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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1935

The 8th Annual Academy Awards

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Mutiny On The Bounty (produced by Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin) was voted Outstanding Production, or today it would Best Picture or 1935.
Today in 1936 the 8th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.
 Director/producer/writer/actor Frank Capra hosted the ceremony honoring the films of 1935, which saw Victor McLaglen take the Best Actor prize for The Informer (John Ford won for directing this one). Best Actress was Bette Davis in Dangerous. In case you are wondering, they didn’t start handing out those Supporting Actor/Actress awards until 1937. The Best Music/Song award winners were Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) for the song Lullaby of Broadway from Gold Diggers of 1935. An Oscar for Short Subject/Cartoon was awarded  Walt Disney for his cartoon, Three Orphan Kittens