The 8th Academy Awards 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 short-lived 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.
This was the seconnd and last year that write-in votes were allowed at the Oscars. A Midsummer Night's Dream became the only film to have ever won a write-in Oscar. It won Best Cinematography.
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“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)