Oscar History: Academy Award Winning Movies and Actors of 1935

A look at Oscar winners and nominees, behind the scenes on the decisions for best picture, actor, etc for 1935, Mutiny on the Bounty gets top honors, Bette Davis wins.

1935

Best Picture

NOMINEES: Mutiny on the Bounty, Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer, Les Miserables, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap, Top Hat

THE WINNER: Mutiny on the Bounty (MGM)

DIRECTOR: Frank Lloyd

PLAYERS: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone

Best Actor

NOMINEES: Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)l; Clark Gable (Mutiny on the Bounty); Franchot Tone (Mutiny on the Bounty); Victor McLaglen (The Informer)

THE WINNER: Victor McLaglen

Best Actress

NOMINEES: Elisabeth Bergner (Escape Me Never); Claudette Colbert (Private Worlds); Bette Davis (Dangerous); Katharine Hepburn (Alice Adams); Miriam Hopkins J(Becky Sharp); merle Oberon (The Dark Angel)

THE WINNER: Bette Davis

Behind the Oscar

Feeling guilty about not having given Bette Davis the Oscar the previous year, the membership now gave it to her for a lesser picture called Dangerous. Even Davis thought it was a consolation gesture and that Katharine Hepburn should have won. Davis, ever the iconoclast, upset the social crowd by coming to the posh formal event in an informal checkered dress.