4TH ACADEMY AWARDS
November 10, 1931
Biltmore Hotel
Hosted by Lawrence Grant
OUTSTANDING PICTURE
| “Cimarron” |
| “East Lynne” |
| “The Front Page” |
| “Skippy” |
| “Trader Horn” |
ACTOR
| Lionel Barrymore – “A Free Soul” |
| Jackie Cooper – “Skippy” |
| Richard Dix – “Cimarron” |
| Fredric March – “The Royal Family of Broadway” |
| Adolphe Menjou – “The Front Page” |
ACTRESS
| Marlene Dietrich – “Morocco” |
| Marie Dressler – “Min and Bill” |
| Irene Dunne – “Cimarron” |
| Ann Harding – “Holiday” |
| Norma Shearer – “A Free Soul” |
ART DIRECTION
| “Cimarron” – Max Rée |
| “Just Imagine” – Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras |
| “Morocco” – Hans Dreier |
| “Svengali” – Anton Grot |
| “Whoopee!” – Richard Day |
CINEMATOGRAPHY
| “Cimarron” – Edward Cronjager |
| “Morocco” – Lee Garmes |
| “The Right to Love” – Charles Lang |
| “Svengali” – Barney McGill |
| “Tabu” – Floyd Crosby |
DIRECTOR
| Clarence Brown – “A Free Soul” |
| Lewis Milestone – “The Front Page” |
| Wesley Ruggles – “Cimarron” |
| Josef von Sternberg – “Morocco” |
| Norman Taurog – “Skippy” |
SOUND RECORDING
| MGM Studio Sound Department |
| Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department |
| RKO Radio Studio Sound Department |
| Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department |
WRITING (ADAPTATION)
| “Cimarron” – Howard Estabrook |
| “The Criminal Code” – Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr. |
| “Holiday” – Horace Jackson |
| “Little Caesar” – Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee |
| “Skippy” – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz |
WRITING (ORIGINAL STORY)
| “The Dawn Patrol” – John Monk Saunders |
| “The Doorway to Hell” – Rowland Brown |
| “Laughter” – Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Douglas Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart |
| “The Public Enemy” – John Bright and Kubec Glasmon |
| “Smart Money” – Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson |
- ”Cimarron”
- “The Criminal Code”
- “The Dawn Patrol”
- “The Doorway to Hell”
- “East Lynne”
- “A Free Soul”
- “The Front Page”
- “Holiday”
- “Just Imagine”
- “Laughter”
- “Little Caesar”
- “Min and Bill”
- “Morocco”
- “The Public Enemy”
- “The Right to Love”
- “The Royal Family of Broadway”
- “Skippy”
- “Smart Money”
- “Svengali”
- “Tabu”
- “Trader Horn”
- “Whoopee!”
