4th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy AwardsB | name = 4th
date = November 10, 1931
site = Biltmore Hotel
Los Angeles, California
host = Lawrence Grant
last = 3rd
next = 5thThe 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1930/1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows:

Awards

For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: "4th Academy Awards nominees and winners"

Best Motion Picture of the Year

*"Cimarron" (1931)

Best Actor

*Lionel Barrymore as Stephen Ashe in "A Free Soul" (1931)

Best Actress

*Marie Dressler as Min Divot in "Min and Bill" (1930)

Best Art Direction

*Max Ree for "Cimarron" (1931)

Best Cinematography

*Floyd Crosby for "Tabu" (1931)

Best Director

*Norman Taurog for "Skippy" (1931)

Outstanding Production

*RKO Radio Pictures for "Cimarron" (1931)

Best Sound Recording

*Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department

NOTE: This award was not associated with any specific film title.

Best Writing (Adaptation)

*Howard Estabrook for "Cimarron" (1931)

Best Writing (Original Story)

*John Monk Saunders for "The Dawn Patrol" (1930)

Best Scientific or Technical Award (Class I)

*Electrical Research Products, Inc.
*RCA-Photophone, Inc.
*RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.for noise reduction recording equipment

*DuPont Film Manufacturing Corp.
*Eastman Kodak Companyfor super-sensitive panchromatic film

Best Scientific or Technical Award (Class II)

*Fox Film Corp. for effective use of synchro-projection composite photography

Best Scientific or Technical Award (Class III)

*Electrical Research Products, Inc. for moving coil microphone transmitters
*RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. for reflex type microphone concentrators
*RCA-Photophone, Inc. for ribbon microphone transmitters