Recap / Seventh Academy Awards

The 7th Academy Awards

Host: Irvin S Cobb

Air Date: February 27, 1935

Outstanding Production

• It Happened One Night (winner)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
• Cleopatra
• Flirtation Walk
• The Gay Divorcee
• Here Comes the Navy
• The House of Rothschild
• Imitation of Life
• One Night of Love
• The Thin Man
• Viva Villa!
• The White Parade

Best Actor

• Clark Gable - It Happened One Night (winner)
• Frank Morgan - The Affairs Of Cellini
• William Powell - The Thin Man

Best Actress

• Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night (winner)
• Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage (Write-in, not official nomination)
• Grace Moore - One Night of Love
• Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Best Director

• Frank Capra - It Happened One Night (winner)
• Victor Schertzinger - One Night of Love
• WS Van Dyke - The Thin Man

Best Original Story

• Manhattan Melodrama (winner)
• Hide Out
• The Richest Girl In The World

Best Adaptation

• It Happened One Night (winner)
• The Thin Man
• Viva Villa!

Best Live Action Short (comedy)

• La Cucaracha (winner)
• Men in Black
• What No Men

Best Live Action Short (novelty)

• City of Wax (winner)
• Bosom Friends
• Strikes and Spares

Best Short Subject (cartoon)

• The Tortoise and the Hare (winner)
• Holiday Land
• Jolly Little Elves

Best Scoring

• One Night of Love (winner)
• The Gay Divorcee
• The Lost Patrol

Best Song

• "The Continental" - The Gay Divorcee (winner)
• "Carioca" - Flying Down to Rio
• "Love in Bloom" - She Loves Me Not

Best Sound Recording

• One Night of Love (winner)
• The Affairs Of Cellini
• Cleopatra
• Flirtation Walk
• The Gay Divorcee
• Imitation Of Life
• Viva Villa!
• The White Parade

Best Art Direction

• The Merry Widow (winner)
• The Affairs Of Cellini
• The Gay Divorcee

Best Cinematography

• Cleopatra (winner)
• The Affairs Of Cellini
• Operator 13

Best Film Editing

• Eskimo (winner)
• Cleopatra
• One Night of Love

Best Assistant Director

• Viva Villa! (winner)
• Cleopatra
• Imitation of Life

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