1934

1934 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees)

(winners listed first in bold print)

Best Picture

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 Actor in a Leading Role

Clark Gable It Happened One Night (1934)

Frank Morgan The Affairs of Cellini (1934)

William Powell The Thin Man (1934)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night (1934)

Norma Shearer The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

Bette Davis Of Human Bondage (1934)

Grace Moore One Night of Love (1934)

Best Director

Frank Capra It Happened One Night (1934)

Victor Schertzinger One Night of Love (1934)

W.S. Van Dyke The Thin Man (1934)

Best Writing Original Story

Arthur Caesar Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Mauri Grashin Hide-Out (1934)

Norman Krasna The Richest Girl in the World (1934)

Best Writing Adaptation

Robert Riskin It Happened One Night (1934)

Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett The Thin Man (1934)

Ben Hecht Viva Villa! (1934)

Best Cinematography

Victor Milner Cleopatra (1934)

Charles Rosher The Affairs of Cellini (1934)

George Folsey Operator 13 (1934)

Best Art Direction

Cedric Gibbons & Fredric Hope for The Merry Widow (1934)

Richard Day The Affairs of Cellini (1934)

Van Nest Polglase & Carroll Clark for The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Best Sound Recording

John Livadary One Night of Love (1934)

Thomas Moulton The Affairs of Cellini (1934)

Franklin Hansen Cleopatra (1934)

Nathan Levinson Flirtation Walk (1934)

Carl Dreher The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Theodore Soderberg Imitation of Life (1934)

Douglas Shearer Viva Villa! (1934)

Edmund Hansen The White Parade (1934)

Best Film Editing

Conrad Nervig Eskimo (1933)

Anne Bauchens Cleopatra (1934)

Gene Milford One Night of Love (1934)

Best Music Original Song

Con Conrad (music); Herb Magidson (lyrics) "The Continental" The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Vincent Youmans (music); Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn (lyrics) "Carioca" Flying Down to Rio (1933)

Ralph Rainger (music); Leo Robin (lyrics) "Love in Bloom" She Loves Me Not (1934)

Best Music Score

Louis Silvers One Night of Love (1934)

(Thematic music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn)

Max Steiner The Gay Divorcee (1934)

(Score by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein)

Max Steiner The Lost Patrol (1934)