Editing It Happened One Night (section)

===Academy Awards===
The film won all five of the [[Academy Award]]s for which it was nominated at the [[7th Academy Awards]] for 1934:
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! Award !! Result !! Winner
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| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Outstanding Production]] || {{won}} || [[Frank Capra]] and [[Harry Cohn]] (for [[Columbia Pictures]])
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| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || {{won}} || [[Frank Capra]]
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| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] || {{won}} || [[Clark Gable]]
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| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] || {{won}} || [[Claudette Colbert]]
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| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adaptation]] || {{won}} || [[Robert Riskin]]
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''It Happened One Night'' was the first film [[List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees|to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards]] (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing). {{As of|2025}}, only two films have matched this feat: ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' in 1975 and ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' in 1991.<ref>[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1252044858649 "Awards."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111092629/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1252044858649 |date=January 11, 2012 }} ''awardsdatabase.oscars.org''. Retrieved: September 4, 2009.</ref>

On December 15, 1996, Gable's Oscar was auctioned off for $607,500 to [[Steven Spielberg]], who donated the statuette to the Motion Picture Academy.<ref>McKittrick, Rosemary. [http://www.liveauctiontalk.com/free_article_detail.php?article_id=53 "Gable's Gold: Auction cashes in on Hollywood idol."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183113/http://www.liveauctiontalk.com/free_article_detail.php?article_id=53 |date=March 3, 2016 }} ''liveauctiontalk.com''. Retrieved: December 7, 2009.</ref> In June of the following year, Colbert's Oscar was offered for auction by [[Christie's]] but attracted no bids.<ref>Story, Paula (8 June 1997). [https://apnews.com/article/ed8e94c38780e82ebb5580c270a96f3d "Marilyn Monroe's gown draws $57,000 at Christie's auction"]. ''APNews.com''. Retrieved 2 January 2023.</ref>