7th Annual Academy Awards hosted by Irvin S. Cobb on February 27, 1935
Best Picture: It Happened One Night
Best Director: Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) Jean Vigo (L’Atalante)
Best Actor: Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
Best Actress: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
Best Supporting Actor: N/A Walter Connolly (It Happened One Night)
Best Supporting Actress: N/A Maureen O’Sullivan (The Thin Man)
Best Original Screenplay: Manhattan Melodrama It’s a Gift (Jack Cunningham, W.C. Fields)
Best Adapted Screenplay: It Happened One Night (Robert Riskin via Samuel Hopkins Adams’ short story)
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