Frank Capra at Reel Classics: Academy Awards

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Filmography | Awards | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE | MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

Academy Awards:

1933	LADY FOR A DAY	Best Director Nomination
1934	IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT	Best Director Oscar
1936	MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN	Best Picture Nomination
1936	MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN	Best Director Oscar
1937	LOST HORIZON	Best Picture Nomination
1938	YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU	Best Picture Oscar
1938	YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU	Best Director Oscar
1939	MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON	Best Picture Nomination
1939	MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON	Best Director Nomination
1946	IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE	Best Picture Nomination
1946	IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE	Best Director Nomination

NOTE: Technically, Oscars for documentaries are given to the film itself, not any individual producer, director or production company. However, the Academy does usually name an individual or company/organization to accept the Academy Award nomination and/or Oscar on behalf of the film. Thus, when PRELUDE TO WAR (1942) won a special (non-competitive) Oscar for "its trenchant conception and authentic and stirring dramatization of the events which forced our nation into the war and of the ideals for which we fight," the Oscar itself was presented to the United States Army Special Services, not Capra who had directed and produced it.

Likewise, when THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA (1943), another documentary produced and directed by Capra, was nominated for Best Documentary Feature the following year, this nomination went to the United States Department of War Special Service Division. Because they were not awarded to Capra as an individual, these honors don't count towards his personal tally of Academy Award nominations or Oscars.

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