The Complete Oscar Quest: 8th Academy Awards (1935)

1935

Outstanding Production

  • Alice Adams
  • Broadway Melody of 1936
  • Captain Blood
  • David Copperfield
  • The Informer
  • Les Misérables
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Ruggles of Red Gap
  • Top Hat

Best Director

  • Michael Curtiz, Captain Blood (write-in)
  • John Ford, The Informer
  • Henry Hathaway, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • Frank Lloyd, Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Actor

  • Clark Gable, Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Charles Laughton, Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Victor McLaglen, The Informer
  • Paul Muni, Black Fury (write-in)
  • Franchot Tone, Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Actress

  • Elisabeth Bergner, Escape Me Never
  • Claudette Colbert, Private Worlds
  • Bette Davis, Dangerous
  • Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams
  • Miriam Hopkins, Becky Sharp
  • Merle Oberon, The Dark Angel

Best Story

  • Broadway Melody of 1936
  • The Gay Deception
  • G Men
  • The Scoundrel

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Captain Blood (write-in)
  • The Informer
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Cinematography

  • Barbary Coast
  • The Crusades
  • Les Misérables
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (write-in)

Best Editing

  • David Copperfield
  • The Informer
  • Les Misérables
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Mutiny on the Bounty

Best Score

  • Captain Blood (write-in)
  • The Informer
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Peter Ibbetson

Best Song

  • “Cheek to Cheek,” from Top Hat
  • “Lullaby of Broadway,” from Gold Diggers of 1935
  • “Lovely to Look At,” from Roberta

Best Art Direction

  • The Dark Angel
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • Top Hat

Best Sound Recording

  • $1,000 a Minute
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Captain Blood
  • The Dark Angel
  • I Dream Too Much
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • Love Me Forever
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Thanks a Million

Best Assistant Director

  • David Coperfield
  • Les Misérables
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Best Dance Direction

  • Gold Diggers of 1935
  • Broadway Hostess & Go Into Your Dance
  • Broadway Melody of 1936 & Folies Bergère de Paris
  • King of Burlesque
  • Top Hat
  • All the King’s Horses & The Big Broadcast of 1936
  • She

Best Animated Short

  • The Calico Dragon
  • Three Orphan Kittens
  • Who Killed Cock Robin?

Best Live-Action Short, Comedy

  • How to Sleep
  • Oh, My Nerves
  • Tit for Tat

Best Live-Action Short, Novelty

  • Audioscopiks
  • Camera Thrills
  • Wings Over Everest

Total List of Films Nominated:

  1. $1,000 a Minute
  2. Alice Adams
  3. All the King’s Horses
  4. Barbary Coast
  5. Becky Sharp
  6. The Big Broadcast of 1936
  7. Black Fury (write-in)
  8. Bride of Frankenstein
  9. Broadway Hostess
  10. Broadway Melody of 1936
  11. Captain Blood
  12. The Crusades
  13. Dangerous
  14. The Dark Angel
  15. David Copperfield
  16. Escape Me Never
  17. Folies Bergère de Paris
  18. G Men
  19. The Gay Deception
  20. Go Into Your Dance
  21. Gold Diggers of 1935
  22. I Dream Too Much
  23. The Informer
  24. King of Burlesque
  25. Les Misérables
  26. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  27. Love Me Forever
  28. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  29. Mutiny on the Bounty
  30. Naughty Marietta
  31. Peter Ibbetson
  32. Private Worlds
  33. Roberta
  34. Ruggles of Red Gap
  35. The Scoundrel
  36. She
  37. Thanks a Million
  38. Top Hat

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