1936 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1936

Dodsworth

Flash Gordon

Fury

Libeled Lady

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

★ Modern Times

My Man Godfrey

The Only Son

The Petrified Forest

Swing Time

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Best Actor of 1936

Charles Chaplin (Modern Times)

Walter Huston (Dodsworth)

✔ Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

★ William Powell (My Man Godfrey, Libeled Lady, After The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld and The Ex-Mrs. Bradford)

Spencer Tracy (Fury, San Francisco and Libeled Lady)

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Best Actress of 1936

Jean Arthur (Mr. Deeds Goes To Town)

Irene Dunne (Show Boat and Theodora Goes Wild)

Jean Harlow (Libeled Lady)

★ Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey)

Myrna Loy (After The Thin Man and Libeled Lady)

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Best Director of 1936

✔ Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes To Town)

★ Charles Chaplin (Modern Times)

Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey)

George Stevens (Swing Time)

William Wyler (Dodsworth)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1936

Mischa Auer (My Man Godfrey)

Humphrey Bogart (The Petrified Forest)

Peter Lorre (Secret Agent)

Eugene Pallette (My Man Godfrey)

★ Paul Robeson (Show Boat)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1936

★ Alice Brady (My Man Godfrey)

Paulette Goddard (Modern Times)

Bonita Granville (These Three)

Gail Patrick (My Man Godfrey)

✱ Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)

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Special Award

James Basevi, Russell A. Cully, A. Arnold Gillespie, Max Fabian and Loyal Griggs (San Francisco) (special effects/visual effects)

Charles Chaplin (Modern Times) (score)

Charles D. Hall and J. Russell Spencer (Modern Times) (production design-art direction-set decoration)

"Just The Way You Look Tonight" (Swing Time) music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Dorothy Fields (song)

Popeye The Sailor Meets Sinbad The Sailor (short subject: cartoon)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.