1935 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees

The AwardWentTo archive contains 87 Academy Award records for the 1935 film year, covering 47 films and including 18 wins.

Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.

1936 → ← 1934

Best Picture result

12 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history

Acting category results

Leading winning films

Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.

  1. The Informer

    4 wins from 6 award records

  2. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    2 wins from 4 award records

  3. Mutiny on the Bounty

    1 win from 8 award records

  4. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    1 win from 7 award records

  5. Broadway Melody of 1936

    1 win from 3 award records

  6. The Dark Angel

    1 win from 3 award records

Category winners

Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.

Nominations and award records by category

Showing 87 of 87 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.

Best Picture

Best Actor

Best Actress

Art Direction

Assistant Director

Cinematography

Dance Direction

Best Director

Film Editing

Original Song

  • ★ Gold Diggers of 1935 IMDB — Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Al DubinLullaby Of Broadway
  • Top Hat IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Irving BerlinCheek To Cheek
    Source context

    came in 2nd

  • Roberta IMDB — Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHughLovely To Look At
    Source context

    came in 3rd

Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)

  • ★ The Informer IMDB — RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)
  • Captain Blood IMDB — Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
    Source context

    came in 3rd / NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.

  • Mutiny on the Bounty IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart)
    Source context

    came in 2nd

  • Peter Ibbetson IMDB — Paramount Studio Music Department, Irvin Talbot, head of department (Score by Ernst Toch)

Animated Short Film

Short Subject (Comedy)

Short Subject (Novelty)

Sound Recording

Adapted Screenplay

Writing (Original Story)

Nominated films and other recorded entries

47 films represented in the 1935 archive selection.

About these award records

This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.

Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.

Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.

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