1935 (8th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1935 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person, song or dance number in the list to display more information about that film, person, song or dance number Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Production

Mutiny on the Bounty, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Best Actor

Victor McLaglen in The Informer, RKO Radio.

Best Actress

Bette Davis in Dangerous, Warner Bros.

Directing

The Informer, RKO Radio. John Ford.

Art Direction

The Dark Angel, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; United Artists. Richard Day.

Assistant Director

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Paramount. Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing.

Cinematography

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Warner Bros. Hal Mohr.

Dance Direction

Dave Gould for the “I’ve Got a Feeling You’re Fooling” number from Broadway Melody of 1936, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; and the “Straw Hat” number from Folies Bergere, 20th Century; United Artists.

Film Editing

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Warner Bros. Ralph Dawson.

Music

(Scoring)

The Informer, RKO Radio. RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department. (Score by Max Steiner)

(Song)

Lullaby of Broadway from Gold Diggers of 1935, First National. Music by Harry Warren; lyrics by Al Dubin.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Three Orphan Kittens, Walt Disney Productions; United Artists. [Silly Symphony Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

(Comedy)

How to Sleep, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [Miniature Series] Jack Chertok, Producer.

(Novelty)

Wings over Mt. Everest, Gaumont British and Skibo Productions; Educational. [Special Series]

Sound Recording

Naughty Marietta, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director.

Writing

(Original Story)

The Scoundrel, Paramount. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

(Screenplay)

The Informer, RKO Radio. Dudley Nichols.

Special Award

To David Wark Griffith, for his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of motion picture arts. [Statuette]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Agfa Ansco Corporation for their development of the Agfa infra-red film.

To Eastman Kodak Company for their development of the Eastman Pola-Screen.

(Class III)

To Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the development of anti-directional negative and positive development by means of jet turbulation, and the application of the method to all negative and print processing of the entire product of a major producing company.

To William A. Mueller of Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department for his method of dubbing, in which the level of the dialog automatically controls the level of the accompanying music and sound effects.

To Mole-Richardson Company for their development of the “Solar-spot” spot lamps.

To Douglas Shearer and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department for their automatic control system for cameras and sound recording machines and auxiliary stage equipment.

To Electrical Research Products, Inc. for their study and development of equipment to analyze and measure flutter resulting from the travel of film through the mechanisms used in the recording and reproduction of sound.

To Paramount Productions, Inc. for the design and construction of the Paramount transparency air turbine developing machine.

To Nathan Levinson, Director of Sound Recording for Warner Bros.-First National Studio, for the method of intercutting variable density and variable area sound tracks to secure an increase in the effective volume range of sound recorded for motion pictures.