7th Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1935 took place on February 27, 1935 in Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was the 7th Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the previous year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1934.
This year there was the first time the category Best Editing and two music categories ( Best Film Score and Best Song ). The film It Happened One Night ( It Happened One Night ) was the first film in the five main categories (film, director, lead actor, lead actress and screenplay) could win.
Presentation
Winners and nominees
Best Picture
It Happened One Night ( It Happened One Night ) - Columbia
Best Actor
Clark Gable - It Happened One Night ( It Happened One Night )
Best Actress
Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night ( It Happened One Night )
Best Director
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night ( It Happened One Night )
Best assistant director
John S. Waters - cry of the persecuted ( Viva Villa! )
Best Original Story
Arthur Caesar - Manhattan Melodrama
Best Adapted Screenplay
Robert Riskin - It Happened One Night ( It Happened One Night )
Best Camera
Victor Milner - Cleopatra
Best Art
Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope - The Merry Widow ( The Merry Widow)
Best Sound
John Livadary (Columbia Studio Sound Department) - The illuminated target ( One Night of Love )
Best Editing
Conrad A. Annoying - Eskimo
Best Original Score
Louis Silvers (Columbia Studio Music Department) - The illuminated target ( One Night of Love )
Best Song
The Continental, dance with me! - Music: Con Conrad, Text: Herb Magidson
Best Short Film - Cartoon
Walt Disney - The Tortoise and the Hare (The Tortoise and the Hare )
Best Short Film - Comedy
Kenneth Macgowan - La Cucaracha
Best Short Film - Novelty
Stacy Woodard and Horace Woodard - City of Wax
Special Awards
- Honorary Oscar / Juvenile Award: Shirley Temple ( recognition of her outstanding contribution in the field of film entertainment in 1934 ) ( Age: 6 years)
- Prize for Science and Development: Electrical Research Products, Inc. ( For their wide range recording and reporducing system)
- Award for Technical Merits: Columbia Pictures Corporation ( 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' ) and Bell and Howell Company ( for their development of the Bell and Howell Fully Automatic sound and Picture Printer )