4th Academy Awards (1931)
Highlights of 4th Academy Awards ceremony
The 4th Academy Awards honored the best films screened in 1930/1931.
The award ceremony was held on 10th November 1931.
Cimarron won the Best Picture Award.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Cimarron
East Lynne
The Front Page
Skippy
Trader Horn
Best Director
Skippy
- Norman Taurog
A Free Soul
- Clarence Brown
The Front Page
- Lewis Milestone
Cimarron
- Wesley Ruggles
Morocco
- Josef von Sternberg
Best Actor in a Leading Role
A Free Soul
- Lionel Barrymore
Skippy
- Jackie Cooper
Cimarron
- Richard Dix
The Royal Family of Broadway
- Fredric March
The Front Page
- Adolphe Menjou
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Min and Bill
- Marie Dressler
Morocco
- Marlene Dietrich
Cimarron
- Irene Dunne
Holiday
- Ann Harding
A Free Soul
- Norma Shearer
Best Art Direction
Cimarron
- Max Ree
Whoopee!
- Richard Day
Morocco
- Hans Dreier
Just Imagine
- Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras
Svengali
- Anton Grot
Best Cinematography
Tabu
- Floyd Crosby
Cimarron
- Edward Cronjager
Morocco
- Lee Garmes
The Right to Love
- Charles Lang
Svengali
- Barney McGill
Best Sound, Recording
Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
MGM Studio Sound Department
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department
Best Writing Adaptations
Cimarron
- Howard Estabrook
Little Caesar
- Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
Holiday
- Horace Jackson
Skippy
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz
The Criminal Code
- Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr.