Which 1935 film won Best Picture, based on the HMS Bounty mutiny?

The 1935 film based on the HMS Bounty mutiny that won Best Picture was Mutiny on the Bounty.

Directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film dramatizes the 1789 mutiny aboard the British ship HMS Bounty. Charles Laughton plays the severe Captain William Bligh, Clark Gable portrays Fletcher Christian, and Franchot Tone plays Roger Byam, whose perspective helps frame the story.

At the 8th Academy Awards, honoring films released in 1935, Mutiny on the Bounty won Best Picture. It received eight nominations overall, including three nominations for Best Actor—one each for Gable, Laughton, and Tone. The film won only Best Picture, a distinction that has made it an unusual Oscar record-holder.

The movie was adapted from novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall rather than serving as a strict historical reconstruction. Its treatment of Bligh and the mutiny simplifies or alters several real events, so viewers sometimes mistake its dramatic version for the complete historical record. Later films, including The Bounty, offered different interpretations.