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Academy Awards Oscar in 1931. The results of the voting were typically released a week or more before the actual presentation, but this year, Academy officials went to great lengths to keep...
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Apr 21, 2022 · Wesley Ruggle's grand western epic tells the story of Yancey Cravet, a lawyer, newspaper editor, and gunfighter, as he struggles to help tame the American f...
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Carl Laemmle. Best Picture winner for All Quiet on the Western Front, with presenter Louis B. Mayer. Norma Shearer. Best Actress winner for The Divorcee. View More Memorable Moments.
The 4th Academy Awards were held on November 10, 1931 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, awarding films released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931. Cimarron was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only to do so until Dances with Wolves won in 1990.
Walt Disney won two citations for animation: one, the first award for the newly-established category of Short Subject: Cartoon with the first Technicolor cartoon Flowers and Trees; and the second, a Special Award for his four-year-old creation, Mickey Mouse.
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story .
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In 1931, Frances Marion won the Academy Award for Best Writing for her work on the prison film The Big House (1930). One of the first ever prison dramas,...
