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Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)>Ambassador HotelLos Angeles, California| host = Conrad NagelGrand Hotel (1932 film)>Grand HotelBad Girl (1931 film)>Bad Girl and The Champ (2)Arrowsmith (film)>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, 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.WEB,weblink Untitled Page, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130515082159weblink">weblink 2013-05-15, 2012-07-18, Grand Hotel became the only Best Picture winner to be nominated for Best Picture and nothing else.WEB,weblink Grand Hotel, 11 September 1932, IMDb, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121214093842weblink">weblink December 14, 2012, 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.NEWS,weblink Los Angeles Times, Jack, Mathews, 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, March 27, 1990, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140221160420weblink">weblink February 21, 2014, 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,WEB,weblink Academy Award Winners and Categories, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120929044105weblink">weblink 2012-09-29, with Best Short Subject, Cartoon winner Flowers and Trees becoming the first color film to win an Oscar.WEB,weblink Flowers and Trees, 30 July 1932, IMDb, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140701121825weblink">weblink July 1, 2014, 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.BOOK, Wallechinsky, David, Wallace, Irving, 1975, The People's Almanac,weblink Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 833, 0-385-04060-1, This left the Academy short one Oscar. 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

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Awards

Nominees were announced on October 12, 1932. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.WEB,weblink The 5th Academy Awards (1932) Nominees and Winners, 2013-06-24, Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160507092803weblink">weblink 2016-05-07, {| class=wikitable{{Award category|#eedd82|Outstanding Production}}

• Grand Hotel – Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer{{double dagger}}
  • 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

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Director}}

• Frank Borzage â€“ Bad Girl{{double dagger}}
  • King Vidor â€“ The Champ
  • Josef von Sternberg â€“ Shanghai Express

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Actor}}

• Fredric March â€“ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Edward Hyde{{double dagger}}
• Wallace Beery â€“ The Champ as Champ{{double dagger}}
  • Alfred Lunt â€“ The Guardsman as The Actor

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Actress}}

• Helen Hayes â€“ The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet{{double dagger}}
  • Marie Dressler â€“ Emma as Emma Thatcher Smith
  • Lynn Fontanne â€“ The Guardsman as The Actress

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Original Story}}

• The Champ â€“ Frances Marion{{double dagger}}
  • Lady and Gent â€“ Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt
  • The Star Witness â€“ Lucien Hubbard
  • What Price Hollywood? â€“ Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Murfin

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Adaptation}}

• Bad Girl â€“ Edwin J. Burke, based on the novel and play by Viña Delmar{{double dagger}}
  • Arrowsmith â€“ Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde â€“ Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein, based on Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Art Direction}}

• Transatlantic â€“ Gordon Wiles{{double dagger}}
  • À Nous la Liberté â€“ Lazare Meerson
  • Arrowsmith â€“ Richard Day

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Cinematography}}

• Shanghai Express â€“ Lee Garmes{{double dagger}}
  • Arrowsmith â€“ Ray June
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde â€“ Karl Struss

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Sound Recording}}

• Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department{{double dagger}}
  • MGM Studio Sound Department
  • RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
  • Warner Bros. First National Studio Sound Department

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Short Subject, Cartoon}}

• Flowers and Trees – Walt Disney, Walt Disney Productions, United Artists{{double dagger}}
  • It's Got Me Again! – Leon Schlesinger, Warner Bros.
  • Mickey's Orphans â€“ Walt Disney, Walt Disney Productions, Columbia Pictures

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Live Action Short Subject, Comedy}}

• The Music Box â€“ Hal Roach{{double dagger}}
  • The Loud Mouth â€“ Mack Sennett
  • Scratch-As-Catch-Can â€“ RKO Radio

{{Award category|#eedd82|Best Live Action Short Subject, Novelty}}

• Wrestling Swordfish â€“ Mack Sennett{{double dagger}}
  • Screen Souvenirs â€“ Paramount Publix
  • Swing High â€“ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Academy Honorary Award

• Walt Disney, for the creation of Mickey Mouse

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Multiple nominations and awards {| class"wikitable plainrowheaders" style"text-align: center; margin-right:1em;"|+Films with multiple nominations

! scope="col" style="width:55px;"| Nominations! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Film 4Arrowsmith (film)>ArrowsmithThe Champ (1931 film)>The Champ 3Bad Girl (1931 film)>Bad GirlShanghai Express (film)>Shanghai ExpressDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|2|The Guardsman{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center; margin-right:1em;"|+ Films with multiple wins! scope="col" style="width:55px;"| Wins! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Film 2Bad Girl (1931 film)>Bad GirlThe Champ (1931 film)>The Champ

See also

• 1931 in film
• 1932 in film

Notes

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