Academy Awards 1931

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The 1931 Academy Awards took place on November 10, 1931 at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles . It was the 4th Annual Academy Awards . Films from the period between August 1, 1930 and July 31, 1931 were awarded.

Statistics
(films with more than one nomination are listed)
N = nomination; S = victory
Movie N S.
Wild West pioneers 7th 3
Skippy 4th 1
Morocco 4th 0
The courage to be happy 3 1
The Front Page 3 0
Holiday 2 0
Svengali 2 0

Moderation

Lawrence Grant

Winners and nominees

Best movie

Pioneers of the Wild West (Cimarron) - RKO Radio

East Lynne - Fox
The Front Page - The Caddo Company
Skippy - Paramount Publix
Trader Horn - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Best Actor

Lionel Barrymore - The Courage to Luck (A Free Soul)

Jackie Cooper - Skippy
Richard Dix - Pioneers of the Wild West (Cimarron)
Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway
Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page

Best main actress

Marie Dressler - The Stranger Mother (Min and Bill)

Marlene Dietrich - Morocco (Morocco)
Irene Dunne - Pioneers of the Wild West (Cimarron)
Ann Harding - Holiday
Norma Shearer - The Courage to Luck (A Free Soul)

Best director

Norman Taurog - Skippy

Clarence Brown - The Courage to Luck (A Free Soul)
Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
Wesley Ruggles - Pioneers of the Wild West (Cimarron)
Josef von Sternberg - Morocco (Morocco)

Best original story

John Monk Saunders - Dawn Patrol (The Dawn Patrol)

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast , Douglas Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart - Laughter
John Bright and Kubec Glasmon - The Public Enemy (The Public Enemy)
Rowland Brown - The Doorway to Hell
Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson - Easy Money (Smart Money)

Best adapted script

Howard Estabrook - Pioneers of the Wild West (Cimarron)

Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee - The Little Caesar (Little Caesar)
Horace Jackson - Holiday
Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz - Skippy
Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo Jr. - The Criminal Code (The Criminal Code)

Best camera

Floyd Crosby - Tabu (Tabu: A Story of the South Seas)

Edward Cronjager - Pioneers of the Wild West (Cimarron)
Lee Garmes - Morocco (Morocco)
Charles Lang - The Right to Love
Barney McGill - Svengali

Best production design

Max Rée - Pioneers of the Wild West (Cimarron)

Richard Day - Whoopee!
Hans Dreier - Morocco (Morocco)
Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras - Just Imagine
Anton Grot - Svengali

Best tone

Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department - Overall Performance

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department - Overall Performance
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department - overall performance
Samuel Goldwyn - United Artists Studio Sound Department - Overall Performance

Special awards

Academy Award of Merit Electrical Research Products Inc. , RCA-Photophone Inc. and RKO Radio Pictures Inc. for noise reduction recording equipment
DuPont Film Manufacturing Corp. and Eastman Kodak Company for super-sensitive panchromatic film.
Science and Development Award Fox Film Corp. for effective use of synchro-projection composite photography
Technical Merit Award Electrical Research Products Inc. for moving coil microphone transmitters
RKO Radio Pictures Inc. for reflex type microphone concentrators
RCA-Photophone Inc. for ribbon microphone transmitters

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