7th Academy Awards


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 where either leading acting category had all first time nominees.
Shirley Temple received the first Juvenile Award at age six, making her the youngest Oscar recipient ever.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

  • Frank Capra – It Happened One Night
  • * Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love
  • * W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
  • 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
  • Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night as Ellen "Ellie" Andrews
  • * Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage ' as Mildred Rogers
  • * Grace Moore – One Night of Love as Mary Barrett
  • * Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Elizabeth Barrett
  • Manhattan Melodrama – Arthur Caesar
  • * Hide-Out – Mauri Grashin
  • * The Richest Girl in the World – Norman Krasna
  • 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
  • La Cucaracha – Kenneth Macgowan and Pioneer Pictures
  • * Men in Black – Jules White
  • * What, No Men! – Warner Bros.
  • City of Wax – Horace Woodard and Stacy Woodard
  • * Bosom Friends – Skibo Productions
  • * Strikes and Spares – Pete Smith
  • The Tortoise and the Hare – Walt Disney
  • * Holiday Land – Screen Gems
  • * Jolly Little Elves – Walter Lantz
  • One Night of Love – Columbia Studio Music Department
  • * The Gay Divorcee – RKO Radio Studio Music Department
  • * The Lost Patrol – RKO Radio Studio Music Department
  • "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
  • 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
  • The Merry Widow – Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope
  • * The Affairs of Cellini – Richard Day
  • * The Gay Divorcee – Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark
  • Cleopatra – Victor Milner
  • * The Affairs of Cellini – Charles Rosher
  • * Operator 13 – George J. Folsey
  • Eskimo – Conrad A. Nervig
  • * Cleopatra – Anne Bauchens
  • * One Night of Love – Gene Milford
  • 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:
    The following two films received multiple awards: