Best Picture:

• Grand Hotel
• Arrowsmith
• Bad Girl
• The Champ
• Five Star Final
• One Hour With You
• Shanghai Express
• The Smiling Lieutenant

Best Director:

• Frank Borzage – Bad Girl
• King Vidor – The Champ
• Josef von Sternberg – Shanghai Express

Best Actor

• Wallace Beery – The Champ
• Fredric March – Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Alfred Lunt – The Guardsman

Best Actress

• Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madelon Claudet
• Marie Dressler – Emma
• Lynn Fontanne – The Guardsman

A very different sort of list to what I’ve had in the past. In the early years of the Oscars, there were no set parameters for the categories. Best Actor  for example, only has three nominees this year and was won and shared by two of them.

I’m very much looking forward to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It’s the first film to stray into sci-fi/horror territory, and I can’t wait to see how the era handles the ‘special’ effects. I loved Marie Dressler in Min and Bill so I’m also looking forward to Emma.