Academy Award for Best Dance Direction

The Academy Award for Best Dance Direction was presented from 1935 to 1937, after which it was discontinued due to pressure from the directors' branch. It is 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

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rowspan=8 style="text-align:center" | 1935
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| Broadway Melody of 1936
Folies Bergère de Paris

| "I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling"
"Straw Hat"

| Dave Gould

All the King's Horses
The Big Broadcast of 1936

| "Viennese Waltz"
"It's the Animal in Me"

| LeRoy Prinz

Broadway Hostess
Go into Your Dance

| "Playboy from Paree"
"Latin from Manhattan"

| Bobby Connolly

Gold Diggers of 1935

| "Lullaby of Broadway"
"The Words Are in My Heart"

| Busby Berkeley

King of Burlesque

| "Lovely Lady"
"Too Good to Be True"

| Sammy Lee

She

| "Hall of Kings"

| Benjamin Zemach

Top Hat

| "Piccolino"
"Top Hat"

| Hermes Pan

rowspan=8 style="text-align:center" | 1936
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| The Great Ziegfeld

| "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody"

| Seymour Felix

Born to Dance

| "Swingin' the Jinx Away"

| Dave Gould

Cain and Mabel

| "1000 Love Songs"

| Bobby Connolly

Dancing Pirate

| "The Finale"

| Russell Lewis

Gold Diggers of 1937

| "Love and War"

| Busby Berkeley

One in a Million

| "Skating Ensemble"

| Jack Haskell

Swing Time

| "Bojangles of Harlem"

| Hermes Pan

rowspan=8 style="text-align:center" | 1937
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| A Damsel in Distress

| "Fun House"

| Hermes Pan

Ali Baba Goes to Town

| "Swing Is Here to Stay"

| Sammy Lee

A Day at the Races

| "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"

| Dave Gould

Ready, Willing and Able

| "Too Marvelous for Words"