6th Academy Awards (1932/33)
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1. Cavalcade (1933)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Romance, War
A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 5,982 | Gross: $7.63M
Winner - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Director for Frank Lloyd Nominated - Best Actress for Diana Wynyard Winner - Best Art Direction for William S. Darling and Fredric Hope
2. 42nd Street (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 13,035 | Gross: $2.30M
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
3. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
Votes: 6,811
Nominated - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Cinematography for Charles Bryant Lang, Jr. Nominated - Best Art Direction for Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson Winner - Best Sound Recording for Franklin Hansen
4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
Votes: 14,433 | Gross: $1.42M
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Actor for Paul Muni Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
5. Lady for a Day (1933)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 4,655
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for Frank Capra Nominated - Best Actress for May Robson Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Robert Riskin
6. Little Women (1933)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 7,931 | Gross: $4.58M
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Director for George Cukor Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason
7. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Passed | 97 min | Biography, Drama
King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander
Votes: 4,864
Nominated - Outstanding Production Winner - Best Actor for Charles Laughton
8. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 7,035 | Gross: $4.80M
Nominated - Outstanding Production
9. Smilin' Through (1932)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie
Votes: 1,550 | Gross: $2.19M
Nominated - Outstanding Production
10. State Fair (1933)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers
Votes: 1,069
Nominated - Outstanding Production Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Green and Sonya Levien
11. Berkeley Square (1933)
Passed | 88 min | Fantasy, Romance
A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne
Votes: 982
Nominated - Best Actor for Leslie Howard
12. Morning Glory (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan
Votes: 3,285
Winner - Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn
13. One Way Passage (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 4,444
Winner - Best Story for Robert Lord
14. The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks | Stars: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey
Votes: 1,070
Nominated - Best Story for Frances Marion
15. Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin | Stars: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,187
Nominated - Best Story for Charles MacArthur
16. Reunion in Vienna (1933)
98 min | Drama, Romance
An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: John Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Frank Morgan, Henry Travers
Votes: 359
Nominated - Best Cinematography for George J. Folsey
17. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, History
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Votes: 2,697 | Gross: $5.97M
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Karl Struss
18. When Ladies Meet (1933)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
Directors: Harry Beaumont, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady
Votes: 1,133
Nominated - Best Art Direction for Cedric Gibbons
19. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 9,140 | Gross: $4.80M
Nominated - Best Sound Recording for Nathan Levinson
20. So This Is Harris (1933)
Approved | 28 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Walter can't stand the singing of Phil Harris - unfortunately, he can't seem to escape it, even on the golf course. His golf partner sympathizes, but when Walter discovers that the fellow ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Phil Harris, Walter Catlett, Helen Collins, June Brewster
Votes: 139
Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
21. Mister Mugg (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: James Gleason, Dorothy Christy, Ben Alexander, Otis Harlan
Votes: 15
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
22. A Preferred List (1933)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Ken Murray, Dorothy Lee, Chick Chandler, John Sheehan
Votes: 20
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy
23. Krakatoa (1933)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary describing the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies, destroying 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago.
Stars: Graham McNamee, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 43
Winner - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
24. Menu (1933)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Short
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Pete Smith, Luis Alberni, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 318
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
25. The Sea (1933)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A variety of sea creatures are filmed in their natural habitat. Included are seaweed, a sea snail, crabs, a starfish opening a mussel, a sea anemone eating an eel, a sea urchin, hermit crab, an octopus fleeing a crab, and a sea cucumber.
Directors: Wanda Jakubowska, Stanislaw Wohl, Stacy Woodard, Jerzy Zarzycki | Star: Gayne Whitman
Nominated - Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty
26. Three Little Pigs (1933)
Passed | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Mary Moder
Votes: 6,710 | Gross: $0.25M
Winner - Best Animated Short Film
27. Building a Building (1933)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey Mouse operates a steam shovel; Pegleg Pete is his foreman; Minnie Mouse sells box lunches. Mickey must save the day when Pete makes advances to Minnie.
Director: David Hand | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
Votes: 1,196
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
28. The Merry Old Soul (1933)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.
Directors: Walter Lantz, William Nolan | Stars: Tex Avery, Walter Lantz
Votes: 302
Nominated - Best Animated Short Film
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