8th Academy Awards
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- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.Winner - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Director for Frank Lloyd
Nominated - Best Actor for Clark Gable
Nominated - Best Actor for Charles Laughton
Nominated - Best Actor for Franchot Tone
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Waldemar Young, Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings and Carey Wilson
Nominated - Best Score
Nominated - Best Filming Editing for Margaret Booth - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsKatharine HepburnFred MacMurrayFred StoneA working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn - DirectorRoy Del RuthW.S. Van DykeStarsJack BennyEleanor PowellRobert TaylorA Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Story for Moss Hart
Winner - Best Dance Direction for Dave Gould - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandLionel AtwillAfter treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Director for Michael Curtiz
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Casey Robinson
Nominated - Best Score
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsFreddie BartholomewFrank LawtonEdna May OliverA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert J. Kern
Nominated - Best Assistant Director for Joseph M. Newman - DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Winner - Best Director for John Ford
Winner - Best Actor for Victor McLaglen
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Dudley Nichols
Winner - Best Score
Nominated - Best Film Editing for George Hively - DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsFredric MarchCharles LaughtonCedric HardwickeIn early-19th-century France, an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20-year period by an obsessive policeman.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Gregg Toland
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Barbara McLean
Nominated - Best Assistant Director for Eric Stacey - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGary CooperFranchot ToneRichard CromwellThree British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Director for Henry Hathaway
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Franklin B. Hansen
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Ellsworth Hoagland
Winner - Best Assistant Director for Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing - DirectorWilliam DieterleMax ReinhardtStarsJames CagneyDick PowellIan HunterTwo couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Winner - Best Cinematography for Hal Mohr
Winner - Best Film Editing for Ralph Dawson
Nominated - Best Assistant Director for Sherry Shourds - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardW.S. Van DykeStarsJeanette MacDonaldNelson EddyFrank MorganIn order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Winner - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharles LaughtonMary BolandCharles RugglesAn English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.Nominated - Outstanding Production
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett HortonAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.Nominated - Outstanding Production
Nominated - Best Song for "Cheek to Cheek"
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Carroll Clark and Van Nest Polglase
Nominated - Best Dance Direction - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsPaul MuniKaren MorleyWilliam GarganAn immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.Nominated - Best Actor for Paul Muni
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsBette DavisFranchot ToneMargaret LindsayAn alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.Winner - Best Actress for Bette Davis
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerHugh SinclairGriffith JonesA married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.Nominated - Best Actress for Elisabeth Bergner
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsClaudette ColbertCharles BoyerJoan BennettThe work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a "man's field."Nominated - Best Actress for Claudette Colbert
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsMiriam HopkinsFrances DeeCedric HardwickeAgainst the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.Nominated - Best Actress for Miriam Hopkins
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsFredric MarchMerle OberonHerbert MarshallThe close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.Nominated - Best Actress for Merle Oberon
Winner - Best Art Direction for Richard Day
Nominated - Best Sound Recording - DirectorBen HechtCharles MacArthurStarsNoël CowardJulie HaydonStanley RidgesA ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.Winner - Best Story for Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFrancis LedererFrances DeeBenita HumeMirabel wins a $5, 000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.Nominated - Best Story for Don Hartman and Stephen Morehouse Avery
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayAnn DvorakJames Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.Nominated - Best Story for Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck)
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsRobert BenchleyA humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
- DirectorDel LordStarsMonte CollinsTom KennedyRuth HiattMonty's nerves are shot, so he decides to go on a nice, relaxing trip to the country. Unfortunately, his brother-in-law Tom brings along the rest of the family. Comic chaos ensues. "Oh, My Nerves" was remade by the 3 Stooges as "Idiots Deluxe" (1945) and "Guns a Poppin'" (1957).Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
- DirectorCharley RogersStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMae BuschAfter the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end?Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
- DirectorGeoffrey BarkasIvor MontaguStarsAlexander JohnDavid TimsonMichael KilgarriffA documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
- DirectorJacob LeventhalJohn NorlingStarsPete SmithAfter the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects move towards the camera, including a ladder being shoved out a window, the slide on a trombone, a woman on a swing, and a thrown baseball.Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
- StarsGraham McNameeNominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
- DirectorDavid HandStarsSara BernerHarriette HaddonPurv PullenThree orphan kittens are entering a society house in winter and ruin the furniture. But when they're caught by the maid, the young daughter of the house "rescues" them from the cold out outside.Winner - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsThe CaliforniansRudolf IsingJohnny MurrayA little girl reads a story about a dragon; as she falls asleep, her doll rides off on his calico horse through a calico land to do battle with a three-headed singing calico dragon.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorDavid HandStarsBilly BletcherDon BrodieLeo ClearyRobin is crooning to a Mae West-like Jenny Wren when he is shot with an arrow. A court is convened; the judge, an owl, keeps singing the title. A variety of birds are brought to the witness stand, but nobody knows a thing.Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGary CooperAnn HardingJohn HallidayA Victorian-era architect commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables falls in love with the Duchess.Nominated - Best Score
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellAdolphe MenjouGloria StuartRomantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.Winner - Best Song for "Lullaby of Broadway"
Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Busby Berkeley - DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsIrene DunneFred AstaireGinger RogersAn American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.Nominated - Best Song for "Lovely to Look At"
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsMiriam HopkinsEdward G. RobinsonJoel McCreaMary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ray June
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsLoretta YoungHenry WilcoxonIan KeithKing Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.Nominated - Best Cinematography for Victor Milner
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsRoger PryorLeila HyamsEdward BrophyA down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid hours. If he can do it, he gets $10,000. If he can't do it, he gets nothing.Nominated - Best Sound Recording
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin CliveMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Gilbert Kurland
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsLily PonsHenry FondaEric BloreJonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. To get his music published, Annette takes it to Paul and he is won over - by her voice and not the music. So he manages her career and she becomes a star as an opera singer everywhere she goes. Since Jonathan cannot sell anything he writes, he leaves Annette and that makes Annette sad as she wants only to be his wife.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Carl Dreher
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsGrace MooreLeo CarrilloRobert AllenA man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for John Livadary
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDick PowellAnn DvorakFred AllenEntertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be the candidate by backers he later exposes as crooks.Nominated - Best Sound Recording for E. H. Hansen
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMaurice ChevalierMerle OberonAnn SothernAn entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.Winner - Best Dance Direction for Dave Gould
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsCarl BrissonMary EllisEdward Everett HortonMovie star changes places with a king who looks exactly like him, causing complications for all concerned.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for LeRoy Prinz
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJack OakieGeorge BurnsGracie AllenSpud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for LeRoy Prinz
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsWini ShawGenevieve TobinLyle TalbotA woman becomes a successful singer, but can't do as well in love.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Bobby Connolly
- DirectorArchie MayoMichael CurtizRobert FloreyStarsAl JolsonRuby KeelerGlenda FarrellAl Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose money. When his sister Molly can no longer find Al work, she teams him up with talented Dorothy for a club date in Chicago. Flush with another success, Al wants to open his own club on Broadway, so he borrows money from a gangster to open the show. Al has Dorothy, who he ignores, the gangsters dough and the gangster's sweetie Luana. All he has to do is keep them all happy, but Luana wants Al.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Bobby Connolly
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsWarner BaxterAlice FayeJack OakieFormer burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Sammy Lee
- DirectorLansing C. HoldenIrving PichelStarsHelen GahaganRandolph ScottHelen MackA group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.Nominated - Best Dance Direction for Benjamin Zemach