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Citations and awards given to companies and individuals during 1931, for outstanding achievements in their lines of endeavour. "The Bests of 1931"
TEN BEST PICTURES OF 1931 (Film Daily Nation-wide Poll)
Cimarron. Street Scene, Skippy, Bad Girl, Min and Bill, Front Page. Five Star Final, City Lights, A Free Soul, Sin of Madelon Claudet (Also see pages 63 to 95.
TEN BEST DIRECTORS OF 1931 (Film Daily Nation-wide Poll)
Lewis Milestone, Wesley Ruggles, George Hill, Josef von Sternberg, D. W. Griffith, Robert Z. Leonard, John Cromwell, Charles Chaplin, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes. (Also see page 11).
ACADEMY MERIT AWARDS FOR 1930-1931
ACTRESS: Marie Dressier; ACTOR: Lionel Barrymore; DIRECTION: Norman Taurog; BEST PICTURE: Cimarron; ORIGINAL STORY: John Monk Saunders; ADAPTION: Howard Estabrook; PHOTOGRAPHY: Floyd Crosby; ART DIRECTION: Max Ree; SOUND RECORDING: Paramount. SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS: For noise reduction recording equipment: Electrical Research Products (Western Electrici, RCA Photophone and RXO Radio Pictures. For supersensitive panchromatic film: Dupont Film Mfg. Co. and Eastman Kodak Co. Honorable mention for Synchro-projection composite photography: Fox Film Corp. (Also see pages 15 and 17).
"PHOTOPLAY'S" BEST PLAYER SELECTIONS
FOUR MENTIONS: Will Rogers, Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe; THREE MENTIONS: Constance Bennett, Jackie Cooper, Joan Crawford, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Stanwyck, Lawrence Tibbeft; TWO MENTIONS: George Arliss, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Blondell, Clive Brook, Claudette Colbert, Marion Davies, Marlene Dietrich, Irene Dunne, Jimmy Durante, Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, John Gilbert, Ann Harding, Phillips Holmes, Doris Kenyon, Paul Lukas, Jeanette MacDonald, Fredric March. Adolphe Menjou, Edward G. Robinson. Norma Shearer, Sylvia Sidney, Helen Twelvetrees, Lupe Velez and Robert William. (Also see pages 25 and 27).
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW BEST PICTURE SELECTIONS
Cimarron, City Lights, City Streets, Dishonored, Front Page, The Guardsman, Quick Millions, Rango, Surrender, Tabu. (Also see page 23).
"PHOTOPLAY" MEDAL FOR 1930
Awarded to Universal Pictures for "All Quiet on the Western Front."
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