| 8th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | March 5, 1936 | |||
| Site | Biltmore Hotel | |||
| Host | Frank Capra | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Mutiny on the Bounty | |||
| Most wins | The Informer (4) | |||
| Most nominations | Mutiny on the Bounty (8) | |||
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The 8th Academy Awards, honoring the best in films for 1935, were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars". The category of Best Dance Direction was introduced this year. The DGA successfully lobbied for its elimination three years later. Mutiny on the Bounty became the last film to date to win Best Picture and nothing else, and the only film to receive three nominations for Best Actor. This was the second and last year that write-in votes were allowed at the Oscars. A Midsummer Night's Dream became the only film to win a write-in Oscar, taking Best Cinematography.
Nominees and Winners[]
Best Outstanding Production[]
Mutiny on the Bounty
See also: Best Outstanding Production
- Winner
- Mutiny on the Bounty — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Nominees
- Alice Adams — RKO Radio
- Broadway Melody of 1936 — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Captain Blood — Cosmopolitan
- David Copperfield — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- The Informer — RKO Radio
- Les Miserables (1935) — 20th Century
- The Lives of Bengal Lancer — Paramount
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — Warner Bros.
- Naughty Marietta — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Ruggles of Red Gap — Paramount
Best Director[]
The Informer
See also: Best Director
- Winner
- The Informer — John Ford
- Nominees
- Captain Blood — Michael Curtiz [NOTE: This is not an official nomination. Write-in candidate.]
- The Lives of Bengal Lancer — Henry Hathaway
- Mutiny on the Bounty — Frank Lloyd
Best Assistant Director[]
The Lives of Bengal Lancer
See also: Best Assistant Director
- Winner
- The Lives of Bengal Lancer — Clem Beaucamp, Paul Wing
- Nominees
- David Copperfield — Joseph Newman
- Les Miserables (1935) — Eric Stacey
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — Sherry Shourds [NOTE: This is not an official nomination. Write-in candidate.]
Best Actor[]
The Informer
See also: Best Actor
- Winner
- Victor McLaglen — The Informer
- Nominees
- Clark Gable — Mutiny on the Bounty
- Charles Laughton — Mutiny on the Bounty
- Paul Muni — Black Fury [NOTE: This is not an official nomination. Write-in candidate.]
- Franchot Tone — Mutiny on the Bounty
Best Actress[]
Dangerous
See also: Best Acress
- Winner
- Bette Davis — Dangerous
- Nominees
- Elisabeth Bergner — Escape Me Never
- Claudette Colbert — Private Worlds
- Katharine Hepburn — Alice Adams
- Miriam Hopkins — Becky Sharp
- Merle Oberon — The Dark Angel
Best Writing (Original Story)[]
The Scoundrel
See also: Best Writing (Original Story)
- Winner
- The Scoundrel — Ben Hecht
- Nominees
- Broadway Meloday of 1936 — Moss Hart
- G-Men — Gregory Rogers [NOTE: This is not an official nomination. Write-in candidate.]
- The Gay Decption — Don Hartman
Best Writing (Screenplay)[]
The Informer
See also: Best Writing (Screenplay)
- Winner
- The Informer — Dudley Nichols
- Nominees
- Captain Blood — Casey Robinson [NOTE: This is not an official nomination. Write-in candidate.]
- The Lives of Bengal Lancer — Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
- Mutiny on the Bounty — Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)[]
Three Orphan Kittens
See also: Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
- Winner
- Three Orphan Kittens — Walt Disney
- Nominees
- The Calico Dragon — Harman-Ising
- Who Killed Cock Robin? — Walt Disney
Best Short Subject (Comedy)[]
See also: Best Short Subject (Comedy)
- Winner
- How to Sleep — Jack Chertok
- Nominees
- Oh, My Nerves — Jules White
Best Short Subject (Novelty)[]
See also: Best Short Subject (Novelty)
- Winner
- Wings Over Mt. Everest — Gaumont British, Skibo Productions
- Nominees
- Audioscopiks — Pete Smith
- Camera Thrills — Universal
Best Scoring[]
The Informer
See also: Best Scoring
- Winner
- The Informer — Max Steiner
- Nominees
- Captain Blood — Erich Wolfgang Korngold [NOTE: This is not an official nomination. Write-in candidate.]
- Mutiny on the Bounty — Herbert Stothart
- Peter Ibbetson — Ernst Toch
Best Song[]
Gold Diggers of 1935
See also: Best Song
- Winner
- "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935 — Harry Warren, al Dubin
- Nominees
- "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat — Irving Berlin
- "Lovely to Look At" from Roberta — Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
Best Dance Direction[]
Broadway Melody of 1936
Folies Bergere
See also: Best Dance Direction
- Winner
- Dave Gould — "I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling" from Broadway Melody of 1936 & "Straw Hat" from Folies Bergere
- Nominees
- Busby Berkley — "Lullaby of Broadway" & "The Words Are in My Heart" from Gold Diggers of 1935
- Bobby Connolly — "Latin from Manhattan" from Go into Your Dance & "Playboy from Paree" from Broadway Hostess
- Sammy Lee — "Lovely Lady" & "Too Good to Be True" from King of Burlesque
- Hermes Pan — "Piccolino" & "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails" from Top Hat
- LeRoy Prinz — "It's the Animal in Me" from Big Broadcast of 1936 & "Viennese Waltz" from All the King's Horses
- Benjamin Zemach — "Hall of Kings" from She
Best Cinematography[]
A Midsummer Night's Dream
See also: Best Cinematography
- Winner
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — Hal Mohr [NOTE: This is not an official nomination. Write-in candidate.]
- Nominees
- Barbary Coast — Ray June
- The Crusades — Victor Milner
- Les Miserables (1935) — Gregg Toland
Best Film Editing[]
A Midsummer Night's Dream
See also: Best Film Editing
- Winner
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — Ralph Dawson
- Nominees
- David Copperfield — Robert J. Kern
- The Informer — George Hively
- Les Miserables (1935) — Barbara McLean
- The Lives of Bengal Lancer — Ellsworth Hoadland
- Mutiny on the Bounty — Margaret Booth
Best Art Direction[]
The Dark Angel
See also: Best Art Direction
- Winner
- The Dark Angel — Richard Day
- Nominees
- The Lives of Bengal Lancer — Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson
- Top Hat — Van Nest Polglase
Best Sound Recording[]
Naughty Marietta
See also: Best Sound Recording
- Winner
- Naughty Marietta — Douglas Shearer
- Nominees
- Bride of Frankenstein — Gilbert Kurland
- Captain Blood — Nathan Levinson
- The Dark Angel — Thomas T. Moulton
- I Dream Too Much — Carl Dreher
- The Lives of Bengal Lancer — Franklin B. Hansen
- Love Me Forever — John Livadary
- $1000 a Minute — Republic Studio Sound Department
- Thanks a Million — E.H. Hansen
Special Award[]
- David Wark Griffith for his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts.
Scientific or Technical Award (Class II)[]
- AGFA Anso Corporation for their development of the Agfa infra-red film.
- Eastman Kodak Company for their development of the Eastman Pola-Screen.
Scientific or Technical Award (Class III)[]
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for the development of anti-directional negative and positive development by means of jet turbulation, and the application of the method to all negative and print processing of the entire product of a major producing company.
- William A. Mueller of Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department for his method of dubbing, in which the level of the dialogue automatically controls the level of the accompanying music and sound effects.
- Mole-Richardson Company for their development of the "Solar-spot" spot lamps.
- Douglas Shearer and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department for their automatic control system for cameras and sound recording machines and auxiliary stage equipment.
- Electrical Research Products, Inc. for their study and development of equipment to analyze and measure flutter resulting from the travel of the film through the mechanisms used in the recording and reproduction of sound.
- Paramount Productions, Inc. for the design and construction of the Paramount transparency air turbine developing machine.
- Nathan Levinson, Director of Sound Recording for Warner Bros.-First National Studio, for the method of intercutting variable density and variable area sound tracks to secure an increase in the effective volume range of sound recorded for motion pictures.