The Movies ... and the People Who Make Them (1939)

"The MOVIES and the people who make them/y ACADEMY AWARDS (Selected each year by vote of the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In 1937 the selections for the different classifications were supervised by the cot responding studio guilds with the balloting on the outstanding film thrown open to all divisions of the industry and the same procedure is to be followed for the 1938 awards). 1927 1928 ACTRESS — Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise) ACTOR — Emil Jannings (Way of All Flesh, Last Command) OI RECTORS— Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven), Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS— Wings (Paramount), Sunrise (Fox) CINEMATOGRAPHY— Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (Sunrise) ART DIRECTION— William Cameron Menzies (Temptation, The Dove) WRITING ACHIEVEMENTS— Ben Hecht (Underworld) , Benjamin Glazer (Seventh Heaven) TITLE WRITING— Joseph W. Farnham (Telling the World, Fair Co-ed) ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT— Roy J. Pomeroy (Wings) (FOR MAKING AN EPOCH IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY— Warner Bros, for producing The Jazz Singer. 1928 1929 ACTRESS — Mary Pickford (Coquette) ACTOR — Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona) DIRECTION — Frank Lloyd (Weary River, Divine Lady, Drag ) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— The Broadway Melody (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) CINEMATOGRAPHY— Clyde DeVinna (White Shadows of the South Seas) ART DIRECTION— Cedric Gibbons (Bridge of San Luis Rey) WRITING— Hans Kraly (The Patriot) 1929 1930 ACTRESS — Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) .ACTOR — George Arliss (Disraeli) l&IRECTION — Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal) CINEMATOGRAPHY— Joseph T. Tucker and Willard Vander Veer (With Byrd at the South Pole) ART DIRECTION — Herman Rosse (King of Jazz) SOUND RECORDING — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio (The Big House) WRITING — Frances Marion (The Big House) 1930 1931 ACTRESS — Marie Dressier (Min and Bill) ACTOR — L;one! Barrymore (A Free Soul) DIRECTION — Norman Taurog (Skippy) •JEST PRODUCED PICTURE — Cimarron (Radio Pictures) ORIGINAL STORY— John Monk Saunders (Dawn Patrol) ADAPTATION — Howard Estabrook (Cimarron) CINEMATOGRAPHY— Floyd Crosby (Tabu) ART DIRECTION— Max Ree (Cimarron) .'SOUND RECORDING — Paramount (SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS) NOISE REDUCTION RECORDING EQUIPMENT— Electrical Research Products, RCA Photophone and RKO Radio Pictures SUPER-SENSITIVE PANCHROMATIC FILM— Du Pont Film Mfg. Co. and Eastman Kodak Co. HONORABLE MENTION FOR SYNCHROPROJECTION COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHY— Fox Film Co. 1931 ■ 1932 ■ACTRESS — Helen Hayes (Sin of Madelon Claudet) ACTOR — Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) EXTRA AWARD— Wallace Beery (The Champ) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— Grand Hotel (M-G-M) DIRECTION— Frank Borzage (Bad Girl) ORIGINAL STORY— Frances Marion (The Champ) ADAPTATION — Edwin Burke (Bad Girl) PHOTOGRAPHY— Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express) ART DIRECTION— Gordon W.les (Transatlantic) SOUND RECORDING — Paramount (Shanghai Express, A Broken Lullaby, One Hour With You, etc.) SHORT SUBJECTS— Flowers and Trees (Walt Disney), A Wrestling Swordfish (Mack Sennett), Laurel and Hardy in the Music Box (Hal Roach) SPECIAL AWARD — Walt Disney (lor creation of Mickey Mouse) CERTIFICATE OF HONORABLE MENTION— Technicolor HONORABLE MENTION— Eastman Kodak Co. 1932 1933 ACTRESS — Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory) ACTOR — Charles Laughton (Henry VIII) DIRECTION— Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— Cavalcade (Fox) ORIGINAL STORY— Robert Lord (One Way Passage) ADAPTATION — Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman (Little Women) PHOTOGRAPHY— Charles Lang (Farewell to Arms) ART DIRECTION— William Darling (Cavalcade) SOUND RECORDING— Harold C. Lewis (Farewell to Arms) SHORT SUBJECTS— Three Little Pigs (Walt Disney); So This Is Harris (RKO Radio); Krakatoa (Educational) 1933 ■ 1934 OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— It Happened One Night (Columbia) ACTRESS — Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) ACTOR — Clark Gable (It Happened One Night) DIRECTION — Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) ORIGINAL STORY — Arthur Caesar (Manhattan Melodrama ) SCREENPLAY — Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night ) ART DIRECTION— The Merry Widow CINEMATOGRAPHY — Victor Milner (Cleopatra) SOUND RECORDING— One Night of Love ASSISTANT DIRECTOR— Johnny Waters SHORT SUBJECTS — Tortoise and the Hare, La Cucaracha, City of Wax SCORING— One Night of Love MUSICAL COMPOSITION— The Continental 1934 ■ 1935 BEST PRODUCTION — Mutiny on the Bounty (M-G-M) ACTRESS— “Bette Davis (Dangerous) ACTOR — Victor McLaglen (The Informer) DIRECTION — John Ford (The Informer) ORIGINAL STORY— Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (The Scoundrel) SCREENPLAY — Dudley Nichols (The Informer) CINEMATOGRAPHY— Hal Mohr (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ART DIRECTION— Richard Day (The Dark Angel ) SOUND RECORDING — William Steinkampf (Naughty Marietta) MUSICAL COMPOSITION— Lullaby of Broadway from Gold-Diggers of 1935; . Music by Harry Warren, Lyrics by A1 Dubin DANCE DIRECTION— Dave Gould (IVe a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ from Broadway Melody of 1936 and Straw Hat number from Folies Bergere) FILM EDITING— Ralph Dawson (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ASSISTANT DIRECTION— Clem Beauchamp (Lives of a Bengal Lancer) SCORING — Max Steiner (The Informer) SHORT SUBJECTS— Cartoon: Three Orphan Kittens, (Walt Disney); ComedyiHow to Sleep, (M-G-M); Novelty; Wings Over Mount Everest (Educational) 1935 1936 OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— The Great Ziegfeld (M-G-M) ACTRESS — Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld) ACTOR — Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur) SUPPORTING ACTRESS— Gail Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse) SUPPORTING ACTOR— Walter Brennan (Come and Get It) DIRECTOR — Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR— Jack Sullivan (The Charge of the Light Brigade) ORIGINAL STORY— Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings (The Story of Louis Pasteur) SCREENPLAY— Sheridan Gibney, Pierre ColLngs (The Story of Louis Pasteur) CINEMATOGRAPHY— Tony Gaudio (Anthony Adverse ) ART DIRECTION— Richard Day (Dodsworth) SOUND RECORDING — M-G-M Sound Department, headed by Douglas Shearer (San Francisco) MUSICAL COMPOSITION— The Way You Look Tonight, from Swing Time; music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields. DANCE DIRECTOR— Seymour Felix (A Pretty Girl Number from The Great Ziegfeld) FILM EDITING — Ralph Dawson (Anthony Adverse) SCORING— Leo Forbstein (Anthony Adverse) SHORT SUBJECTS — One-reeler: Board of Education (M-G-M-HaJ Roach); Two-reefer: The Public Pays (M-G-M-Jack Chertok) : Cartoon: County Cousin (United Artists-Disney ) ; Color Subject:: Give Me Liberty (Warner Bros.) 1936 1937 BEST PRODUCTION — The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros.) ACTRESS — Luise Rainer (The Good Earth) ACTOR— Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous) SUPPORTING ACTRESS— Alice Brady (In Old SUPPORTING ACTOR — Joseph Schildkraut (The Life of Emile Zola) DIRECTION— Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR — Robert Webb (In Old ORIGINAL STORY— William A. Wellman, Robert Carson (A Star Is Born) SCREENPLAY— Norman Riley Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg (The Life of Emile CINEMATOGRAPHY— Karl Freund (The Good Earth) ART DIRECTOR— Stephen Gooson (The Lost Horizon) , a , SOUND RECORDING— Thomas Moulton (The Hurricane) „ MUSICAL COMPOSITION — “Sweet Leilani, by Harry Owens (Wa'kiki Wedding) DANCE DIRECTION— Hermes Pan (A Damsel in Distress) , „ _ _ .. . (Lost Horizon) SCORING — 100 Men and a Girl (Universal) SHORT SUBJECTS— One-reeler: The Private Life of the Ganets (Educational); Two-reeler: Torture Money (M-G-M): Cartoon: The Old Mill (Walt Disney): Color Subject: Pennv Wisdom (Pete SmithM-G-M) THALBERG PLAQUE— Darryl F. Zanuck SPECIAL AWARDS— Mack Sennett, Edgar Bergen, W. Howard. Green, Museum of Modem Art Film Library. 1