7th Academy Awards

7th Academy Awards
Date	February 27, 1935
Site	Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California
Host	Irvin S. Cobb
Highlights
Best Picture	It Happened One Night
Most awards	It Happened One Night (5)
Most nominations	One Night of Love (6)

The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1934, was held on February 27, 1935, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb.

Frank Capra's influential romantic comedy It Happened One Night became the first film to perform a "clean sweep" of the top five award categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. This feat would later be duplicated by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1992. It also was the first romantic comedy to be named Best Picture.

For the first time, the Academy standardized the practice – still in effect – that the award eligibility period for a film would be the preceding calendar year.

This was also the first of only two years in which write-in candidates were allowed by the Academy as a tacit response to the controversy surrounding the snub of Bette Davis' performance in Of Human Bondage.

The categories of Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song were first introduced this year.

This was the last time that Best Actor were all first time nominees, as well as the last time until the 43rd Academy Awards where either leading acting category had all first time nominees. (Lead actress that year were all first timers for the only time since the 2nd Academy Awards).

Shirley Temple received the first Juvenile Award at age six, making her the youngest Oscar recipient ever.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Production	Best Director
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 Viva Villa! The White Parade	Frank Capra – It Happened One Night Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
Best Actor	Best Actress
Clark Gable – It Happened One Night Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini William Powell – The Thin Man	Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage (write-in, not official nomination) Grace Moore – One Night of Love Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Best Story	Best Adapted Screenplay
Manhattan Melodrama – Arthur Caesar Hide-Out – Mauri Grashin The Richest Girl in the World – Norman Krasna	It Happened One Night – Robert Riskin The Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Viva Villa! – Ben Hecht
Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy	Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
La Cucaracha – Kenneth Macgowan and Pioneer Pictures Men in Black – Jules White What, No Men! – Warner Bros.	City of Wax – Horace Woodard and Stacy Woodard Bosom Friends – Skibo Productions Strikes and Spares – Pete Smith
Best Animated Short Film	Best Art Direction
The Tortoise and the Hare – Walt Disney Holiday Land – Screen Gems Jolly Little Elves – Walter Lantz	The Merry Widow – Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope The Affairs of Cellini – Richard Day The Gay Divorcee – Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark
Best Score	Best Song
One Night of Love – Columbia Studio Music Department The Gay Divorcee – RKO Radio Studio Music Department The Lost Patrol – RKO Radio Studio Music Department	"The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee – Music by Con Conrad; Lyric by Herb Magidson "Carioca" from Flying Down to Rio – Music by Vincent Youmans; Lyric by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn "Love in Bloom" from She Loves Me Not – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin
Best Cinematography	Best Assistant Director
Cleopatra – Victor Milner The Affairs of Cellini – Charles Rosher Operator 13 – George J. Folsey	Viva Villa! – John S. Waters Cleopatra – Cullen Tate Imitation of Life – Scott Beal
Best Sound Recording	Best Film Editing
One Night of Love – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department The Affairs of Cellini – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department Cleopatra – Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio Sound Department Flirtation Walk – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department The Gay Divorcee – Carl Dreher, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department Imitation of Life – Theodore Soderberg, Universal Studio Sound Department Viva Villa! – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department The White Parade – Edmund H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department	Eskimo – Conrad Nervig Cleopatra – Anne Bauchens One Night of Love – Gene Milford

Academy Juvenile Award

• Shirley Temple

Multiple nominations and awards

The following eleven films received multiple nominations:

• 6 nominations: One Night of Love
• 5 nominations: Cleopatra, The Gay Divorcee, and It Happened One Night
• 4 nominations: The Affairs of Cellini, The Thin Man, and Viva Villa!
• 3 nominations: Imitation of Life
• 2 nominations: The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Flirtation Walk, and The White Parade

The following two films received multiple awards:

• 5 awards: It Happened One Night
• 2 awards: One Night of Love

See also

• 1934 in film
• List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees

External links

• 1934 Academy Awards nominees and winners at infoplease.com