5th Academy Awards (1932)
Highlights of 5th Academy Awards ceremony
The 5th Academy Awards honored the best films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931 and July 31, 1932.
The award ceremony was held on November 18, 1932.
Grand Hotel won the Best Picture Award.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Grand Hotel
Arrowsmith
Bad Girl
The Champ
Five Star Final
One Hour with You
Shanghai Express
The Smiling Lieutenant
Best Director
Bad Girl
- Frank Borzage
The Champ
- King Vidor
Shanghai Express
- Josef von Sternberg
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Champ
- Wallace Beery
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Fredric March
The Guardsman
- Alfred Lunt
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
- Helen Hayes
Emma
- Marie Dressler
The Guardsman
- Lynn Fontanne
Best Art Direction
Transatlantic
- Gordon Wiles
A nous la liberte
- Lazare Meerson
Arrowsmith
- Richard Day
Best Cinematography
Shanghai Express
- Lee Garmes
Arrowsmith
- Ray June
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Karl Struss
Best Short Subject - Cartoon
Flowers and Trees
It's Got Me Again!
Mickey's Orphans
Best Sound, Recording
Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
MGM Studio Sound Department
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
Walt Disney Productions
Warner Bros. First National Studio Sound Department
Best Writing Adaptations
Bad Girl
- Edwin J. Burke
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Percy Heath, Samuel Hoffenstein
Arrowsmith
- Sidney Howard
Best Writing, Original
The Champ
- Frances Marion
The Star Witness
- Lucien Hubbard
Lady and Gent
- Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
What Price Hollywood?
- Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin
Short Subject : Comedy
The Music Box
- Hal Roach
Scratch As Catch Can
- Lou Brock
The Loud Mouth
- Mack Sennett
Short Subject : Novelty
Wrestling Swordfish
Swing High
Screen Souvenirs