7th Academy Awards
The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1934, was held on February 27, 1935, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. Frank Capra's influential romantic comedy "It Happened One Night" became the first film to perform a "clean sweep" of the top five award categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. This feat would later be duplicated by "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1976 and "The Silence of the Lambs" in 1992. It also was the first  romantic comedy to be named Best Picture, and the first to win two acting Oscars. For the first time, the Academy standardized the practice – still in effect – that the award eligibility period for a film would be the preceding calendar year. This was also the first of only two years in which write-in candidates were allowed by the Academy as a tacit response to the controversy surrounding the snub of Bette Davis' performance in "Of Human Bondage". The categories of Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song were first introduced this year. This was the last  time that those in the Best Actor category were all first time nominees, as well as the last time until the 43rd Academy Awards were either leading acting category was entirely first-time nominees. (All nominees in the Best Actress category that year were first-timers, and this year was the only other time this had occurred since the 2nd Academy Awards.) Shirley Temple received the first Juvenile Award at age six, making her the youngest Oscar recipient ever. Clark Gable became the first Best Actor winner born in the 20th century (1901), as well as the first to be  born during Teddy Roosevelt's administration. Awards. Nominees were announced on February 5, 1935. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Multiple nominations and awards. The following eleven films received multiple nominations: The following two films received multiple awards: