Academy Award for Best Dance Direction

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The Academy Awards for Best Dance Direction (1935-1937 only)

Winners and nominees

1930s

• 1935: Dave Gould - Broadway Melody of 1936 ("I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling") and Folies Bergere ("Straw Hat")
  • Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1935 ("Lullaby of Broadway") and ("The Words Are in My Heart")
  • Bobby Connolly - Broadway Hostess ("Playboy from Paree") and Go Into Your Dance ("Latin from Manhattan")
  • Sammy Lee - King of Burlesque ("Lovely Lady") and ("Too Good to Be True")
  • Hermes Pan - Top Hat ("Top Hat")
  • LeRoy Prinz - All the King's Horses ("Viennese Waltz") and The Big Broadcast of 1936 ("It's the Animal in Me")
  • B. Zemach - She ("Hall of Kings")
• 1936: Seymour Felix - The Great Ziegfeld ("A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody")
  • Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1937 ("Love and War")
  • Bobby Connolly - Cain and Mabel ("1000 Love Songs")
  • Dave Gould - Born to Dance ("Swingin' the Jinx Away")
  • Jack Haskell - One in a Million ("Skating Ensemble")
  • Hermes Pan - Swing Time ("Bojangles of Harlem")
  • Russell Lewis - Dancing Pirate ("The Finale")

• 1937: Hermes Pan - A Damsel in Distress ("Fun House")
  • Busby Berkeley - Varsity Show ("The Finale")
  • Bobby Connolly - Ready, Willing and Able ("Too Marvelous for Words")
  • Dave Gould - A Day at the Races ("All God's Children Got Rhythm")
  • Sammy Lee - Ali Baba Goes to Town ("Swing Is Here to Stay")
  • Harry Losee - Thin Ice ("Prince Igor Suite")
  • LeRoy Prinz - Waikiki Wedding ("Luau")