9th National Board of Review Awards
December 30, 1937
The 9th National Board of Review Awards for
American cinema were announced on 30 December 1937.
Best American Films
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Night Must Fall''
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The Life of Emile Zola''
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Black Legion''
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Camille''
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Make Way for Tomorrow
''Make Way for Tomorrow'' is a 1937 American drama film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple (played by Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children w ...
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The Good Earth''
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They Won't Forget''
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Captains Courageous''
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A Star Is Born''
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Stage Door''
Top Foreign Films
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The Eternal Mask''
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The Lower Depths''
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Baltic Deputy
Baltic Deputy (russian: Депутат Балтики) is a 1936 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi.
Plot
The Bolsheviks seize power in Russia. Students instead of studying are fond of politics. Teachers and scie ...
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Mayerling''
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The Spanish Earth
''The Spanish Earth'' is a 1937 anti-fascist film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the democratically elected Republicans, whose forces included a wide range from the political left like communists, socialists, anarchists, to moder ...
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Golgotha
Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early mediev ...
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Elephant Boy''
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Jánošík
Jánošík can refer to:
* Jánošík, a village in Serbia with Slovak ethnic majority
* Juraj Jánošík, a famous Slovak outlaw
** Jánošík (1921 film), a Slovak film
** Jánošík (1935 film), a Slovak film
** Jánošík I, a Slovak film
* ...
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The Wedding of Palo ''The Wedding of Palo'' is a 1934 Greenlandic-Danish film set in Greenland. The screen play was written by Greenlandic-Danish anthropologist Knud Rasmussen and directed by German Friedrich Dalsheim. Rasmussen died during production of the film in 1 ...
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Winners
*Best American Film: ''
Night Must Fall''
*Best Foreign Film: ''
Die ewige Maske (The Eternal Mask)'',
Austria/
Switzerland
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*Best Acting:
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Harry Baur - ''
Golgotha
Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early mediev ...
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film In ...
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Black Legion''
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Charles Boyer - ''
Conquest''
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Nikolai Cherkassov - ''
Baltic Deputy
Baltic Deputy (russian: Депутат Балтики) is a 1936 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi.
Plot
The Bolsheviks seize power in Russia. Students instead of studying are fond of politics. Teachers and scie ...
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Danielle Darrieux - ''
Mayerling''
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Greta Garbo - ''
Camille''
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Robert Montgomery - ''
Night Must Fall''
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Maria Ouspenskaya - ''
Conquest''
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Luise Rainer - ''
The Good Earth''
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Joseph Schildkraut - ''
The Life of Emile Zola''
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Dame May Whitty
''Dame'' is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of damehood in many Christian chivalric orders, as well as the British honours system and those of several other Commonwealth realms, such as Australia and New Zeala ...
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Night Must Fall''
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Mathias Wieman - ''
The Eternal Mask[Tom O'Neill, ''Movie Awards''.New York, Perigee, 2001, p.53]
Notes
External links
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1937
{{NBR Awards Chron
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
1937 film awards
1937 in American cinema