fest der Schönheit)
HALL OF FAME
Alan Crosland(1894-1936) (Director) (Don Juan, The Beloved Rogue, Old San Francisco, The Jazz Singer, The Scarlet Lady, The Furies, The Song of the Flame, The Silver Lining, Midnight Alibi)
Irving Thalberg(1899-1936) (Producer) (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Big Parade, Ben-Hur, London After Midnight, Freaks, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty)
Henry B. Walthall(1878-1936) (Actor) (The Birth of a Nation, The Raven, The Birth of a Man, The Scarlet Letter, Wings, London After Midnight, Abraham Lincoln, Tol’able David, The Devil-Doll)