1930-31 (4th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners

Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1930-31. The symbol appears next to the winner in each category. 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 nominations and winners from that year.

Outstanding Production

Cimarron, RKO Radio.

East Lynne, Fox.

The Front Page, The Caddo Company; United Artists.

Skippy, Paramount Publix.

Trader Horn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Best Actor

Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Jackie Cooper in Skippy, Paramount Publix.

Richard Dix in Cimarron, RKO Radio.

Fredric March in The Royal Family of Broadway, Paramount Publix.

Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page, The Caddo Company; United Artists.

Best Actress

Marlene Dietrich in Morocco, Paramount Publix.

Marie Dressler in Min and Bill, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Irene Dunne in Cimarron, RKO Radio.

Ann Harding in Holiday, Pathe.

Norma Shearer in A Free Soul, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directing

Cimarron, RKO Radio. Wesley Ruggles.

A Free Soul, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Clarence Brown.

The Front Page, The Caddo Company; United Artists. Lewis Milestone.

Morocco, Paramount Publix. Josef Von Sternberg.

Skippy, Paramount Publix. Norman Taurog.

Art Direction

Cimarron, RKO Radio. Max Ree.

Just Imagine, Fox. Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras.

Morocco, Paramount Publix. Hans Dreier.

Svengali, Warner Bros. Anton Grot.

Whoopee!, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; United Artists. Richard Day.

Cinematography

Cimarron, RKO Radio. Edward Cronjager.

Morocco, Paramount Publix. Lee Garmes.

The Right to Love, Paramount Publix. Charles Lang.

Svengali, Warner Bros. Barney “Chick” McGill.

Tabu, Paramount Publix. Floyd Crosby.

Sound Recording

Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department

Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department

RKO Radio Studio Sound Department

Writing

(Adaptation)

Cimarron, RKO Radio. Howard Estabrook.

The Criminal Code, Columbia. Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr.

Holiday, Pathe. Horace Jackson.

Little Caesar, First National. Francis Faragoh and Robert N. Lee.

Skippy, Paramount Publix. Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz.

(Original Story)

The Dawn Patrol, First National. John Monk Saunders.

The Doorway to Hell, Warner Bros. Rowland Brown.

Laughter, Paramount Publix. Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Douglas Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart.

The Public Enemy, Warner Bros. John Bright and Kubec Glasmon.

Smart Money, Warner Bros. Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson.

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Electrical Research Products, Inc., RCA-Photophone, Inc., and RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., for noise reduction recording equipment.

To DuPont Manufacturing Corp. and Eastman Kodak Company for super-sensitive panchromatic film.

(Class II)

To Fox Film Corp. for effective use of synchro-projection composite photography.

(Class III)

To Electrical Research Products, Inc., for moving coil microphone transmitters.

To RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. for reflex type microphone concentrators.

To RCA-Photophone, Inc. for ribbon microphone transmitters.