7th Academy Awards

Date: February 27, 1935

Host: Irvin S. Cobb

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Outstanding Production

• It Happened One Night (1934)

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Cleopatra (1934)
Flirtation Walk (1934)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Here Comes the Navy (1934)
The House of Rothschild (1934)
Imitation of Life (1934)
One Night of Love (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Viva Villa! (1934)
The White Parade (1934)


Best Director

• Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)

Victor Schertzinger (One Night of Love)

W. S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man)

Best Actor 

• Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)

Frank Morgan (The Affairs of Cellini)
William Powell (The Thin Man)


Best Actress

• Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)

Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage)
Grace Moore (One Night of Love)
Norma Shearer (The Barretts of Wimpole Street)


Best Story

• Arthur Caesar (Manhattan Melodrama)

Mauri Grashin (Hide-Out)
Norman Krasna (The Richest Girl in the World)


Best Adapted Screenplay

• Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night)

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (The Thin Man)
Ben Hecht (Viva Villa!)


Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy

• Kenneth Macgowan and Pioneer Pictures (La Cucaracha)

Jules White (Men in Black)
Warner Bros. (What, No Men!)


Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty

• Horace Woodard and Stacy Woodard (City of Wax)

Skibo Productions (Bosom Friends)
Pete Smith (Strikes and Spares)


Best Animated Short Film

• Walt Disney (The Tortoise and the Hare)

Screen Gems (Holiday Land)
Walter Lantz (Jolly Little Elves)


Best Art Direction

• Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope (The Merry Widow)

Richard Day (The Affairs of Cellini)
Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark (The Gay Divorcee)


Best Score

• Columbia Studio Music Department (One Night of Love)

RKO Radio Studio Music Department (The Gay Divorcee)
RKO Radio Studio Music Department (The Lost Patrol)


Best Song

• Music by Con Conrad; Lyric by Herb Magidson ("The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee)

Music by Vincent Youmans; Lyric by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn ("Carioca" from Flying Down to Rio)
Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin ("Love in Bloom" from She Loves Me Not)

Best Cinematography

• Victor Milner (Cleopatra)

Charles Rosher (The Affairs of Cellini)
George J. Folsey (Operator 13)

Best Assistant Director

• John S. Waters (Viva Villa!)

Cullen Tate (Cleopatra)

Scott Beal (Imitation of Life)

Best Sound Recording

• John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department (One Night of Love)

Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department (The Affairs of Cellini)

Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio Sound Department (Cleopatra)

Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department (Flirtation Walk)

Carl Dreher, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department (The Gay Divorcee)

Theodore Soderberg, Universal Studio Sound Department (Imitation of Life)

Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department (Viva Villa!)

Edmund H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department (The White Parade)

Best Film Editing

• Conrad Nervig (Eskimo)

Anne Bauchens (Cleopatra)

 Gene Milford (One Night of Love)

Academy Juvenile Award

• Shirley Temple

Films with multiple nominations

• One Night of Love (6)
• Cleopatra (5) 
• The Gay Divorcee (5)
• It Happened One Night (5)
• The Affairs of Cellini (4)
• The Thin Man (4) 
• Viva Villa! (4)
• Imitation of Life (3)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street (2)
• Flirtation Walk (2)
• The White Parade (2)

Films with multiple awards

• It Happened One Night (5)

One Night of Love (2)