Classic Film Guide

1929-1930

1929-1930 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees)

(winners listed first, in bold print)

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

The Big House (1930)

Disraeli (1929)

The Divorcee (1930)

The Love Parade (1929)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

George Arliss, Disraeli (1929)

Wallace Beery, The Big House (1930)

Maurice Chevalier, The Big Pond (1930)

Ronald Colman, Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Ronald Colman, Condemned (1929)

George Arliss, The Green Goddess (1930)

Maurice Chevalier, The Love Parade (1929)

Lawrence Tibbett, The Rogue Song (1930)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Norma Shearer, The Divorcee (1930)

Greta Garbo, Anna Christie (1930)

Nancy Carroll, The Devil's Holiday (1930)

Greta Garbo, Romance (1930)

Ruth Chatterton, Sarah and Son (1930)

Norma Shearer, Their Own Desire (1929)

Gloria Swanson, The Trespasser (1929)

Best Director

Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Clarence Brown, Anna Christie (1930)

Robert Z. Leonard, The Divorcee (1930)

King Vidor, Hallelujah! (1929)

Ernst Lubitsch, The Love Parade (1929)

Clarence Brown, Romance (1930)

Best Writing, Achievement

Frances Marion, The Big House (1930)

George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson, & Del Andrews for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Julien Josephson, Disraeli (1929)

John Meehan, The Divorcee (1930)

Howard Estabrook, Street of Chance (1930)

Best Cinematography

Joseph Rucker & Willard Van der Veer, With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)

Arthur Edesen, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

William Daniels, Anna Christie (1930)

Tony Gaudio & Harry Perry, Hell's Angels (1930)

Victor Milner, The Love Parade (1929)

Best Art Direction

Herman Rosse, The King of Jazz (1930)

William Cameron Menzies, Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Hans Dreier, The Love Parade (1929)

Jack Okey, Sally (1929)

Hans Dreier, The Vagabond King (1930)

Best Sound, Recording

Douglas Shearer, The Big House (1930)

John Tribby, The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)

Franklin Hansen, The Love Parade (1929)

Oscar Lagerstrom, Raffles (1930)

George Groves, The Song of the Flame (1930)