1936 CinSpec Awards

Winners indicated (*). I still need to see films like Anthony Adverse, Three Smart Girls, Intermezzo, La Belle Équipe, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, The Lower Depths, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Valiant is the Word for Carrie, Theodora Goes Wild, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Anything Goes, Desire, Mayerling, The Only Son, The Road to Glory, La Tendre Ennemie, Things to Come, The Devil-Doll, The Trouble With Money, Winterset, and The Gorgeous Hussy.

Modern Times

BEST PICTURE:
A Day in the Country
Modern Times*
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
My Man Godfrey
Sabotage

BEST DIRECTOR:
Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Charles Chaplin, Modern Times*
Alfred Hitchcock, Sabotage
Fritz Lang, Fury
Jean Renoir, A Day in the Country

My Man Godfrey

BEST ACTOR:
Charles Chaplin, Modern Times
Gary Cooper, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Walter Huston, Dodsworth
William Powell, My Man Godfrey*
Spencer Tracy, Fury

BEST ACTRESS:
Jean Arthur, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Paulette Goddard, Modern Times
Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey*
Myrna Loy, Libeled Lady
Silvia Sidney, Fury

Sabotage

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Humphrey Bogart, The Petrified Forest
Oscar Homolka, Sabotage*
Peter Lorre, Secret Agent
Eugene Pallette, My Man Godfrey
Spencer Tracy, San Francisco

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Mary Astor, Dodsworth
Bonita Granville, These Three*
Myrna Loy, The Great Ziegfeld
Luise Rainer, The Great Ziegfeld
Blanche Yurka, A Tale of Two Cities

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
After the Thin Man
Dodsworth
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town*
My Man Godfrey
Sabotage

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Bullets or Ballots
Fury
Libeled Lady
Modern Times*
Swing Time

A Day in the Country

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
A Day in the Country
Fury
Modern Times*
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Secret Agent

BEST FILM EDITING:
Bullets or Ballots
Fury
Modern Times
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Sabotage*

Fury

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
A Day in the Country
Fury
Modern Times*
Sabotage
A Tale of Two Cities

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"A Fine Romance", Swing Time
"San Francisco", San Francisco
"The Way You Look Tonight", Swing Time*

Additional Categories

The Great Ziegfeld

BEST ART DIRECTION:
The Great Ziegfeld
Modern Times
Rembrandt
San Francisco
A Tale of Two Cities*

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
The Great Ziegfeld*
Rembrandt
Romeo and Juliet
Show Boat
A Tale of Two Cities

San Francisco

BEST MAKEUP:
The Great Ziegfeld
Rembrandt*
The Story of Louis Pasteur

BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
Bullets or Ballots
The Great Ziegfeld
The Petrified Forest
San Francisco*
Swing Time

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Modern Times
San Francisco*
Secret Agent