| Number | 5 |
|---|---|
| Award | Academy Awards |
| Date | November 18, 1932[1] |
| Site | Ambassador Hotel[1] Los Angeles, California |
| Host | Conrad Nagel[1] |
| Best picture | Grand Hotel |
| Most wins | Bad Girl and The Champ (2) |
| Most nominations | Arrowsmith and The Champ (4) |
| Last | 4th |
| Next | 6th |
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]
Grand Hotel became the only Best Picture winner to be nominated for Best Picture and nothing else.[3] 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.[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, the first 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 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.[8]
Special Award
- To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse.[1]
Multiple nominations and awards
| Nominations | Film |
|---|---|
| 4 | Arrowsmith |
| The Champ | |
| 3 | Bad Girl |
| Shanghai Express | |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
| 2 | The Guardsman |
| Wins | Film |
|---|---|
| 2 | Bad Girl |
| The Champ |
See also
Notes
- ^ "The 5th Academy Awards - 1933". Archived 2012-09-04 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Untitled Page". Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ^ "Grand Hotel". 11 September 1932. Archived December 14, 2012 at the Wayback Machine. – via IMDb.
- ^ 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 February 21, 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Academy Award Winners and Categories". Archived 2012-09-29 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Flowers and Trees". 30 July 1932. Archived July 1, 2014 at the Wayback Machine. – via IMDb.
- ^ Wallechinsky, David & Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 833. ISBN 0-385-04060-1.
- ^ "The 5th Academy Awards (1932) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived 2016-05-07 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2013-06-24.