The 5th
Academy Award…1932
Hosted by Conrad
Nagel almost eighty years ago, on november 18th 1932 at the Ambassador Hotel,
Los Angeles, the 5th Academy Awards night was about to start.
The American
drama film Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, Lionel and John Barrymore and Joan
Crawford, remained the only Best Picture Academy Award winner in history, to be
nominated just in one category.
Wallace
Beery (“The Champ”) and Fredric March (“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”) shared the
recognition for Best Actor.
Wallace
Beery and Fredric March, with 1931 Oscar winner Lionel
Barrymore and 1932 Academy President Conrad Nagel
The Academy
Award for Best Actress went to Helen Hayes for her important role in The Sin of
Madelon Claudet, an American drama film adapted from the play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock.
Director Frank
Borzage, Helen Hayes, and Fredric Marc
Here is the complete list of 1932’ Nominees and
Winners:
Bold indicates
Winner
Actor
- Wallace Beery in
"The Champ"
- Alfred Lunt in "The Guardsman"
- Fredric March in
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
Actress
- Marie
Dressler in
"Emma"
- Lynn
Fontanne in
"The Guardsman"
- Helen Hayes in
"The Sin of Madelon Claudet"
Art Direction
- "À
Nous la Liberté" Lazare Meerson
- "Arrowsmith" Richard Day
- "Transatlantic" Gordon Wiles
Cinematography
- "Arrowsmith" Ray June
- "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde" Karl Struss
- "Shanghai Express" Lee Garmes
Directing
- "Bad Girl" Frank Borzage
- "The
Champ" King
Vidor
- "Shanghai
Express" Josef
Von Sternberg
Outstanding Production
- "Arrowsmith" Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- "Bad
Girl" Fox
- "The
Champ"
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- "Five
Star Final" First
National
- "Grand Hotel" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- "One Hour with
You" Paramount Publix
- "Shanghai
Express"
Paramount Publix
- "The
Smiling Lieutenant" Paramount Publix
Short Subject (Cartoon)
- "Flowers and Trees" Walt Disney, Producer
- "It's Got Me
Again" Leon Schlesinger,
Producer
- "Mickey's
Orphans" Walt
Disney, Producer
Short Subject (Comedy)
- "The Loud
Mouth" Mack Sennett, Producer
- "The Music Box" Hal Roach, Producer
- "Scratch-As-Catch-Can" RKO Radio
Short Subject (Novelty)
- "Screen
Souvenirs"
Paramount Publix
- "Swing
High" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- "Wrestling Swordfish" Mack Sennett, Producer
Sound Recording
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studio Sound Department
- Paramount Publix Studio Sound
Department
- RKO
Radio Studio Sound Department
- Warner Bros.-First
National Studio Sound Department
Writing (Adaptation)
- "Arrowsmith" Sidney Howard
- "Bad Girl" Edwin Burke
- "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde" Percy Heath, Samuel
Hoffenstein
Writing (Original Story)
- "The Champ" Frances Marion
- "Lady and
Gent" Grover Jones, William
Slavens McNutt
- "The
Star Witness" Lucien
Hubbard
- "What Price
Hollywood?" Adela Rogers St. Johns,
Jane Murfin
One of the
most remarkable Awards given during that night has been the Special Award
or Honorary Award to Walt Disney.
The
Honorary Award was created to honor actors, producers, directors and other important personalities for
their significant achievements and contributions to the motion picture industry.
After Warner Bros and Charlie Chaplin, respectively in 1927 and 1928, Walt
Disney received the award "for the
creation of Mickey Mouse."
That year
Disney won for Short Subject (Cartoon) with "Flowers and Trees" , the
very first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color
three-strip Technicolor process.
Silly Symphony 1932 - Walt Disney
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