The 7th Academy Awards
1934
Outstanding Production
Best Actress/Actor
(Later changed to "best picture")
Clark Gable – It Happened One Night
Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini
William Powell – The Thin Man
It Happened One Night
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Cleopatra
Flirtation Walk
The Gay Divorcee
Here Comes the Navy
The House of Rothschild
Imitation of Life
One Night of Love
The Thin Man
Viva Villa!
The White Parade
Fashion
Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage (write-in)
Grace Moore – One Night of Love
Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Grand Slam Catagories
Firsts
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Frank Capra – It Happened One Night Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love
W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
It Happened One Night – Robert Riskin
The Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Viva Villa! – Ben Hecht
- Happened One Night "clean sweep" of the top five award categories
- Award eligibility period
- Write-in candidates
- Best Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song
- Shirley Temple , Juvenile Award