7th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1935)

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• Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, February 27, 1935
• For films released in: 1934

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 7th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Production

• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Cleopatra
  Paramount
• Flirtation Walk
  First National
• The Gay Divorcee
  RKO Radio
• Here Comes the Navy
  Warner Bros.
• The House of Rothschild
  20th Century
• Imitation of Life
  Universal
• It Happened One Night
  Columbia
• One Night of Love
  Columbia
• The Thin Man
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Viva Villa!
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• The White Parade
  Jesse L. Lasky

Best Directing

• It Happened One Night
  Frank Capra
• One Night of Love
  Victor Schertzinger
• The Thin Man
  W.S. Van Dyke

Best Actor

• The Affairs of Cellini
  Frank Morgan
• It Happened One Night
  Clark Gable
• The Thin Man
  William Powell

Best Actress

• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  Norma Shearer
• It Happened One Night
  Claudette Colbert
• One Night of Love
  Grace Moore

Best Art Direction

• The Affairs of Cellini
  Richard Day
• The Gay Divorcee
  Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark
• The Merry Widow
  Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope

Best Assistant Director

• Cleopatra
  Cullen Tate
• Imitation of Life
  Scott Beal
• Viva Villa!
  John Waters

Best Cinematography

• The Affairs of Cellini
  Charles Rosher
• Cleopatra
  Victor Milner
• Operator 13
  George Folsey

Best Film Editing

• Cleopatra
  Anne Bauchens
• Eskimo
  Conrad Nervig
• One Night of Love
  Gene Milford

Best Music (Scoring)

• The Gay Divorcee
  RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner [head of department], Kenneth Webb [Score by] and Samuel Hoffenstein [Score by]
• The Lost Patrol
  RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner [head of department] and Max Steiner [Score by]
• One Night of Love
  Columbia Studio Music Department, Louis Silvers [head of department], Victor Schertzinger [Thematic Music by] and Gus Kahn [Thematic Music by]

Best Music (Song)

• Flying Down to Rio "Carioca"
  Vincent Youmans [Music by], Edward Eliscu [Lyrics by] and Gus Kahn [Lyrics by]
• The Gay Divorcee "The Continental"
  Con Conrad [Music by] and Herb Magidson [Lyrics by]
• She Loves Me Not "Love in Bloom"
  Ralph Rainger [Music by] and Leo Robin [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Holiday Land
  Charles Mintz
• Jolly Little Elves
  Walter Lantz
• The Tortoise and the Hare
  Walt Disney

Best Short Subject (Comedy)

• La Cucaracha
  Kenneth Macgowan
• Men in Black
  Jules White
• What, No Men!
  Warner Bros.

Best Short Subject (Novelty)

• Bosom Friends
  Skibo Productions
• City of Wax
  Stacey Woodard and Horace Woodard
• Strikes and Spares
  Pete Smith

Best Sound Recording

• The Affairs of Cellini
  United Artists Studio Sound Department and Thomas T. Moulton [Sound Director]
• Cleopatra
  Paramount Studio Sound Department and Franklin B. Hansen [Sound Director]
• Flirtation Walk
  Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
• The Gay Divorcee
  RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and Carl Dreher [Sound Director]
• Imitation of Life
  Universal Studio Sound Department and Theodore Soderberg [Sound Director]
• One Night of Love
  Columbia Studio Sound Department and John Livadary [Sound Director]
• Viva Villa!
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
• The White Parade
  Fox Studio Sound Department and E.H. Hansen [Sound Director]

Best Writing (Adaptation)

• It Happened One Night
  Robert Riskin
• The Thin Man
  Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
• Viva Villa!
  Ben Hecht

Best Writing (Original Story)

• Hide-Out
  Mauri Grashin
• Manhattan Melodrama
  Arthur Caesar
• The Richest Girl in the World
  Norman Krasna