8th Academy Awards

8th Academy Awards
Date	March 5, 1936
Site	Biltmore Hotel
Host	Frank Capra
Highlights
Best Picture	Mutiny on the Bounty
Most awards	The Informer (4)
Most nominations	Mutiny on the Bounty (8)

The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars".

The category of Best Dance Direction was introduced this year. The DGA successfully lobbied for its elimination three years later.

Mutiny on the Bounty became the last film to date to win Best Picture and nothing else (following The Broadway Melody and Grand Hotel), and the only film to receive three nominations for Best Actor.

This was the second and last year that write-in votes were allowed at the Oscars. A Midsummer Night's Dream became the only film to win a write-in Oscar, taking Best Cinematography.

Write-in nominee Sherry Shourds would be the only woman to be nominated in the short-lived Best Assistant Director category.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Outstanding Production	Best Director
Mutiny on the Bounty Alice Adams Broadway Melody of 1936 Captain Blood David Copperfield The Informer Les Misérables The Lives of a Bengal Lancer A Midsummer Night's Dream Naughty Marietta Ruggles of Red Gap Top Hat	John Ford – The Informer Michael Curtiz – Captain Blood (write-in, not official nomination) Henry Hathaway – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Frank Lloyd – Mutiny on the Bounty
Best Actor	Best Actress
Victor McLaglen – The Informer Clark Gable – Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Laughton – Mutiny on the Bounty Paul Muni – Black Fury (write-in, not official nomination) Franchot Tone – Mutiny on the Bounty	Bette Davis – Dangerous Elisabeth Bergner – Escape Me Never Claudette Colbert – Private Worlds Katharine Hepburn – Alice Adams Miriam Hopkins – Becky Sharp Merle Oberon – The Dark Angel
Best Story	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Scoundrel – Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Broadway Melody of 1936 – Moss Hart The Gay Deception – Don Hartman and Stephen Morehouse Avery G Men – Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck) (write-in, not official nomination)	The Informer – Dudley Nichols (Refused) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt Mutiny on the Bounty – Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Waldemar Young, Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings and Carey Wilson Captain Blood  – Casey Robinson (write-in candidate) (3rd)
Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy	Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
How to Sleep – Jack Chertok and MGM Oh, My Nerves – Jules White and Columbia Tit for Tat – Hal Roach and MGM	Wings Over Everest – Gaumont British and Skibo Productions Audioscopiks – Pete Smith and MGM Camera Thrills – Universal
Best Animated Short Film
Three Orphan Kittens – Walt Disney Productions and United Artists The Calico Dragon – Harman-Ising and MGM Who Killed Cock Robin? – Walt Disney Productions and United Artists
Best Score	Best Song
The Informer – RKO Radio Studio Music Department Captain Blood – Warner Bros.-First National Studio Music Department (Write-in) Mutiny on the Bounty – MGM Studio Music Department Peter Ibbetson – Paramount Studio Music Department	"Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935 – Music by Harry Warren; Lyric by Al Dubin "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat – Music and Lyric by Irving Berlin "Lovely to Look At" from Roberta – Music by Jerome Kern; Lyric by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
The Dark Angel – Richard Day The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson Top Hat – Carroll Clark and Van Nest Polglase	A Midsummer Night's Dream – Hal Mohr (write-in, not official nomination) Barbary Coast – Ray June The Crusades – Victor Milner Les Misérables – Gregg Toland
Best Sound Recording	Best Film Editing
Naughty Marietta – Douglas Shearer, MGM Studio Sound Department $1,000 a Minute – Republic Studio Sound Department Bride of Frankenstein – Gilbert Kurland, Universal Studio Sound Department Captain Blood – Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department The Dark Angel – Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio Sound Department I Dream Too Much – Carl Dreher, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio Sound Department Love Me Forever – John Livadary, Columbia Studio Sound Department Thanks a Million – E. H. Hansen, Fox Studio Sound Department	A Midsummer Night's Dream – Ralph Dawson David Copperfield – Robert J. Kern The Informer – George Hively Les Misérables – Barbara McLean The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Ellsworth Hoagland Mutiny on the Bounty – Margaret Booth
Best Assistant Director	Best Dance Direction
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing David Copperfield – Joseph M. Newman Les Misérables – Eric Stacey A Midsummer Night's Dream –Sherry Shourds (Write-in)	Broadway Melody of 1936 and Folies Bergère de Paris – Dave Gould All the King's Horses and The Big Broadcast of 1936 – LeRoy Prinz Broadway Hostess and Go into Your Dance – Bobby Connolly Gold Diggers of 1935 – Busby Berkeley King of Burlesque – Sammy Lee She – Benjamin Zemach Top Hat – Hermes Pan

Academy Honorary Award

• D. W. Griffith – "For his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts."

Multiple nominations and awards

The following thirteen films received multiple nominations:

• 8 nominations: Mutiny on the Bounty
• 7 nominations: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• 6 nominations: The Informer
• 5 nominations: Captain Blood
• 4 nominations: Les Misérables, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Top Hat
• 3 nominations: Broadway Melody of 1936, David Copperfield
• 2 nominations: Alice Adams, Naughty Marietta, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Dark Angel

The following two films received multiple awards:

• 4 awards: The Informer
• 2 awards: A Midsummer Night's Dream

See also

• 1935 in film