Oscar statuette ©AMPAS


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

Winner markerAll Quiet on the Western Front, Universal.

Best Actor

Winner markerGeorge Arliss in Disraeli, Warner Bros., and in The Green Goddess, Warner Bros.

Best Actress

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

Directing

Winner markerLewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front, Universal.

Art Direction

Winner markerKing of Jazz, Universal. Herman Rosse.

Cinematography

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

Sound Recording

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

Writing

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