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Outstanding Production
 THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET - MGM. Produced by Irving Thalberg [came in 2nd]
CLEOPATRA - Paramount. Produced by Cecil B. De Mille
FLIRTATION WALK - First National. Produced by Jack L. Warner & Hal B. Wallis, with Robert Lord
THE GAY DIVORCEE - RKO Radio. Produced by Pandro S. Berman
HERE COMES THE NAVY - Warner Bros. Produced by Lou Edelman
HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD - 20th Century, UA. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith [came in 3rd]
IMITATION OF LIFE - Universal. Produced by John M. Stahl
 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Won 5 Awards, swept all nominated categories) - Columbia. Produced by Harry Cohn
ONE NIGHT OF LOVE - Columbia. Produced by Harry Cohn, with Everett Riskin
THE THIN MAN - MGM. Produced by Hunt Stromberg
VIVA VILLA! - MGM. Produced by David O. Selznick
THE WHITE PARADE - Fox. Produced by Jesse L. Lasky
Actor
Clark Gable in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Frank Morgan in THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI [came in 2nd]
William Powell in THE THIN MAN [came in 3rd]
Actress
Claudette Colbert in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Bette Davis in OF HUMAN BONDAGE
[NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.]
Grace Moore in ONE NIGHT OF LOVE [came in 3rd]
Norma Shearer in THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET [came in 2nd]
Directing
Frank Capra IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Victor Schertzinger ONE NIGHT OF LOVE [came in 3rd]
W. S. Van Dyke, II THE THIN MAN [came in 2nd]
Writing (Original Story)
Mauri Grashin HIDE-OUT [came in 3rd]
Arthur Caesar MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
Norman Krasna THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD [came in 2nd]
Writing (Adaptation)
Robert Riskin IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett THE THIN MAN [came in 2nd]
Ben Hecht VIVA VILLA! [came in 3rd]
Art Direction
Richard Day - THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI [came in 3rd]
Van Nest Polglase & Carroll Clark - THE GAY DIVORCÉE [came in 2nd]
Cedric Gibbons & Frederic Hope - THE MERRY WIDOW [Won by two votes]
Cinematography
Charles Rosher THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI [came in 3rd]
Victor Milner CLEOPATRA
George Folsey OPERATOR 13 [came in 2nd]
Film Editing
Anne Bauchens CLEOPATRA [came in 3rd]
Conrad Nervig ESKIMO
Gene Milford ONE NIGHT OF LOVE [came in 2nd]
Assistant Director
Scott Beal IMITATION OF LIFE [came in 3rd]
Cullen Tate CLEOPATRA [came in 2nd]
John Waters VIVA VILLA!
Music (Scoring)
Max Steiner (RKO Radio Studio Music Department), Departmental Head,
Kenneth Webb & Samuel Hoffenstein - Score THE GAY DIVORCÉE [came in 2nd]
Max Steiner (RKO Radio Studio Music Department), Departmental Head, Max Steiner - Score THE LOST PATROL [came in 3rd]
Louis Silvers (Columbia Studio Music Department), Departmental Head; Victor Schertzinger & Gus Kahn - Thematic Music ONE NIGHT OF LOVE
Music (Song)
Vincent Youmans - Music, Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn - Lyrics FLYING DOWN TO RIO "Carioca" [came in 3rd]
Con Conrad - Music, Herb Magidson - Lyrics THE GAY DIVORCÉE "The Continental" 
Ralph Rainger - Music, Leo Robin - Lyrics SHE LOVES ME NOT "Love In Bloom" [came in 2nd]
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
Charles Mintz - Producer HOLIDAY LAND [came in 3rd]
Walter Lantz - Producer JOLLY LITTLE ELVES [came in 2nd]
Walt Disney - Producer THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
Short Subjects (Novelty)
BOSOM FRIENDS - Skibo Productions (Treasure Chest) [came in 3rd]
CITY OF WAX - Horace Woodard & Stacy Woodard, producers.
STRIKES AND SPARES - Pete Smith, producer. [came in 2nd]
Short Subjects (Comedy)
LA CUCARACHA - Kenneth MacGowan, producer
MEN IN BLACK - Jules White, producer (Broadway Comedies) [came in 3rd]
WHAT, NO MEN! - Warner Bros. [came in 2nd]
Sound Recording
Thomas T. Moulton THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI (UA Studio Sound Department)
Franklin B. Hansen CLEOPATRA (Paramount Studio Sound Department)
Nathan Levinson FLIRTATION WALK (Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department) [came in 2nd]
Carl Dreher THE GAY DIVORCÉE (RKO Radio Studio Sound Department) [came in 3rd]
Gilbert Kurland, Sound Supervisor (uncredited) IMITATION OF LIFE (Universal Studio Sound Department, Theodore Soderberg, Sound Director)
Paul Neal (listed as Sound Director in credits) ONE NIGHT OF LOVE (Columbia Studio Sound Department, John P. Livadary, Sound Director)
Douglas Shearer VIVA VILLA! (MGM Studio Sound Department)
E. H. Hansen THE WHITE PARADE (Fox Studio Sound Department)
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1934.
Class II (Plaque):
 Electrical Research Products Inc. - For their development of the vertical cut disc method of recording sound for motion pictures (Hill and Dale recording).
Class III (Citation):
 Columbia Pictures Corporation - For their application of the vertical cut disc method (hill and dale recording) to actual studio production, with their recording of the sound on the picture, ONE NIGHT OF LOVE.
Bell and Howell Company - For their development of the Bell and Howell fully automatic sound and picture printer.
Special Award
Shirley Temple - In grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934. Winner presented a Miniature Statuette.
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· It Happened One Night's record Oscar® cleanup held until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975.
· The outcry over Bette Davis's omission -- which even included nominee Norma Shearer -- gave way to the first sanctioned write-in vote.
RULE CHANGES
· Film Editing and Music categories were introduced. The first Best Song winner was "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee.
· Directors declared ineligible for Writing Awards.
· For nominations in Interior Decoration, Film Editing, Song and Score categories, members of respective branches vote for one of their own works and at least one of somebody else's. For Sound Recording, each studio's sound department head submits what he decides is studio's best work.
· Assistant Directors in Academy vote to determine three nominees for Ass't Director Award. Entire membership votes for final winner.
· Write-in votes allowed in all categories.
ROLE REVERSALS
The original casting of It Happened One Night was to have included George Montgomery in Gable's role and Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, or Margaret Sullavan in Colbert's shoes.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: The Scarlet Empress, The Merry Widow, Twentieth Century
Actor: John Barrymore - Twentieth Century, George Arliss - The House of Rothschild
Actress: Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage, Myrna Loy - The Thin Man
Song: "Cocktails for Two," "I Only Have Eyes for You," "I'm in the Mood for Love," "Let's Fall in Love," "On the Good Ship Lollypop"
UNMENTIONABLES
· "All that French broad cares about is money," said Columbia's Harry Cohn. Claudette Colbert accepted It Happened One Night after an offer of $50,000 for four weeks' work.
· MGM loaned Gable out to Capra as punishment for Gable's money demands. He showed up drunk for his first meeting with the director.
· When Gable peeled off his shirt in It Happened One Night to reveal a bare chest, men's undershirt sales plummeted.
· Neither the Screen Actors nor Screen Writers Guild had forgiven the Academy for taking sides with the producers the previous year. Membership in SAG -- which required a resignation from the Academy -- had swelled to such proportions that only 95 actors were left in the Academy to make 1934's nominations.
· When Bette Davis announced that she intended to attend the Awards ceremony, the three "official" nominees for Best Actress declined the Academy's invitation. Consequently, Claudette Colbert's Oscar® was accepted in absentia. Colbert, who had been ready to board the 20th Century to New York, was persuaded to come to the Biltmore Hotel to accept her Award from Shirley Temple.
· In her autobiography, Bette Davis claimed that Jack Warner had sent instructions to Warner Bros. personnel to vote for anybody but her. She couldn't prove this charge, of course, but there was one bit of tangible evidence that Davis had made an impact on the Academy. "Not since that decision in 1934 was so cavalier a verdict allowed to take place, " Davis wrote. "Price, Waterhouse was asked to step in the next year to count the votes, which they have done ever since."
· "He was lucky and he knew it." -- Clark Gable's proposed epitaph.
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