7th Academy Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Production	Best Director
It Happened One Night The Barretts of Wimpole Street Cleopatra Flirtation Walk The Gay Divorcee Here Comes the Navy The House of Rothschild Imitation of Life One Night of Love The Thin Man Viva Villa! The White Parade	Frank Capra – It Happened One Night Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
Best Actor	Best Actress
Clark Gable – It Happened One Night Frank Morgan – The Affairs of Cellini William Powell – The Thin Man Paul Muni – Black Fury (write-in)	Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night Bette Davis – Of Human Bondage (write-in) Grace Moore – One Night of Love Norma Shearer – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Best Story	Best Adapted Screenplay
Manhattan Melodrama – Arthur Caesar Hide-Out – Mauri Grashin The Richest Girl in the World – Norman Krasna	It Happened One Night – Robert Riskin The Thin Man – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Viva Villa! – Ben Hecht
Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy	Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
La Cucaracha – Pioneer Pictures Men in Black – Jules White What, No Men! – Warner Bros.	City of Wax – Skibo Productions Bosom Friends – Skibo Productions Strikes and Spares – Pete Smith
Best Animated Short Film	Best Art Direction
The Tortoise and the Hare – Walt Disney Holiday Land – Screen Gems Jolly Little Elves – Walter Lantz	The Merry Widow – Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope The Affairs of Cellini – Richard Day The Gay Divorcee – Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark
Best Score	Best Song
One Night of Love – Columbia Studio Music Department The Gay Divorcee – RKO Radio Studio Music Department The Lost Patrol – RKO Radio Studio Music Department	*"The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee* – Music by Con Conrad; Lyric by Herb Magidson** "Carioca" from Flying Down to Rio – Music by Vincent Youmans; Lyric by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn "Love in Bloom" from She Loves Me Not – Music by Ralph Rainger; Lyric by Leo Robin
Best Cinematography	Best Assistant Director
Cleopatra – Victor Milner The Affairs of Cellini – Charles Rosher Operator 13 – George J. Folsey	Viva Villa! – John S. Waters Cleopatra – Cullen Tate Imitation of Life – Scott Beal
Best Sound Recording	Best Film Editing
One Night of Love – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department The Affairs of Cellini – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department Cleopatra – Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio Sound Department Flirtation Walk – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department The Gay Divorcee – Carl Dreher, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department Imitation of Life – Theodore Soderberg, Universal Studio Sound Department Viva Villa! – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department The White Parade – Edmund H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department	Eskimo – Conrad Nervig Cleopatra – Anne Bauchens One Night of Love – Gene Milford