Academy Award for Best Dance Direction
# Academy Award for Best Dance Direction

The Academy Awards for Best Dance Direction was presented from 1935 to 1937, after which it was discontinued due to pressure from the directors' branch. It is notable as being the only category for which a Marx Brothers film received an Oscar nomination, for the dance number All God's Chillun Got Rhythm in A Day at the Races (1937).

## Winners and nominees

| Year | Film(s) | Dance Number(s) | Nominees |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1935 (8th) |
| 1935 (8th) | Broadway Melody of 1936 Folies Bergère de Paris | "I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling" "Straw Hat" | Dave Gould |
| 1935 (8th) | All the King's Horses The Big Broadcast of 1936 | "Viennese Waltz" "It's the Animal in Me" | LeRoy Prinz |
| 1935 (8th) | Broadway Hostess Go into Your Dance | "Playboy from Paree" "Latin from Manhattan" | Bobby Connolly |
| 1935 (8th) | Gold Diggers of 1935 | "Lullaby of Broadway" "The Words Are in My Heart" | Busby Berkeley |
| 1935 (8th) | King of Burlesque | "Lovely Lady" "Too Good to Be True" | Sammy Lee |
| 1935 (8th) | She | "Hall of Kings" | Benjamin Zemach |
| 1935 (8th) | Top Hat | "Piccolino" "Top Hat" | Hermes Pan |
| 1936 (9th) |
| 1936 (9th) | The Great Ziegfeld | "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" | Seymour Felix |
| 1936 (9th) | Born to Dance | "Swingin' the Jinx Away" | Dave Gould |
| 1936 (9th) | Cain and Mabel | "1000 Love Songs" | Bobby Connolly |
| 1936 (9th) | Dancing Pirate | "The Finale" | Russell Lewis |
| 1936 (9th) | Gold Diggers of 1937 | "Love and War" | Busby Berkeley |
| 1936 (9th) | One in a Million | "Skating Ensemble" | Jack Haskell |
| 1936 (9th) | Swing Time | "Bojangles of Harlem" | Hermes Pan |
| 1937 (10th) |
| 1937 (10th) | A Damsel in Distress | "Fun House" | Hermes Pan |
| 1937 (10th) | Ali Baba Goes to Town | "Swing Is Here to Stay" | Sammy Lee |
| 1937 (10th) | A Day at the Races | "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" | Dave Gould |
| 1937 (10th) | Ready, Willing and Able | "Too Marvelous for Words" | Bobby Connolly |
| 1937 (10th) | Thin Ice | "Prince Igor Suite" | Harry Losee |
| 1937 (10th) | Varsity Show | "The Finale" | Busby Berkeley |
| 1937 (10th) | Waikiki Wedding | "Luau" | LeRoy Prinz |
