5th Academy Awards


The 5th Academy Awards were held by the Academy of [Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] on November 18, 1932, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, hosted by Conrad Nagel. Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards. Walt Disney created a short animated film for the banquet, Parade of the Award Nominees.
Grand Hotel became the only Best Picture winner to be nominated for Best Picture and nothing else. It was the second of six films to date to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination, preceded by Wings and followed by Driving Miss Daisy, Argo, Green Book, and CODA; and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination.
This was the first of three Oscars in which two films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner. This happened again at the 25th and 79th Academy Awards.
This year saw the introduction of short film awards, with Academy Award for [Best Animated Short Film|Best Short Subject, Cartoon] winner Flowers and Trees becoming the first color film to win an Oscar.
There was a tie for Best Actor, the first event in Academy history. Fredric March had led Wallace Beery in the balloting by only one vote, and the rules said that the leader and runner-up could both be considered winners if they were only 3 votes apart. This left the Academy short one Oscar. By winning Best Actor for The Champ, as well as starring in Grand Hotel, Wallace Beery is one of only two performers to date to appear in a Best Picture-winning film and win an acting Oscar for a different Best Picture nominee in the same year.
This was the last ceremony to date in which no film won more than two Oscars.

Winners and nominees

Awards

Nominees were announced on October 12, 1932. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

  • Frank Borzage – Bad Girl
  • * King Vidor – The Champ
  • * Josef von Sternberg – Shanghai Express
  • Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr Jekyll and [Mr Hyde (character)|Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Edward Hyde]
  • Wallace Beery – The Champ as Champ
  • * Alfred Lunt – The Guardsman as The Actor
  • Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet
  • * Marie Dressler – Emma as Emma Thatcher Smith
  • * Lynn Fontanne – The Guardsman as The Actress
  • The Champ – Frances Marion
  • * Lady and Gent – Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt
  • * The Star Witness – Lucien Hubbard
  • * What Price Hollywood? – Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Murfin
  • Bad Girl – Edwin J. Burke, based on the novel and play by Viña Delmar
  • * Arrowsmith – Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein, based on Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Transatlantic – Gordon Wiles
  • * À Nous la Liberté – Lazare Meerson
  • * Arrowsmith – Richard Day
  • Shanghai Express – Lee Garmes
  • * Arrowsmith – Ray June
  • * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Karl Struss
  • Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
  • * MGM Studio Sound Department
  • * RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
  • * Warner Bros. First National Studio Sound Department
  • Flowers and Trees – Walt Disney, Walt Disney Productions, United Artists
  • * It's Got Me Again! – Leon Schlesinger, Warner Bros.
  • * Mickey's Orphans – Walt Disney, Walt Disney Productions, Columbia Pictures
  • The Music Box – Hal Roach
  • * The Loud Mouth – Mack Sennett
  • * Scratch-As-Catch-Can – RKO Radio
  • Wrestling Swordfish – Mack Sennett
  • * Screen Souvenirs – Paramount Publix
  • * Swing High – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    • Special Award

  • To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse.

    Multiple nominations and awards

    • WinsFilm
    2Bad Girl
    2The Champ