1934 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1934 Academy Awards were presented Feb. 27, 1935 at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

Outstanding Production

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (MGM)

Cleopatra (Paramount)

Flirtation Walk (First National)

The Gay Divorcée (RKO Radio)

Here Comes the Navy (Warner Bros.)

The House of Rothschild (Twentieth Century; United Artists)

Imitation of Life (Universal)

It Happened One Night (Columbia)

One Night of Love (Columbia)

The Thin Man (MGM)

Viva Villa! (MGM)

The White Parade (Jesse L. Lasky; Fox)

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night

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Best Actor

Clark Gable, It Happened One Night

Frank Morgan, The Affairs of Cellini

William Powell, The Thin Man

Best Actress

Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night

Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage (Write-in candidate, not an official nomination)

Grace Moore, One Night of Love

Norma Shearer, The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Directing

Frank Capra, It Happened One Night

Victor Schertzinger, One Night of Love

W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man

Writing

Adaptation	Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, The Thin Man
	Ben Hecht, Viva Villa!
	Robert Riskin, It Happened One Night
Original Story	Arthur Caesar, Manhattan Melodrama
	Mauri Grashin, Hide-Out
	Norman Krasna, The Richest Girl in the World

Cinematography

George Folsey, Operator 13

Victor Milner, Cleopatra

Charles Rosher, The Affairs of Cellini

Art Direction

Richard Day, The Affairs of Cellini

Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope, The Merry Widow

Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark, The Gay Divorcée

Sound Recording

Columbia Studio Sound Dept., One Night of Love

Fox Studio Sound Dept., The White Parade

MGM Studio Sound Dept., Viva Villa!

Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Cleopatra

RKO Radio Studio Sound Dept., The Gay Divorcée

United Artists Studio Sound Dept., The Affairs of Cellini

Universal Studio Sound Dept., Imitation of Life

Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Dept., Flirtation Walk

Assistant Director

Scott Beal, Imitation of Life

Cullen Tate, Cleopatra

John Waters, Viva Villa!

Music

Song	“Carioca,” Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans, music; Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn, Iyrics
	*“The Continental,” The Gay Divorcée, Con Conrad, music; Herb Magidson, Iyrics*
	“Love in Bloom,” She Loves Me Not, Ralph Rainger, music; Leo Robin, Iyrics
Score	Columbia Studio Music Dept., One Night of Love
	RKO Radio Studio Music Dept., The Gay Divorcée
	RKO Radio Studio Music Dept., The Lost Patrol

Film Editing

Anne Bauchens, Cleopatra

Gene Milford, One Night of Love

Conrad Nervig, Eskimo

Short Subjects

Cartoon	Holiday Land (Color Rhapsody Series) (Screen Gems; Columbia)
	Jolly Little Elves (Cartune Classic Series) (Walter Lantz Productions; Universal)
	The Tortoise and the Hare (Silly Symphony Series) (Walt Disney Productions; United Artists)
Comedy	La Cucaracha (Pioneer Pictures; RKO Radio)
	Men in Black (The Three Stooges Series) (Jules White, producer; Columbia)
	What, No Men! (Broadway Brevities Series) (Warner Bros.)
Novelty	Bosom Friends (Treasure Chest Series) (Skibo Productions; Educational-Fox)
	City of Wax (Battle for Life Series) (Skibo Productions; Educational-Fox)
	Strikes and Spares (Oddities Series) (Pete Smith, producer; MGM)