1935

1935 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees)

(winners listed first in bold print)

Best Picture

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Alice Adams (1935)

Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Captain Blood (1935)

The Informer (1935)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

Les Misérables (1935)

Naughty Marietta (1935)

The Personal History Adventures Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Top Hat (1935)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Victor McLaglen The Informer (1935)

Paul Muni Black Fury (1935)*

Clark Gable Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Charles Laughton Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Franchot Tone Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Bette Davis Dangerous (1935)

Katharine Hepburn Alice Adams (1935)

Miriam Hopkins Becky Sharp (1935)

Merle Oberon The Dark Angel (1935)

Elisabeth Bergner Escape Me Never (1935)

Claudette Colbert Private Worlds (1935)

Best Director

John Ford The Informer (1935)

Michael Curtiz Captain Blood (1935)*

Henry Hathaway The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Frank Lloyd Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Best Writing Original Story

Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur The Scoundrel (1935)

Darryl Zanuck ‘G’ Men (1935)*

Moss Hart Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Don Hartman & Stephen Morehouse Avery The Gay Deception (1935)

Best Writing Screenplay

Dudley Nichols The Informer (1935)

Casey Robinson Captain Blood (1935)*

Achmed Abdullah & John Balderston & Grover Jones & William Slavens McNutt & Waldemar Young The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Jules Furthman & Talbot Jennings & Carey Wilson Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Best Cinematography

Hal Mohr A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

Ray June Barbary Coast (1935)

Victor Milner The Crusades (1935)

Gregg Toland Les Misérables (1935)

Best Art Direction

Richard Day The Dark Angel (1935)

Hans Dreier & Roland Anderson The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Carroll Clark & Van Nest Polglase Top Hat (1935)

Best Sound Recording

Douglas Shearer Naughty Marietta (1935)

Republic 1000 Dollars a Minute (1935)

Gilbert Kurland Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Nathan Levinson Captain Blood (1935)

Thomas Moulton The Dark Angel (1935)

Carl Dreher I Dream Too Much (1935)

Franklin Hansen The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

John Livadary Love Me Forever (1935)

Edmund Hansen Thanks a Million (1935)

Best Film Editing

Ralph Dawson A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

George Hively The Informer (1935)

Ellsworth Hoagland The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Barbara McLean Les Misérables (1935)

Margaret Booth Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Robert Kern The Personal History Adventures Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935)

Best Music Original Song

Harry Warren (music); Al Dubin (lyrics) “Lullaby of Broadway” Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Jerome Kern (music); Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh (lyrics) “Lovely to Look at” Roberta (1935)

Irving Berlin “Cheek to Cheek” Top Hat (1935)

Best Music Score

Max Steiner The Informer (1935)

Leo Forbstein Captain Blood (1935)

(Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)*

Nat Finston Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

(Score by Herbert Stothart)

Irvin Talbot Peter Ibbetson (1935)

(Score by Ernst Toch)

* write-in candidate not an official nominee