1931 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
THE CHAMP
MGM; King Vidor, Harry Rapf, Irving Thalberg & William
M. Weiss
CITY LIGHTS
United Artists; Charles Chaplin
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Paramount; Rouben Mamoulian
DRACULA
Universal; Tod Browning & Carl Laemmle,
Jr.
FRANKENSTEIN
Universal; Carl Laemmle, Jr.
THE FRONT PAGE
United Artists / Caddo; Howard Hughes & Lewis
Milestone
LITTLE CAESAR
Warner Bros / First National; Hal B. Wallis & Darryl
F. Zanuck
M
Nero Film; Seymour Nebenzal
THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Warner Bros; Darryl F. Zanuck
SKIPPY
Paramount; Louis D. Lighton
Also Considered:
A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ (Frank Clifford & Alexandre
Kamenka); ARROWSMITH (Samuel Goldwyn); BAD GIRL (Winfield Sheehan); CIMARRON (William LeBaron & Wesley Ruggles); EAST LYNNE (Winfield Sheehan); A FREE SOUL (Clarence Brown); THE LAST
FLIGHT (credit unknown); THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (Ernst Lubitsch); TABU (credit unknown); TRADER HORN (Irving Thalberg)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Wallace Beery as "Andy Purcell" - THE CHAMP
James Cagney as "Tom Powers" - THE PUBLIC
ENEMY
Charles Chaplin as "The Tramp" - CITY LIGHTS
Maurice Chevalier as "Lt. Nikolaus Von Preyn" - THE
SMILING LIEUTENANT
Jackie Cooper as "Skippy Skinner" - SKIPPY
Richard Dix as "Yancey Cravat" - CIMARRON
Alfred Lunt as "The Actor" - THE GUARDSMAN
Fredric March as "Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde" -
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Adolphe Menjou as "Walter Burns" - THE FRONT
PAGE
Edward G. Robinson as "Enrico Bandello / Little Caesar" -
LITTLE CAESAR
Also Considered:
John Barrymore (SVENGALI); Richard Barthelmess (THE LAST
FLIGHT); Charles Chaplin (CITY LIGHTS); Colin Clive (FRANKENSTEIN); Ronald Colman (ARROWSMITH); Raymond Cordy (A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ); Ricardo Cortez (THE MALTESE FALCON); Leslie Howard (A FREE
SOUL); Bela Lugosi (DRACULA); Michel Simon (LA CHIENNE); Robert Williams (PLATINUM BLONDE)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Virginia Cherrill as "The Blind Girl" - CITY
LIGHTS
Irene Dunne as "Sabra Cravat" - CIMARRON
Sally Eilers as "Dorothy Haley" - BAD GIRL
Lynn Fontanne as "The Actress" - THE
GUARDSMAN
Greta Garbo as "Mata Hari" - MATA HARI
Jean Harlow as "Ann Schuyler" - PLATINUM
BLONDE
Helen Hayes as "Madelon Claudet" - THE SIN OF MADELON
CLAUDET
Norma Shearer as "Jan Ashe" - A FREE SOUL
Sylvia Sidney as "Roberta Alden" - AN AMERICAN
TRAGEDY
Dorothy Wieck as "Fraulein Von Bernberg" - MÄDCHEN IN
UNIFORM
Also Considered:
Elisabeth Bergner (ARIANE); Mae Clarke (WATERLOO BRIDGE);
Marlene Dietrich (DISHONORED); Greta Garbo (SUSAN LENOX, HER FALL & RISE); Ann Harding (EAST LYNNE); Helen Hayes (ARROWSMITH); Ruan Lingyu (THE PEACH GIRL); Dorothy Mackaill (SAFE IN
HELL); Janie Marise (LA CHIENNE); Barbara Stanwyck (THE MIRACLE WOMAN)
BEST DIRECTOR
Frank Borzage - BAD GIRL
Tod Browning - DRACULA
Charles Chaplin - CITY LIGHTS
Fritz Lang - M
Mervyn LeRoy - LITTLE CAESAR
Rouben Mamoulian - DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Lewis Milestone - THE FRONT PAGE
Wesley Ruggles - CIMARRON
Norman Taurog - SKIPPY
James Whale -
FRANKENSTEIN
Also Considered:
Rene Clair (A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ); John Ford (ARROWSMITH);
Frank Lloyd (EAST LYNNE); Ernst Lubitsch (THE SMILING LIEUTENANT); Rouben Mamoulian (CITY STREETS); F.W. Murnau (TABU); W.S. Van Dyke (TRADER HORN); King Vidor (THE CHAMP); Josef Von
Sternberg (AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY); William A. Wellman (THE PUBLIC ENEMY)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Lionel Barrymore as "Stephen Ashe" - A FREE
SOUL
James Cagney as "Jack" - SMART MONEY
Jackie Cooper as "Dink" - THE CHAMP
Dudley Digges as "Casper Gutman" - THE MALTESE
FALCON
Boris Karloff as "The Monster" -
FRANKENSTEIN
Peter Lorre as "Hans Beckert" - M
Paul Lukas as "Big Fellow Maskal" - CITY
STREETS
Henri Marchand as "Emile" - A NOUS LA
LIBERTÉ
Pat O'Brien as "Hilary Johnson" - THE FRONT
PAGE
Lewis Stone as "Carlo Boretti" - THE SIN OF MADELON
CLAUDET
Also Considered:
Richard Bennett (ARROWSMITH); William Collier, Jr.
(CIMARRON); Donald Crisp (SVENGALI); Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (LITTLE CAESAR); Dwight Frye (DRACULA); Clark Gable (A FREE SOUL); Jean Hersholt (SUSAN LENOX, HER FALL & RISE); Guy Kibbee
(CITY STREETS); Harry Myers (CITY LIGHTS); Roland Young (THE GUARDSMAN)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Helen Chandler as "Nikki" - THE LAST FLIGHT
Claudette Colbert as "Franzi" - THE SMILING
LIEUTENANT
Minna Gombell as "Edna Driggs" - BAD GIRL
Jean Harlow as "Gwen Allen" - THE PUBLIC
ENEMY
Miriam Hopkins as "Ivy Pearson" - DR. JEKYLL & MR.
HYDE
Miriam Hopkins as "Princess Anna" - THE SMILING
LIEUTENANT
Lotte Lenya as "Jenny" - THE THREEPENNY
ORCHESTRA
Marian Marsh as "Trilby O'Farrell" -
SVENGALI
Una Merkel as "Effie Perine" - THE MALTESE
FALCON
Loretta Young as "Gallagher" - PLATINUM
BLONDE
Also Considered:
Helen Chandler (DRACULA); Mae Clarke (FRANKENSTEIN);
Frances Dee (AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY); Rolla France (A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ); Wynn Gibson (CITY STREETS); Evalyn Knapp (SMART MONEY); Una Merkel (PRIVATE LIVES); Irene Rich (THE CHAMP); Estelle Taylor
(CIMARRON); Thelma Todd (MONKEY BUSINESS)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTATION)
ARROWSMITH
Sidney Howard
BAD GIRL
Viña Delmar & Edwin J. Burke
CIMARRON
Howard Estabrook
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Samuel Hoffenstein & Percy Heath
FRANKENSTEIN
John L. Balderston, Garrett Fort & Francis Edward
Faragoh
A FREE SOUL
John Meehan & Becky Gardiner
THE FRONT PAGE
Bart Cormack, Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht & Charles
MacArthur
THE GHOST TRAIN
Angus MacPhail & Lajos Biro
LITTLE
CAESAR
Francis Edward Faragoh &
Robert Lord
SKIPPY
Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Norman Z. McLeod
Also Considered:
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (Samuel Hoffenstein); LA CHIENNE
(Jean Renoir); CITY STREETS (Oliver H.P. Garrett); FIVE STAR FINAL (Byron Morgan & Robert Lord); THE LAST FLIGHT (John Monk Saunders); THE MALTESE FALCON (Maude Falton & Brown
Holmes); MARIUS (Marcel Pagnol); NIGHT NURSE (Oliver H.P. Garrett); THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (Ernest Vajda & Samson Raphaelson); SUSAN LENOX, HER FALL & RISE (Wanda Tuchock,
Leon Gordon & Zelda Sears)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ
Rene Clair
THE
CHAMP
Frances Marion & Leonard
Praskins
CITY LIGHTS
Charles Chaplin
M
Fritz Lang & Thea Von Harbou
MONKEY BUSINESS
S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone & Arthur
Sheekman
PARDON US
H.M. Walker & Stan Laurel
THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Harvey Thew, Kubec Glasmon & John Bright
THE SECRET 6
Frances Marion
Also Considered:
BACHELOR APARTMENT (John Howard Lawson & J. Walter
Ruben); DISHONORED (Josef Von Sternberg & Daniel N. Rubin); HONOR AMONG LOVERS (Austin Parker); MATA HARI (Benjamin Glazer & Leo Birinski); PLATINUM BLONDE (Robert Riskin);
SMART MONEY (Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Lucien Hubbard & Joseph Jackson); THE STRUGGLE (Anita Loos & John Emerson); TRANSATLANTIC (Lynn Starling & Guy Bolton)
BEST ART DIRECTION
A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ
Lazare Meerson
ARROWSMITH
Richard Day
CIMARRON
Max Ree
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Hans Dreier
DRACULA
John Hoffman, Herman Rosse
& Charles D. Hall
FRANKENSTEIN
Charles D. Hall
M
Emil Hassler & Karl Vollbrecht
THE MAD GENIUS
Anton Grot
SVENGALI
Anton Grot
TRANSATLANTIC
Gordon Wiles
Also Considered:
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (Hans Dreier); CITY LIGHTS (Henry
Clive); EAST LYNNE (Joseph Urban); THE LAST FLIGHT (Jack Okey); LITTLE CAESAR (Anton Grot); LE MILLION (Lazare Meerson); THE PUBLIC ENEMY (Max Parker); THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (Hans Dreier);
THE THREEPENNY ORCHESTRA (Andrej Andrejew); WATERLOO BRIDGE (Charles D. Hall)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ
Georges Perinal
CIMARRON
Edward Cronjager
CITY STREETS
Lee Garmes
DR. JEKYLL & MR.
HYDE
Karl
Struss
DRACULA
Karl Freund
FRANKENSTEIN
Arthur Edeson
M
Fritz Arno Wagner
SVENGALI
Barney McGill
TABU
Floyd Crosby
TRADER HORN
Clyde de Vinna
Also Considered:
ARROWSMITH (Ray June); CITY LIGHTS (Gordon Pollock &
Rollie Totheroh); DISHONORED (Lee Garmes); THE LAST FLIGHT (Sid Hickox); LITTLE CAESAR (Tony Gaudio); THE MAD GENIUS (Barney McGill); THE PUBLIC ENEMY (Dev Jennings); THE SMILING LIEUTENANT
(George Folsey); STREET SCENE (George Barnes); THE THREEPENNY ORCHESTRA (Fritz Arno Wagner)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
CIMARRON
Max Ree
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Travis Banton
DRACULA
Ed Ware & Vera West
EAST LYNNE
Sophie Wachner
FRANKENSTEIN
Mae Bruce
THE SECRET 6
Rene Hupert
Also Considered:
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (Travis Banton); BAD GIRL (Dolly
Tree); DISHONORED (Travis Banton); EAST LYNNE (Sophie Wachner); LITTLE CAESAR (Earl Luick); THE PUBLIC ENEMY (Edward Stevenson); THE SMILING LIEUTENTANT (credit unknown)
BEST FILM EDITING
THE CHAMP
Hugh Wynn
CIMARRON
William Hamilton
CITY LIGHTS
Charles Chaplin & Willard Nico
DR. JEKYLL & MR.
HYDE
William
Shea
FRANKENSTEIN
Clarence Kolster
LITTLE CAESAR
Ray Curtiss
M
Paul Falkenberg
THE PUBLIC ENEMY
Edward McDermott
TABU
Arthur A. Brooks
TRADER HORN
Ben Lewis
Also Considered:
CITY STREETS (William Shea); DRACULA (Milton Carruth);
FIVE STAR FINAL (Frank Ware); THE FRONT PAGE (Duncan Mansfield); THE LAST FLIGHT (Alexander Hall); THE MAD GENIUS (Ralph Dawson); THE MALTESE FALCON (George Marks); SKIPPY (credit unknown);
THE SKIN GAME (A.R. Gobbett & Rene Marrison); THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (Merrill G. White)
BEST MAKEUP
DRACULA
Jack Pierce
DR. JEKYLL & MR.
HYDE
Norbert A. Myles & Wally
Westmore
FRANKENSTEIN
Jack Pierce
Also Considered:
CIMARRON (Ern Westmore); CITY LIGHTS (credit unknown);
SVENGALI (Johnny Willis)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
A NOUS LA
LIBERTÉ
Georges
Auric
CIMARRON
Max Steiner
CITY LIGHTS
Charles Chaplin
DRACULA
Heinz Roemheld
FRANKENSTEIN
Bernhard Kaun
THE SMILING LIEUTENANT
Adolph Deutsch & Johnny Green
SVENGALI
David Mendoza
TABU
Violeta Dinescu & Hugo Riesenfeld
TRADER HORN
William Axt
THE WHITE MAN
Herbert Stothart
Also Considered:
ARROWSMITH (Alfred Newman); THE BLACK CAMEL (Samuel
Kaylin); LITTLE CAESAR (David Mendoza); THE MAD GENIUS (David Mendoza); THE MALTESE FALCON (Leo Forbstein); THE PUBLIC ENEMY (David Mendoza); SKIPPY (John Liepold); THE STRUGGLE (D.W.
Griffith & Philip A. Scheib); THE THREEPENNY ORCHESTRA (Kurt Weill); WATERLOO BRIDGE (Val Burton)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"A Nous La Liberte" - A NOUS LA LIBERTÉ
Georges Auric
"When It's Sleepy Time
Down South" - SAFE IN HELL
Leon René, Otis René &
Clarence Muse
"While Hearts Are Singing" - THE SMILING
LIEUTENANT
Oscar Strauss & Clifford Gray
Also Considered:
"There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" - PALMY DAYS (Harry
Akst); "Toujours L'Amour In The Army" - THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (Oscar Strauss & Clifford Gray); "Tramps At Sea" - THE CUBAN LOVE SONG (Herbert Stothart, Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy
Fields)
BEST SOUND
CIMARRON
Clem Portman
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
M.M. Paggi
DRACULA
C. Roy Hunter
FRANKENSTEIN
C. Roy
Hunter
TRADER HORN
Douglas Shearer
Also Considered:
THE CHAMP (Douglas Shearer); FIGHTING CARAVANS (Earl S.
Hayman); A FREE SOUL (Douglas Shearer); M (Adolf Jansen); SKIPPY (Gene Merritt); TABU (credit unknown)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Wally Westmore
DRACULA
Frank H. Booth, William Davidson & John
Fulton
FRANKENSTEIN
John P.
Fulton
Also Considered:
CREATION (Willis O’Brien); END OF THE WORLD (W. Percy Day);
THE LAST FLIGHT (Fred Jackman)
Most Wins:
4 - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
3 - Frankenstein
1 - A Nous la Liberté; Cimarron; The Champ; City Lights; Dracula; Little Caesar; M; Safe In Hell; The Sin Of Madelon Claudet; The Smiling Lieutenant
Most Nominations:
12 - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde; Frankenstein
10 - Cimarron
9 - Dracula
7 - City Lights; M
6 - A Nous la Liberté
5 - The Champ; Little Caesar; The Smiling Lieutenant