Acclaimed Year's Outstanding Director -- Norman Taurog, whose direction of Paramount's "Skippy" was voted the best of 1931 by the Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences. Taurog, whose other pictures this year include "Huckleberry Finn" and "Sooky", was presented with the gold statuette in the presence of Charles Curtis, Vice-president of the United States; leaders in national, state and civic life and practically all the important figure of filmland. January 12, 1932. (Photo by Paramount Photo).
Acclaimed Year's Outstanding Director -- Norman Taurog, whose direction of Paramount's "Skippy" was voted the best of 1931 by the Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences. Taurog, whose other pictures this year include "Huckleberry Finn" and "Sooky", was presented with the gold statuette in the presence of Charles Curtis, Vice-president of the United States; leaders in national, state and civic life and practically all the important figure of filmland. January 12, 1932. (Photo by Paramount Photo).