Academy Awards 1935
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The 1935 Academy Awards took place on February 27, 1935 at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles . It was the 7th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, awards are always given to films from the previous year, in this case the films from 1934.
This year for the first time there was the category Best Editing and two music categories (Best Film Music and Best Song). The film It Happened One Night (It Happened One Night) was the first film in the five main categories (film, director, actor, actress and screenplay) could win.
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Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory |
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| Movie | N | S. |
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| The shining target | 6th | 2 |
| It happened in one night | 5 | 5 |
| Cleopatra | 5 | 1 |
| Dance with Me! | 5 | 1 |
| Scream of the hunted | 4th | 1 |
| The Affairs of Cellini | 4th | 0 |
| The thin man | 4th | 0 |
| Imitation of Life | 3 | 0 |
| The White Parade | 2 | 0 |
| Flirtation Walk | 2 | 0 |
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street | 2 | 0 |
Moderation
Winners and nominees
Best movie
It Happened One Night (It Happened One Night) - Columbia
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cleopatra - Paramount
- The Thin Man (The Thin Man) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Here Comes the Navy - Warner Bros.
- The Rothschilds (The House of Rothschild) - 20th Century Pictures
- Flirtation Walk - First National
- Imitation of Life - Universal
- The Shining Target (One Night of Love) - Columbia
- Dance with Me! (The Gay Divorcee) - RKO Radio
- Scream of the Haunted (Viva Villa!) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- The White Parade - Jesse L. Lasky
Best Actor
Clark Gable - It Happened One Night (It Happened One Night)
- Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini
- William Powell - The Thin Man (The Thin Man)
Best main actress
Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night (It Happened One Night)
- Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage (no official nominee! Davis' name only appears in the Academy statistics with the addition of a write-in nominee)
- Grace Moore - The Shining Target (One Night of Love)
- Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Best director
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night (It Happened One Night)
- Victor Schertzinger - The Shining Goal (One Night of Love)
- WS Van Dyke - The Thin Man (The Thin Man)
Best assistant director
John S. Waters - Cry of the Haunted (Viva Villa!)
Best original story
Arthur Caesar - Manhattan Melodrama
Best adapted script
Robert Riskin - It Happened One Night (It Happened One Night)
- Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett - The Thin Man (The Thin Man)
- Ben Hecht - Scream of the Haunted (Viva Villa!)
Best camera
Best production design
Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope - The Merry Widow (The Merry Widow)
- Richard Day - The Affairs of Cellini
- Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark - dance with me! (The Gay Divorcee)
Best tone
John Livadary ( Columbia Studio Sound Department ) - The Shining Target (One Night of Love)
- Carl Dreher ( RKO Radio Studio Sound Department ) - Dance with me! (The Gay Divorcee )
- Edmund H. Hansen ( Fox Studio Sound Department ) - The White Parade
- Franklin B. Hansen ( Paramount Studio Sound Department ) - Cleopatra
- Nathan Levinson ( Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department ) - Flirtation Walk
- Thomas T. Moulton ( United Artists Studio Sound Department ) - The Affairs of Cellini
- Douglas Shearer ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department ) - Scream of the Haunted (Viva Villa!)
- Theodore Soderberg ( Universal Studio Sound Department ) - Imitation of Life
Best cut
- Anne Bauchens - Cleopatra
- Gene Milford - The Shining Target (One Night of Love)
Best film score
Louis Silvers ( Columbia Studio Music Department ) - The Shining Target (One Night of Love)
- Max Steiner ( RKO Radio Studio Music Department ) - Dance with me! (The Gay Divorcee)
- Max Steiner ( RKO Radio Studio Music Department ) - The Last Patrol (The Lost Patrol)
Best song
The Continental from dance with me! - Music: Con Conrad , text: Herb Magidson
- Carioca from Flying Down to Rio - Music: Vincent Youmans , Text: Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn
- Love in Bloom from She Loves Me Not - Music: Ralph Rainger , Text: Leo Robin
Best short film - cartoon
Walt Disney - The Tortoise and the Hare (The Tortoise and the Hare)
Best Short Film - Comedy
Kenneth Macgowan - La Cucaracha
Best Short Film - Novelty
Stacy Woodard and Horace Woodard - City of Wax
Special awards
- Honorary Oscar / Juvenile Award : Shirley Temple (recognition of her outstanding contribution to film entertainment in 1934) (age 6)
- Science and Development Award : Electrical Research Products Inc. (for their wide range recording and reporducing system)
- Technical Merit Award : Columbia Pictures Corporation (for their application of the Vertical Cut Disc method (hill and dale recording) to actual studio production, with their recording of the sound on the picture 'One Night of Love') and Bell and Howell Company (for their development of the Bell and Howell Fully Automatic Sound and Picture Printer)
Web links
- Academy Awards 1935 in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The 7th Academy Awards | 1935. In: Oscars.org. (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Soderberg was nominated for the Oscar as Sound Director of the Universal Studio Sound Department, cf. off. page of the Academy Awards ; Gilbert Kurland , the film's sound supervisor , is sometimes named as an Oscar nominee, cf. e.g.: Stresau: The Oscar ... , p. 104.