5th Academy Awards

The 5th Academy Awards were held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932,^[1] at the Ambassador Hotel^[1] in Los Angeles, California, hosted by Conrad Nagel.^[1] Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards.^[1] Walt Disney created a short animated film for the banquet, Parade of the Award Nominees.^[2]

5th Academy Awards
Wallace Beery, with Lionel Barrymore and Master of Ceremonies Conrad Nagel
Date	November 18, 1932[1]
Site	Ambassador Hotel[1] Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Conrad Nagel[1]
Highlights
Best Picture	Grand Hotel
Most awards	Bad Girl and The Champ (2)
Most nominations	Arrowsmith and The Champ (4)
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Grand Hotel became the only Best Picture winner to be nominated for Best Picture and nothing else.^[3] It was the first of five films to date to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination, followed by Driving Miss Daisy, Argo, Green Book, and CODA; and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination.^[4]

This was the first of three Oscars in which two films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Guardsman). This happened again at the 25th and 79th Academy Awards.

This year saw the introduction of short film awards,^[5] with Best Short Subject, Cartoon winner Flowers and Trees becoming the first color film to win an Oscar.^[6]

There was a tie for Best Actor, a unique event in Academy history. Fredric March had led Wallace Beery in the balloting by only one vote, and the rules (later changed) said that the leader and runner-up could both be considered winners if they were only 3 votes apart.^[7] This left the Academy short one Oscar.^[7] By winning Best Actor for The Champ, as well as starring in Grand Hotel, Wallace Beery is the only performer 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

Irving Thalberg; Best Picture winner

Frank Borzage; Best Director winner

Fredric March; Best Actor co-winner

Wallace Beery; Best Actor co-winner

Helen Hayes; Best Actress winner

Frances Marion; Best Original Story winner

Walt Disney; Best Short Subject, Cartoon co-winner and Honorary Academy Award recipient

Hal Roach; Best Live Action Short Subject, Comedy winner

Mack Sennett; Best Live Action Short Subject, Novelty winner

Awards

Nominees were announced on October 12, 1932. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[8]

Outstanding Production Grand Hotel – Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer‡ Arrowsmith – Samuel Goldwyn for Samuel Goldwyn Prod. Bad Girl – Winfield Sheehan for Fox Film Corp. The Champ – King Vidor for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Five Star Final – Hal B. Wallis for First National One Hour with You – Ernst Lubitsch for Paramount Publix Shanghai Express – Adolph Zukor for Paramount Publix The Smiling Lieutenant – Ernst Lubitsch for Paramount Publix	Best Director Frank Borzage – Bad Girl‡ King Vidor – The Champ Josef von Sternberg – Shanghai Express
Best Actor Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Edward Hyde‡ Wallace Beery – The Champ as Champ‡ Alfred Lunt – The Guardsman as The Actor	Best Actress Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet‡ Marie Dressler – Emma as Emma Thatcher Smith Lynn Fontanne – The Guardsman as The Actress
Best Original Story 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	Best Adaptation 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
Best Art Direction Transatlantic – Gordon Wiles‡ À Nous la Liberté – Lazare Meerson Arrowsmith – Richard Day	Best Cinematography Shanghai Express – Lee Garmes‡ Arrowsmith – Ray June Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Karl Struss
Best Sound Recording Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department‡ MGM Studio Sound Department RKO Radio Studio Sound Department Warner Bros. First National Studio Sound Department	Best Short Subject, Cartoon 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
Best Live Action Short Subject, Comedy The Music Box – Hal Roach‡ The Loud Mouth – Mack Sennett Scratch-As-Catch-Can – RKO Radio	Best Live Action Short Subject, Novelty Wrestling Swordfish – Mack Sennett‡ Screen Souvenirs – Paramount Publix Swing High – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Academy Honorary Award

• Walt Disney, for the creation of Mickey Mouse^[1]

Multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
4	Arrowsmith
	The Champ
3	Bad Girl
	Shanghai Express
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2	The Guardsman

Films with multiple wins

Wins	Film
2	Bad Girl
	The Champ

See also

• 1931 in film
• 1932 in film

Notes

1. "The 5th Academy Awards - 1933". Archived from the original on September 4, 2012.
2. "Untitled Page". Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
3. "Grand Hotel". September 11, 1932. Archived from the original on December 14, 2012 – via IMDb.
4. Mathews, Jack (March 27, 1990). "Who Really Won? : Oscars: Academy voters split their ballots, but they fail to do justice. They overlooked the directors of 'Daisy' and 'Glory'--and those films won a combined seven Oscars". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014.
5. "Academy Award Winners and Categories". Archived from the original on September 29, 2012.
6. "Flowers and Trees". July 30, 1932. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014 – via IMDb.
7. Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 833. ISBN 0-385-04060-1.
8. "The 5th Academy Awards (1932) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on May 7, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2013.