Awards
The movie won three Oscars:
- Academy Award for Best Picture - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hunt Stromberg, producer)
- Academy Award for Best Actress - Luise Rainer
- Academy Award for Best Dance Direction - Seymour Felix - For "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody".
It was nominated for an additional four:
- Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu and Edwin B. Willis (lost to Dodsworth)
- Academy Award for Directing - Robert Z. Leonard (lost to Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
- Academy Award for Film Editing - William S. Gray
- Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - William Anthony McGuire
Read more about this topic: The Great Ziegfeld