7th Academy Awards nominees and winners

List of nominees and winners of the 7th Academy Awards. They were given out on February 27, 1935.

Best Motion Picture Of The Year

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

Achievement In Direction

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

Best Assistant Director

John S. Waters - Viva Villa!
Scott Beal - Imitation of Life
Cullen Tate - Cleopatra

Best Performance By An Actor

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

Best Performance By An Actress

Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage (write-in)
Grace Moore - One Night of Love
Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Best Writing, Original

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

Best Writing, Adaptation

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

Achievement In Cinematography

Victor Milner - Cleopatra
George J. Folsey - Operator 13
Charles Rosher - The Affairs of Cellini

Achievement In Art Direction

Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope - The Merry Widow
Richard Day - The Affairs of Cellini
Van Nest Polglase and Carroll Clark - The Gay Divorcee

Achievement in Sound, Recording

Columbia Studio Sound Department - One Night of Love
Fox Studio Sound Department - The White Parade
MGM Studio Sound Department - Viva Villa!
Paramount Studio Sound Department - Cleopatra
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department - The Gay Divorcee
United Artists Studio Sound Department - The Affairs of Cellini
Universal Studio Sound Department - Imitation of Life
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department - Flirtation Walk

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

Walt Disney - The Tortoise and the Hare
Screen Gems - Holiday Land
Walter Lantz - Jolly Little Elves

Best Short Subject, Comedy

Pioneer Pictures - La Cucaracha
Jules White - Men in Black
Warner Bros. - What, No Men!

Best Short Subject, Novelty

Skibo Productions - City of Wax
Skibo Productions - Bosom Friends
Pete Smith - Strikes and Spares