Academy Award for Best Assistant Director
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In the first year of this award it referred to no specific film.
- 1933 winners
- Charles BartonCharles BartonCharles Barton was a film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Oscar for best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature Wagon Wheels.-Career:...
(Paramount) - Rick James (Universal)
- Charles DorianCharles DorianCharles Dorian was an American assistant director and film actor. He appeared in 26 films between 1915 and 1920. He won an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Assistant Director....
(MGM) - Fred FoxFred FoxFred Fox was an English assistant director and film actor. He appeared in 12 films between 1943 and 1949. He won an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Assistant Director....
(United Artists) - Gordon HollingsheadGordon HollingsheadGordon Hollingshead was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director....
(Warner Bros. ) - Dewey StarkeyDewey StarkeyDewey Starkey , was an American assistant director. He worked on 41 films between 1930 and 1944. He won an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Assistant Director. He was born in Ohio and died in Orange County, California....
(RKO Radio) - William TummelWilliam TummelWilliam Tummel was an American assistant director. He worked on 59 films between 1925 and 1947. He won an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Assistant Director....
(Fox)
- Charles Barton
- 1933 additional nominees
- Al AllebornAl AllebornAl Alleborn was a Studio executive and 2nd unit director in Hollywood film production.Alleborn came to Hollywood initially as a stuntman. His first film was also one of the first Oscar nominees, 1928's The Patent Leather Kid. He received an Academy Award nomination in the short-lived category of...
(Warner Bros.) - Sid Brod (Paramount)
- Orville O. Dull (M-G-M)
- Percy Ikerd (Fox)
- Arthur Jacobson (Paramount)
- Edward Killy (RKO Radio)
- Joseph A. McDonoughJoseph A. McDonoughJoseph A. McDonough was an assistant director in Hollywood, perhaps most noted for working often with James Whale, even after Whale left Universal Studios...
(Universal) - William J. Reiter (Universal)
- Frank Shaw (Warner Bros.)
- Ben Silvey (UA)
- John WatersJohn S. WatersJohn Waters was an American filmmaker whose career began in the early days of silent film and culminated in two consecutive Academy Award nominations in the newly-instituted category of Best Assistant Director with the second nomination for MGM's Viva Villa!...
(M-G-M)
- Al Alleborn
- 1934 John WatersJohn S. WatersJohn Waters was an American filmmaker whose career began in the early days of silent film and culminated in two consecutive Academy Award nominations in the newly-instituted category of Best Assistant Director with the second nomination for MGM's Viva Villa!...
- Viva Villa!Viva Villa!Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin...
- Scott BealScott BealScott R. "Scotty" Beal was a film Assistant director.Born in Quinnesec, Michigan, he began his career as an actor in 1915, before switching to the other side of the camera the following year...
- Imitation of LifeImitation of Life (1934 film)Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name, was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and Finley Peter Dunne... - Cullen Tate - CleopatraCleopatra (1934 film)Cleopatra is a 1934 epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt....
- Scott Beal
- 1935 Clem BeauchampClem BeauchampClement Hoyt "Clem" Beauchamp , also known as Jerry Drew in his 20s and early 30s acting career, first worked as a second unit director in 1935, netting the Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on The Lives of a Bengal Lancer...
and Paul Wing - The Lives of a Bengal LancerThe Lives of a Bengal LancerThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious...
- Joseph M. NewmanJoseph M. NewmanJoseph M. Newman was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour....
- David Copperfield - Eric G. StaceyEric G. StaceyEric G. Stacey was a British Assistant director and Production manager. He was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on the Darryl F. Zanuck production of Les Miserables and the David O...
- Les Misérables - Sherry Shourds - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Write In)
- Joseph M. Newman
- 1936 Jack SullivanJack SullivanJack Sullivan was an assistant director.He won the Best Assistant Director award at the 9th Academy Awards for The Charge of the Light Brigade....
- The Charge of the Light BrigadeThe Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer, from a screenplay by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh, from a story by Michael Jacoby based on the poem The...
- Clem BeauchampClem BeauchampClement Hoyt "Clem" Beauchamp , also known as Jerry Drew in his 20s and early 30s acting career, first worked as a second unit director in 1935, netting the Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on The Lives of a Bengal Lancer...
- The Last of the MohicansThe Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)The Last of the Mohicans is a 1936 adventure film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name starring Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon and Bruce Cabot.... - William Cannon - Anthony AdverseAnthony AdverseAnthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney is based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen.-Plot:...
- Joseph M. NewmanJoseph M. NewmanJoseph M. Newman was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour....
- San FranciscoSan Francisco (film)San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film... - Eric G. StaceyEric G. StaceyEric G. Stacey was a British Assistant director and Production manager. He was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on the Darryl F. Zanuck production of Les Miserables and the David O...
- The Garden of Allah
- Clem Beauchamp
- 1937 Robert WebbRobert D. WebbRobert D. Webb was an American film director. He directed 16 films between 1945 and 1968.-Selected filmography:* Beneath the 12-Mile Reef * Seven Cities of Gold * White Feather...
- In Old ChicagoIn Old ChicagoIn Old Chicago is a 1937 American drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys." The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of...
- Charles C. Coleman - Lost Horizon
- Russ Saunders - The Life of Emile ZolaThe Life of Emile ZolaThe Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about French author Émile Zola. Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the Dreyfus...
- Eric G. StaceyEric G. StaceyEric G. Stacey was a British Assistant director and Production manager. He was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on the Darryl F. Zanuck production of Les Miserables and the David O...
- A Star Is BornA Star Is Born (1937 film)A Star Is Born is a 1937 Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as an aging movie star who... - Hal Walker - Souls at SeaSouls at SeaSouls at Sea is a 1937 seafaring film starring Gary Cooper and George Raft. The movie features Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Fix, and Tully Marshall, and was directed by Henry Hathaway. The title of this film was spoofed in the Laurel and Hardy...