Academy Award for Best Assistant Director

In the first year only of this award it was not made in respect of any specific movie.

• 1933 winners
  • Charles Barton[?] (Paramount)
  • Scott Beal[?] (Universal)
  • Charles Dorian[?] (MGM)
  • Fred Fox[?] (United Artists)
  • Gordon Hollingshead[?] (Warner Bros. )
  • Dewey Starkey[?] (RKO Radio)
  • William Tummel[?] (Fox)
• 1933 additional nominees
  • Al Alleborn[?] (Warner Bros.)
  • Sid Brod[?] (Paramount)
  • Orville O. Dull[?] (M-G-M)
  • Percy Ikerd[?] (Fox)
  • Arthur Jacobson[?] (Paramount)
  • Edward Killy[?] (RKO Radio)
  • Joseph A. McDonough[?] (Universal)
  • William J. Reiter[?] (Universal)
  • Frank Shaw[?] (Warner Bros.)
  • Ben Silvey[?] (UA)
  • John Waters (M-G-M)
• 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 G. Stacey[?] - Les Misérables
  • Sherry Shourds[?] - A Midsummer Night's Dream[?]
• 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
  • Charles C. Coleman[?] - Lost Horizon
  • Russ Saunders[?] - The Life of Emile Zola
  • Eric Stacey[?] - A Star Is Born
  • Hal Walker[?] - Souls at Sea[?]