Winner 
8th Academy Awards
The 1935 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to Mutiny on the Bounty. The winning leader is The Informer with 4 wins. The most nominated title is Mutiny on the Bounty with 8 nominations. 27 winners named across 20 categories.
Most awarded titles
- The Informer 4 wins6 nominations
- A Midsummer Night's Dream 2 wins4 nominations
- Mutiny on the Bounty 1 win8 nominations
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1 win7 nominations
- Broadway Melody of 1936 1 win3 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
Mutiny on the Bounty took Picture; The Informer controlled the board. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 27 nominees in all.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream Warner Bros.
- Alice Adams RKO Radio
- Broadway Melody of 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Captain Blood Cosmopolitan
- David Copperfield Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Les Miserables 20th Century
- Naughty Marietta Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Ruggles of Red Gap Paramount
- The Informer RKO Radio
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Paramount
- Top Hat RKO Radio
Complete Ceremony Ledger
Every winner and nominee in every category, with film, person and review links.
17 categories94 records27 winners
1 winner12 records
Alice Adams
Credit: RKO Radio
David Copperfield
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Les Miserables
Credit: 20th Century
Naughty Marietta
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Ruggles of Red Gap
Credit: Paramount
1 winner4 records
The Informer
Credit: John Ford
Captain Blood
Credit: Michael Curtiz
came in 2nd|NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Credit: Frank Lloyd
1 winner6 records
1 winner5 records
Black Fury
Credit: Paul Muni
Joe Radek
came in 2nd|NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
1 winner4 records
The Informer
Credit: Dudley Nichols
NOTE: Mr. Nichols initially refused the award, but Academy records indicate that he was in possession of a statuette by 1949.
Captain Blood
Credit: Casey Robinson
came in 3rd|NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
1 winner3 records
1 winner4 records
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Credit: Hal Mohr
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
Barbary Coast
Credit: Ray June
1 winner6 records
David Copperfield
Credit: Robert J. Kern
Les Miserables
Credit: Barbara McLean
1 winner3 records
1 winner4 records
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Credit: Sherry Shourds
came in 2nd|NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
Les Miserables
Credit: Eric Stacey
1 winner7 records
Broadway Melody of 1936Folies Bergere
Credit: Dave Gould
I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling and Straw Hat
Big Broadcast of 1936All the King's Horses
Credit: LeRoy Prinz
It's the Animal in Me and Viennese Waltz
Go into Your DanceBroadway Hostess
Credit: Bobby Connolly
Latin from Manhattan and Playboy from Paree
Gold Diggers of 1935
Credit: Busby Berkeley
Lullaby of Broadway and The Words Are In My Heart
came in 3rd
1 winner4 records
The Informer
Credit: RKO RadioMax Steiner
Captain Blood
Credit: Warner Bros.First NationalLeo ForbsteinErich Wolfgang Korngold
came in 3rd|NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
1 winner3 records
1 winner3 records
1 winner3 records
1 winner9 records
$1,000 a Minute
Credit: Republic
I Dream Too Much
Credit: RKO RadioCarl Dreher
Love Me Forever
Credit: ColumbiaJohn Livadary
1 winner4 records
G-Men
Credit: Gregory Rogers
came in 2nd|NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.
Ceremony Highlights
Categories in this ceremony
Winner Circle
Mutiny on the Bounty
John Ford
Bette Davis
Victor McLaglen
The Informer
Lullaby Of Broadway
Hal Mohr
Ralph Dawson
Richard Day
Clem Beauchamp, Paul Wing
Dave Gould
RKO Radio | Max Steiner
Agfa Ansco Corporation
Eastman Kodak Company
Douglas Shearer and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Electrical Research Products Inc.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
Mole-Richardson Company
Nathan Levinson
Paramount Productions Inc.
WILLIAM A. MUELLER
Walt Disney, Producer
Jack Chertok, Producer
Gaumont British and Skibo Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
David Wark Griffith
The Scoundrel
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.