3rd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1930)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, November 5, 1930
  • For films released in: 1929-1930
Other years:

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 3rd Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Outstanding Production

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    Universal
  • The Big House
    Cosmopolitan
  • Disraeli
    Warner Bros.
  • The Divorcee
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • The Love Parade
    Paramount Famous Lasky

Best Directing

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    Lewis Milestone
  • Anna Christie
    Clarence Brown
  • The Divorcee
    Robert Leonard
  • Hallelujah
    King Vidor
  • The Love Parade
    Ernst Lubitsch
  • Romance
    Clarence Brown

Best Actor

  • The Big House
    Wallace Beery
  • The Big Pond
    Maurice Chevalier
  • Bulldog Drummond
    Ronald Colman
  • Disraeli
    George Arliss
  • The Green Goddess
    George Arliss
  • The Rogue Song
    Lawrence Tibbett

Best Actress

  • Anna Christie
    Greta Garbo
  • The Devil's Holiday
    Nancy Carroll
  • The Divorcee
    Norma Shearer
  • Romance
    Greta Garbo
  • Sarah and Son
    Ruth Chatterton
  • Their Own Desire
    Norma Shearer
  • The Trespasser
    Gloria Swanson

Best Art Direction

  • Bulldog Drummond
    William Cameron Menzies
  • King of Jazz
    Herman Rosse
  • The Love Parade
    Hans Dreier
  • Sally
    Jack Okey
  • The Vagabond King
    Hans Dreier

Best Cinematography

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    Arthur Edeson
  • Anna Christie
    William Daniels
  • Hell's Angels
    Gaetano "Tony" Gaudio and Harry Perry
  • The Love Parade
    Victor Milner
  • With Byrd at the South Pole
    Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer

Best Sound Recording

  • The Big House
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Douglas Shearer [Sound Director]
  • The Case of Sergeant Grischa
    RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and John Tribby [Sound Director]
  • The Love Parade
    Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Department and Franklin Hansen [Sound Director]
  • Raffles
    United Artists Studio Sound Department and Oscar Lagerstrom [Sound Director]
  • Song of the Flame
    First National Studio Sound Department and George Groves [Sound Director]

Best Writing

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson and Del Andrews
  • The Big House
    Frances Marion
  • Disraeli
    Julian Josephson
  • The Divorcee
    John Meehan
  • Street of Chance
    Howard Estabrook
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