Claudette Colbert won her first and only Best Actress Oscar for the 1934 charming screwball comedy "It Happened One Night," directed by Frank Capra. Her hitchhiking scene, beating Clark Gable, became an instant classic.

 

 

 

Stage actress Helen Hayes made her screen debut in talkies with "The Sin of Madelon Claudet," a soap opera scripted by her husband Charles MacArthur, based on  the 1924 popular play by Edward Knoblock, for which she won the Oscar Award.

 

 

Oscar 2010: Academy’s Top Documentaries

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” Alex Gibney, director (ES Productions LLC)
“Enemies of the People,” Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, directors (Old Street Films)
“Exit through the Gift Shop,” Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures)
“Gasland,” Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC)