Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
It Happened One Night
Harry Cohn, producer
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Cleopatra
Flirtation Walk
The Gay Divorcee
Here Comes the Navy
The House of Rothschild
Imitation of Life
One Night of Love
The Thin Man
Viva Villa!
The White Parade
Best Director
Winner
Frank Capra
It Happened One Night
Victor Schertzinger— One Night of Love
W.S. Van Dyke— The Thin Man
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Clark Gable
It Happened One Night
Frank Morgan— The Affairs of Cellini
William Powell— The Thin Man
Best Actress
Winner
Claudette Colbert
It Happened One Night
Bette Davis— Of Human Bondage
Grace Moore— One Night of Love
Norma Shearer— The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Writing
Best Writing (Original Story)
Winner
Arthur Caesar
Manhattan Melodrama
Best Writing (Adaptation)
Winner
Robert Riskin
It Happened One Night
Music
Best Score
Winner
Columbia Studio Music Dept. — Louis Silvers
One Night of Love
Best Original Song
Winner
"The Continental" — Con Conrad, Herb Magidson
The Gay Divorcee
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Victor Milner
Cleopatra
Best Film Editing
Winner
Conrad Nervig
Eskimo
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Cedric Gibbons & Fredric Hope
The Merry Widow
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Dept.
One Night of Love
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Tortoise and the Hare
Walt Disney / UA