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PICTURE
Twentieth Century
The Scarlet Empress
***It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
The Count of Monte Christo

DIRECTOR
***Josef Von Sternberg - The Scarlet Empress
Jean Vigo - L’Atalante
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
W.S.Van Dyke – The Thin Man
Howard Hawkes - Twentieth Century

ACTOR
***John Barrymore - Twentieth Century
Wallace Beery - Viva Villa!
Clark Gable - It Happened One Night
Fredric March - Death Takes a Holiday
William Powell - The Thin Man

ACTRESS
***Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage
Marlene Dietrich - The Scarlet Empress
Carole Lombard - Twentieth Century
Grace Moore – One Night of Love

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Walter Connolly - Twentieth Century
Sam Jaffe - The Scarlet Empress
Roscoe Karns - Twentieth Century
Charles Laughton – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
***Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini
Ned Sparks – Imitation of Life

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Louise Beavers – Imitation of Life
Alice Brady - The Gay Divorcee
Louise Dresser - The Scarlet Empress
***Myrna Loy - The Thin Man
Maureen O’Sullivan - The Barretts of Wimpole Street

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
L’Atalante
One Night of Love
Manhattan Melodrama
***The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Goddess

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Twentieth Century
It Happened One Night
***The Thin Man
The Count of Monte Christo
Death Takes a Holiday

ENSEMBLE
***Twentieth Century
It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Count of Monte Christo

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cleopatra
***The Scarlet Empress
L’Atalante
The Black Cat
The Merry Widow
It Happened One Night

EDITING
Death Takes a Holiday
***The Scarlet Empress
L’Atalante
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Thin Man

ART DIRECTION
Cleopatra
***The Scarlet Empress
The Merry Widow
The Gay Divorcee
The Count of Monte Christo

COSTUME DESIGN
The Merry Widow
***The Scarlet Empress
Cleopatra
The Affairs of Cellini
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

MAKE UP
Twentieth Century
Cleopatra
***The Scarlet Empress
Viva Villa!
The Merry Widow

MUSIC SCORE
***L’Atalante – Maurice Jaubert
The Gay Divorce – Max Steiner
The Lost Patrol – Max Steiner
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alfred Newman
Of Human Bondage – Max Steiner

SONG
“The Bad In Every Man” - Manhattan Melodrama
“All I Do Is Dream of You” – Sadie McKee
“Carioca” – Flying Down to Rio
“Cocktails for Two” – Murder at the Vanities
“I Only Have Eyes for You” – Dames
***“I’m In the Mood for Love” – Every Night at Eight

FOREIGN FILM
***L’Atalante - France
Goddess - China
Liliom – France

BEST SOUND
***The Lost Patrol
The Scarlet Empress
Viva Villa!
The Count of Monte Christo
The Private Life of Don Juan

EFFECTS
The Count of Monte Christo
***Death Takes a Holiday
The Lost Patrol
The Scarlet Empress
Viva Villa!
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BEST PICTURE
01. The Scarlet Empress (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
02. The Black Cat (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
03. L'Atalante (dir. Jean Vigo)
04. It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra)
05. Le Grand Jeu (dir. Jacques Feyder)
06. The Goddess (dir. Wu Yonggang)
07. The Count of Monte Cristo (dir. Rowland V. Lee)
08. Twentieth Century (dir. Howard Hawks)
09. The Thin Man (dir. W. S. Van Dyke)
10. Viva Villa! (dir. Jack Conway)

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress
02. Jean Vigo, L'Atalante
03. Jacques Feyder, Le Grand Jeu
04. Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
05. Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat

BEST ACTOR
01. John Barrymore, Twentieth Century
02. William Powell, The Thin Man
03. Fredric March, Death Takes a Holiday
04. Wallace Beery, Viva Villa!
05. Clark Gable, It Happened One Night

BEST ACTRESS
01. Ruan Lingyu, The Goddess
02. Marlene Dietrich, The Scarlet Empress
03. Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage
04. Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
05. Jessie Matthews, Evergreen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Frank Morgan, The Affairs of Cellini
02. Sam Jaffe, The Scarlet Empress
03. Raymond Massey, The Scarlet Pimpernel
04. Michel Simon, L'Atalante
05. Peter Lorre, The Man Who Knew Too Much

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Louise Dresser, The Scarlet Empress
02. Françoise Rosay, Le Grand Jeu
03. Fredi Washington, Imitation of Life
04. Louise Beavers, Imitation of Life
05. Kay Johnson, Of Human Bondage

BEST SCREENPLAY
01. Twentieth Century (Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, based on the play "Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland)
02. The Scarlet Empress (Eleanor McGeary, based on the diaries of Catherine II, arranged by Manuel Komroff)
03. The Black Cat (Peter Ruric, from a story by Peter Ruric and Edgar G. Ulmer, suggested by the story by Edgar Allan Poe)
04. Le Grand Jeu (Jacques Feyder and Charles Spaak)
05. It Happened One Night (Robert Riskin, based on the short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams)

BEST FILM EDITING
01. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, Sam Winston)
02. Man of Aran (John Monck)
03. L'Atalante (Louis Chavance)
04. The Black Cat (Ray Curtiss)
05. Le Grand Jeu (Jacques Brillouin)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
01. The Scarlet Empress (Bert Glennon)
02. Viva Villa! (Charles G. Clarke, James Wong Howe)
03. L'Atalante (Jean-Paul Alphen, Louis Berger, Boris Kaufman)
04. Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty)
05. The Black Cat (John J. Mescall)

BEST ART DIRECTION
01. The Scarlet Empress (Hans Dreier)
02. The Count of Monte Cristo (John DuCasse Schulze)
03. Cleopatra (Roland Anderson, Hans Dreier)
04. The Merry Widow (Cedric Gibbons)
05. The Scarlet Pimpernel (Vincent Korda)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
01. The Scarlet Empress (Travis Banton)
02. The Affairs of Cellini (Gwen Wakeling)
03. The Count of Monte Cristo (Gwen Wakeling)
04. The Merry Widow (Adrian, Ali Hubert)
05. Viva Villa! (Dolly Tree)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
01. The Black Cat (Heinz Eric Roemheld)
02. L'Atalante (Maurice Jaubert)
03. Of Human Bondage (Max Steiner)
04. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alfred Newman)
05. The Affairs of Cellini (Alfred Newman)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
01. Belle of the Nineties ("My Old Flame," music by Arthur Johnston, lyrics by Sam Coslow, performed by Mae West and Duke Ellington)
02. Manhattan Melodrama ("The Bad in Every Man," music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, performed by Shirley Ross)
03. Here Is My Heart ("With Every Breath I Take," music and lyrics by Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin, performed by Bing Crosby)
04. Sadie McKee ("All I Do Is Dream of You," music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed, performed by Gene Raymond)
05. Evergreen ("When You've Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart," music and lyrics by Harry M. Woods, performed by Jessie Matthews)

BEST SOUND
01. The Scarlet Empress (Harry D. Mills)
02. Viva Villa! (Douglas Shearer)
03. Tarzan and His Mate (Douglas Shearer)
04. The Lost Patrol (Philip Faulkner, Jr., Clem Portman)
05. The Gay Divorcee (George Marsh, Hugh McDowell, Jr.)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
01. The Scarlet Empress (uncredited)
02. The Merry Widow (Robert J. Schiffer)
03. The Affairs of Cellini (uncredited)
04. Tarzan and His Mate (uncredited)
05. The Black Cat (Jack P. Pierce)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
01. The Scarlet Empress (Gordon Jennings)
02. Tarzan and His Mate (Warren Newcombe, Irving G. Ries)
03. The Lost Patrol (Vernon L. Walker)
04. Cleopatra (Barney Wolff)
05. The Scarlet Pimpernel (Ned Mann)

RESULTS
13 nominations: The Scarlet Empress (10 wins)
7 nominations: The Black Cat (1 win)
6 nominations: L'Atalante, Viva Villa!
5 nominations: Le Grand Jeu, It Happened One Night
4 nominations: The Affairs of Cellini (1 win), The Count of Monte Cristo
3 nominations: The Merry Widow, Of Human Bondage, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Tarzan and His Mate, Twentieth Century (2 wins)
2 nominations: Cleopatra, Evergreen, The Goddess (1 win), The Lost Patrol, The Thin Man
1 nomination: Belle of the Nineties (1 win), Death Takes a Holiday, The Gay Divorcee, Here Is My Heart, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Manhattan Melodrama, Sadie McKee
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--Reza wrote:I enjoyed One Night of Love and liked Grace Moore's performance.

I enjoyed Grace Moore's performance, too, Reza. Her rendition of Carmen towards the end of the film was really quite lovely. I tried (and eventually failed) to chalk up the fact that Moore, herself, was a bit of a racist to the somewhat troubling spirit of the times.




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I enjoyed One Night of Love and liked Grace Moore's performance.

Have added her to my list below, bumping Ginger Rogers (The Gay Divorcee).
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Just watched Affairs of Cellini, the film for which Frank Morgan was nominated in the best actor category for a role that is clearly a supporting one. It was one of Morgan's famous screen roles and also one that he had created on Broadway in the stage production.

I was just wondering why Morgan was nominated instead of a true lead performer during the 1933-34 race? I realise there was no supporting award that year so they felt the need to include his acclaimed performance. But his only competitors that year were co-nominees Clark Gable (It Happened One Night) and William Powell (The Thin Man). There were plenty of far more worthy lead performers as testified in all the lists mentioned below.

Why only three nods in the best actor race when in some of the previous years there were five or more (1935 would bring six best actress nominees for some reason but only four best actor nods)?

Incidently I have never been a fan of Frank Morgan when he played the bumbling buffoon - which was often. I thought he was great in his rare dramatic roles - The Mortal Storm (1940) being one of his best.
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Warners also had Flirtation Walk, technically released through its subsidiary, First National, in the best picture race. Of the two, Here Comes the Navy was the better film, though neither was of awards calibre. Warners' best that year was Dames, with Dick Powell singing I Have Have Eyes for You to fifty Ruby Keelers.

With no real contender of their own, one might have thought Warners would have been behind contract player Bette Davis' performance in RKO's Of Human Bondage, but studio rivalries being what they were, Warners did everything it could to sabotage Bette's chances, securing her an Oscar for the insipid Dangerous a year later instead.
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Caught up with Here Comes the Navy (1934), nominated in the best picture category (the only Oscar nod it received). While the film is pleasant enough, with a marvellous Cagney performance, it is strange to see it get nominated for the top award. Apparently Warners had no other viable candidates that year. The film has the distinction of being the first pairing of Cagney with Pat O'Brien. Their ninth and final film together was the Oscar nominated Ragtime (1981). Leading lady Gloria Stuart had her own rendezvous with Oscar many moons later.
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Best Film

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Imitation of Life
3. Masquerade in Vienna
4. Death Takes a Holiday
5. Little Man, What Now?

Best Director

1. Josef Von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress
2. John M. Stahl, Imitation of Life
3. Willi Frost, Masquerade in Vienna
4. Mitchel Leisen, Death Takes a Holiday
5. Frank Borzage, Little Man, What Now?

Best Actor

1. Frederic March, Death Takes a Holiday
2. Anton Walbrook, Masquerade in Vienna
3. Robert Donat, The Count from Monte Cristo
4. William Powell, The Thin Man
5. Claude Rains, Crimes Without Passion

Best Actress

1. Marlene Dietrich, The Scarlet Empress
2. Claudette Colbert, Imitation of Life
3. Paula Wessely, Masquerade in Vienna
4. Anna Neagle, Nell Gwyn
5. Marion Davies, Operator 13

Best Supporting Actor

1. Sam Jaffe, The Scarlet Empress
2. Alan Hale, Little Man, What Now?
3. Cedric Hardwicke, Nell Gwyn
4. Charles Laughton, The Barrets for Wimpole Street
5. George Barbier, The Cat’s Paw

Best Supporting Actress

1. Louise Beavers, Imitation of Life
2. Louise Dresser, The Scarlet Empress
3. Ruthelma Stevens, The Scarlet Empress
4. Gracie Fields, Six of a Kind
5. Mary Boland, Four Frightened People

Best Screenplay

1. Masquerade in Vienna
2. Nell Gwyn
3. Six of a Kind
4. The Story of Floating Weeds
5. The Girl from Missouri

Best Screenplay Adaptation

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Imitation of Life
3. Death Takes a Holiday
4. Little Man, What Now?
5. No Greater Glory

Best Cinematography

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Les Miserables
3. Cleopatra
4. Death Takes a Holiday
5. Tarzan and His Mate

Best Editing

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Imitation of Life
3. Masquerade in Vienna
4. Death Takes a Holiday
5. No Greater Glory

Best Sound

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Cleopatra
3. Death Takes a Holiday
4. Les Miserables
5. Operator 13

Best Art Direction

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Cleopatra
3. Les Miserables
4. Masquerade in Vienna
5. Operator 13

Best Costume Design

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Cleopatra
3. Masquerade in Vienna
4. Les Miserables
5. Operator 13

Best Music

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Imiation of Life
3. Cleopatra
4. Masquerade in Vienna
5. Les Miserables
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An awful year for supporting actress and original screenplay!

Picture:
It Happened One Night
The Merry Widow
The Scarlet Empress
The Thin Man
Twentieth Century

Actor:
John Barrymore – Twentieth Century
Maurice Chevalier – The Merry Widow
Clark Gable – It Happened One Night
Boris Karloff – The Black Cat
William Powell – The Thin Man

Actress:
Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage
Marlene Dietrich – The Scarlet Empress
Carole Lombard – Twentieth Century
Myrna Loy – The Thin Man

Supporting Actor:
Walter Connolly – It Happened One Night
Edward Everett Horton – The Merry Widow
Sam Jaffe –The Scarlet Empress
Roscoe Karns – Twentieth Century
Charles Laughton – The Barrets Of Wimpole Street

Supporting Actress:
Louise Dresser – The Scarlet Empress
Margaret Hamilton – Broadway Bill
Una O’Connor – The Barrets Of Wimpole Street
Maureen O’Sullivan – The Thin Man
Helen Westley – The House Of Rothschild

Director:
Frank Capra – It Happened One Night
Howard Hawks – Twentieth Century
Ernst Lubitsch –The Merry Widow
W.S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
Joseph Von Sternberg – The Scarlet Empress

Original Screenplay:
John Emerson & Anita Loos – The Girl From Missouri
Robert J. Flaherty – Man Of Aran
B. Kalmar, E. Kaufman & H. Ruby – Hips Hips Hooray!
Mae West – Belle Of The Nineties
?

Adapted Screenplay:
Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett – The Thin Man
Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur –Twentieth Century
Manuel Komroff – The Scarlet Empress
Samson Raphaelson & Ernets Vajda – The Merry Widow
Robert Riskin – It Happened One Night
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1934
Best Picture
The Gay Divorcee
It Happened One Night
One More River
*The Scarlet Empress
Viva Villa!

Best Actor
Fred Astaire, The Gay Divorcee
*John Barrymore, Twentieth Century
Wallace Beery, Viva Villa!
Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
William Powell, The Thin Man

Best Actress
Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
*Marlene Dietrich, The Scarlet Empress
Kay Francis, Mandalay
Grace Moore, One Night of Love
Diana Wynyard, One More River

Best Supporting Actor
Walter Connolly, It Happened One Night
*Edward Everett Horton, The Gay Divorcee
Sam Jaffe, The Scarlet Empress
Charles Laughton, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Erik Rhodes, The Gay Divorcee

Best Supporting Actress
Louise Beavers, Imitation of Life
Alice Brady, The Gay Divorcee
*Louise Dresser, The Scarlet Empress
Maureen O'Sullivan, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Fredi Washington, Imitation of Life

Best Director
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century
Mark Sandrich, The Gay Divorcee
*Joseph Von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress
James Whale, One More River
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1934

Best Picture
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Gay Divorcée
Imitation of Life
*It Happened One Night
The Thin Man

Best Actor
Fred Astaire, The Gay Divorcée
*Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
Leslie Howard, Of Human Bondage
Fredric March, Death Takes a Holiday
William Powell, The Thin Man

Best Actress
Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage
*Myrna Loy, The Thin Man
Ginger Rogers, The Gay Divorcée
Norma Shearer, The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Best Supporting Actor
Walter Connolly, It Happened One Night
Edward Everett Horton, The Gay Divorcée
Charles Laughton, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
*Frank Morgan, The Affairs of Cellini
Erik Rhodes, The Gay Divorcée

Best Supporting Actress
*Louise Beavers, Imitation of Life
Alice Brady, The Gay Divorcée
Maureen O'Sullivan, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Shirley Temple, Little Miss Marker
Fredi Washington, Imitation of Life

Best Director
*Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
Sidney Franklin, The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Mark Sandrich, The Gay Divorcée
John M. Stahl, Imitation of Life
W.S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man
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