Academy Awards 1931

Best Picture

WINNER:
Cimarron: (RKO Radio)

NOMINEES:
East Lynne: (Fox)
The Front Page: (The Caddo Company)
Skippy: (Paramount Publix)
Trader Horn: (M-G-M)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
A Free Soul: Lionel Barrymore

NOMINEES:
Skippy: Jackie Cooper
Cimarron: Richard Dix
The Royal Family of Broadway: Fredric March
The Front Page: Adolphe Menjou

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Min and Bill: Marie Dressler

NOMINEES:
Morocco: Marlene Dietrich
Cimarron: Irene Dunne
Holiday: Ann Harding
A Free Soul: Norma Shearer

Best Director

WINNER:
Skippy: Norman Taurog

NOMINEES:
A Free Soul: Clarence Brown
The Front Page: Lewis Milestone
Cimarron: Wesley Ruggles
Morocco: Josef von Sternberg

Best Writing, Original Story

WINNER:
The Dawn Patrol: John Monk Saunders

NOMINEES:
The Doorway to Hell: Rowland Brown
Laughter: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Z. Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart
The Public Enemy: John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
Smart Money: Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

Best Writing, Adaptation

WINNER:
Cimarron: Howard Estabrook

NOMINEES:
The Criminal Code: Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr.
Holiday: Horace Jackson
Little Caesar: Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
Skippy: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz

Best Cinematography

WINNER:
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas: Floyd Crosby

NOMINEES:
Cimarron: Edward Cronjager
Morocco: Lee Garmes
The Right to Love: Charles Lang
Svengali: Barney McGill

Best Art Direction

WINNER:
Cimarron: Max Rée

NOMINEES:
Just Imagine: Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras
Morocco: Hans Dreier
Svengali: Anton Grot
Whoopee!: Richard Day

Best Sound, Recording

WINNER:
(Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department)

NOMINEES:
(M-G-M Studio Sound Department)
(RKO Radio Studio Sound Department)
(Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department)

Academy Award of Merit

WINNERS:
(Electrical Research Products Inc., RCA-Photophone Inc., RKO Radio Pictures Inc.)
For noise reduction recording equipment.
(DuPont Film Manufacturing Corp., Eastman Kodak Co.)
For super-sensitive panchromatic film.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNER:
(Fox Film Corp.)
For effective use of synchro-projection composite photography.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
(Electrical Research Products Inc.)
For moving coil microphone transmitters.
(RKO Radio Pictures Inc.)
For reflex type microphone concentrators.
(RCA-Photophone Inc.)
For ribbon microphone transmitters.

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