MGM
Oscar Nominations: 3
Picture (produced by David O. Selznick
Assistant Director: Joseph Newman
Film Editing: Robert J. Kern
Oscar Context
David Copperfield competed for the Best Picture Oscar with eleven other films: Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, The Informer, Les Miserables, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Mutiny on the Bounty, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap, and Top Hat.
Mutiny of the Bounty won Best Picture, Assistant Director Oscar went to Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing for Lives of Bengal Lancer, and Editing was awarded to Ralph Dawson for A Midsummer Nights Dream.