1929-30 (3rd) Best Actress: Norma Shearer
1929-30 (3rd) Best Actress: Norma Shearer
1929-30
Academy Award
Best Actress
(3rd Annual Awards)

Norma Shearer

as Lucia ‘Lally’ Marlett

in the film
Their Own Desire


and as Jerry Martin

in the film
The Divorcee



NOTE: Although the final awards ballot listed both Their Own Desire and The Divorcee in Shearer’s nomination, the award was announced for only the The Divorcee performance. It has never been established as to why this was.