| 5th Academy Awards | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Date | November 18, 1932[1] |
| Site | Ambassador Hotel[1] Los Angeles,California |
| Hosted by | Conrad Nagel[1] |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Grand Hotel |
| Most awards | Bad Girl andThe Champ (2) |
| Most nominations | Arrowsmith andThe Champ (4) |
The5th Academy Awards were held by theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932,[1] at theAmbassador Hotel[1] inLos Angeles,California, hosted byConrad Nagel.[1] Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards.[1]Walt Disney created a short animated film for the banquet,Parade of the Award Nominees.[2]
Grand Hotel became the only Best Picture winner to be nominated for Best Picture and nothing else.[3] It was the second of six films to date to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination, preceded byWings and followed byDriving Miss Daisy,Argo,Green Book, andCODA; and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination.[4]
This was the first of three Oscars in whichtwo films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde andThe Guardsman). This happened again at the25th and79th Academy Awards.
This year saw the introduction of short film awards,[5] withBest Short Subject, Cartoon winnerFlowers and Trees becoming the first color film to win an Oscar.[6]
There was a tie for Best Actor, the first event in Academy history.Fredric March had led Wallace Beery in the balloting by only one vote, and the rules (later changed) said that the leader and runner-up could both be considered winners if they were only 3 votes apart.[7] This left the Academy short one Oscar.[7] By winning Best Actor forThe Champ, as well as starring inGrand Hotel, Wallace Beery is one of only two performers to date to appear in a Best Picture-winning film and win an acting Oscar for a different Best Picture nominee in the same year.
This was the last ceremony to date in which no film won more than two Oscars.
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Nominees were announced on October 12, 1932. Winners are listed first and highlighted inboldface.[8]
| Nominations | Film |
|---|---|
| 4 | Arrowsmith |
| The Champ | |
| 3 | Bad Girl |
| Shanghai Express | |
| Dr. Jekyll andMr. Hyde | |
| 2 | The Guardsman |
| Wins | Film |
|---|---|
| 2 | Bad Girl |
| The Champ |
