The 5th Academy Awards were held by the

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on November 18, 1932, at the Ambassador Hotel in

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, hosted by

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. Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards.

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created a short animated film for the banquet, ''

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''. '' Grand Hotel'' became the only Best Picture winner to be nominated for Best Picture and nothing else. It was the first of five films to date to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination, followed by ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Green Book'', and ''

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''; and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination. This was the first of three Oscars in which ''two'' films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner ('' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' and ''

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''). This happened again at the 25th and

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. This year saw the introduction of short film awards, with Best Short Subject, Cartoon winner ''

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'' becoming the first color film to win an Oscar. There was a tie for Best Actor, a unique event in Academy history; this was the last ceremony to date in which no film won more than two Oscars. By winning Best Actor for '' The Champ'', as well as starring in ''Grand Hotel'', Wallace Beery is the only performer to date to appear in a Best Picture-winning film and win an acting Oscar for a different Best Picture nominee in the same year.

Awards

Nominees were announced on October 12, 1932. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Academy Honorary Award

, for the creation of

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Multiple nominations and awards

The following seven films received multiple nominations: * 4 nominations: '' Arrowsmith'' and '' The Champ'' * 3 nominations: '' Bad Girl'', '' Shanghai Express'' and '' Dr. Jekyll'' and ''Mr. Hyde'' * 2 nominations: ''

'' The following two films received multiple awards: * 2 awards: '' Bad Girl'' and '' The Champ''

Notes

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Awards

Academy Honorary Award

Multiple nominations and awards

See also

Notes