Frank Capra, director, holding his Academy Award for Best Director for It Happened One Night, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Frank Capra, director, holding his Academy Award for Best Director for It Happened One Night, Los Angeles, 1935

Director

Capra, Frank, $d 1897-1991

Producer

Columbia Pictures

Date Created

[February 27, 1935]

Date

1935-02-27

Collection

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Notes

Description

The seventh Academy Awards were held in the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 1935.

Caption

Text from negative enclosure: Academy Awards.
On back of photo: [Press tag:] Frank Capra, Hollywood’s No. 1 director, receives the award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the outstanding directorial achievement of 1934. The Columbia picture, “It Happened One Night”, was also acclaimed the finest production of the year, and its stars, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, received awards for their acting. Columbia received eight out of eleven first places on this night of nights!

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic print

Medium

b&w photograph

Keywords

Genre

portrait photographs
film stills
black-and-white photographs
comedy films

Names

Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
It happened one night (Motion picture)