Academy Award for Best Dance Direction

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

Winners and nominees

1935: Dave Gould – Broadway Melody of 1936 ("I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling") and Folies Bergère de Paris ("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 ("Piccolino" and "Top Hat")

LeRoy Prinz – All the King's Horses ("Viennese Waltz") and The Big Broadcast of 1936 ("Elephant - It's the Animal in Me")

Benjamin 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")

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