Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Grand Hotel
Irving Thalberg, producer
Arrowsmith
Bad Girl
The Champ
Five Star Final
One Hour with You
Shanghai Express
The Smiling Lieutenant
Best Director
Winner
Frank Borzage
Bad Girl — Bad Girl
King Vidor— The Champ
Josef von Sternberg— Shanghai Express
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Fredric March
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (tie with Wallace Beery, The Champ)
Wallace Beery— The Champ
Alfred Lunt— The Guardsman
Best Actress
Winner
Helen Hayes
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Marie Dressler— Emma
Lynne Fontanne— The Guardsman
Writing
Best Writing (Original Story)
Winner
Frances Marion
The Champ
Best Writing (Adaptation)
Winner
Edwin Burke
Bad Girl
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Lee Garmes
Shanghai Express
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Gordon Wiles
Transatlantic
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Paramount Studio Sound Dept.
One Hour With You
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Flowers and Trees
Walt Disney / UA — first Technicolor cartoon to win an Oscar
Best Short (Comedy)
Winner
The Music Box
Laurel & Hardy / Hal Roach, MGM