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The Academy Award for Best Dance Direction was presented from 1935 to 1937, after which it was discontinued due to pressure from the directors' branch. It is the only category for which a Marx Brothers film received an Oscar nomination, for the dance number All God's Chillun Got Rhythm in A Day at the Races (1937).
Feb 5, 2014 · Busby Berkeley – “Love and War” number – Gold Diggers of 1937. Bobby Connolly – “1000 Love Songs” number – Cain and Mabel. Seymour Felix – “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” number – The Great Ziegfeld. Dave Gould – “Swingin’ the Jinx” number – Born to Dance.
* Dance Direction - "I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling" from "Broadway Melody of 1936" Outstanding Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Writing (Original Story) - Moss Hart
1. Broadway Melody of 1936. 1935 1h 41m Approved. 6.7 (2K) Rate. A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist. Director Roy Del Ruth W.S. Van Dyke Stars Jack Benny Eleanor Powell Robert Taylor.
Five of the ten Best Picture nominees in 1936 were MGM pictures: The Great Ziegfeld, Libeled Lady, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, and A Tale of Two Cities. In the mid-1930s, the trend was toward major film biographies (or biopics), and there were two among the Best Picture nominees in 1936.
On March 5, 1936, the 8th Annual Academy Awards were presented at the Biltmore Hotel in a ceremony presided over by Frank Capra, a man who had been embarrassed at the sixth ceremony and greatly rewarded at the seventh.
Feb 8, 2014 · 31 Days of Oscar classic film fred astaire hermes pan musical oscars. Best Dance Direction—aka the award for outstanding choreography in a motion picture—is one that should have lasted for much longer than it actually did.
