Oscars Best Picture 1929-1938 - Choreographers Guild
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Oscars Best Picture: Choreography in Film

1929-1938

Credit notation: Individuals listed below are credited as choreographers, unless noted otherwise in parentheses.

 

Percentage of Winners that Involve Choreography:
10%
Overall Percentage of Nominees that Involve Choreography:
20%

 

Year Film Nominee/Winner Choreographer(s)
1930 Alibi Nominee Fanchon
1930 The Broadway Melody Winner George Cunningham
1934 42nd Street Nominee Busby Berkeley
1934 She Done Him Wrong Nominee Harold Hecht
1934 The Private Life of Henry VIII Nominee Espinosa
1935 The Gay Divorcee Nominee Hermes Pan
1936 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nominee Nini Theilade
1936 Broadway Melody of 1936 Nominee Albertina Rasch
Dave Gould
Geneva Hall
Thayer the Magician (Assistant Choreographer)
1936 Captain Blood Nominee Ralph Faulkner (Fight Choreographer)
1936 Naughty Marietta Nominee Chester Hale
1936 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Nominee LeRoy Prinz
1936 Top Hat Nominee Fred Astaire
Hermes Pan
William Hetzler (Dance Director)
1937 Romeo and Juliet Nominee Agnes de Mille (Dance Director)
1937 San Francisco Nominee Val Raset
1938 In Old Chicago Nominee Geneva Sawyer (Dance Director)
Jack Haskell (Dance Director)
Nick Castle (Dance Director)
1938 Stage Door Nominee Hermes Pan (Dance Director)

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