The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the best films for 1934, was held on February 27, 1935, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. As of this ceremony, the Academy's award eligibility period coincided with the calendar year.
Frank Capra; Best Director winner and Best Picture co-winner
Harry Cohn; Best Picture co-winner
Clark Gable; Best Actor winner
Claudette Colbert; Best Actress winner
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin S. Cobb wearing a coonskin cap and smoking a cigar. Illustration by Tony Sarg for "The Glory of the States: Kentucky" by Irvin S. Cobb, published in The American Magazine for May 1916.