Academy Award for Best Assistant Director

In the first year of this award it referred to no specific film.
*1933 winners
** Charles Barton (Paramount)
** Rick James (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" (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"
** Charles C. Coleman - "Lost Horizon"
** Russ Saunders - "The Life of Emile Zola"
** Eric Stacey - "A Star Is Born"
** Hal Walker - "Souls at Sea"