Category:1937, Top Films

1933 -- 1934 -- 1935 -- 1936

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>> Film Studies (1930s) <<

1938 -- 1939 -- 1940 -- 1941

-- The Life of Emile Zola <Best Picture>

Limbo

-- #3. The Awful Truth <Best Director> -- #4. Make Ways for Tomorrow -- #12. Lost Horizon -- #18. Dead End -- #48. The Good Earth -- #50+. Big Fella

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

• 50 Top Films of 1937

-- #1. La Grande illusion (Renoir) -- #2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- #3. The Awful Truth (McCarey) -- #4. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey) -- #5. Pépé le Moko (Duvivier) -- #6. You Only Live Once (Lang) -- #7. Humanity and Paper Ballons -- #8. A Day at the Races -- #9. The Old Mill <short> -- #10. Stage Door (La Cava)

-- #11. Stella Dallas (Vidor) -- #12. Lost Horizon (Capra) -- #13. Angel (Lubitsch) -- #14. Young and Innocent (Hitchcock) -- #15. Shall We Dance (Sandrich) -- #16. The Edge of the World (Powell) -- #17. Easy Living (Leisen) -- #18. Dead End (Wyler) -- #19. An Optical Poem -- #20. Nothing Sacred (Wellman) -- #21. Clock Cleaners <short> -- #22. Way Out West (Horne) -- #23. A Star Is Born (Wellman) -- #24. Lonesome Ghosts <short> -- #25. Trade Tattoo -- #26. Children in the Wind (Shimizu) -- #27. Captains Courageous (Fleming) -- #20. Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves <short> -- #29. Topper -- #30. What Did the Lady Forget? (Ozu)

-- #31. History Is Made at Night (Borzage) -- #32. Street Angel (Muzhi) -- #33. The Straits of Love and Hate (Mizoguchi) -- #34. The Spanish Earth -- #35. The Life of Emile Zola -- #36. The Hurricane -- #37. Bizarre, Bizarre -- #38. The Pearls of the Crowd -- #39. The Prisoner of Zenda -- #40. Marked Woman -- #41. Hawaiian Holiday <short> -- #42. Modern Inventions <short> -- #43. Lady Killer -- #44. Monsieur Fantomas -- #45. Little Hiawatha <short> -- #46. Avalanche -- #47. Night Must Fall -- #48. The Good Earth -- #49. Colour Flight -- #50. Bezhin Meadow (Eisenstein)

Oscar, Best Films

-- The Life of Emile Zola [W] -- #3. The Awful Truth -- Captains Courageous -- Dead End -- The Good Earth -- In Old Chicago -- Lost Horizon -- One Hundred Men and a Girl -- Stage Door -- A Star Is Born

Top Grossing Films

-- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Saratoga -- Maytime -- The Good Earth -- Stella Dallas -- Broadway Melody of 1938 -- Captains Courageous -- Lost Horizon -- A Star Is Born -- A Day at the Races

Schneider, Best Films

-- Pépé le Moko -- Captains Courageous -- The Grand Illusion -- The Life of Emile Zola -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

-- #3. The Awful Truth -- Make Way for Tomorrow -- Stella Dallas

National Board of Review

-- Night Must Fall [W] -- The Life of Emile Zola' -- Black Legion -- Camille -- Make Way for Tomorrow -- The Good Earth -- They Won't Forget -- Captains Courageous -- A Star Is Born -- Stage Door

National Film Registry

-- #3. The Awful Truth -- Daughter of Shanghai -- George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute <doc> -- Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage <doc> -- The Life of Emile Zola -- Lost Horizon -- Make Way for Tomorrow -- The Old Mill <short> -- The Prisoner of Zenda -- Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage <doc> -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain <doc>

American Film Institute

-- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Tubi

-- Dead End -- Nothing Sacred -- Boys of the Street -- A Star Is Born

NYT, Best Films

-- The Good Earth -- Captains Courageous -- The Grand Illusion -- The Life of Emile Zola -- Dead End -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

-- You Only Live Twice -- Lost Horizon -- A Star Is Born -- Make Way for Tomorrow -- Easy Living -- They Won't Forget -- Stage Door -- #3. The Awful Truth

TSPDT, Best Films

-- La Grande illusion -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Pépé le Moko

-- Make Way for Tomorrow -- #3. The Awful Truth -- Street Angel -- Humanity and Paper Balloons

Top10ner, Best Films

-- La Grande illusion -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

-- Make Way for Tomorrow

Film101, Best Films

-- La Grande illusion -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- The Life of Emile Zola -- The Good Earth -- Captains Courageous -- Pépé le Moko -- Way Out West -- Dead End -- Nothing Sacred

-- #3. The Awful Truth -- Make Way for Tomorrow -- Stage Door -- A Star Is Born -- The Prisoner of Zenda -- Lost Horizon

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #5. Pépé le Moko -- #23. A Star Is Born

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Captains Courageous -- The Prince and the Pauper -- Elephant Boy (UK) -- Big Fella (UK) -- Dead End -- Heidi

-- "Children in the Wind" (Japan)

-- Beleet parus odinokiy [The Lonely White Sail] (URSS) -- Dangerous Holiday -- Fair Warning -- Idol of the Crowds -- Make a Wish -- Our Gang Follies of 1938 -- Penrod and Sam -- Streit um den Knaben Jo (Germany) -- Wee Willie Winkie -- Ztratila se Bílá paní (Czechoslovakia)

Best International Films

{France} -- The Grand Illusion

{Japan} -- Humanity and Paper Balloons