7th Academy Awards (1934)
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1. It Happened One Night (1934)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 112,351 | Gross: $4.36M
Winner - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Direction for Frank Capra Winner - Best Actor for Clark Gable Winner - Best Actress for Claudette Colbert Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Robert Riskin
2. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Passed | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 2,129
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Actress for Norma Shearer
3. Cleopatra (1934)
Passed | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 4,619
Nominated - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Cinematography for Victor Milner Nominated - Best Assistant Director for Cullen Tate Nominated - Best Sound Recording Nominated - Best Film Editing for Anne Bauchens
4. Flirtation Walk (1934)
Passed | 97 min | Musical
Musical-romance with Powell as private in Hawaii involved with general's daughter Keeler. Break up to avoid scandal but reunite years later when he produces play at West Point starring her.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander
Votes: 872
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
5. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 8,643
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Art Direction for Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark Nominated - Best Score Winner - Best Song for "The Continental" Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Carl Dreher
6. Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh
Votes: 1,166 | Gross: $2.58M
Nominated - Outstanding Production
7. The House of Rothschild (1934)
Passed | 88 min | Biography, Drama, History
The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Sidney Lanfield | Stars: George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Votes: 1,325
Nominated - Outstanding Production
8. Imitation of Life (1934)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks
Votes: 5,651
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Assistant Director for Scott Beal Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Theodore Soderberg
9. One Night of Love (1934)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Mary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie
Votes: 748
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for Victor Schertzinger Nominated - Best Actress for Grace Moore Winner - Best Score Winner - Best Sound Recording for John Livadary Nominated - Best Film Editing for Gene Milford
10. The Thin Man (1934)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 32,564
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for W. S. Van Dyke Nominated - Best Actor for William Powell Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
11. Viva Villa! (1934)
Passed | 115 min | Biography, Western
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook
Votes: 1,571 | Gross: $1.11M
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ben Hecht Winner - Best Assistant Director for John S. Waters Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Douglas Shearer
12. The White Parade (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Loretta Young, John Boles, Dorothy Wilson, Muriel Kirkland
Votes: 112
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Edmund H. Hansen
13. The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray
Votes: 485
Nominated - Best Actor for Frank Morgan Nominated - Best Art Direction for Richard Day Nominated - Best Cinematography for Charles Rosher Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton
14. Of Human Bondage (1934)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold, unfeeling waitress who might ultimately destroy them both.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson
Votes: 8,392
Nominated - Best Actress for Bette Davis
15. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo
Votes: 4,809
Winner - Best Story for Arthur Caesar
16. Hide-Out (1934)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 881
Nominated - Best Story for Mauri Grashin
17. The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
An heiress switches places with her secretary in order to find a man who will love her for who she is and not for her money.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 1,022
Nominated - Best Story for Norman Krasna
18. La Cucaracha (1934)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Senor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local cafe in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there.
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Steffi Duna, Don Alvarado, Paul Porcasi, Eduardo Durant
Votes: 374
Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
19. Men in Black (1934)
G | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt patients and staff alike.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Carmen Andre
Votes: 1,475
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
20. What, No Men? (1935)
Approved | 21 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: El Brendel, Wini Shaw, Phil Regan, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 75
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
21. City of Wax (1934)
Not Rated | 9 min | Documentary, Short
Osacr-winning Live Action Short film about bees.
Directors: Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard | Star: Gayne Whitman
Votes: 98
Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
22. Bosom Friends (1934)
10 min | Short
Through the adorably persuasive antics of a menagerie of cats, dogs, monkeys, lion cubs, and other animals great and small, Bosom Friends delivers a species-transcending message of tolerance. (Source: UCLA Film & Television Archive)
Star: James F. Clemenger
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
23. Strikes and Spares (1934)
Passed | 9 min | Short, Sport
This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the ball down the alley. He then performs several trick shots.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Pete Smith, Andy Varipapa, Buster Brodie, Ray Turner
Votes: 264
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
24. The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Big race. Hare, fast and in lead, stops to loaf and show off to girl bunnies. Tortoise, plodding along at steady, slow pace, wins, although hare tries a last minute burst of speed.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, Eddie Holden
Votes: 3,584
Winner - Best Animated Short Film
25. Holiday Land (1934)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Family
Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a tour of the... See full summary »
Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Connee Boswell, Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Mary Moder
Votes: 232
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
26. Jolly Little Elves (1934)
Passed | 9 min | Animation, Musical, Short
A poor shoemaker and his wife have only a stale donut and a cup of coffee left to share. An elf drops by, and they offer to share with him. He teaches them (in song) to dunk the donut in ... See full summary »
Directors: Walter Lantz, Manuel Moreno | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, Bernice Hansen, Mary Moder
Votes: 251
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
27. The Merry Widow (1934)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée
Votes: 3,263
Winner - Best Art Direction for Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope
28. The Lost Patrol (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny
Votes: 3,608
Nominated - Best Score
29. Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Ginger Rogers
Votes: 4,027 | Gross: $2.01M
Nominated - Best Song for "Carioca"
30. She Loves Me Not (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent
Votes: 217
Nominated - Best Song "Love in Bloom"
31. Operator 13 (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, History, Musical
Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 1,504
Nominated - Best Cinematography for George J. Folsey
32. Eskimo (1933)
Passed | 117 min | Drama
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Edgar Dearing, Peter Freuchen, Edward Hearn, Lotus Long
Votes: 608
Winner - Best Film Editing for Conrad Nervig
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