Academy Award for Best Dance Direction

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).

Winners and nominees

Year	Film(s)	Dance number(s)	Nominees
1935 (8th) [1]
	Broadway Melody of 1936 Folies Bergère de Paris	"I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling" "Straw Hat"	Dave Gould
	All the King's Horses The Big Broadcast of 1936	"Viennese Waltz" "It's the Animal in Me"	LeRoy Prinz
	Broadway Hostess Go into Your Dance	"Playboy from Paree" "Latin from Manhattan"	Bobby Connolly
	Gold Diggers of 1935	"Lullaby of Broadway" "The Words Are in My Heart"	Busby Berkeley
	King of Burlesque	"Lovely Lady" "Too Good to Be True"	Sammy Lee
	She	"Hall of Kings"	Benjamin Zemach
	Top Hat	"Piccolino" "Top Hat"	Hermes Pan
1936 (9th) [2]
	The Great Ziegfeld	"A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody"	Seymour Felix
	Born to Dance	"Swingin' the Jinx Away"	Dave Gould
	Cain and Mabel	"1000 Love Songs"	Bobby Connolly
	Dancing Pirate	"The Finale"	Russell Lewis
	Gold Diggers of 1937	"Love and War"	Busby Berkeley
	One in a Million	"Skating Ensemble"	Jack Haskell
	Swing Time	"Bojangles of Harlem"	Hermes Pan
1937 (10th) [3]
	A Damsel in Distress	"Fun House"	Hermes Pan
	Ali Baba Goes to Town	"Swing Is Here to Stay"	Sammy Lee
	A Day at the Races	"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"	Dave Gould
	Ready, Willing and Able	"Too Marvelous for Words"	Bobby Connolly
	Thin Ice	"Prince Igor Suite"	Harry Losee
	Varsity Show	"The Finale"	Busby Berkeley
	Waikiki Wedding	"Luau"	LeRoy Prinz

See also

• List of Academy Award–nominated films

References

1. "The 8th Academy Awards - 1936". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
2. "The 9th Academy Awards - 1937". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
3. "The 10th Academy Awards - 1938". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 February 2018.