The 2nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced on January 4, 1937, presented on January 24, 1937, honored the best filmmaking of 1936.

The ceremony was held at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center.^[1]

• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Runners-up – Fury and Dodsworth and Winterset

• Rouben Mamoulian – The Gay Desperado
• Runner-up – William Wyler – These Three and Dodsworth and Fritz Lang - Fury

• Walter Huston – Dodsworth
• Runner-up – Spencer Tracy – San Francisco and Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

• Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
• Runner-up – Ruth Chatterton – Dodsworth and Norma Shearer - Romeo and Juliet

• Carnival in Flanders
• Runner-up – Toni

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• 1936 Awards