2nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1930)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Thursday, April 3, 1930
  • For films released in: 1928-1929
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Here is a list of nominations for the 2nd Annual Academy Awards. An official list of nominees was not released, but AMPAS researchers were later able to compile a “best guess” nominations list of the films their records indicate were under consideration by the Academy.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Picture

  • Alibi
    Feature Productions
  • The Broadway Melody
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Hollywood Revue
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • In Old Arizona
    Fox
  • The Patriot
    Paramount Famous Lasky

Best Directing

  • The Broadway Melody
    Harry Beaumont
  • The Divine Lady
    Frank Lloyd
  • Drag
    Frank Lloyd
  • In Old Arizona
    Irving Cummings
  • Madame X
    Lionel Barrymore
  • The Patriot
    Ernst Lubitsch
  • Weary River
    Frank Lloyd

Best Actor

  • Alibi
    Chester Morris
  • In Old Arizona
    Warner Baxter
  • The Patriot
    Lewis Stone
  • Thunderbolt
    George Bancroft
  • The Valiant
    Paul Muni

Best Actress

  • The Barker
    Betty Compson
  • The Broadway Melody
    Bessie Love
  • Coquette
    Mary Pickford
  • The Divine Lady
    Corinne Griffith
  • The Letter
    Jeanne Eagels
  • Madame X
    Ruth Chatterton

Best Art Direction

  • Alibi
    William Cameron Menzies
  • The Awakening
    William Cameron Menzies
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Cedric Gibbons
  • Dynamite
    Mitchell Leisen
  • The Patriot
    Hans Dreier
  • Street Angel
    Harry Oliver

Best Cinematography

  • The Divine Lady
    John Seitz
  • Four Devils
    Ernest Palmer
  • In Old Arizona
    Arthur Edeson
  • Our Dancing Daughters
    George Barnes
  • Street Angel
    Ernest Palmer
  • White Shadows in the South Seas
    Clyde De Vinna

Best Writing

  • The Cop
    Elliott Clawson
  • In Old Arizona
    Tom Barry
  • The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
    Hans Kraly
  • The Leatherneck
    Elliott Clawson
  • Our Dancing Daughters
    Josephine Lovett
  • The Patriot
    Hans Kraly
  • Sal of Singapore
    Elliott Clawson
  • Skyscraper
    Elliott Clawson
  • The Valiant
    Tom Barry
  • A Woman of Affairs
    Bess Meredyth
  • Wonder of Women
    Bess Meredyth
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