Best Music, 1936

Awards presented March 4, 1937

The nominees were ... 
(Scoring) 

• Anthony Adverse,  Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
• The Garden of Allah, Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner) 
• The General Died at Dawn, Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by Werner Janssen) 
• Winterset, RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Nathaniel Shilkret, head of department (Score by Nathaniel Shilkret)

(Song) 

• "Did I Remember" from Suzy, Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyrics by Harold Adamson
• "I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance, Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
• "A Melody from the Sky" from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Music by Louis Alter; Lyrics by Sidney Mitchell
• "Pennies from Heaven" from Pennies from Heaven, Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
• "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time, Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
• "When Did You Leave Heaven" from Sing, Baby, Sing, Music by Richard A. Whiting; Lyrics by Walter Bullock

... when they should have been ... 
(Song) 

• "I've Got You Under My Skin" from Born to Dance, Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
• "Let's Face the Music and Dance" from Follow the Fleet, Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin 
• "Pennies from Heaven" from Pennies from Heaven, Music by Arthur Johnston; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
• "San Francisco" from San Francisco, Music by Bronislau Kaper and Walter Jurmann; Lyrics by Gus Kahn 
• "The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time, Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields

And the Oscar went to ... 
(Scoring) 
Anthony Adverse, Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold). 
Forbstein got the Oscar, but Korngold won it for him. 


(Song)
"The Way You Look Tonight" from Swing Time, Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
Kern, one of the greatest of American songwriters, won two Oscars -- the other was for "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good -- and was nominated six more times. This was Fields's second nomination and her only win.

Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, and George Gershwin