OSCARS

In 1996, Steven Spielberg anonymously purchased Clark Gable's Oscar to protect it from further commercial exploitation, gave it back to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, commenting that he could think of "no better sanctuary for Gable's only Oscar than the Motion Picture Academy".

Claudette Colbert was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar to write-in nominee Bette Davis that she didn't attended the ceremony originally. She was summoned from a train station to pick up her Academy Award.

This was a write-in nomination.

In grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.

Not awarded.

For their development of the vertical cut disc method of recording sound ("hill and dale recording").

For their development of the Bell and Howell fully automatic sound and picture printer.