6th Academy Awards

Date: March 16, 1934

Host: Will Rogers

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Outstanding Production

• Cavalcade (1933)

42nd Street (1933)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Little Women (1933)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Smilin' Through (1932)
State Fair (1933)

Best Director

• Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)

Frank Capra (Lady for a Day)
George Cukor (Little Women)

Best Actor

• Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)

Leslie Howard (Berkeley Square)
Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)

Best Actress

• Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)

May Robson (Lady for a Day)
Diana Wynyard (Cavalcade)

Best Story

• Robert Lord (One Way Passage)

Frances Marion (The Prizefighter and the Lady)
Charles MacArthur (Rasputin and the Empress)

Best Adapted Screenplay 

• Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (Little Women)

Robert Riskin (Lady for a Day)
Paul Green and Sonya Levien (State Fair)


Best Cinematography

• Charles Bryant Lang, Jr. (A Farewell to Arms)

George J. Folsey (Reunion in Vienna)
Karl Struss (Sign of the Cross)

Best Art Direction 

• William S. Darling and Fredric Hope (Cavalcade)

Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson (A Farewell to Arms)
Cedric Gibbons (When Ladies Meet)


Best Sound Recording

• Franklin Hansen (A Farewell to Arms)

Nathan Levinson (42nd Street)
Nathan Levinson (Gold Diggers of 1933)
Nathan Levinson (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)

Best Assistant Director 

• Charles Barton (Paramount)
• Scott Beal (Universal)
• Charles Dorian (MGM)
• Fred Fox (United Artists)
• Gordon Hollingshead (Warner Brothers)
• Dewey Starkey (RKO)
• William Tummel (20th Century Fox)

Al Alleborn (Warner Brothers)
Sid Brod (Paramount)
Orville O. Dull (MGM)
Percy Ikerd (20th Century Fox)
Arthur Jacobson (Paramount)
Edward Killy (RKO)
Joseph A. McDonough (Universal)
William J. Reiter (Universal)
Frank Shaw (Warner Brothers)
Ben Silvey (United Artists)
John S. Waters (MGM)


Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy

• Louis Brock and RKO Pictures (So This Is Harris!)

Warren Doane and Universal Studios (Mister Mugg)
Louis Brock and RKO Pictures (A Preferred List)

Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty

• Joe Rock and Educational Pictures (Krakatoa)

Pete Smith and MGM (Menu)
Educational Pictures (The Sea)


Best Animated Short Film

• Walt Disney and United Artists (The Three Little Pigs)

Walt Disney and United Artists (Building a Building)
Walter Lantz and Universal Studios (The Merry Old Soul)

Films with multiple nominations

• Cavalcade (4)
• A Farewell to Arms (4) 
• Lady for a Day (4)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (3)

Little Women (3)

42nd Street (2)

The Private Life of Henry VIII (2)

State Fair (2)

Films with multiple awards

• Cavalcade (3)

A Farewell to Arms (2)