1932-33 (6th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1932-33 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film or person in the list to display more information about that film or person Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Production

Cavalcade, Fox.

Best Actor

Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII, London Films; United Artists (British).

Best Actress

Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory, RKO Radio.

Directing

Cavalcade, Fox. Frank Lloyd.

Art Direction

Cavalcade, Fox. William S. Darling.

Assistant Director

William Tummel (Fox)

Charles Dorian (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

Charles Barton (Paramount)

Dewey Starkey (RKO Radio)

Fred Fox (United Artists)

Scott Beal (Universal)

Gordon Hollingshead (Warner Bros.)

Cinematography

A Farewell to Arms, Paramount. Charles Bryant Lang, Jr.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

The Three Little Pigs, Walt Disney Productions; United Artists. [Silly Symphony Series] Walt Disney, Producer.

(Comedy)

So This Is Harris, Louis Brock; RKO Radio. [Special Series] Louis Brock, Producer.

(Novelty)

Krakatoa, Joe Rock; Educational. [Three-reel Special Series] Joe Rock, Producer.

Sound Recording

A Farewell to Arms, Paramount. Paramount Studio Sound Department, Franklin B. Hansen, Sound Director.

Writing

(Adaptation)

Little Women, RKO Radio. Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason.

(Original Story)

One Way Passage, Warner Bros. Robert Lord.

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Electrical Research Products, Inc. for their wide range recording and reproducing system.

To RCA-Victor Company, Inc. for their high-fidelity recording and reproducing system.

(Class III)

To Fox Film Corporation, Fred Jackman and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and Sidney Sanders of RKO Studios, Inc. for their development and effective use of the translucent cellulose screen in composite photography.