1933 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1933

Dinner At Eight

Duck Soup

42nd Street

Gold Diggers Of 1933

The Invisible Man

★ King Kong

Liebelei

Little Women

The Private Life Of Henry VIII

Zero For Conduct

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Best Actor of 1933

Nils Asther (The Bitter Tea Of General Yen)

★ ✔ Charles Laughton (The Private Life Of Henry VIII)

The Marx Brothers (Duck Soup)

Claude Rains (The Invisible Man)

Paul Robeson (The Emperor Jones)

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Best Actress of 1933

★ Jean Harlow (Dinner At Eight and Bombshell)

✔ Katharine Hepburn (Christopher Strong, Morning Glory and Little Women)

May Robson (Lady For A Day)

Mae West (She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel)

Fay Wray (King Kong)

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Best Director of 1933

Lloyd Bacon (42nd Street and Footlight Parade)

Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong)

★ George Cukor (Dinner At Eight and Little Women)

Leo McCarey (Duck Soup)

James Whale (The Invisible Man)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1933

★ John Barrymore (Dinner At Eight)

Edward Everett Horton (Design For Living)

Edgar Kennedy (Duck Soup)

Guy Kibbee (Gold Diggers of 1933, Lady For A Day and Footlight Parade)

Warren William (Gold Diggers Of 1933 and Lady For A Day)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1933

Spring Byington (Little Women)

Marie Dressler (Dinner At Eight)

★ Margaret Dumont (Duck Soup)

Ruby Keeler (42nd Street, Gold Diggers Of 1933 and Footlight Parade)

Elsa Lanchester (The Private Life of Henry VIII)

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Special Award

Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin (Duck Soup) (original screenplay)

Busby Berkley (42nd Street, Gold Diggers Of 1933 and Footlight Parade) (dance direction)

Willis O'Brien, Sydney Saunders and Linwood Dunn (King Kong) (visual effects)

Max Steiner (King Kong) (score)

"Kong" (King Kong) (worst weekend getaway ever, New York edition)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

I have previously posted about some of the movies and performers from 1933. Click the highlighted link to read those essays: King Kong, Duck Soup, Zero For Conduct, the Marx Brothers, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, James Whale, John Barrymore, Margaret Dumont, and the groundbreaking musicals of 1933.