1929-30 (3rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1929-30 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film or person in the list to display more information about that film or person Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Production

All Quiet on the Western Front, Universal.

Best Actor

George Arliss in Disraeli, Warner Bros., and in The Green Goddess, Warner Bros.

Best Actress

Norma Shearer in The Divorcee, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and in Their Own Desire, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directing

Lewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front, Universal.

Art Direction

King of Jazz, Universal. Herman Rosse.

Cinematography

With Byrd at the South Pole, Paramount Publix. Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer.

Sound Recording

The Big House, Cosmopolitan; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director.

Writing

The Big House, Cosmopolitan; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Frances Marion.