Editing Top Hat (section)

===Awards and honors===
The film was nominated for the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], as well as [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Art Direction]] ([[Carroll Clark]] and [[Van Nest Polglase]]), [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Original Song]] ([[Irving Berlin]] for "Cheek to Cheek"), and [[Academy Award for Best Dance Direction|Dance Direction]] ([[Hermes Pan (choreographer)|Hermes Pan]] for "Piccolino" and "Top Hat").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1936 |title=The 8th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref> In 1990, ''Top Hat'' was selected for preservation in the [[United States]] [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/film/titles.html |title=Films Selected to The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1989–2009 (National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress) |publisher=Loc.gov |access-date=November 8, 2012}}</ref> The film ranked number 15 on the 2006 [[American Film Institute]]'s [[AFI's 100 Years of Musicals|list of best musicals]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/100years/musicals.aspx |title=AFI's Hundred Years of Musicals |publisher=American Film Institute |year=2006 |access-date=December 16, 2012 |archive-date=January 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114195037/http://www.afi.com/100Years/musicals.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''Top Hat'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>