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The 1935 Retro Hollmann Awards Nominees!

Twelve days delayed, but here they are - the nominees for the 1935 Retro Hollmann Awards! For context, these were the 74 films screened:

The 39 Steps
$1,000 a Minute
Alice Adams
All the King's Horses
Anna Karenina
Barbary Coast
Becky Sharp
The Big Broadcast of 1936
Black Fury
The Bride of Frankenstein
Broadway Hostess
Broadway Melody of 1936
The Call of the Wild
Captain Blood
Cardinal Richelieu
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Charlie Chan in Paris
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Charlie Chan's Secret
China Seas
The Clairvoyant
Clive of India
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
The Crusades
Curly Top
Dangerous
Dante's Inferno
The Dark Angel
David Copperfield
The Devil is a Woman
Escape Me Never
Folies Bergère de Paris
"G" Men
The Gay Deception
The Glass Key
Go Into Your Dance
Gold Diggers of 1935
I Dream Too Much
The Informer
King of Burlesque
Last Days of Pompeii
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Love Me Forever
Mad Love
Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Mark of the Vampire
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Les Miserables
Moscow Laughs
Mutiny on the Bounty
Mysterious Mr. Wong
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Naughty Marietta
A Night at the Opera
Night Life of the Gods
Peter Ibbetson
Private Worlds
The Raven
Red Salute
Roberta
Ruggles of Red Gap
Sanders of the River
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scoundrel
Shanghai
She
Sylvia Scarlett
Thanks a Million
Top Hat
The Wandering Jew
Werewolf of London

Check out the Top Ten, while you're at it. And now - the nominees:

Best Score
The Bride of Frankenstein
Franz Waxman
Captain Blood
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Informer
Max Steiner
Jolly Fellows
Isaak Dunaevskiy
She
Max Steiner

Best Visual Effects
The Bride of Frankenstein
John P. Fulton, photographic effects
Captain Blood
Fred Jackman, special photographic effects
China Seas
Warren Newcombe, special effects
James Basevi, miniatures
Dante's Inferno
The Last Days of Pompeii
Harry Redmond, Sr. / Harry Redmond, Jr., special effects
Vernon L. Walker, photographic effects


Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Bride of Frankenstein
Jack P. Pierce, makeup
Irma Kusely, hair
The Last Days of Pompeii
Robert J. Schiffer, makeup
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Perc Westmore, cosmetician
Faye Hanlin, hair
Les Miserables
Guy Pearce, makeup
Buddy King, hair
Werewolf of London
Jack P. Pierce / Armand Triller, makeup
Mary Dolor, hair


Best Adapted Screenplay
Alice Adams
Dorothy Yost & Mortimer Offner and Jane Murfin
from the novel by Booth Tarkington
Black Fury
Abem Finkel & Carl Erickson
from a play Bohunk by Harry R. Irving and the story "Jan Volkanik" by Judge Michael A. Musmanno
The Clairvoyant
Charles Bennett & Bryan Edgar Wallace
from the novel by Ernst Lothar
The Informer
Dudley Nichols
from the novel by Liam O'Flaherty
Les Miserables
W.P. Lipscomb
from the novel by Victor Hugo


Best Cinematography
Black Fury
Byron Haskin
The Bride of Frankenstein
John J. Mescall
The Crusades
Victor Milner
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hal Mohr
Peter Ibbetson
Charles Lang


Best Production Design
Black Fury
John Hughes, art direction
Dante's Inferno
Duncan Cramer / David S. Hall, art direction
The Last Days of Pompeii
Van Nest Polglase, art direction
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Roland Anderson / Hans Dreier, art direction
The Wandering Jew
James A. Carter, art direction


Best Film Editing

The Bride of Frankenstein
Ted J. Kent

Captain Blood
George Amy

Jolly Fellows
Esfir Tobak

Mad Love
Hugh Wynn

A Night at the Opera
William LeVanway


Best Costume Design
Becky Sharp
Robert Edmond Jones
The Crusades
Travis Banton
The Devil is a Woman
Travis Banton
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Max RĂ©e
Ruggles of Red Gap
Travis Banton


Best Sound

The Bride of Frankenstein
Gilbert Kurland, sound supervisor
William Hedgcock, sound technician

Captain Blood
Nathan Levinson, sound director
C.A. Riggs, sound

China Seas
Douglas Shearer, recording director

A Night at the Opera
Douglas Shearer, recording director
James Brock, sound mixer
William Steinkamp, sound re-recordist
Michael Steinore, sound editor

Top Hat
George Marsh, sound cutter
Hugh McDowell / Eddie Harman / John E. Tribby, sound recordists
Clem Portman, sound re-recordist
Robert Wise, sound effects editor


Best Ensemble
Alice Adams
The Clairvoyant
Naughty Marietta
Sylvia Scarlett
Top Hat


Best Supporting Actress
Alice Brady as Mrs. Prentiss
Gold Diggers of 1935
Helen Broderick as Madge Hardwick
Top Hat
Mary Clare as Mother
The Clairvoyant
Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley / The Monster's Mate
The Bride of Frankenstein
Mariya Strelkova as Yelena
Jolly Fellows


Best Original Screenplay

The Crusades
Harold Lamb & Waldemar Young and Dudley Nichols

Dante's Inferno
Philip Klein and Robert Yost

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
scenario by Edwin Greenwood and A.R. Rawlinson
additional dialogue by Emlyn Williams

A Night at the Opera
George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind
story by James Kevin McGuinness

Shanghai
C. Graham Baker / Lynn Starling / Gene Towne


Best Actor
Errol Flynn as Dr. Peter Blood
Captain Blood
Boris Karloff as The Monster
The Bride of Frankenstein
Peter Lorre as Roderick Raskolnikov
Crime and Punishment
Victor McLaglen as Gypo Nolan
The Informer
Claude Rains as Maximus
The Clairvoyant


Best Actress
Claudette Colbert as Dr. Jane Everest
Private Worlds
Marlene Dietrich as Concha Lopez
The Devil is a Woman
Katharine Hepburn as Alice Adams
Alice Adams
Jeanette MacDonald as Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain alias Marietta
Naughty Marietta
Loretta Young as Claire Blake
The Call of the Wild


Best Original Song

Gold Diggers of 1935 - "Lullaby of Broadway"
music by Harry Warren
lyrics by Al Dubin

A Night at the Opera - "Alone"
music by Nacio Herb Brown
lyrics by Arthur Freed

Sanders of the River - "Congo Lullaby"
music by Mischa Spoliansky
lyrics by Arthur Wimperis

Top Hat - "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)"
music and lyrics by Irving Berlin

Top Hat - "Cheek to Cheek"
music and lyrics by Irving Berlin


Best Director
Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Jolly Fellows
Michael Curtiz
Black Fury
John Ford
The Informer
Karl Freund
Mad Love
James Whale
The Bride of Frankenstein


Best Supporting Actor
Victor Jory as Oberon
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Frank Morgan as Governor Gaspard d'Annard
Naughty Marietta
J. Carrol Naish as Steve
Black Fury
Fred Stone as Virgil Adams
Alice Adams
Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius
The Bride of Frankenstein


Best Picture of the Year
Alice Adams
produced by Pandro S. Berman
The Bride of Frankenstein
produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.
The Informer
produced by John Ford
Jolly Fellows
A Night at the Opera
produced by Irving Thalberg


Of the 74 screened, 33 films were nominated. The Bride of Frankenstein leads the charge with eleven nominations, while Black Fury, Captain Blood, and Top Hat all hold the title of most number of nominations without a Best Picture nod (five nods each!). 

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