The Academy Awards
1931-1932 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] Best Adapted Screenplay [Bad Girl] [Arrowsmith] Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [ ] These films were released in 1931 and were not eligible to be nominated for the Hot Toasty Rag Awards of 1932 |
The Hot Toasty Rag Awards (video presentation here)
1932 Best Picture I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Grand Hotel The Wet Parade Best Director Mervyn LeRoy - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang John M. Stahl - Back Street Ernst Lubitsch - Broken Lullaby Rouben Mamoulian - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Edmund Goulding - Grand Hotel Howard Hawks - Scarface Victor Fleming - The Wet Parade Best Actor Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang John Barrymore - A Bill of Divorcement Lionel Barrymore - Grand Hotel John Boles - Back Street Phillips Holmes - Broken Lullaby Edward G. Robinson - Two Seconds Robert Young - The Wet Parade Best Actress Irene Dunne - Back Street Tallulah Bankhead - Devil and the Deep Tallulah Bankhead - Faithless Clara Bow - Call Her Savage Joan Crawford - Grand Hotel Katharine Hepburn - A Bill of Divorcement Best Adapted Screenplay Back Street Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Grand Hotel Night Court Trouble in Paradise |
Notes from the Members of the Board:
This is our first year, and a year of firsts. The first time we saw Tallulah Bankhead, Paul Muni, and Clara Bow in a movie was in preparation for the 1932 awards. Before we started compiling nominees, we’d never even heard of the Prohibition movie The Wet Parade, and we ended up nominating it for Best Picture, Director, and Actor!
Hidden Gem: The Wet Parade
- M.E.
This is our first year, and a year of firsts. The first time we saw Tallulah Bankhead, Paul Muni, and Clara Bow in a movie was in preparation for the 1932 awards. Before we started compiling nominees, we’d never even heard of the Prohibition movie The Wet Parade, and we ended up nominating it for Best Picture, Director, and Actor!
Hidden Gem: The Wet Parade
- M.E.