4th Academy Awards nominees and winners

list of nominees and winners of the 4th Academy Awards. They were given out on November 10, 1931.

Best Motion Picture Of The Year

Cimarron
East Lynne
The Front Page
Skippy
Trader Horn

Achievement In Direction

Norman Taurog - Skippy
Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron
Josef von Sternberg - Morocco

Best Performance By An Actor

Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
Jackie Cooper - Skippy
Richard Dix - Cimarron
Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway
Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page

Best Performance By An Actress

Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
Marlene Dietrich - Morocco
Irene Dunne - Cimarron
Ann Harding - Holiday
Norma Shearer - A Free Soul

Best Writing, Original

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart - Laughter
John Bright, Kubec Glasmon - The Public Enemy
Rowland Brown - The Doorway to Hell
Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson - Smart Money
John Monk Saunders - The Dawn Patrol

Best Writing, Adaptation

Howard Estabrook - Cimarron
Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee - Little Caesar
Horace Jackson - Holiday
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz - Skippy
Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr. - The Criminal Code

Achievement In Art Direction

Max Rée - Cimarron
Richard Day - Whoopee!
Hans Dreier - Morocco
Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras - Just Imagine
Anton Grot - Svengali

Achievement In Cinematography

Floyd Crosby - Tabu
Edward Cronjager - Cimarron
Lee Garmes - Morocco
Charles Lang - The Right to Love
Barney McGill - Svengali

Achievement in Sound, Recording

Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
MGM Studio Sound Department
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department