Analysis of the Oscars in 1934, the first time in which all nominees were released in the same calendar year (January to December 1933).
It was also the first year in which one film, It Happened One Night, swept most of the important awards.
Best Picture: It Happened One Night (Columbia)
Director: Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
Best Actor: Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
Best Actress: Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
Writing Adapted: It Happened One Night, Robert Riskin
Original Story: Manhattan Melodrama, Arthur Caesar
Cinematography: Cleopatra, Victor Milner
Interior Decoration: The Merry Widow, Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope
Sound Recording: One Night of Love, Paul Neal
Assistant Direction: Viva Villa, John Waters
Music
Song: “The Continental” (The Gay Divorcee), music by Con Conrad, lyrics by Herb Magidson
Score: One Night of Love (Columbia), music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn
Film Editing: Eskimo, Conrad Nervig
Short Subjects: Cartoons: The Tortoise and the Hare (Disney)
Short Subjects: Comedy: La Cucaracha (RKO Radio)
Short Subjects: Novelty: City of Wax (Battle for Life)
Special Award: Shirley Temple, in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934 (Miniature Statuette)
Nominees in All Categories
Best Picture:
It Happened One Night (Columbia)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (MGM)
Cleopatra (Paramount)
Flirtation Walk (Warner)
The Gay Divorcee (RKO)
Here Comes the Navy (Warner)
The House of Rothschild (Fox)
Imitation of Life (Universal)
One Night of Love (Columbia)
The Thin Man (MGM)
Viva Villa (MGM)
The White Parade (Fox)
Director
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
Victor Schertzinger, One Night of Love
W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man
Best Actor
Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
Frank Morgan, Affairs of Cellini
William Powell, The Thin Man
Best Actress
Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
Grace Moore, One Night of Love
Norma Shearer, The Barretts of Wimpole
Writing Adapted:
Robert Riskin, It Happened One Night
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, The Thin Man
Ben Hecht, Viva Villa
Writing: Original Story:
Arthur Caesar, Manhattan Melodrama
Mauri Grashin, Hide-Out
Norman Krasna, The Richest Girl in the World
Cinematography:
Victor Milner, Cleopatra
Charles Rosher, Affairs of Cellini
George Folsey, Operator 13
Interior Decoration:
Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope, The Merry Widow
Richard Day, Affairs of Cellini
Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark, The Gay Divorcee
Assistant Direction:
John Waters, Viva Villa
Scott Beal, Imitation of Life
Cullen Tate, Cleopatra
Sound Recording:
Paul Neal, One Night of Love
Thomas T. Moulton, Affairs of Cellini
Franklin Hansen, Cleopatra
Nathan Levinson, Flirtation Walk
Carl Dreher, The Gay Divorcee
Gilbert Kurland, Imitation of Life
Paul Neal, One Night of Love
Douglas Shearer, Viva Villa
Music
Song: “The Continental” (The Gay Divorcee), music by Con Conrad, lyrics by Herb Magidson
“Carloca” (Flying Down to Rio), music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn
“Love in Bloom” (She Loves Me Not), music by Ralph Rainger, lyrics by Leo Robin
Score: One Night of Love (Columbia), music by Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn
The Gay Divorcee (RKO), Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein
The Lost Patrol (RKO), Max Steiner
Film Editing
Conrad Nervig, Eskimo
Anne Bauchens, Cleopatra
Gene Milford, One Night of Love
