7th Academy Awards

7th Academy Awards
Date	February 27, 1935
Site	Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	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, and the first to win two acting Oscars.

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 Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song were first introduced this year.

This was the last time that those in the Best Actor category were all first time nominees, as well as the last time until the 43rd Academy Awards were either leading acting category was entirely first-time nominees. (All nominees in the Best Actress category that year were first-timers, and this year was the only other time this had occurred since the 2nd Academy Awards.)

Shirley Temple received the first Juvenile Award at age six, making her the youngest Oscar recipient ever. Clark Gable became the first Best Actor winner born in the 20th century (1901), as well as the first to be born during Teddy Roosevelt's administration.

Awards

Frank Capra; Best Director winner and Best Picture co-winner

Harry Cohn; Best Picture co-winner

Clark Gable; Best Actor winner

Claudette Colbert; Best Actress winner

Walt Disney; Best Short Subject, Cartoon winner

Cedric Gibbons; Best Art Direction co-winner

Shirley Temple; Juvenile Academy Award recipient

Nominees were announced on February 5, 1935. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Production It Happened One Night – Frank Capra and Harry Cohn for Columbia‡ The Barretts of Wimpole Street – Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cleopatra – Cecil B. DeMille for Paramount Flirtation Walk – Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, and Robert Lord for First National The Gay Divorcee – Pandro S. Berman for RKO Pictures Here Comes the Navy – Lou Edelman for Warner Bros. The House of Rothschild – Darryl F. Zanuck, William Goetz, and Raymond Griffith for 20th Century Imitation of Life – John M. Stahl for Universal One Night of Love – Harry Cohn and Everett Riskin for Columbia The Thin Man – Hunt Stromberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Viva Villa! – David O. Selznick for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The White Parade – Jesse L. Lasky for Fox Film Co.	Best Director Frank Capra – It Happened One Night‡ Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
Best Actor Clark Gable – It Happened One Night as Peter Warne‡ Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini as Alessandro, Duke of Florence William Powell – The Thin Man as Nick Charles	Best Actress Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night as Ellen "Ellie" Andrews‡ Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage (write-in, not official nomination) as Mildred Rogers Grace Moore – One Night of Love as Mary Barrett Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Elizabeth Barrett
Best Original Story Manhattan Melodrama – Arthur Caesar‡ Hide-Out – Mauri Grashin The Richest Girl in the World – Norman Krasna	Best Adaptation It Happened One Night – Robert Riskin, based on the story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams‡ The Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett Viva Villa! – Ben Hecht, based on the novel by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade
Best Live Action Short Subject, Comedy La Cucaracha – Kenneth Macgowan and Pioneer Pictures‡ Men in Black – Jules White What, No Men! – Warner Bros.	Best Live Action Short Subject, Novelty City of Wax – Horace Woodard and Stacy Woodard‡ Bosom Friends – Skibo Productions Strikes and Spares – Pete Smith
Best Short Subject, Cartoon The Tortoise and the Hare – Walt Disney‡ Holiday Land – Screen Gems Jolly Little Elves – Walter Lantz	Best Scoring One Night of Love – Columbia Studio Music Department‡ The Gay Divorcee – RKO Radio Studio Music Department The Lost Patrol – RKO Radio Studio Music Department
Best Song "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee – Music by Con Conrad; Lyrics by Herb Magidson‡ "Carioca" from Flying Down to Rio – Music by Vincent Youmans; Lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn "Love in Bloom" from She Loves Me Not – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyrics by Leo Robin	Best Sound Recording One Night of Love – John P. Livadary‡ The Affairs of Cellini – Thomas T. Moulton Cleopatra – Franklin Hansen Flirtation Walk – Nathan Levinson The Gay Divorcee – Carl Dreher Imitation of Life – Theodore Soderberg Viva Villa! – Douglas Shearer The White Parade – Edmund H. Hansen
Best Art Direction The Merry Widow – Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope‡ The Affairs of Cellini – Richard Day The Gay Divorcee – Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark	Best Cinematography Cleopatra – Victor Milner‡ The Affairs of Cellini – Charles Rosher Operator 13 – George J. Folsey
Best Film Editing Eskimo – Conrad A. Nervig‡ Cleopatra – Anne Bauchens One Night of Love – Gene Milford	Best Assistant Director Viva Villa! – John S. Waters‡ Cleopatra – Cullen Tate Imitation of Life – Scott Beal

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