Academy Awards, USA: 1935

Oscar

Date:	27 February (banquet)
Host:	Irvin S. Cobb
Location:	Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:	The Academy allows write-in votes on the final ballot after complaints that neither Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage (1934)) nor Myrna Loy (The Thin Man (1934)) were nominated. From 1935 to 1938 best score is considered a music department achievement and the award is given to the department head instead of to the composer(s).

Best Picture


Winner:
	It Happened One Night (1934) - Columbia
Other Nominees:
	Cleopatra (1934) - Paramount Flirtation Walk (1934) - First National Here Comes the Navy (1934) - Warner Bros. Imitation of Life (1934) - Universal One Night of Love (1934) - Columbia The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) - M-G-M The Gay Divorcee (1934) - RKO Radio The House of Rothschild (1934) - 20th Century Pictures The Thin Man (1934) - M-G-M The White Parade (1934) - Jesse L. Lasky Viva Villa! (1934) - M-G-M

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	It Happened One Night (1934) - Clark Gable - In 1996, Steven Spielberg anonymously purchased Clark Gable's Oscar to protect it from further commercial exploitation, gave it back to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, commenting that he could think of "no better sanctuary for Gable's only Oscar than the Motion Picture Academy".
Other Nominees:
	The Affairs of Cellini (1934) - Frank Morgan (I) The Thin Man (1934) - William Powell (I)

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	It Happened One Night (1934) - Claudette Colbert - Claudette Colbert was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar to write-in nominee Bette Davis that she didn't attended the ceremony orignally. She was summoned from a train station to pick up her Academy Award.
Other Nominees:
	Of Human Bondage (1934) - Bette Davis - This was a write-in nomination. One Night of Love (1934) - Grace Moore (I) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) - Norma Shearer

Best Director


Winner:
	It Happened One Night (1934) - Frank Capra
Other Nominees:
	One Night of Love (1934) - Victor Schertzinger The Thin Man (1934) - W.S. Van Dyke

Best Assistant Director


Winner:
	Viva Villa! (1934) - John Waters (II)
Other Nominees:
	Cleopatra (1934) - Cullen Tate Imitation of Life (1934) - Scott R. Beal

Best Writing, Original Story


Winner:
	Manhattan Melodrama (1934) - Arthur Caesar
Other Nominees:
	Hide-Out (1934) - Mauri Grashin The Richest Girl in the World (1934) - Norman Krasna

Best Writing, Adaptation


Winner:
	It Happened One Night (1934) - Robert Riskin
Other Nominees:
	The Thin Man (1934) - Frances Goodrich; Albert Hackett Viva Villa! (1934) - Ben Hecht (I)

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Cleopatra (1934) - Victor Milner
Other Nominees:
	Operator 13 (1934) - George J. Folsey The Affairs of Cellini (1934) - Charles Rosher

Best Art Direction


Winner:
	The Merry Widow (1934) - Cedric Gibbons; Fredric Hope
Other Nominees:
	The Affairs of Cellini (1934) - Richard Day (I) The Gay Divorcee (1934) - Van Nest Polglase; Carroll Clark

Best Sound, Recording


Winner:
	One Night of Love (1934) - John P. Livadary (sound director); Columbia Studio Sound Department
Other Nominees:
	Cleopatra (1934) - Franklin Hansen (sound director); Paramount Studio Sound Department Flirtation Walk (1934) - Nathan Levinson (sound director); Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department Imitation of Life (1934) - Theodore Soderberg (sound director); Universal Studio Sound Department The Affairs of Cellini (1934) - Thomas T. Moulton (sound director); United Artists Studio Sound Department The Gay Divorcee (1934) - Carl Dreher (I) (sound director); RKO Radio Studio Sound Department The White Parade (1934) - Edmund H. Hansen (sound director); Fox Studio Sound Department Viva Villa! (1934) - Douglas Shearer (sound director); M-G-M Studio Sound Department

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Eskimo (1933) - Conrad A. Nervig
Other Nominees:
	Cleopatra (1934) - Anne Bauchens One Night of Love (1934) - Gene Milford

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	The Gay Divorcee (1934) - Con Conrad (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics) - For the song "The Continental".
Other Nominees:
	Flying Down to Rio (1933) - Vincent Youmans (music); Edward Eliscu (lyrics); Gus Kahn (lyrics) - For the song "Carioca". She Loves Me Not (1934) - Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (I) (lyrics) - For the song "Love in Bloom".

Best Music, Score


Winner:
	One Night of Love (1934) - Louis Silvers (I) (head of department); Columbia Studio Music Department - Thematic music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn.
Other Nominees:
	The Gay Divorcee (1934) - Max Steiner (I) (head of department); RKO Radio Studio Music Department - Score by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The Lost Patrol (1934) - Max Steiner (I) (head of department); RKO Radio Studio Music Department - Score by Max Steiner (I).

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) - Walt Disney
Other Nominees:
	Holiday Land (1934) - Charles Mintz Jolly Little Elves (1934) - Walter Lantz

Best Short Subject, Comedy


Winner:
	La Cucaracha (1934) - Kenneth Macgowan
Other Nominees:
	Men in Black (1934) - Jules White (I) What, No Men! (1935) - Warner Bros.

Best Short Subject, Novelty


Winner:
	City of Wax (1934) - Horace Woodard; Stacy Woodard
Other Nominees:
	Bosom Friends (1934) - Skibo Productions Strikes and Spares (1934) - Pete Smith (I)


Awarded to:
	Shirley Temple - In grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.


Winner:
	Electrical Research Products Inc. - For their development of the vertical cut disc method of recording sound ("hill and dale recording").


Winners:
	Bell and Howell Co. - For their development of the Bell and Howell fully automatic sound and picture printer. One Night of Love (1934) - Columbia Pictures Corp. - 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.