Awards & Winners

1931 Academy Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1931 Academy Awards. Check awards winners of 4th Academy Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

4th Academy Awards

Academy Award for Best Picture

RKO Pictures

Honored for : Cimarron

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Nominee Nominated Work
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Trader Horn
Paramount Pictures Skippy
The Caddo Company The Front Page
Fox Film East Lynne
RKO Pictures Cimarron
Academy Award for Best Actor

Lionel Barrymore

Honored for : A Free Soul
(Role: Stephen Ashe)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Fredric March The Royal Family of Broadway
Role: Tony Cavendish
Adolphe Menjou The Front Page
Role: Walter Burns
Lionel Barrymore A Free Soul
Role: Stephen Ashe
Richard Dix Cimarron
Role: Yancey Cravat
Jackie Cooper Skippy
Role: Skippy Skinner
Academy Award for Best Actress

Marie Dressler

Honored for : Min and Bill
(Role: Min)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marlene Dietrich Morocco
Role: Amy Jolly
Irene Dunne Cimarron
Role: Sabra Cravat
Norma Shearer A Free Soul
Role: Jan Ashe
Ann Harding Holiday
Role: Linda Seton
Marie Dressler Min and Bill
Role: Min
Academy Award for Best Director

Norman Taurog

Honored for : Skippy

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Nominee Nominated Work
Wesley Ruggles Cimarron
Clarence Brown A Free Soul
Josef von Sternberg Morocco
Lewis Milestone The Front Page
Norman Taurog Skippy
Academy Award for Best Story

John Monk Saunders

Honored for : The Dawn Patrol

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rowland Brown The Doorway to Hell
John Monk Saunders The Dawn Patrol
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast Laughter
Douglas Z. Doty Laughter
Donald Ogden Stewart Laughter
John Bright The Public Enemy
Kubec Glasmon The Public Enemy
Lucien Hubbard Smart Money
Joseph Jackson Smart Money
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay

Howard Estabrook

Honored for : Cimarron

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Nominee Nominated Work
Horace Jackson Holiday
Seton I. Miller The Criminal Code
Fred Niblo, Jr. The Criminal Code
Howard Estabrook Cimarron
Francis Edward Faragoh Little Caesar
Robert N. Lee Little Caesar
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Skippy
Sam Mintz Skippy
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Paramount Pictures

(Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department, This award was not associated with any specific film title.)

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Nominee Nominated Work
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Samuel Goldwyn - United Artists Studio Sound Department","This nomination was not associated with any specific film title.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department","This award was not associated with any specific film title.
RKO Pictures
RKO Radio Studio Sound Department","This nomination was not associated with any specific film title.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department","This nomination was not associated with any specific film title.
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Floyd Crosby

Honored for : Tabu

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Nominee Nominated Work
Floyd Crosby Tabu
Edward Cronjager Cimarron
Lee Garmes Morocco
Charles Lang The Right to Love
Barney McGill Svengali
Academy Award for Best Production Design

Max Rée

Honored for : Cimarron

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Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Day Whoopee!
Ralph Hammeras Just Imagine
Stephen Goosson Just Imagine
Max Rée Cimarron
Hans Dreier Morocco
Anton Grot Svengali
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement

Electrical Research Products, Inc.

(for moving coil microphone transmitters. [Sound])
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement

RKO Pictures

(for reflex type microphone concentrators. [Sound])
Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement

RCA-Photophone, Inc.

(for ribbon microphone transmitters. [Sound])
Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Award of Merit)

Electrical Research Products, Inc., RKO Pictures, RCA-Photophone, Inc.

(For noise reduction recording equipment.)
Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Award of Merit)

Eastman Kodak, DuPONT Film Manufacturing Corporation

(For super-sensitive panchromatic film.)
Academy Scientific and Technical Award (Scientific and Engineering award)

Fox Film

(For effective use of synchro-projection composite photography.)