The Academy Award for Best Assistant Director was awarded from 1933 through 1937. In the first year of this award, it referred to no specific film. 1933: Charles Barton (Paramount) - winner Scott Beal (Universal) - winner Charles Dorian (M-G-M) - winner Fred Fox (United Artists) - winner Gordon Hollingshead (Warner Bros.) - winner Dewey Starkey (RKO Radio) - winner William Tummel (Fox) - winner Al Alleborn (Warner Bros.) - nominee Sid Brod (Paramount) - nominee Orville O. Dull (M-G-M) - nominee Percy Ikerd (Fox) - nominee Arthur Jacobson (Paramount) - nominee Edward Killy (RKO Radio) - nominee Joseph A. McDonough (Universal) - nominee William J. Reiter (Universal) - nominee Frank X. Shaw (Warner Bros.) - nominee Ben Silvey (UA) - nominee John Waters (M-G-M) - nominee 1934: John Waters – Viva Villa! Scott Beal – Imitation of Life Cullen Tate – Cleopatra 1935: Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Joseph Newman – David Copperfield Eric Stacey – Les Misérables Sherry Shourds – A Midsummer Night's Dream (write in) 1936: Jack Sullivan – The Charge of the Light Brigade Clem Beauchamp – The Last of the Mohicans William Cannon – Anthony Adverse Joseph Newman – San Francisco Eric G. Stacey – The Garden of Allah 1937: Robert Webb – In Old Chicago C. C. Coleman, Jr. – Lost Horizon Russ Saunders – The Life of Emile Zola Eric Stacey – A Star Is Born Hal Walker – Souls at Sea References Retired Academy Awards