5th Academy Awards

Date: November 18, 1932

Host: Conrad Nagel

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Outstanding Production

• Grand Hotel (1932)

Arrowsmith (1931)
Bad Girl (1931)
The Champ (1931)
Five Star Final (1931)
One Hour with You (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)


Best Director

• Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)

King Vidor (The Champ)
Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express)


Best Actor

• Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Wallace Beery (The Champ)
Alfred Lunt (The Guardsman)


Best Actress

• Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet) 

Marie Dressler (Emma)
Lynn Fontanne (The Guardsman)


Best Story

• Frances Marion (The Champ)

Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt (Lady and Gent)
Lucien Hubbard (The Star Witness)
Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Murfin (What Price Hollywood? )


Best Adapted Screenplay

• Edwin J. Burke (Bad Girl)

Sidney Howard (Arrowsmith)
Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Best Art Direction

• Gordon Wiles (Transatlantic)

Lazare Meerson (À nous la liberté)

Richard Day (Arrowsmith)

Best Cinematography

• Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express)

Ray June (Arrowsmith)

Karl Struss (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Best Sound Recording

• Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department

MGM Studio Sound Department

RKO Radio Studio Sound Department

Walt Disney Productions

Warner Bros. First National Studio Sound Department

Best Animated Short Film

• Walt Disney Productions, United Artists -Walt Disney (Flowers and Trees)

Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros. - Leon Schlesinger (It's Got Me Again!)

Walt Disney Productions, Columbia Pictures - Walt Disney (Mickey's Orphans)

Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy

• Hal Roach (The Music Box)

Mack Sennett (The Loud Mouth)
RKO Radio (Scratch-As-Catch-Can)


Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty

• Mack Sennett (Wrestling Swordfish)

Paramount Publix (Screen Souvenirs)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Swing High)

Films with multiple nominations

• Arrowsmith (4)

The Champ (4)
Bad Girl (3)
Shanghai Express (3)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (3)
The Guardsman (2)

Films with multiple awards

• Bad Girl (2)
• The Champ (2)

Honorary Awards

• Walt Disney (for the creation of Mickey Mouse)