Awards & Winners

RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chains and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America studio were brought together under the control of the Radio Corporation of America in October 1928. RCA chief David Sarnoff engineered the merger to create a market for the company's sound-on-film technology, RCA Photophone. By the mid-1940s, the studio was under the control of investor Floyd Odlum. RKO has long been celebrated for its series of musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the mid-to-late 1930s. Actors Katharine Hepburn and, later, Robert Mitchum had their first major successes at the studio. Cary Grant was a mainstay for years. The work of producer Val Lewton's low-budget horror unit and RKO's many ventures into the field now known as film noir have been acclaimed, largely after the fact, by film critics and historians. The studio produced two of the most famous films in motion picture history: King Kong and Citizen Kane. Maverick industrialist Howard Hughes took over RKO in 1948. After years of decline under his control, the studio was acquired by the General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955. The original RKO Pictures ceased production in 1957 and was effectively dissolved two years later. In 1981, broadcaster RKO General, the corporate heir, revived it as a production subsidiary, RKO Pictures Inc. In 1989, this business with its few remaining assets, the trademarks and remake rights to many classic RKO films, was sold to new owners, who now operate the small independent company RKO Pictures LLC.

Awards by RKO Pictures

Check all the awards nominated and won by RKO Pictures.

1947


Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Crossfire

1945


Academy Honorary Award
Honored for : The House I Live In, The House I Live In
(tolerance short subject; produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay by Albert Maltz; song The House I Live In, music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Lewis Allan; starring Frank Sinatra; released by RKO Radio)

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture The Bells of St. Mary's

1942


Nominations 1942 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel Private Smith of the U.S.A.

1941


Nominations 1941 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Suspicion

1940


Nominations 1940 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman

1939


Nominations 1939 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Love Affair
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel Information Please: Series 1, No. 1
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel Five Times Five

1937


Nominations 1937 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Stage Door

1936


Nominations 1936 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel Dummy Ache

1935


Nominations 1935 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Top Hat
Academy Award for Best Picture The Informer
came in 2nd
Academy Award for Best Picture Alice Adams

1934


Nominations 1934 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture The Gay Divorcee

1933


Nominations 1933 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Little Women
came in 3rd

1932


Nominations 1932 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department","This nomination was not associated with any specific film title.
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Comedy Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
The film was originally announced as a nominee, but before the final voting, it was disqualified and replaced by Scratch-As-Catch-Can.
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Comedy Scratch-As-Catch-Can

1931


Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Award of Merit)
(For noise reduction recording equipment.)
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for reflex type microphone concentrators. [Sound])
Academy Award for Best Picture
Honored for : Cimarron

Nominations 1931 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Cimarron
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department","This nomination was not associated with any specific film title.