4th Academy Awards

Date: November 10, 1931

Host: Lawrence Grant

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Outstanding Production

• William LeBaron for RKO Pictures – "Cimarron" (1931)

Winfield Sheehan for Fox Film Corporation – "East Lynne" (1931)
Howard Hughes for United Artists – "The Front Page" (1931)
Adolph Zukor for Paramount Pictures – "Skippy" (1931)
Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – "Trader Horn" (1931)


Best Director

• Norman Taurog (Skippy)

Clarence Brown (A Free Soul)
Lewis Milestone (The Front Page)
Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron)
Josef von Sternberg (Morocco)


Best Actor

• Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)

Jackie Cooper (Skippy)
Richard Dix (Cimarron)
Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway)
Adolphe Menjou (The Front Page)


Best Actress

• Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)

Marlene Dietrich (Morocco)
Irene Dunne (Cimarron)
Ann Harding (Holiday)
Norma Shearer (A Free Soul)


Best Story 

• John Monk Saunders (The Dawn Patrol)

Rowland Brown (The Doorway to Hell)
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart (Laughter)
John Bright and Kubec Glasmon (The Public Enemy)
Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson (Smart Money)


Best Adapted Screenplay

• Howard Estabrook (Cimarron)

Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr. (The Criminal Code)
Horace Jackson (Holiday)
Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee (Little Caesar)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz (Skippy)


Best Sound Recording

• Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department

MGM Studio Sound Department
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department


Best Art Direction

• Max Rée (Cimarron)

Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras (Just Imagine)
Hans Dreier (Morocco)
Anton Grot (Svengali)
Richard Day (Whoopee!)


Best Cinematography

• Floyd Crosby (Tabu)

Edward Cronjager (Cimarron)
Lee Garmes (Morocco)
Charles Lang (The Right to Love)
Barney McGill (Svengali)


Films with multiple nominations

• Cimarron (7)

Skippy (4)

Morocco (4)
The Front Page (3) 

A Free Soul (3)
Holiday (2)

Svengali (2)


Films with multiple awards

• Cimarron (3)