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    Oscar

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    Best Actor in a Leading Role

    • Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
      Winner
      • Lionel Barrymore
      • A Free Soul
    • Jackie Cooper
      • Jackie Cooper
      • Skippy
      At age 9 years and 20 days, Cooper is (to date) the youngest ever nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
    • Richard Dix
      • Richard Dix
      • Cimarron
    • Fredric March
      • Fredric March
      • The Royal Family of Broadway
    • Adolphe Menjou
      • Adolphe Menjou
      • The Front Page

    Best Actress in a Leading Role

    • Marie Dressler c. 1932
      Winner
      • Marie Dressler
      • Min and Bill
    • Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930)
      • Marlene Dietrich
      • Morocco
    • Irene Dunne in Penny Serenade (1941)
      • Irene Dunne
      • Cimarron
    • Ann Harding
      • Ann Harding
      • Holiday
    • Norma Shearer in The Demi-Bride (1927)
      • Norma Shearer
      • A Free Soul

    Best Art Direction

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Cimarron

      5.8 (7.4K)
      Max Rée
    • [object Object]

      Just Imagine

      5.3 (910)
      Stephen Goosson
      Ralph Hammeras
    • [object Object]

      Morocco

      7.0 (8.1K)
      Hans Dreier
    • [object Object]

      Svengali

      6.8 (2.8K)
      Anton Grot
    • [object Object]

      Whoopee!

      6.3 (1.3K)
      Richard Day

    Best Cinematography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

      7.4 (6.7K)
      Floyd Crosby
    • [object Object]

      Cimarron

      5.8 (7.4K)
      Edward Cronjager
    • [object Object]

      Morocco

      7.0 (8.1K)
      Lee Garmes
    • [object Object]

      The Right to Love

      5.4 (69)
      Charles Lang
    • [object Object]

      Svengali

      6.8 (2.8K)
      Barney McGill

    Best Director

    • Norman Taurog
      Winner
      • Norman Taurog
      • Skippy
    • Clarence Brown
      • Clarence Brown
      • A Free Soul
    • Lewis Milestone
      • Lewis Milestone
      • The Front Page
    • Wesley Ruggles in Shanghaied (1915)
      • Wesley Ruggles
      • Cimarron
    • Josef von Sternberg
      • Josef von Sternberg
      • Morocco

    Best Picture

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Cimarron

      5.8 (7.4K)
    • [object Object]

      East Lynne

      5.7 (401)
    • [object Object]

      The Front Page

      6.7 (3.7K)
    • [object Object]

      Skippy

      6.3 (1.1K)
    • [object Object]

      Trader Horn

      6.1 (1.3K)

    Best Sound, Recording

    • Winner
      • Paramount Publix Corporation
      Recipient: Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
      Recipient: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
      • RKO Radio Pictures
      Recipient: RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
      • Samuel Goldwyn Sound Department
      • United Artists
      Recipient: Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department

    Best Writing, Adaptation

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Cimarron

      5.8 (7.4K)
      Howard Estabrook
    • [object Object]

      The Criminal Code

      6.9 (1.5K)
      Seton I. Miller
      Fred Niblo Jr.
    • [object Object]

      Holiday

      6.3 (782)
      Horace Jackson
    • [object Object]

      Little Caesar

      7.2 (15K)
      Francis Edward Faragoh
      Robert N. Lee
    • [object Object]

      Skippy

      6.3 (1.1K)
      Joseph L. Mankiewicz
      Sam Mintz

    Best Writing, Original Story

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Dawn Patrol

      7.1 (2.2K)
      John Monk Saunders
    • [object Object]

      The Doorway to Hell

      6.5 (1.4K)
      Rowland Brown
    • [object Object]

      Laughter

      6.2 (450)
      Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
      Douglas Z. Doty
      Donald Ogden Stewart
    • [object Object]

      The Public Enemy

      7.6 (24K)
      John Bright
      Kubec Glasmon
    • [object Object]

      Smart Money

      6.8 (2.4K)
      Lucien Hubbard
      Joseph Jackson

    Academy Award of Merit

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    • Winner
        For noise reduction recording equipment.
      • Winner
          For super-sensitive panchromatic film.

        Scientific and Engineering Award

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        • Winner
            For effective use of synchro-projection composite photography.

          Technical Achievement Award

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          • Winner
              For moving coil microphone transmitters.
            • Winner
                For reflex type microphone concentrators.
              • Winner
                  For ribbon microphone transmitters.

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                Event date

                November 10, 1931

                Event location

                Los Angeles, California, USA

                Event links

                • http://www.oscar.com/
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