Winners and nominees

Best Motion Picture Of The Year

• Alice Adams
• Broadway Melody of 1936
• Captain Blood
• David Copperfield
• The Informer
• Les Misérables
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Naughty Marietta
• Ruggles of Red Gap
• Top Hat

Achievement in Directing

• Michael Curtiz - Captain Blood
• John Ford - The Informer
• Henry Hathaway - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role

• Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty
• Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty
• Victor McLaglen - The Informer
• Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role

• Elisabeth Bergner - Escape Me Never
• Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds
• Bette Davis - Dangerous
• Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams
• Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp
• Merle Oberon - The Dark Angel

Best Writing, Adaptation

• Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Waldemar Young, Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings, and Carey Wilson - Mutiny on the Bounty
• Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Dudley Nichols (Refused) - The Informer

Best Story

• Moss Hart - Broadway Melody of 1936
• Don Hartman and Stephen Avery - The Gay Deception
• Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur - The Scoundrel

Interior Decoration

• Carroll Clark and Van Nest Polglase - Top Hat
• Richard Day - The Dark Angel
• Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Achievement In Cinematography

• Ray June - Barbary Coast
• Victor Milner - The Crusades
• Hal Mohr - A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Gregg Toland - Les Misérables

Hal Mohr was a write-in candidate, and therefore isn't officially considered to have received a nomination, although he did receive the award.

Sound Recording

• Love Me Forever
• Naughty Marietta
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• $1,000 a Minute
• I Dream Too Much
• Thanks a Million
• The Dark Angel
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Captain Blood

Assistant Director

• Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Joseph Newman - David Copperfield
• Eric Stacey - Les Misérables

Short Subjects: Cartoons

• The Calico Dragon
• Three Orphan Kittens
• Who Killed Cock Robin?

Short Subjects: Comedy

• How to Sleep
• Oh, My Nerves
• Tit for Tat

Short Subjects: Novelty

• Audioscopiks
• Camera Thrills
• Wings Over Everest

Music: Best Song

• "Cheek to Cheek" - Top Hat
• "Lovely to Look At" - Roberta
• "Lullaby of Broadway" - Gold Diggers of 1935

Music: Best Score

• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Peter Ibbetson
• The Informer
• Captain Blood

Film Editing

• Margaret Booth - Mutiny on the Bounty
• Ralph Dawson - A Midsummer Night's Dream
• George Hively - The Informer
• Ellsworth Hoagland - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Robert J. Kern - David Copperfield
• Barbara McLean - Les Misérables

Dance Direction

• Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1935
• Bobby Connolly - Broadway Hostess
• Dave Gould - Broadway Melody of 1936 and Folies Bergere
• Sammy Lee - King of Burlesque
• Hermes Pan - Top Hat
• LeRoy Prinz - All the King's Horses and The Big Broadcast of 1936
• Benjamin Zemach - She

This award was only given out for three years (1935-1937).

Special Award

• David Wark Griffith