Academy Awards®
Awards for 1935
Picture
Pandro S. Berman - Producer, ALICE ADAMS
John W. Considine, Jr. - Producer, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936
Hal Wallis - Producer, Harry Joe Brown - Producer, Gordon Hollingshead - Producer, CAPTAIN BLOOD
David O. Selznick - Producer, DAVID COPPERFIELD
Cliff Reid - Producer, THE INFORMER
Darryl F. Zanuck - Producer, LES MISERABLES
Louis D. Lighton - Producer, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
Henry Blanke - Producer, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
* Irving Thalberg - Producer, Albert Lewin - Producer, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Hunt Stromberg - Producer, NAUGHTY MARIETTA
Arthur Hornblow, Jr. - Producer, RUGGLES OF RED GAP
Pandro S. Berman - Producer, TOP HAT
Actor
Clark Gable, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Charles Laughton, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
* Victor McLaglen, THE INFORMER
Franchot Tone, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Actress
Elisabeth Bergner, ESCAPE ME NEVER
Claudette Colbert, PRIVATE WORLDS
* Bette Davis, DANGEROUS
Katharine Hepburn, ALICE ADAMS
Miriam Hopkins, BECKY SHARP
Merle Oberon, THE DARK ANGEL
Director
* John Ford, THE INFORMER
Henry Hathaway, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
Frank Lloyd, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Writing - Original Story
Moss Hart, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936
Don Hartman, Stephen Avery, THE GAY DECEPTION
* Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, THE SCOUNDREL
Writing - Screenplay
(formerly Adaption)
* Dudley Nichols, THE INFORMER
Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings, Carey Wilson, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Art Direction
* Richard Day - Art Direction, THE DARK ANGEL
Hans Dreier - Art Direction, Roland Anderson - Art Direction, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
Carroll Clark - Art Direction, Van Nest Polglase - Art Direction, TOP HAT
Cinematography
Ray June, BARBARY COAST
Victor Milner, THE CRUSADES
* Hal Mohr, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Gregg Toland, LES MISERABLES
Film Editing
Robert J. Kern, DAVID COPPERFIELD
George Hively, THE INFORMER
Barbara McLean, LES MISERABLES
Ellsworth Hoagland, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
* Ralph Dawson, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Margaret Booth, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Assistant Director
* Clem Beauchamp, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
Eric Stacey, LES MISERABLES
* Paul Wing, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
Joseph Newman, DAVID COPPERFIELD
Dance Direction
This award was instituted in 1935.
Busby Berkeley, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935
"The Words Are in My Heart"
Bobby Connolly, GO INTO YOUR DANCE
"Latin from Manhattan"
Bobby Connolly, BROADWAY HOSTESS
"Playboy from Paree"
* Dave Gould, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936
"I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling"
* Dave Gould, FOLIES BERGÈRE
"Straw Hat"
Sammy Lee, KING OF BURLESQUE
"Too Good to Be True"
Hermes Pan, TOP HAT
"Top Hat"
LeRoy Prinz, THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1936
"Elephant Number--It's the Animal in Me"
LeRoy Prinz, ALL THE KING'S HORSES
"Viennese Waltz"
B. Zemach, SHE
"Hall of Kings"
Busby Berkeley, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935
"Lullaby of Broadway"
Sammy Lee, KING OF BURLESQUE
"Lovely Lady"
Hermes Pan, TOP HAT
"Piccolino"
Score,
* Max Steiner - Departmental Head (RKO Radio Studio Music Department)
Max Steiner - Score, THE INFORMER
Nat W. Finston - Departmental Head (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music Department)
Herbert Stothart - Score, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Irvin Talbot - Departmental Head (Paramount Studio Music Department)
Ernst Toch - Score, PETER IBBETSON
Song
Irving Berlin - Music & Lyrics, TOP HAT
"Cheek to Cheek"
Jerome Kern - Music, Dorothy Fields - Lyrics, Jimmy McHugh - Lyrics, ROBERTA
"Lovely to Look At"
* Harry Warren - Music, Al Dubin - Lyrics, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935
"Lullaby of Broadway"
Animated Short
Harman-Ising, THE CALICO DRAGON
* Walt Disney - Producer, THREE ORPHAN KITTENS
Walt Disney - Producer, WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?
Short Subjects - Novelty
This award was discontinued after 1935.
MGM, AUDIOSCOPIKS
Universal, CAMERA THRILLS (SPECIAL)
* Educational, WINGS OVER MT. EVEREST
Short Subjects - Comedy
This award was discontinued after 1935.
* MGM, HOW TO SLEEP (MINIATURE)
Columbia, OH, MY NERVES
Hal Roach - Producer, TIT FOR TAT
Sound Recording
Gilbert Kurland, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Nathan Levinson, CAPTAIN BLOOD
Thomas T. Moulton (Goldwyn Goldwyn Sound Department), THE DARK ANGEL
Carl Dreher, I DREAM TOO MUCH
Franklin Hansen, THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER
John Livadary, LOVE ME FOREVER
* Douglas Shearer, NAUGHTY MARIETTA
Republic Sound Department, ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A MINUTE
E.H. Hansen, THANKS A MILLION
Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1935.
Class II (Plaque)
* Agfa ANSCO Corporation, For their development of the Agfa infrared film.
* Eastman Kodak Company, For their development of the Eastman Pola-Screen.
Class III (Citation)
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, For the development of anti-directional negative and positive development by means of jet turbulation, and the application of the method to all negative and print processing of the entire product of a major producing company.
* William A. Mueller (Warner Bros-First National Studio Sound Department)
For his method of dubbing, in which the level of the dialogue automatically controls the level of the accompanying music and sound effects.
* Mole-Richardson Company, For their development of the "Solar-spot" spot lamps.
* Douglas Shearer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department)
For their automatic control system for cameras and sound recording machines and auxiliary stage equipment.
* Electrical Research Products Inc.
For their study and development of equipment to analyze and measure flutter resulting from the travel of the film through the mechanisms used in the recording and reproduction of sound.
* Paramount Productions Inc.
For the design and construction of the Paramount transparency air turbine developing machine.
* Nathan Levinson - Director of Sound Recording (Warner Bros-First National Studio)
For the method of intercutting variable density and variable area sound tracks to secure an increase in the effective volume range of sound recorded for motion pictures.
Honorary and Other Awards
* D.W. Griffith, For his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts. Winner presented a Statuette.