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The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel
Millennium Biltmore Hotel

The Biltmore Hotel is a hotel located in downtown Los Angeles, California, California. Built by John McEntee Bowman, it opened in 1923. At the time, it was the largest hotel west of Chicago, Illinois and designed by architects Schultze and Weaver....
 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. They were hosted by Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
. This was the first year there was three acting nominees from the same movie in one category.








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The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel
Millennium Biltmore Hotel

The Biltmore Hotel is a hotel located in downtown Los Angeles, California, California. Built by John McEntee Bowman, it opened in 1923. At the time, it was the largest hotel west of Chicago, Illinois and designed by architects Schultze and Weaver....
 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. They were hosted by Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
. This was the first year there was three acting nominees from the same movie in one category.

Winners and nominees

Winners are highlighted in boldface.

Best Motion Picture Of The Year
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....

  • Alice Adams
  • Broadway Melody of 1936
    Broadway Melody of 1936

    Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935 in film, despite the title. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929 in film, although beyond the title and some music there is no story connection with the earlier film....
  • Captain Blood
    Captain Blood (film)

    Captain Blood is a 1935 in film swashbuckling film made by First National Pictures and Warner Brothers. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B....
  • David Copperfield
    Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

    The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger is a 1935 in film film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield ....
  • The Informer
    The Informer (film)

    The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
  • Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (1935 film)

    Les Mis?rables is a film based upon the famous Victor Hugo Les Mis?rables. It was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski....
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C....
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Ruggles of Red Gap
  • Top Hat
    Top Hat

    Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....


Achievement in Directing
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....

  • Michael Curtiz
    Michael Curtiz

    Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
     - Captain Blood
    Captain Blood (film)

    Captain Blood is a 1935 in film swashbuckling film made by First National Pictures and Warner Brothers. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B....
  • John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
     - The Informer
    The Informer (film)

    The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
  • Henry Hathaway
    Henry Hathaway

    Henry Hathaway was an United States film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Western , especially starring John Wayne....
     - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
  • Frank Lloyd
    Frank Lloyd

    Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, Screenwriter and film producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935....
     - Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....


Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....

  • Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
     - Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  • Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton

    Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
     - Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  • Victor McLaglen
    Victor McLaglen

    Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an Academy Award winning England actor, Boxing and World War I veteran....
     - The Informer
    The Informer (film)

    The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
  • Franchot Tone
    Franchot Tone

    Franchot Tone was an United States actor....
     - Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....


Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....

  • Elisabeth Bergner
    Elisabeth Bergner

    Elisabeth Bergner was an actress.She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire .She began acting in Innsbruck at the age of 15....
     - Escape Me Never
  • Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert

    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
     - Private Worlds
    Private Worlds

    Private Worlds is a 1935 in film film which tells the story of the staff and patients at a mental hospital, and the chief of the hospital who has problems dealing with a female psychiatrist....
  • Bette Davis
    Bette Davis

    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
     - Dangerous
    Dangerous (film)

    Dangerous is a 1935 in film United States drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame....
  • Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
     - Alice Adams
  • Miriam Hopkins
    Miriam Hopkins

    Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
     - Becky Sharp
    Becky Sharp (film)

    Becky Sharp is an Cinema of the United States film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray....
  • Merle Oberon
    Merle Oberon

    Merle Oberon , born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was an Academy Award-nominated British film actor....
     - The Dark Angel


Best Writing, Adaptation
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the screenwriter of a Adapted_screenplay from another source ....

  • Achmed Abdullah
    Achmed Abdullah

    Achmed Abdullah , a pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was a Russian-born writer. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime fiction, mystery fiction and adventure novel....
    , John L. Balderston
    John L. Balderston

    John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts.Balderston began his career as a journalist....
    , Waldemar Young, Jules Furthman
    Jules Furthman

    Jules Furthman was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter.Born in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I he wrote under the name "Stephen Fox." Furthman wrote screenplays for a number of important or popular films, including: The Docks of New York , Thunderbolt , Merely Mary Ann , Shanghai Express ...
    , Talbot Jennings, and Carey Wilson - Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  • Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt
    William Slavens McNutt

    William Slavens McNutt , was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 28 films between 1922 in film and 1939 in film. He was nominated for an Academy Award on two separate occasions....
     - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
  • Dudley Nichols
    Dudley Nichols

    Dudley Nichols was an United States screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Academy Awards for The Informer in 1936....
     (Refused)     - The Informer
    The Informer (film)

    The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....


Best Story
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Awards for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing....

  • Moss Hart
    Moss Hart

    Moss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director of plays and musical theater....
     - Broadway Melody of 1936
    Broadway Melody of 1936

    Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935 in film, despite the title. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929 in film, although beyond the title and some music there is no story connection with the earlier film....
  • Don Hartman and Stephen Avery - The Gay Deception
  • Ben Hecht
    Ben Hecht

    Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
     and Charles MacArthur
    Charles MacArthur

    Charles Gordon MacArthur was an American playwright and screenwriter. The son of a Baptist minister, he is best known for his plays with Ben Hecht, Ladies and Gentlemen , Twentieth Century and the frequently filmed The Front Page, which was based in part on MacArthur's experiences at the City News Bureau of Chicago....
     - The Scoundrel
    The Scoundrel

    The Scoundrel is a drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and starring Noel Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, and Lionel Stander....


Interior Decoration
Academy Award for Best Art Direction

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in film. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art director#Film on a film....

  • Carroll Clark and Van Nest Polglase - Top Hat
    Top Hat

    Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
  • Richard Day - The Dark Angel
    The Dark Angel (1935 film)

    The Dark Angel is a film which tells the story of three childhood friends, two male, one female. When the woman chooses one of the men to marry, the other, jealous, sends his rival off into a dangerous situation during wartime....
  • Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier

    Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
     and Roland Anderson
    Roland Anderson

    Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
     - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....


Achievement In Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture....

  • Ray June - Barbary Coast
    Barbary Coast (film)

    Barbary Coast is a period film directed by Howard Hawks. Shot in black-and-white and set in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush era, the film combines elements of crime film, Western film, melodrama and adventure film genres, features a wide range of actors, from good-guy Joel McCrea to bad-boy Edward G....
  • Victor Milner
    Victor Milner

    Victor Milner, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer. He was nominated for ten cinematography Academy Awards, winning once for 1934's Cleopatra ....
     - The Crusades
    The Crusades (film)

    The Crusades is a 1935 in film film directed by Cecil B. DeMille....
  • Hal Mohr - A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C....
  • Gregg Toland
    Gregg Toland

    Gregg Toland, A.S.C. was a highly influential American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane....
     - Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (1935 film)

    Les Mis?rables is a film based upon the famous Victor Hugo Les Mis?rables. It was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski....
Hal Mohr was a write-in candidate, and therefore isn't officially considered to have received a nomination, although he did receive the award.

Sound Recording
Academy Award for Sound

The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Awards that recognizes the finest or most euphonic Audio mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film....

  • Love Me Forever
  • Naughty Marietta
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
  • $1,000 a Minute
  • I Dream Too Much
    I Dream Too Much

    I Dream Too Much is a 1935 in film romantic comedy film, film director by John Cromwell . It stars Henry Fonda, Lily Pons, and Lucille Ball in one of her earliest roles....
  • Thanks a Million
    Thanks A Million

    Thanks a Million is a 1935 in film 20th Century Fox musical film. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Sound in 1935....
  • The Dark Angel
  • Bride of Frankenstein
    Bride of Frankenstein

    Bride of Frankenstein is a horror film, the first sequel to the influential Frankenstein . Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale and stars Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster, Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of his mate and Mary Shelley, Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, and Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus...
  • Captain Blood
    Captain Blood (film)

    Captain Blood is a 1935 in film swashbuckling film made by First National Pictures and Warner Brothers. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B....


Assistant Director
Academy Award for Best Assistant Director

In the first year of this award it referred to no specific film.*1933 winners** Charles Barton ** Rick James ** Charles Dorian ** Fred Fox ...

  • Clem Beauchamp
    Clem Beauchamp

    Clement Hoyt "Clem" Beauchamp , also known as Jerry Drew in his 20s and early 30s acting career, first worked as a second unit director in 1935, netting the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on The Lives of a Bengal Lancer....
     and Paul Wing     - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
  • Joseph Newman - David Copperfield
    Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

    The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger is a 1935 in film film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield ....
  • Eric Stacey - Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (1935 film)

    Les Mis?rables is a film based upon the famous Victor Hugo Les Mis?rables. It was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski....


Short Subjects: Cartoons
Academy Award for Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present....

  • The Calico Dragon
  • Three Orphan Kittens
  • Who Killed Cock Robin?


Short Subjects: Comedy
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970....

  • How to Sleep
    How to Sleep

    How to Sleep is a short film by Robert Benchley. Filmed and released by MGM in 1935 in film, it features Benchley as a narrator as well as film subject, discussing four parts of sleep - causes, methods, avoiding sleep, and waking up....
  • Oh, My Nerves
    Oh, My Nerves

    Oh, My Nerves is a 1935 in film short subject comedy film directed by Del Lord. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 8th Academy Awards for Academy Award for Live Action Short Film....
  • Tit for Tat
    Tit for Tat (1935 film)

    Tit for Tat is a 1935 in film short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It was the only direct sequel they made, following the story of the previous year's Them Thar Hills....


Short Subjects: Novelty
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970....

  • Audioscopiks
    Audioscopiks

    Audioscopiks is a 1935 in film short subject documentary film directed by Jacob Leventhal and John Norling. The main point of the short was to show of 3-D film technology....
  • Camera Thrills
    Camera Thrills

    Camera Thrills is a 1935 in film short subject produced by Charles E. Ford. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 8th Academy Awards for Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. ...
  • Wings Over Everest
    Wings Over Everest

    Wings Over Everest is a 1934 in film short subject documentary film directed by Geoffrey Barkas and Ivor Montagu. It won an Academy Award in 8th Academy Awards for Academy Award for Live Action Short Film....


Music: Best Song
Academy Award for Best Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the film industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....

  • "Cheek to Cheek
    Cheek to Cheek

    "Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat . His 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000....
    " - Top Hat
    Top Hat

    Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
  • "Lovely to Look At" - Roberta
    Roberta (1935 film)

    Roberta is a 1935 in film musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a Broadway theatre Roberta, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller....
  • "Lullaby of Broadway
    Lullaby of Broadway (song)

    "Lullaby of Broadway" is a popular music song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin, published in 1935 in music.The song was introduced by Wini Shaw in the musical film Gold Diggers of 1935 and, in an unusual move, it was used as background music in a sequence in the Bette Davis film Special Agent that same year....
    "     - Gold Diggers of 1935
    Gold Diggers of 1935

    Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed and choregraphed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Wini Shaw, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh....


Music: Best Score
Academy Award for Original Music Score

The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of Film score written specifically for the film by the submitting composer....

  • Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  • Peter Ibbetson
    Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson is an United States black-and-white drama film released in 1935 in film and directed by Henry Hathaway.The picture is based on a novel by George du Maurier, first published in 1891....
  • The Informer
    The Informer (film)

    The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
  • Captain Blood
    Captain Blood (film)

    Captain Blood is a 1935 in film swashbuckling film made by First National Pictures and Warner Brothers. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B....


Film Editing
Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. The name of this award is occasionally changed; in 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing....

  • Margaret Booth
    Margaret Booth

    Margaret Booth was an United States film editor.Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by David Wark Griffith, around 1915....
     - Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  • Ralph Dawson - A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C....
  • George Hively - The Informer
    The Informer (film)

    The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
  • Ellsworth Hoagland - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
  • Robert J. Kern - David Copperfield
    Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

    The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger is a 1935 in film film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield ....
  • Barbara McLean - Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (1935 film)

    Les Mis?rables is a film based upon the famous Victor Hugo Les Mis?rables. It was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski....


Dance Direction
Academy Award for Best Dance Direction

The Academy Awards for Best Dance Direction ...

  • Busby Berkeley
    Busby Berkeley

    Busby Berkeley , born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical film choreographer....
     - Gold Diggers of 1935
    Gold Diggers of 1935

    Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed and choregraphed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Wini Shaw, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh....
  • Bobby Connolly - Broadway Hostess
  • Dave Gould - Broadway Melody of 1936
    Broadway Melody of 1936

    Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935 in film, despite the title. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929 in film, although beyond the title and some music there is no story connection with the earlier film....
     and Folies Bergere
  • Sammy Lee
    Sammy Lee

    Sammy Lee is the name of:*Sammy Lee , expert in vitro fertilisation*Sammy Lee , Korean-American diver and two-time Olympic Games champion...
     - King of Burlesque
  • Hermes Pan
    Hermes Pan (choreographer)

    Hermes Pan was an American dancer and choreographer, principally celebrated as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s musical film starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers....
     - Top Hat
    Top Hat

    Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
  • LeRoy Prinz - All the King's Horses and The Big Broadcast of 1936
    The Big Broadcast of 1936

    The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a Paramount Pictures production, directed by Norman Taurog, and is the second in the series of Big Broadcast movies....
  • Benjamin Zemach - She
    She (1935 film)

    She is a 1935 in film film produced by Merian C. Cooper. The film is based on H. Rider Haggard's She . It stars Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott and Nigel Bruce, with music by Max Steiner....
This award was only given out for three years (1935-1937).

Special Award

  • David Wark Griffith