6th Academy Awards
| 6th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | March 16, 1934 | |||
| Site | The Ambassador Hotel | |||
| Host | Will Rogers | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Cavalcade | |||
| Most awards | Cavalcade (3) | |||
| Most nominations | Cavalcade, A Farewell to Arms and Lady for a Day (4) | |||
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The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards.
Will Rogers presented the Academy Award for Best Director, and when he opened the envelope he simply announced, "Come up and get it, Frank!" Frank Capra, certain he was the winner, ran to the podium to collect the Oscar, only to discover Rogers had meant Frank Lloyd, who won for Cavalcade, instead. Possibly to downplay Rogers' gaffe, he then called third nominee George Cukor to join the two Franks on stage.[1]
This was the last time that the Oscar's film eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, making this be the longest time frame for which films were allowed to be nominated (i.e., a film could have been nominated that was a year-and-a-half old).
This was the last time that no film had more than four nominations.
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Awards [edit]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[2][3]
| Outstanding Production | Best Director |
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| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Best Story | Best Adapted Screenplay |
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| Best Cinematography | Best Art Direction |
| Best Sound Recording | Best Assistant Director |
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| Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy | Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty |
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| Best Animated Short Film | |
Multiple nominations and awards [edit]
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The following eight films received multiple nominations:
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The following two films received multiple awards:
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Scientific or Technical Awards [edit]
Class II Awards [edit]
- Electrical Research Products, Inc. (ERPI)
- For work in sound reproduction.
- RCA Victor Company, Inc.
- For work in sound reproduction.[4]
Class III Awards [edit]
- Fox Film Corporation, Fred Jackman and Warner Brothers Pictures, and Sidney Sanders and RKO Radio Pictures.
- For work in the technologies of cinematography and film projection.[5]
See also [edit]
- 1932 in film
- 1933 in film
- Academy Awards
- Academy Honorary Award
- Governors Awards
- List of Academy Awards ceremonies
Notes and references [edit]
- ^ McBride, Joseph, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. New York: Simon & Schuster 1992. ISBN 0-671-73494-6, pp. 288-292, 294-296, 298-302, 309-310
- ^ "The 6th Academy Awards (1934) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
- ^ The sources consulted to compile and verify this list include:
- "Academy Awards Database - AMPAS." oscars.org. 11 Mar. 2006 <http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1142073214663>.
- "Academy Awards, USA: 1934." Internet Movie Database. 11 Mar. 2006 <http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1934>.
- Mason, Wiley, and Damien Bona. Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. Updated ed. New York: Ballantine, 1987.
- ^ Class II Scientific or Technical award winners receive a plaque.
- ^ Class III Scientific or Technical award winners receive a citation.
