7th Academy Awards

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7th Academy Awards
Date February 27, 1935
Site Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California
Host Irvin S. Cobb

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

Contents

[edit] Winners and Nominees

[edit] Films

Category Winner Producers
Outstanding Production It Happened One Night Frank Capra, and Harry Cohn
Academy Award for Animated Short Film The Tortoise and the Hare Walt Disney
Best Short Film Comedy La Cucaracha Kenneth Macgowan and Carly Wharton
Academy Award for Short Film - Novelty City of Wax Horace Woodard and Stacy Woodard

[edit] Acting

Category Winner Film
Academy Award for Best Actor Clark Gable It Happened One Night
Academy Award for Best Actress Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night

[edit] Other

Category Winner Film
Best Director Frank Capra It Happened One Night
Best Adapted Screenplay Robert Riskin It Happened One Night
Best Original Screenplay Arthur Caesar Manhattan Melodrama
Best Cinematography Victor Milner Cleopatra
Best Art Direction Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope The Merry Widow
Best Sound Recording Columbia Studio Sound Dept. One Night of Love
Best Film Editing Conrad A. Nervig Eskimo
Best Song Con Conrad and Herb Magidson The Continental from The Gay Divorcee
Best Score Louis Silvers, Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn One Night of Love
Best Assistant Director John Waters Viva Villa!