Oscar Nominations and Winners (1934)

Best Picture

• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
• Cleopatra
• Flirtation Walk
• The Gay Divorc�e
• Here Comes the Navy
• The House of Rothschild
• Imitation of Life
• It Happened One Night
• One Night of Love
• The Thin Man
• Viva Villa!
• The White Parade

Best Director

• Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
• Victor Schertzinger (One Night of Love)
• W. S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
• Frank Morgan (The Affairs of Cellini)
• William Powell (The Thin Man)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
• Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage) (Write-in candidate, not an official nomination)
• Grace Moore (One Night of Love)
• Norma Shearer (The Barretts of Wimpole Street)

Best Original Story

• Hide-Out (Mauri Grashin)
• Manhattan Melodrama (Arthur Caesar)
• The Richest Girl in the World (Norman Krasna)

Best Adaptation

• It Happened One Night (Robert Riskin)
• The Thin Man (Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett)
• Viva Villa! (Ben Hecht)

Art Direction

• The Affairs of Cellini
• The Gay Divorc�e
• The Merry Widow

Cinematography

• The Affairs of Cellini
• Cleopatra
• Operator 13

Assistant Director

• Imitation of Life
• Cleopatra
• Viva Villa!

Film Editing

• Cleopatra
• Eskimo
• One Night of Love

Score

• The Gay Divorc�e
• The Lost Patrol
• One Night of Love

Original Song

• "Carioca" (Flying Down to Rio) Music by Vincent Youmans. Lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn.
• "The Continental" (The Gay Divorc�e) Music by Con Conrad. Lyrics by Herb Magidson.
• "Love in Bloom" (She Loves Me Not) Music by Ralph Rainger. Lyrics by Leo Robin.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Holiday Land
• Jolly Little Elves
• The Tortoise and the Hare

Short Film - Comedy

• La Cucaracha
• Men in Black
• What, No Men!

Short Film - Novelty

• Bosom Friends
• City of Wax
• Strikes and Spares

Sound

• The Affairs of Cellini
• Cleopatra
• Flirtation Walk
• The Gay Divorc�e
• Imitation of Life
• One Night of Love
• Viva Villa!
• The White Parade