8th Academy Awards

The 8th Academy Awards to honour films released during 1935 were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California and hosted by AMPAS president Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the awards were called "Oscars". The Academy voters, who felt guilty about not awarding Bette Davis a Best Actress award the previous year, assigned her one for Dangerous, which was viewed as a lesser picture. Davis, who showed up to the posh formal ceremony in an informal checkered dress, felt it was a consolation prize that should have been awarded to Katharine Hepburn. Mutiny on the Bounty – Frank Lloyd and Irving Thalberg for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Alice Adams – Pandro S. Berman for RKO Pictures
Broadway Melody of 1936 – John W. Considine Jr. for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Captain Blood – Hal B. Wallis, Harry Joe Brown, and Gordon Hollingshead for Warner Bros. and Cosmopolitan
David Copperfield – David O. Selznick for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
The Informer – Cliff Reid for RKO Pictures
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Louis D. Lighton for Paramount
A Midsummer Night's Dream – Henry Blanke for Warner Bros.
Les Misérables – Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century and United Artists
Naughty Marietta – Hunt Stromberg for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Ruggles of Red Gap – Arthur Hornblow Jr. for Paramount
Top Hat – Pandro S. Berman for RKO Pictures John Ford – The Informer
Michael Curtiz – Captain Blood (write in, not official nomination)
Henry Hathaway – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Frank Lloyd – Mutiny on the BountyVictor McLaglen – The Informer as "Gypo" Nolan
Clark Gable – Mutiny on the Bounty as Fletcher Christian
Charles Laughton – Mutiny on the Bounty as Captain Bligh
Paul Muni – Black Fury (write in, not official nomination) as Joe Radek
Franchot Tone – Mutiny on the Bounty as ByamBette Davis – Dangerous as Joyce Heath
Elisabeth Bergner – Escape Me Never as Gemma Jones
Claudette Colbert – Private Worlds as Dr. Jane Everest
Katharine Hepburn – Alice Adams as Alice Adams
Miriam Hopkins – Becky Sharp as Becky Sharp
Merle Oberon – The Dark Angel as Kitty VaneThe Scoundrel – Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Broadway Melody of 1936 – Moss Hart
G Men – Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck) (write in, not official nomination)
The Gay Deception – Don Hartman and Stephen Morehouse AveryThe Informer – Dudley Nichols (refused), based on the novel by Liam O'Flaherty
Captain Blood  – Casey Robinson, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini (write in, not official nomination)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Waldemar Young, Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt, based on the autobiography of Francis Yeats Brown
Mutiny on the Bounty – Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings and Carey Wilson, based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman HallHow to Sleep – Jack Chertok and MGM
Oh, My Nerves – Jules White and Columbia
Tit for Tat – Hal Roach and MGMWings Over Everest – Gaumont British and Skibo Productions
Audioscopiks – Pete Smith and MGM
Camera Thrills – UniversalThree Orphan Kittens – Walt Disney Productions and United Artists
The Calico Dragon – Harman Ising and MGM
Who Killed Cock Robin? – Walt Disney Productions and United ArtistsThe Informer – RKO Radio Studio Music Department
Captain Blood – Warner Bros. First National Studio Music Department (write in, not official nomination)
Mutiny on the Bounty – MGM Studio Music Department
Peter Ibbetson – Paramount Studio Music Department"Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935 – Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Al Dubin
"Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat – Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
"Lovely to Look At" from Roberta – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHughNaughty Marietta – Douglas Shearer
$1,000 a Minute – Republic Studio Sound Department
Bride of Frankenstein – Gilbert Kurland
Captain Blood – Nathan Levinson
The Dark Angel – Thomas T. Moulton
I Dream Too Much – Carl Dreher
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Franklin Hansen
Love Me Forever – John P. Livadary
Thanks a Million – E. H. HansenThe Dark Angel – Richard Day
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
Top Hat – Carroll Clark and Van Nest PolglaseA Midsummer Night's Dream – Hal Mohr (write in, not official nomination)
Barbary Coast – Ray June
The Crusades – Victor Milner
Les Misérables – Gregg TolandA Midsummer Night's Dream – Ralph Dawson
David Copperfield – Robert J. Kern
The Informer – George Hively
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Ellsworth Hoagland
Les Misérables – Barbara McLean
Mutiny on the Bounty – Margaret BoothBroadway Melody of 1936 and Folies Bergère de Paris – Dave Gould
All the King's Horses and The Big Broadcast of 1936 – LeRoy Prinz
Broadway Hostess and Go into Your Dance – Bobby Connolly
Gold Diggers of 1935 – Busby Berkeley
King of Burlesque – Sammy Lee
She – Benjamin Zemach
Top Hat – Hermes PanThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing
David Copperfield – Joseph M. Newman
Les Misérables – Eric Stacey
A Midsummer Night's Dream – Sherry Shourds (write in, not official nomination)

D. W. Griffith – "For his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts".

A fictitious version of the 8th Academy Awards was a major scene in the 1937 film A Star Is Born, in which the character of Esther Blodgett (stage name Vicki Lester), played by Janet Gaynor, wins the Academy Award for Best Actress, only to have her inebriated husband, fallen movie star Norman Maine, played by Fredric March, crash the party and make a scene. Both Gaynor and March were real life recipients of Academy Awards, for Best Actress and Actor respectively, and were nominated for their roles in said movie. The film shows a ceremony similar to the real one of the day, much smaller and more private than the televised event that occurs today.