Academy Awards 1930 (November)

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The November 1930 Academy Awards took place on November 5, 1930 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles . It was the 3rd Annual Academy Awards . Films from the period between August 1, 1929 and July 31, 1930 were honored. Both the second and the third awards took place in 1930. This compensation made it possible to recognize films from the previous calendar year at future awards.

For the first time an Oscar was awarded in the category “Best Sound” (Best Sound Recording) .

Statistics
(films with more than one nomination are listed)
N = nomination; S = victory
Movie N S.
Love parade 6th 0
Hell behind bars 4th 2
nothing new in the West 4th 2
The woman for everyone 4th 1
Disraeli 3 1
Anna Christie 3 0
Bulldog Drummond 2 0
romance 2 0

Moderation

Conrad Nagel

Winners and nominees

Note: According to the Academy's statutes, actors could be nominated for one or more films. In the case of George Arliss and Norma Shearer, however, the Oscar was only awarded for the film Disraeli and The Divorcee, respectively.

Best movie

Nothing New in the West (All Quiet on the Western Front) - Universal Studios

Hell Behind Bars (The Big House) - Cosmopolitan Productions
Disraeli - Warner Bros.
The woman for everyone (The Divorcee) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Love Parade (The Love Parade) - Paramount Famous Lasky

Best Actor

George Arliss - Disraeli

George Arliss - The Green Goddess
Wallace Beery - Hell Behind Bars (The Big House)
Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond and The Love Parade (The Love Parade)
Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond and Escape from Devil's Island (Condemned)
Lawrence Tibbett - Bandit Song (The Rogue Song)

Best main actress

Norma Shearer - The Woman for All (The Divorcee)

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

Best director

Lewis Milestone - on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front)

Clarence Brown - Anna Christie and Romance (Romance)
Robert Z. Leonard - The Woman for All (The Divorcee)
Ernst Lubitsch - Liebesparade (The Love Parade)
King Vidor - Hallelujah

Best script

Frances Marion - Hell Behind Bars (The Big House)

George Abbott , Maxwell Anderson and Del Andrews - on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Julien Josephson - Disraeli
John Meehan - The woman for all (The Divorcee)
Howard Estabrook - Street of Chance

Best camera

Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer - With Byrd to the South Pole (With Byrd at the South Pole)

Arthur Edeson - on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front)
William H. Daniels - Anna Christie
Tony Gaudio and Harry Perry - Hell's Angels (Hell's Angels)
Victor Milner - Love Parade (The Love Parade)

Best production design

Herman Rosse - Der Jazzkönig (The King of Jazz)

Hans Dreier - Liebesparade (The Love Parade)
Hans Dreier - The King of the Vagabonds (The Vagabond King)
William Cameron Menzies - Bulldog Drummond
Jack Okey - Cilly (Sally)

Best tone

Douglas Shearer (MGM Studio Sound Department) - Hell Behind Bars (The Big House)

George Groves (First National Studio Sound Dep.) - The Song of the Flame
Franklin Hansen (Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Dep.) - Love Parade (The Love Parade)
Oscar Lagerstrom (United Artists Studio Sound Dep.) - Raffles
John E. Tribby (RKO Radio Studio Sound Dep.) - The Case of Sergeant Grischa

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