7th Academy Awards (1935)

Highlights of 7th Academy Awards ceremony

The 7th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1934.
The award ceremony was held on 27th February 1935.
It Happened One Night won the Best Picture Award.
- WINNER

Best Picture

It Happened One Night
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Cleopatra
Flirtation Walk
The Gay Divorcee
Here Comes the Navy
The House of Rothschild
Imitation of Life
One Night of Love
The Thin Man

Best Director

It Happened One Night - Frank Capra
One Night of Love - Victor Schertzinger
The Thin Man - W. S. Van Dyke

Best Actor in a Leading Role

It Happened One Night - Clark Gable
The Affairs of Cellini - Frank Morgan
The Thin Man - William Powell

Best Actress in a Leading Role

It Happened One Night - Claudette Colbert
Of Human Bondage - Bette Davis
One Night of Love - Grace Moore
The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Norma Shearer

Best Art Direction

The Merry Widow - Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope
The Affairs of Cellini - Richard Day
The Gay Divorcee - Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark

Best Cinematography

Cleopatra - Victor Milner
Operator 13 - George J. Folsey
The Affairs of Cellini - Charles Rosher

Best Short Subject - Cartoon

The Tortoise and the Hare - Walt Disney
Holiday Land - Screen Gems
Jolly Little Elves - Walter Lantz

Best Sound, Recording

One Night of Love
The White Parade
Viva Villa!
Cleopatra
The Gay Divorcee
The Affairs of Cellini
Imitation of Life
Flirtation Walk

Best Assistant Director

Viva Villa! - John S. Waters
Imitation of Life - Scott Beal
Cleopatra - Cullen Tate

Best Writing Adaptations

It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin
The Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Viva Villa! - Ben Hecht

Best Writing, Original

Manhattan Melodrama - Arthur Caesar
Hide-Out - Mauri Grashin
The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna

Short Subject : Comedy

La Cucaracha - Lloyd Corrigan
Men in Black - Ray McCarey
What, No Men! - Ralph Staub

Short Subject : Novelty

City of Wax
Bosom Friends
Strikes and Spares
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