Claudette Colbert won the award for It Happened One Night .
Wiley ( 1987 ) , p. 55 But the uproar led to a change in Academy voting procedures the following year , whereby nominations were determined by votes from all eligible members of a particular branch , rather than by a smaller committee , Spada ( 1993 ) , p. 107 with results independently tabulated by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse .
Bette Davis