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
See also
- List of Academy Award–nominated films