1929-30 (3rd) Best Actor: George Arliss
1929-30 (3rd) Best Actor: George Arliss
1929-30
Academy Award
Best Actor
(3rd Annual Awards)

George Arliss

as The Raja

in the film
The Green Goddess


and as Benjamin Disraeli

in the film
Disraeli



NOTE: Although the final awards ballot listed both The Green Goddess and Disraeli in Arliss’s nomination, the award was announced for only the Disraeli performance. It has never been established as to why this was.