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Academy Awards, USA: 1936

Oscar

Date:	5 March (banquet)
Host:	Frank Capra
Location:	Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:	For the last time write-in nominations are allowed. For the first time an organization external to the Academy, the public accounting firm Price Waterhouse Co., tabulates the voting ballots. Many Academy members are boycotting the awards party, because of disputes between industry guilds and the Academy over union issues. From 1935 to 1938 best score is considered a music department achievement and the award is given to the department head instead of to the composer(s).

Best Picture


Winner:
	Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - M-G-M
Other Nominees:
	Alice Adams (1935) - RKO Radio Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) - M-G-M Captain Blood (1935) - Cosmopolitan Informer, The (1935) - RKO Radio Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Paramount Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) - Warner Bros. Misérables, Les (1935) - 20th Century Pictures Naughty Marietta (1935) - M-G-M Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger, The (1935) - M-G-M Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) - Paramount Top Hat (1935) - RKO Radio

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Informer, The (1935) - Victor McLaglen
Other Nominees:
	Black Fury (1935) - Paul Muni (I) - This was a write-in candidate, who came in second on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Clark Gable Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Charles Laughton Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Franchot Tone (I)

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Dangerous (1935) - Bette Davis - On 14 December 2002 Steven Spielberg anonymously bought Davis' Oscar at a Sotheby's auction in New York to return it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The statuette was among the memorabilia sold by the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, which has emerged from bankruptcy protection.
Other Nominees:
	Alice Adams (1935) - Katharine Hepburn Becky Sharp (1935) - Miriam Hopkins Dark Angel, The (1935) - Merle Oberon Escape Me Never (1935) - Elisabeth Bergner Private Worlds (1935) - Claudette Colbert

Best Director


Winner:
	Informer, The (1935) - John Ford (I)
Other Nominees:
	Captain Blood (1935) - Michael Curtiz - This was a write-in candidate, who came in second on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination. Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Henry Hathaway Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Frank Lloyd (I)

Best Assistant Director


Winners:
	Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Clem Beauchamp Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Paul Wing (I)
Other Nominees:
	Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) - Sherry Shourds Misérables, Les (1935) - Eric Stacey (I) Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger, The (1935) - Joseph M. Newman

Best Writing, Original Story


Winner:
	Scoundrel, The (1935) - Ben Hecht (I); Charles MacArthur
Other Nominees:
	'G' Men (1935) - Darryl F. Zanuck - Write-in candidate, not an official nominee. - The official AMPAS records list the pseudonym 'Gregory Rogers' as nominee. Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) - Moss Hart Gay Deception, The (1935) - Don Hartman (I); Stephen Morehouse Avery

Best Writing, Screenplay


Winner:
	Informer, The (1935) - Dudley Nichols - Refused to accept his award because of the antagonism between several industry guilds and the academy over union matters. This marked the first time an Academy Award had been declined. - Academy records show that Dudley was in possession of an Oscar statuette by 1949.
Other Nominees:
	Captain Blood (1935) - Casey Robinson (I) - This was a write-in candidate, who came in third on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination. Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Achmed Abdullah; John L. Balderston; Grover Jones (I); William Slavens McNutt; Waldemar Young Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Jules Furthman; Talbot Jennings; Carey Wilson (I)

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) - Hal Mohr - First and only write-in nominee to actually win.
Other Nominees:
	Barbary Coast (1935) - Ray June Crusades, The (1935) - Victor Milner Misérables, Les (1935) - Gregg Toland

Best Art Direction


Winner:
	Dark Angel, The (1935) - Richard Day (I)
Other Nominees:
	Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Hans Dreier; Roland Anderson Top Hat (1935) - Carroll Clark; Van Nest Polglase

Best Sound, Recording


Winner:
	Naughty Marietta (1935) - Douglas Shearer (sound director); M-G-M SSD
Other Nominees:
	1,000 Dollars a Minute (1935) - Republic SSD Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Gilbert Kurland (sound director); Universal SSD Captain Blood (1935) - Nathan Levinson (sound director); Warner Bros.-First National SSD Dark Angel, The (1935) - Thomas T. Moulton (sound director); United Artists SSD I Dream Too Much (1935) - Carl Dreher (I) (sound director); RKO Radio SSD Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Franklin Hansen (sound director); Paramount SSD Love Me Forever (1935) - John P. Livadary (sound director); Columbia SSD Thanks a Million (1935) - Edmund H. Hansen (sound director); 20th Century Fox SSD

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) - Ralph Dawson
Other Nominees:
	Informer, The (1935) - George Hively (I) Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) - Ellsworth Hoagland Misérables, Les (1935) - Barbara McLean (I) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Margaret Booth Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger, The (1935) - Robert Kern (I)

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) - Harry Warren (I) (music); Al Dubin (lyrics) - For the song "Lullaby of Broadway".
Other Nominees:
	Roberta (1935) - Jerome Kern (music); Dorothy Fields (lyrics); Jimmy McHugh (lyrics) - For the song "Lovely to Look at". Top Hat (1935) - Irving Berlin (I) - For the song "Cheek to Cheek".

Best Music, Score


Winner:
	Informer, The (1935) - Max Steiner (I) (head of departmment); RKO Radio Studio Music Department - Score by Max Steiner (I).
Other Nominees:
	Captain Blood (1935) - Leo F. Forbstein (head of department); Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department - Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. - This was a write-in candidate, who came in third on the final ballots. It was not an official nomination. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Nat W. Finston (head of departmment); M-G-M Studio Music Department - Score by Herbert Stothart. Peter Ibbetson (1935) - Irvin Talbot (head of departmment); Paramount Studio Music Department - Score by Ernst Toch.

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	Three Orphan Kittens (1935) - Walt Disney
Other Nominees:
	Calico Dragon, The (1935) - Rudolf Ising; Hugh Harman Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935) - Walt Disney

Best Short Subject, Comedy


Winner:
	How to Sleep (1935) - Jack Chertok
Other Nominees:
	Oh, My Nerves (1935) - Jules White Tit for Tat (1935) - Hal Roach

Best Short Subject, Novelty


Winner:
	Wings Over Everest (1934) - Gaumont British; Skibo Productions
Other Nominees:
	Audioscopiks (1935) - Pete Smith (I) Camera Thrills (1935) - Universal

Best Dance Direction


Winners:
	Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) - Dave Gould (I) - For "I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling". Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) - Dave Gould (I) - For "Straw Hat".
Other Nominees:
	All the King's Horses (1934) - LeRoy Prinz - For "Viennese Waltz". Big Broadcast of 1936, The (1935) - LeRoy Prinz - For "Elephant - It's the Animal in Me". Broadway Hostess (1935) - Bobby Connolly - For "Playboy of Paree". Go Into Your Dance (1935) - Bobby Connolly - For "Latin from Manhattan". Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) - Busby Berkeley - For "Lullaby of Broadway" and "The Words Are in My Heart". King of Burlesque (1936) - Sammy Lee (I) - For "Lovely Lady" and "Too Good to Be True". She (1935) - Benjamin Zemach - For "Hall of Kings". Top Hat (1935) - Hermes Pan - For "Piccolino" and "Top Hat".

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	D.W. Griffith - For his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts.

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winners:
	Agfa Ansco Corp. - For their development of the Agfa infra-red film. Eastman Kodak Co. - For their development of the Eastman Pola-Screen.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	Electrical Research Products Inc. - For their study and development of equipment to analyze and measure flutter resulting from the travel of the film through the mechanisms used in the recording and reproduction of sound. M-G-M Studio - For the development of anti-directional negative and positive development by means of jet turbulation, and the application of the method to all negative and print processing of the entire product of a major producing company. Mole-Richardson Co. - For their development of the "Solarspot" spot lamps. Paramount Productions Inc. - For the design and construction of the Paramount transparency air turbine developing machine. Nathan Levinson (director of Sound Recording for Warner Bros.-First National Studio) - For the method of intercutting variable density and variable area sound tracks to secure an increase in the effective volume range of sound recorded for motion pictures. William A. Mueller (Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Dept.) - For his method of dubbing, in which the level of the dialogue automatically controls the level of the accompanying music and sound effects. Douglas Shearer; M-G-M SSD - For their automatic control system for cameras and sound recording machines and auxiliary stage equipment.