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Home Classic MoviesBest MoviesBest Films – 1934

Best Films – 1934

Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole StreetNorma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

Ramon Novarro Beyond Paradise

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

Best Actress
Jean ArthurThe Most Precious Thing in Life
Constance BennettThe Affairs of Cellini
Claudette ColbertCleopatra
Claudette Colbert – Imitation of Life
Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Irene DunneThe Age of Innocence
Myrna LoyThe Thin Man
Jeanette MacDonald – The Cat and the Fiddle
Jeanette MacDonald – The Merry Widow
Marian Nixon – We’re Rich Again
Ginger RogersThe Gay Divorcee
Norma ShearerThe Barretts of Wimpole Street
Genevieve Tobin – Easy to Love

Best Actor
John BarrymoreTwentieth Century
Maurice Chevalier – The Merry Widow
Robert DonatThe Count of Monte Cristo
Fredric MarchDeath Takes a Holiday
Robert Montgomery – Hide-Out
Ramon NovarroThe Cat and the Fiddle
William PowellThe Thin Man
Anton Walbrook – Masquerade in Vienna

Best Supporting Actress
Mary Astor – Easy to Love
Louise Beavers – Imitation of Life
Mary BolandFour Frightened People
Alice Brady – The Gay Divorcee
Catherine Doucet – Little Man, What Now?
Helen Lowell – Side Streets
Dorothy Stickney – Murder at the Vanities
Alice White – Jimmy the Gent
Anna May Wong – Java Head
Fay WrayThe Affairs of Cellini

Best 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 LorreThe Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Mowbray – Little Man, What Now?
Erik Rhodes – The Gay Divorcee

Best Cinematography
Anne of Green Gables – Lucien Andriot
The Barretts of Wimpole Street – William H. Daniels
Here Comes the Navy – Arthur Edeson
Hide-Out – Ray June & Sidney Wagner
The Lost Patrol – Harold Wenstrom
Masquerade in Vienna – Franz Planer
The Merry Widow – Oliver T. Marsh
Riptide – Ray June
Treasure Island – Ray June, Clyde De Vinna & Harold Rosson
Viva Villa! – James Wong Howe & Charles G. Clarke

Best Original Score
Everybody’s Woman / La signora di tutti – Daniele Amfitheatrof
Masquerade in Vienna – Willy Schmidt-Gentner

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