Winner 7th Academy Awards
The 1934 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Year
1934
Nominations
67
Categories Decided
All 19
Top Winner
It Happened One Night
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to It Happened One Night. The winning leader is It Happened One Night with 5 wins. The most nominated title is One Night of Love with 7 nominations. 20 winners named across 19 categories.
Most awarded titles
- It Happened One Night 5 wins5 nominations
- One Night of Love 3 wins7 nominations
- Cleopatra 1 win5 nominations
- The Gay Divorcee 1 win5 nominations
- Viva Villa! 1 win4 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The 1934 ceremony centers on It Happened One Night. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 22 nominees in all.
Best Picture Winner
- Cleopatra Paramount
- Flirtation Walk First National
- Here Comes the Navy Warner Bros.
- Imitation of Life Universal
- One Night of Love Columbia
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- The Gay Divorcee RKO Radio
- The House of Rothschild 20th Century
- The Thin Man Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- The White Parade Jesse L. Lasky (production company)
- Viva Villa! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Director Winner
Best Actor Winner
Best Actress Winner
Complete Ceremony Ledger
The winner in every category. Open the full ballot to see every nominee.
16 categories67 records20 winners
1 winner12 records
11 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
It Happened One Night
Credit: Columbia
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
It Happened One Night
Credit: Frank Capra
1 winner4 records
3 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
It Happened One Night
Credit: Robert Riskin
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
Cleopatra
Credit: Victor Milner
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
Eskimo
Credit: Conrad Nervig
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
Viva Villa!
Credit: John Waters
1 winner3 records
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
The Tortoise and the Hare
Credit: Walt Disney
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
La Cucaracha
Credit: Kenneth Macgowan
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
1 winner8 records
7 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
1 winner3 records
2 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
Manhattan Melodrama
Credit: Arthur Caesar
Ceremony Highlights
Categories in this ceremony
Best Actor
Best Actress
ART DIRECTION
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Best Picture
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Best Director
FILM EDITING
MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
MUSIC (Original Song)
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT SUBJECT (Comedy)
SHORT SUBJECT (Novelty)
SOUND RECORDING
SPECIAL AWARD
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
WRITING (Original Story)
Winner Circle
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
Claudette Colbert
Clark Gable
It Happened One Night
The Continental
Victor Milner
Conrad Nervig
Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope
John Waters
Columbia | Louis Silvers | Victor Schertzinger | Gus Kahn
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)
Electrical Research Products
SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)
Bell And Howell Company
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Walt Disney, Producer
Kenneth Macgowan, Producer
Stacy Woodard and Horace Woodard, Producers
Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
Shirley Temple
Manhattan Melodrama
Sortable ledger
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