6th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1934)

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• Date of Ceremony: Friday, March 16, 1934
• For films released in: 1932-1933

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 6th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Production

• 42nd Street
  Warner Bros.
• Cavalcade
  Fox
• A Farewell to Arms
  Paramount
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  Warner Bros.
• Lady for a Day
  Columbia
• Little Women
  RKO Radio
• The Private Life of Henry VIII
  London Films
• She Done Him Wrong
  Paramount
• Smilin' Through
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• State Fair
  Fox

Best Directing

• Cavalcade
  Frank Lloyd
• Lady for a Day
  Frank Capra
• Little Women
  George Cukor

Best Actor

• Berkeley Square
  Leslie Howard
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  Paul Muni
• The Private Life of Henry VIII
  Charles Laughton

Best Actress

• Cavalcade
  Diana Wynyard
• Lady for a Day
  May Robson
• Morning Glory
  Katharine Hepburn

Best Art Direction

• Cavalcade
  William S. Darling
• A Farewell to Arms
  Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson
• When Ladies Meet
  Cedric Gibbons

Best Assistant Director

• Percy Ikerd
• William Tummel
• Charles Dorian
• Bunny Dull
• John S. Waters
• Charles Barton
• Sidney S. Brod
• Arthur Jacobson
• Eddie Killey
• Dewey Starkey
• Fred Fox
• Benjamin Silvey
• Scott Beal
• Joe McDonough
• W.J. Reiter
• Al Alborn
• Gordon Hollingshead
• Frank X. Shaw

Best Cinematography

• A Farewell to Arms
  Charles B. Lang Jr.
• Reunion in Vienna
  George J. Folsey
• The Sign of the Cross
  Karl Struss

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Building a Building
  Walt Disney
• The Merry Old Soul
  Walter Lantz
• The Three Little Pigs
  Walt Disney

Best Short Subject (Comedy)

• Mister Mugg
  Warren Doane
• A Preferred List
  Louis Brock
• So This Is Harris
  Louis Brock

Best Short Subject (Novelty)

• Krakatoa
  Joe Rock
• Menu
  Pete Smith
• The Sea
  Educational

Best Sound Recording

• 42nd Street
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
• A Farewell to Arms
  Paramount Studio Sound Department and Franklin B. Hansen [Sound Director]
• Gold Diggers of 1933
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department and Nathan Levinson [Sound Director]

Best Writing (Adaptation)

• Lady for a Day
  Robert Riskin
• Little Women
  Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason
• State Fair
  Paul Green and Sonya Levien

Best Writing (Original Story)

• One Way Passage
  Robert Lord
• The Prizefighter and the Lady
  Frances Marion
• Rasputin and the Empress
  Charles MacArthur