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