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4th Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1930/1931
Key facts
- Date
- November 10, 1931
- Site
- Biltmore Hotel , Los Angeles , California
- Hosted by
- Lawrence Grant
- Best picture
- Cimarron
- Most awards
- Cimarron (3)
- Most nominations
- Cimarron (7)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 5th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 3rd Academy Awards
- Location
- The Biltmore Los Angeles
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1932
- Image
- 4 LARGE MEM iconic banquet.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- awarded for period
- 1930-08-01
- point in time
- 1931-11-10
- edition number
- 4
- presenter
- Lawrence Grant
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Encyclopedic overview
The 4th Academy Awards were held on November 10, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, awarding films released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931. Cimarron was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only to do so until Dances With Wolves won in 1990. Cimarron received a then-record seven nominations, one in every category for which it was eligible, and was the first Best Picture winner to win more than two awards; it and A Free Soul were the first films to receive multiple acting nominations.
Nine-year-old Jackie Cooper was the first child actor to receive a nomination and was the youngest nominee until Justin Henry received a nomination for his performance in 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer at age eight. He remains the second-youngest Oscar nominee of all time, and the only Best Actor nominee under age 18. At the ceremony, he fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler; when Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother's lap.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “4th Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.