The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards.

Winners and nominees

Winners are highlighted in boldface. ^[1]

Best Motion Picture Of The Year

• 42nd Street
• Cavalcade
• A Farewell to Arms
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• Lady for a Day - Columbia
• Little Women
• The Private Life of Henry VIII
• She Done Him Wrong
• Smilin' Through
• State Fair

Achievement in Directing

• Frank Capra - Lady for a Day
• George Cukor - Little Women
• Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade

Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role

• Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square
• Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
• Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Best Performance by An Actress In A Leading Role

• Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
• May Robson - Lady for a Day
• Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade

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Best Writing, Adaptation

• Paul Green and Sonya Levien - State Fair
• Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason - Little Women
• Robert Riskin - Lady for a Day

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Best Story

• Robert Lord - One Way Passage
• Frances Marion - The Prizefighter and the Lady
• Charles MacArthur - Rasputin and the Empress

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Interior Decoration

• William S. Darling - Cavalcade
  • Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson - A Farewell to Arms
  • Cedric Gibbons - When Ladies Meet

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Achievement In Cinematography

• Charles Bryant Lang, Jr. - A Farewell to Arms
• George J. Folsey - Reunion in Vienna
• Karl Struss - Sign of the Cross

Sound Recording

• 42nd Street - Harold C. Lewis
• A Farewell to Arms - Nathan Levinson
• Gold Diggers of 1933 - Nathan Levinson
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Nathan Levinson

Assistant Director

(Seven winners.)

• Al Alleborn - Warner Brothers
• Charles Barton - Paramount
• Sid Brod - Paramount
• Charles Dorian - MGM
• Orville O. Dull - MGM
• Fred Fox - United Artists
• Gordon Hollingshead - Warner Brothers
• Percy Ikerd - 20th Century Fox
• Arthur Jacobson - Paramount
• Rick James - Universal
• Edward Killy - RKO
• Joseph A. McDonough - Universal
• William J. Reiter - Universal
• Frank Shaw - Warner Brothers
• Ben Silvey - United Artists
• Dewey Starkey - RKO
• William Tummel - 20th Century Fox
• John S. Waters - MGM

Short Subjects: Cartoons

• Building a Building - Walt Disney, United Artists
• The Merry Old Soul - Walter Lantz, Universal Studios
• The Three Little Pigs - Walt Disney, United Artists

Short Subjects: Comedy

• Mister Mugg - Universal Studios
• A Preferred List - RKO Pictures
• So This Is Harris! - RKO Pictures

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Short Subjects: Novelty

• Krakatoa - Educational Pictures
• Menu - Pete Smith, MGM
• The Sea - Educational Pictures

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Scientific or Technical Awards

Class II Awards

• Electrical Research Products, Inc. (ERPI)
  • For work in sound reproduction.
• RCA Victor Company, Inc.
  • For work in sound reproduction.

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Class III Awards

• Fox Film Corporation, Fred Jackman and Warner Brothers Pictures, and Sidney Sanders and RKO Radio Pictures.
  • For work in the technologies of cinematography and film projection.

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Notes and references

1. ↑ The sources consulted to compile and verify this list include:
   • "Academy Awards Database - AMPAS." oscars.org. 11 Mar. 2006 <http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1142073214663>.
   • "Academy Awards, USA: 1934." Internet Movie Database. 11 Mar. 2006 <http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1934>.
   • Mason, Wiley, and Damien Bona. Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. Updated ed. New York: Ballantine, 1987.
2. ↑ There were no awards for "Best Supporting Actor" or "Best Supporting Actress" until the 1936 Academy Awards.
3. ↑ In this year, the award known now as "Adapted Screenplay" was known as "Best Writing, Adaptation" (see Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for more information).
4. ↑ In this year, the award known now as "Best Original Screenplay" was known as "Best Story" (see Academy Award for Best Story and Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for more information).
5. ↑ In this year, the award known now as "Best Art Direction" was known as "Best Interior Decoration" (see Academy Award for Best Art Direction for more information).
6. ↑ ^{a b} In this year, the award known now as "Best Live Action Short Film" was known as "Short Subjects" and was broken into two categories: Comedy and Novelty (see Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for more information).
7. ↑ Class II Scientific or Technical award winners receive a plaque.
8. ↑ Class III Scientific or Technical award winners receive a citation.