2nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1930)
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- Date of Ceremony: Thursday, April 3, 1930
- For films released in: 1928-1929
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