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Outstanding ProductionPrior to the Awards for 1951, no producer(s) named with nominations
Scientific Or Technical Class I (Statuette): No award given for 1935.
Class II (Certificate): Agfa Ansco Corporation - For their development of the Agfa infra-red film.
Eastman Kodak Company - For their development of the Eastman Pola-Screen.
Class III (Honorable Mention): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio - For the development of anti-directional negative and positive development by means of jet turbulation, and the application of the method to all negative and print processing of the entire product of a major producing company.
William A. Mueller (Warner Bros-First National Studio Sound Department) - For his method of dubbing, in which the level of the dialogue automatically controls the level of the accompanying music and sound effects.
Mole-Richardson Company - For their development of the "Solar-spot" spot lamps.
Douglas Shearer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department) - For their automatic control system for cameras and sound recording machines and auxiliary stage equipment.
Electrical Research Products Inc. - For their study and development of equipment to analyze and measure flutter resulting from the travel of the film through the mechanisms used in the recording and reproduction of sound.
Paramount Productions Inc. - For the design and construction of the Paramount transparency air turbine developing machine.
Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros-First National Studio), Director of Sound Recording - For the method of intercutting variable density and variable area sound tracks to secure an increase in the effective volume range of sound recorded for motion pictures.
Special Award D.W. Griffith - For his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts. Winner presented a Statuette.
FIRSTS · Mutiny on the Bounty was the first film to garner three acting nominations in the same category.
· Price, Waterhouse was hired to tabulate the ballots for the first time.
· The Informer screenwriter, Dudley Nichols, was the first winner to refuse the Oscar® on political grounds.
· Cinematographer Hal Mohr was the first and only write-in ballot winner.
· A flop in its initial release, The Informer was the first film to benefit financially from an Oscar®. It made its money back within days of its Best Actor win.
· At $2 million, Mutiny on the Bounty was the most expensive motion picture made to-date.
· MGM was the first studio to campaign with ads in the press for Oscar® consideration. The movie was Ah, Wilderness! It didn't receive a single nomination.
RULE CHANGES · "Dance Direction" added.
· Write-in votes allowed for second and final year.
SINS OF OMISSION Picture: The 39 Steps, A Night at the Opera, The Bride of Frankenstein Director: Michael Curtiz - Captain Blood, Alfred Hitchcock - The 39 Steps Actor: Paul Muni - Black Fury Actress: Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina,
Song: "Broadway Rhythm," "I Won't Dance," "The Lady in Red"
UNMENTIONABLES · The studios pulled out funding for the Awards, and the Academy was forced to foot the bill for the Big Night.
· Thanks to union efforts, Academy membership dropped from more than 600 to 40.
· Bette Davis insisted that she was the one who first dubbed the Academy Award "Oscar" in honor of her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson. Their marriage was a disaster. She thought he might be gay and carried on affairs with Howard Hughes and the the great love of her life, director William Wyler. Nelson tried to blackmail Hughes with tape recordings of his sexual liaisons with Davis.
· "Bette Davis is an egotistical bitch," said Barbara Stanwyck.
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Agfa Ansco Corporation - For their development of the Agfa infra-red film.