5th Academy Awards

5th Academy Awards
Date	November 18, 1932
Site	The Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles, California
Host	Conrad Nagel
Highlights
Best Picture	Grand Hotel
Most awards	Bad Girl and The Champ (2)
Most nominations	Arrowsmith and The Champ (4)
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The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932 at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Conrad Nagel. Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931 and July 31, 1932 were eligible to receive awards.

Walt Disney created a special animated short film just for the banquet, Parade of the Award Nominees.

Grand Hotel became the only best picture winner to be nominated for best picture and nothing else. It was also the last film to win best picture without a best director nomination until Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

This year also introduced short films to the Oscars. With Flowers and Trees being the first color winner and first animated short winner.

Also, this was the last time that no movie would win more than 2 Oscars.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Grand Hotel Arrowsmith Bad Girl The Champ Five Star Final One Hour with You Shanghai Express The Smiling Lieutenant	Frank Borzage – Bad Girl King Vidor – The Champ Josef von Sternberg – Shanghai Express
Best Actor	Best Actress
Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Wallace Beery – The Champ Alfred Lunt – The Guardsman	Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madelon Claudet Marie Dressler – Emma Lynn Fontanne – The Guardsman
Best Story	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Champ – Frances Marion Lady and Gent – Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt The Star Witness – Lucien Hubbard What Price Hollywood? – Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Murfin	Bad Girl – Edwin J. Burke Arrowsmith – Sidney Howard Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Transatlantic – Gordon Wiles À nous la liberté – Lazare Meerson Arrowsmith – Richard Day	Shanghai Express – Lee Garmes Arrowsmith – Ray June Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Karl Struss
Best Sound Recording	Best Animated Short Film
Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department MGM Studio Sound Department RKO Radio Studio Sound Department Walt Disney Productions Warner Bros. First National Studio Sound Department	Flowers and Trees It's Got Me Again! Mickey's Orphans
Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy	Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
The Music Box The Loud Mouth Scratch-As-Catch-Can	Wrestling Swordfish Screen Souvenirs Swing High

Academy Honorary Award

• Walt Disney

Multiple nominations and awards

The following 7 films received multiple nominations.

• 4 nominations: Arrowsmith and The Champ
• 3 nominations: Bad Girl, Shanghai Express, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• 2 nominations: The Guardsman

The following films received multiple awards.

• 2 awards: Bad Girl and The Champ

See also

• Academy Awards
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Academy Honorary Award
• 1931 in film
• 1932 in film
• Governors Awards