Best Films – 1934

Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
FILM
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart
The Count of Monte Cristo
d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee
The Gay Divorcee
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman
Hide-out
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
The Merry Widow
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda
Fredric March, Evelyn Venable in Death Takes a Holiday
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Broadway Bill
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Death Takes a Holiday
d: Mitchell Leisen; scr: Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman
Gold
d: Karl Hartl; scr: Rolf E. Vanloo
Here Comes the Navy
d: Lloyd Bacon; scr: Earl Baldwin, Ben Markson
Maskerade / Masquerade in Vienna
d: Willi Forst; scr: Willi Forst, Walter Reisch
We’re Rich Again
d: William A. Seiter; scr: Ray Harris

Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald in The Cat and the Fiddle
ACTOR
Wallace Beery
Viva Villa!
James Cagney
Here Comes the Navy
Maurice Chevalier
The Merry Widow
Robert Donat
The Count of Monte Cristo
Fredric March
Death Takes a Holiday
Robert Montgomery
Hide-out
Ramon Novarro
The Cat and the Fiddle
William Powell
The Thin Man
Heinz Rühman
So ein Flegel / Such a Boor
Anton Walbrook
Masquerade in Vienna

Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night
ACTRESS
Jean Arthur
The Most Precious Thing in Life
Constance Bennett
The Affairs of Cellini
Claudette Colbert
Four Frightened People
Claudette Colbert
It Happened One Night
Myrna Loy
The Thin Man
Jeanette MacDonald
The Cat and the Fiddle
Jeanette MacDonald
The Merry Widow
Marian Nixon
We’re Rich Again
Ginger Rogers
The Gay Divorcee
Genevieve Tobin
Easy to Love
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Lionel Atwill
The Firebird
Eric Blore
The Gay Divorcee
Buster Crabbe
We’re Rich Again
Etienne Girardot
Twentieth Century
Alan Hale
Little Man, What Now?
DeWitt Jennings
Little Man, What Now?
Charles Laughton
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Peter Lorre
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Mowbray
Little Man, What Now?
Erik Rhodes
The Gay Divorcee
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary Astor
Easy to Love
Louise Beavers
Imitation of Life
Mary Boland
Four Frightened People
Alice Brady
The Gay Divorcee
Catherine Doucet
Little Man, What Now?
Helen Lowell
Side Streets
Helen Lowell
Midnight Alibi
Alice White
Jimmy the Gent
Anna May Wong
Java Head
Fay Wray
The Affairs of Cellini
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lucien Andriot
Anne of Green Gables
William H. Daniels
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Arthur Edeson
Here Comes the Navy
James Wong Howe, Charles G. Clarke
Viva Villa!
Ray June
Riptide
Ray June, Clyde de Vinna, Harold Rosson
Treasure Island
Ray June, Sidney Wagner
Hide-out
Oliver T. Marsh
The Merry Widow
Franz Planer
Masquerade in Vienna
Harold Wenstrom
The Lost Patrol

Isa Miranda in La Signora di tutti
MUSIC
Daniele Amfitheatrof
La Signora di tutti / Everybody’s Woman
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Masquerade in Vienna
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