Who received the best actor Oscar for the 1934 film ' It Happened One Night'?
It Happened One Night It Happened One Night It Happened One Night is a 1934 pre-Code American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. Classified as a "pre-Code" production, the film is among the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began rigidly enforcing the
It Happened One Night 1930 Motion Picture Production Code in July 1934. "It Happened One Night" was released just four months prior to that enforcement. "It Happened One Night" is the first of only three films (the other two being "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Silence of the Lambs") to win all five major Academy Awards : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1993, "It Happened One Night" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2013, the