1934 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET
MGM; Irving G. Thalberg
CLEOPATRA
Paramount; Cecil B. DeMille
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
United Artists; Edward Small
FOG OVER FRISCO
Warner Bros / First National; Henry Blanke
THE GAY DIVORCEE
RKO; Pandro S. Berman
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Columbia; Frank Capra
THE LOST PATROL
RKO; Cliff Reid, John Ford & Merian C.
Cooper
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Gaumont British; Michael Balcon
THE THIN MAN
MGM; Hunt Stromberg
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Columbia; Howard Hawks
Also Considered:
FLIRTATION WALK (Frank Borzage); HERE COMES THE NAVY (Hal
B. Wallis & Jack L. Warner); THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD (Darryl F. Zanuck); IMITATION OF LIFE (Carl Laemmle, Jr.); L'ATALANTE (Jacques-Louis Nounez); LES MISERABLES (Raymond Borderie &
Bernard Nalan); THE MERRY WIDOW (Irving Thalberg & Ernst Lubitsch); THE SCARLET EMPRESS (Josef Von Sternberg); VIVA VILLA (David O. Selznick); THE WHITE PARADE (Jesse L.
Lasky)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
George Arliss as "The Duke of Wellington" - THE IRON
DUKE
Fred Astaire as "Guy Holden" - THE GAY
DIVORCEE
Leslie Banks as "Bob Lawrence" - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO
MUCH
John Barrymore as "Oscar Jaffe" - TWENTIETH
CENTURY
Robert Donat as "Edmond Dantes" - THE COUNT OF MONTE
CRISTO
Clark Gable as "Peter Warne" - IT HAPPENED ONE
NIGHT
Frank Morgan as "Alessandro, Duke of Florence" - THE
AFFAIRS OF CELLINI
William Powell as "Nick Charles" - THE THIN
MAN
Will Rogers as "Judge Priest" - JUDGE PRIEST
Conrad Veidt as "Josef Süss Oppenheimer" - JEW
SUSS
Also Considered:
Harry Baur (LES MISERABLES); Charles Boyer (LILIOM); James
Cagney (HERE COMES THE NAVY); Jackie Cooper (TREASURE ISLAND); W.C. Fields (IT'S A GIFT); Clark Gable (FORSAKING ALL OTHERS); Leslie Howard (OF HUMAN BONDAGE); Fredric March (DEATH TAKES A
HOLIDAY); Dick Powell (FLIRTATION WALK); Claude Rains (CRIME WITHOUT PASSION)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Claudette Colbert as "Ellie Andrews" - IT HAPPENED ONE
NIGHT
Bette Davis as "Mildred Rogers" - OF HUMAN
BONDAGE
Marlene Dietrich as "Princess Sophia Frederica" - THE
SCARLET EMPRESS
Ruan Ling-yu as "The Goddess" - THE GODDESS
Carole Lombard as "Lily Garland" - TWENTIETH
CENTURY
Myrna Loy as "Nora Charles" - THE THIN MAN
Grace Moore as "Mary Barrett" - ONE NIGHT OF
LOVE
Ginger Rogers as "Mimi Glossop" - THE GAY
DIVORCEE
Norma Shearer as "Elizabeth Barrett" - THE BARRETTS OF
WIMPOLE STREET
Anne Shirley as "Anne Shirley" - ANNE OF GREEN
GABLES
Also Considered:
Joan Blondell (DAMES); Claudette Colbert (IMITATION OF
LIFE); Gracie Fields (SING AS WE GO); Jean Harlow (THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI); Ruby Keeler (FLIRTATION WALK); Jeanette MacDonald (THE MERRY WIDOW); Dita Parlo (L'ATALANTE); Shirley Temple
(BRIGHT EYES); Mae West (BELLE OF THE NINETIES); Loretta Young (THE WHITE PARADE)
BEST DIRECTOR
Frank Capra - IT HAPPENED ONE
NIGHT
Jack Conway - VIVA VILLA!
Cecil B. DeMille - CLEOPATRA
William Dieterle - FOG OVER FRISCO
John Ford - THE LOST PATROL
Howard Hawks - TWENTIETH CENTURY
Alfred Hitchcock - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Rowland V. Lee - THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Mark Sandrich - THE GAY DIVORCEE
W.S. Van Dyke - THE THIN MAN
Also Considered:
Raymond Bernard (LES MISERABLES); John Cromwell (OF HUMAN
BONDAGE); Irving Cummings (THE WHITE PARADE); Sidney Franklin (THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET); Ernst Lubitsch (THE MERRY WIDOW); Victor Saville (THE IRON DUKE); Victor Schertzinger (ONE
NIGHT OF LOVE); John Stahl (IMITATION OF LIFE); Jean Vigo (L'ATALANTE); Josef Von Sternberg (THE SCARLET EMPRESS)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Charles Butterworth as "Shemp" - FORSAKING ALL
OTHERS
Edward Everett Horton as "Egbert 'Pinky' Fitzgerald" - THE
GAY DIVORCEE
Sam Jaffe as "Grand Duke Peter" - THE SCARLET
EMPRESS
Boris Karloff as "Sanders" - THE LOST PATROL
Charles Laughton as "Edward Moulton-Barrett" - THE
BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET
Peter Lorre as "Abbott" - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO
MUCH
Bela Lugosi as "Dr. Vitus Werdegast" - THE BLACK
CAT
Irving Pichel as "Sergei Pavlov" - BRITISH
AGENT
Charles Vanel as "Inspector Javert" - LES
MISERABLES
Henry B. Walthall as "Rev. Ashby Brand" - JUDGE
PRIEST
Also Considered:
Lionel Barrymore (TREASURE ISLAND); Walter Connelly (IT
HAPPENED ONE NIGHT); Charles Dullin (LES MISERABLES); James Dunn (BRIGHT EYES); Roscoe Karns (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT); Henry O'Neill (FLIRTATION WALK); Nat Pendleton (THE THIN MAN); Michel
Simon (L'ATALANTE); Henry Wilcoxon (CLEOPATRA); Warren William (CLEOPATRA)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Louise Beavers as "Delilah Johnson" - IMITATION OF
LIFE
Alice Brady as "Aunt Hortense" - THE GAY
DIVORCEE
Orane Demazis as "Eponine" - LES MISERABLES
Louise Dresser as "Empress Elizabeth Petrovna" - THE
SCARLET EMPRESS
Florelle as "Fantine" - LES MISERABLES
Kay Johnson as "Norah" - OF HUMAN BONDAGE
Myrna Loy as "Eleanor Packer" - MANHATTAN
MELODRAMA
Una Merkel as "Queen Dolores" - THE MERRY
WIDOW
Maureen O'Sullivan as "Henrietta Barrett" -
THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET
Dorothy Wilson as "Zita Scofield" - THE WHITE
PARADE
Also Considered:
Mona Barrie (ONE NIGHT OF LOVE); Mary Boland (SIX OF A
KIND); Gladys Cooper (THE IRON DUKE); Orane Demazis (LES MISERABLES); Muriel Kirkland (THE WHITE PARADE); Margaret Lindsey (FOG OVER FRISCO); Maureen O'Sullivan (THE THIN MAN); Zasu Pitts
(DAMES); Fredi Washington (IMITATION OF LIFE); Jane Withers (BRIGHT EYES)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh & Rowland V. Lee
THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD
Nunnally Johnson
IMITATION OF LIFE
William Hurlbut
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Robert Riskin
JUDGE PRIEST
Dudley Nichols & Lamar Trotti
OF HUMAN BONDAGE
Leslie Cohen
THE THIN
MAN
Albert Hackett & Frances
Goodrich
TREASURE ISLAND
John Lee Mahin
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
THE WHITE PARADE
Rian James & Jesse L. Lasky
Also Considered:
THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI (Bess Meredyth); ANNE OF GREEN
GABLES (Sam Mintz); THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET (Ernest Vajda, Claudine West & Donald Ogden Stewart); BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK (Nunnally Johnson); DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
(Maxwell Anderson & Gladys Lehman); FORSAKING ALL OTHERS (Joseph L. Mankiewicz); THE GAY DIVORCEE (Edward Kaufman, George Marion, Jr. & Dorothy
Yost); LES
MISERABLES (Raymond Bernard & Andre Lang); LILIOM (Robert Liebmann & Bernard Zimmer); THE LOST PATROL (Dudley Nichols)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
BABES IN TOYLAND
Frank Butler & Nick Grinde
CRIME WITHOUT PASSION
Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI
Anita Loos & John Emerson
IT'S A GIFT
W.C. Fields & Jack Cunningham
L'ATALANTE
Jean Guinee, Albert Riera & Jean Vigo
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO
MUCH
Charles Bennett & D.B.
Wyndham-Lewis
MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
Arthur Caesar, Oliver H.P. Garrett & Joseph L.
Mankiewicz
ONE NIGHT OF LOVE
S.K. Lauren, James Gow & Edmund H. North
THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
Norman Krasna
VIVA VILLA!
Ben Hecht
Also Considered:
BRIGHT EYES (William M. Conselman, David Butler &
Edwin Burke); CLEOPATRA (Waldemar Young, Vincent Lawrence & Bartlett Cormack), DIRTY WORK (Ben Travers); FOG OVER FRISCO (George Dyer, Robert N. Lee & Eugene Solow); THE GODDESS
(Yonggang Wu); HERE COMES THE NAVY (Earl Baldwin & Ben Markson); HIDE-OUT (Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich); LITTLE MISS MARKER (Damon Runyon, William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman &
Gladys Lehman); THE OLD FASHIONED WAY (Garnett Weston, Jack Cunningham & Charles Bogle); SIX OF A KIND (Walter DeLeon & Harry Ruskin)
BEST ART DIRECTION
THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI
Richard Day
THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET
Cedric Gibbons
CLEOPATRA
Roland Anderson & Hans Dreier
DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
Hans Dreier & Ernst Fegte
FLIRTATION WALK
Jack Okey
THE GAY
DIVORCEE
Carroll Clark & Van Nest
Polglase
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Alfred Junge
THE MERRY WIDOW
Cedric Gibbons & Gabriel Scognamillo
THE SCARLET EMPRESS
Hans Dreier
VIVA VILLA!
Harry Oliver
Also Considered:
THE BLACK CAT (Charles D. Hall); CLIVE OF INDIA (Richard
Day); THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (John Ducasse Schulze); DAMES (Robert M. Haas & Willy Pogany); THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD (Richard Day); THE IRON DUKE (Alfred Junge); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
(Stephen Goosson); LES MISERABLES (Lucien Carre & Jean Perrier); THE RISE OF CATHERINE THE GREAT (Vincent Korda); TREASURE ISLAND (Cedric Gibbons)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI
Charles Rosher
THE BLACK CAT
John J. Mescall
CLEOPATRA
Victor Milner
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Peverell J. Marley
CRIME WITHOUT PASSION
Lee Garmes
FOG OVER FRISCO
Tony Gaudio
THE LOST PATROL
Harold Wenstrom
OPERATOR 13
George J. Folsey
THE SCARLET EMPRESS
Bert Glennon
THE THIN MAN
James Wong Howe
Also Considered:
ESKIMO (Clyde de Vinna & Leonard Smith); THE GAY
DIVORCEE (David Abel); THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD (Peverell Marley); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Joseph Walker); L'ATALANTE (Jean-Paul Alphen, Louis Berger & Boris Kaufman); LES MISERABLES (Jules
Kruger); THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Curt Courant); MANHATTAN MELODRAMA (James Wong Howe); HERE COMES THE NAVY (Arthur Edeson); VIVA
VILLA (Charles G. Clarke & James Wong Howe)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET
Adrian
CLEOPATRA
Vicky Williams & Travis Banton
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Gwen Wakeling
THE GAY DIVORCEE
Walter Plunkett
THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD
Gwen Wakeling
THE IRON DUKE
Cathleen Mann
THE MERRY WIDOW
Adrian & Ali Hubert
THE RISE OF CATHERINE THE GREAT
John Armstrong
THE SCARLET
EMPRESS
Travis
Banton
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Robert Kalloch
Also Considered:
THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI (Gwen Wakeling); CLIVE OF INDIA
(Omar Kiam); DAMES (Orry-Kelly); FLIRTATION WALK (Orry-Kelly); THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI (Adrian); LES MISERABLES (Paul Colin); ONE NIGHT OF LOVE (Robert Kalloch); TREASURE ISLAND
(Dwight Franklin); VIVA VILLA! (Dolly Tree); THE WHITE PARADE (William Lambert)
BEST FILM EDITING
BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK
Allen McNeil
CLEOPATRA
Anne Bauchens
ESKIMO
Conrad A. Nervig
FOG OVER
FRISCO
Harold
McLernon
THE GAY DIVORCEE
William Hamilton
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Gene Havlick
THE LOST PATROL
Paul Weatherwax
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Hugh Stewart
ONE NIGHT OF LOVE
Gene Milford
THE THIN MAN
Robert J. Kern
Also Considered:
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (Grant Whytock); HERE COMES THE
NAVY (George Amy); THE IRON DUKE (Ian Dalrymple); JEW SUSS (Otto Ludwig); L'ATALANTE (Louis Chavance); OF HUMAN BONDAGE (William Morgan); OUR DAILY BREAD (Lloyd Nosler); TREASURE ISLAND
(Blanche Sewell); VIVA VILLA! (Robert J. Kern); THE WHITE PARADE (Jack Murray)
BEST MAKEUP
BABES IN TOYLAND
James Collins & Robert Cowan
CLEOPATRA
(credit
unknown)
THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD
Jack Dawn
Also Considered:
THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET (credit unknown); THE
MERRY WIDOW (Robert J. Schiffer); THE SCARLET EMPRESS (credit unknown)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI
Alfred Newman
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
Max Steiner
CLEOPATRA
Rudolph Kopp
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Alfred Newman
THE GAY DIVORCEE
Max Steiner
THE LOST PATROL
Max Steiner
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Arthur Benjamin
THE MERRY WIDOW
Herbert Stothart
ONE NIGHT OF
LOVE
Victor Schertzinger & Gus
Kahn
VIVA VILLA!
Herbert Stothart
Also Considered:
BABES IN TOYLAND (Harry Jackson); THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE
STREET (Herbert Stothart); THE BLACK CAT (Heinz Roemheld); FOG OVER FRISCO (Bernhard Kaun); IMITATION OF LIFE (Heinz Roemheld); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Howard Jackson); L'ATALANTE (Maurice
Jaubert); MANHATTAN MELODRAMA (William Axt); THE THIN MAN (William Axt); TREASURE ISLAND (Herbert Stothart)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"The Bad In Every Man (Blue Moon)" - MANHATTAN
MELODRAMA
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz
Hart
"Cocktails For Two" - MURDER AT THE
VANITIES
Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
"The Continental" - THE GAY DIVORCEE
Con Conrad & Herb Magidson
"I Only Have Eyes For You" -
DAMES
Harry Warren & Al Dubin
"I'm In The Mood For Love" - EVERY NIGHT AT
EIGHT
Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields
"Let's Fall In Love" - LET'S FALL IN
LOVE
Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler
"Love Is Just Around The Corner" - HERE IS MY
HEART
Lewis E. Gensler & Leo Robin
"My Old Flame" - BELLE OF THE NINETIES
Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
"On The Good Ship Lollipop" - BRIGHT
EYES
Richard A. Whiting & Sidney Clare
"One Night Of Love" - ONE NIGHT OF LOVE
Victor Schertzinger & Gus Kahn
Also Considered:
"Dames" - DAMES (Harry Warren & Al Dubin); "Don't Let
It Bother You" - THE GAY DIVORCEE (Mack Gordon & Harry Revel); "The Dream Was So Beautiful" - HIDE-OUT (Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed); "Flirtation Walk" - FLIRTATION WALK (Allie
Wrubel & Mort Dixon); "Laugh You Son Of A Gun" - LITTLE MISS MARKER (Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin); "A Needle in a Haystack" - THE GAY DIVIORCEE (Con Conrad & Herb Magidson);
"The Object Of My Affection" - TIMES SQUARE LADY (Pinky Tomlin, Coy Poe & Jimmy Grier); "She Loves Me Not" - LOVE IN BLOOM (Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin); "We're
Just Poor Folks Rolling In Love" - THE OLD FASHIONED WAY (Mack Gordon & Harry Revel); "With Every Breath I Take" - HERE IS MY HEART (Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin)
BEST SOUND
THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI
Thomas Moulton
BABES IN TOYLAND
Elmer Raguse
CLEOPATRA
Franklin Hansen
FLIRTATION WALK
Nathan Levinson
THE GAY
DIVORCEE
Carl
Dreher
IMITATION OF LIFE
Gilbert Kurland
THE LOST PATROL
Clem Portman & P.J. Faulkner
ONE NIGHT OF LOVE
John P. Livardary
TREASURE ISLAND
Douglas Shearer
VIVA VILLA!
Douglas Shearer
Also Considered:
THE BLACK CAT (Gilbert Kurland); CRIME WITHOUT PASSION
(Joseph I. Kane); THE IRON DUKE (Bill Salter); LES MISERABLES (Antoine Archimbaud); THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (F. McNally); MANHATTAN MELODRAMA (Douglas Shearer); THE MERRY WIDOW (Douglas
Shearer); TARZAN & HIS MATE (Douglas Shearer); THE THIN MAN (Douglas Shearer); THE WHITE PARADE (E.H. Hansen)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
BABES IN TOYLAND
Roy Seawright & L.A. French
CLEOPATRA
Barney Wolff
THE LOST PATROL
Vernon L. Walker
THE SCARLET EMPRESS
Gordon Jennings
TARZAN & HIS MATE
James Basevi & Irving Ries
Also Considered:
THE BLACK CAT (John P. Fulton & Jack Cosgrove); CRIME
WITHOUT PASSION (Leslie Bain & Slavko Vorkopich); DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (Gordon Jennings); JACK AHOY (credit unknown); THE
MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Albert Whitlock)
Most Wins:
4 - It Happened One Night
2 - Cleopatra; The Gay Divorcee; The Scarlet Empress
1 - Dames; Fog Over Frisco; Imitation of Life; The Lost Patrol; The Man Who Knew Too Much; One Night of Love; The Thin Man
Most Nominations:
12 - The Gay Divorcee
10 - Cleopatra
9 - The Lost Patrol
8 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
7 - The Count of Monte Cristo; The Scarlet Empress; The Thin Man
6 - The Barretts of Wimpole Street; It Happened One Night; Twentieth Century; Viva Villa!
5 - The Affairs of Cellini; Fog Over Frisco; One Night of Love; Viva Villa!