1934 (7th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1934 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Production

It Happened One Night, Columbia.

Best Actor

Clark Gable in It Happened One Night, Columbia.

Best Actress

Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, Columbia.

Directing

It Happened One Night, Columbia. Frank Capra.

Art Direction

The Merry Widow, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope.

Assistant Director

Viva Villa!, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. John Waters.

Cinematography

Cleopatra, Paramount. Victor Milner.

Film Editing

Eskimo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Conrad Nervig.

Music

(Scoring)

One Night of Love, Columbia. Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers, head of department. (Thematic music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn)

(Song)

The Continental from The Gay Divorcee, RKO Radio. Music by Con Conrad; lyrics by Herb Magidson.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

The Tortoise and the Hare, Walt Disney Productions; United Artists. [Silly Symphony Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

(Comedy)

La Cucaracha, Pioneer Pictures; RKO Radio. [Special Series] Kenneth Macgowan, Producer.

(Novelty)

City of Wax, Skibo Productions; Educational-Fox. [Battle for Life Series] Horace Woodard and Stacy Woodard, Producers.

Sound Recording

One Night of Love, Columbia. Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director.

Writing

(Adaptation)

It Happened One Night, Columbia. Robert Riskin.

(Original Story)

Manhattan Melodrama, Cosmopolitan; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Arthur Caesar.

Special Award

(Juvenile)

To Shirley Temple, in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934. [Miniature Statuette]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To 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)

To 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.

To Bell and Howell Company for their development of the Bell and Howell Fully Automatic Sound and Picture Printer.