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

Winners

Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Foreign Film

• Carnival in Flanders
• Runner-up – Toni