6th Academy Awards (1932/33): Nominees and Winners

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

Cavalcade – Fox
A Farewell to Arms – Paramount [1]
42nd Street – Warner Bros.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang – Warner Bros.
Lady for a Day – Columbia
Little Women – RKO Radio [2]
The Private Life of Henry VIII – London Films
She Done Him Wrong – Paramount
Smilin’ Through – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
State Fair – Fox

DIRECTING

Cavalcade – Frank Lloyd
Lady for a Day – Frank Capra [1]
Little Women – George Cukor [2]

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Percy Ikerd (Fox)
William Tummel (Fox)
Charles Dorian (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Bunny Dull (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
John S. Waters (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Charles Barton (Paramount)
Sidney S. Brod (Paramount)
Arthur Jacobson (Paramount)
Eddie Killey (RKO Radio)
Dewey Starkey (RKO Radio)
Fred Fox (United Artists)
Benjamin Silvey (United Artists)
Scott Beal (Universal)
Joe McDonough (Universal)
W. J. Reiter (Universal)
Al Alborn (Warner Bros.)
Gordon Hollingshead (Warner Bros.)
Frank X. Shaw (Warner Bros.)

ACTOR

Leslie Howard – Berkeley Square [2]
Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII
Paul Muni – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang [1]

ACTRESS

Katharine Hepburn – Morning Glory
May Robson – Lady for a Day [1]
Diana Wynyard – Cavalcade [2]

WRITING (Adaptation)

Lady for a Day – Robert Riskin [1]
Little Women – Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason
State Fair – Paul Green, Sonya Levien [2]

WRITING (Original Story)

One Way Passage – Robert Lord
The Prizefighter and the Lady – Frances Marion [1]
Rasputin and the Empress – Charles MacArthur [2]

CINEMATOGRAPHY

A Farewell to Arms – Charles Bryant Lang, Jr.
Reunion in Vienna – George J. Folsey [1]
The Sign of the Cross – Karl Struss [2]

ART DIRECTION

Cavalcade – William S. Darling
A Farewell to Arms – Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson [1]
When Ladies Meet – Cedric Gibbons [2]

SOUND RECORDING

A Farewell to Arms – Paramount Studio Sound Department, Franklin B. Hansen, Sound Director
42nd Street – Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
Gold Diggers of 1933 – Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director [2]
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang – Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director [1]

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

Building a Building – Walt Disney [1]
The Merry Old Soul – Walter Lantz [2]
The Three Little Pigs – Walt Disney

SHORT SUBJECT (Comedy)

Mister Mugg – Warren Doane [2]
A Preferred List – Louis Brock [1]
So This Is Harris – Louis Brock

SHORT SUBJECT (Novelty)

Krakatoa – Joe Rock
Menu – Pete Smith [3]
The Sea – Educational [3]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II)

To ELECTRICAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS, INC. for their wide range recording and reporducing system. [Sound]
To RCA-VICTOR COMPANY, INC. for their high-fidelity recording and reproducing system. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class III)

To FOX FILM CORPORATION, FRED JACKMAN and WARNER BROS. PICTURES, INC., and SIDNEY SANDERS of RKO Studios, Inc., for their development and effective use of the translucent cellulous screen in composite photography. [Special Photographic]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. [came in 2nd]
2. [came in 3rd]
3. [tied for 2nd]