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The 3rd Academy Awards

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The 3rd Academy Awards | 1931

Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel

Wednesday, November 5, 1930

honoring movies released from August 1, 1929 July 31, 1930.

Highlights

Adapted Screenplay

The Big House

Frances Marion, with presenter Jack Cunningham

Best Directing

All Quiet on the Western Front

Lewis Milestone

Cinematography

With Byrd at the South Pole

Joseph Rucker

Memorable Moments

The 3rd Academy Awards Banquet

At the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel

Carl Laemmle

Best Picture winner for All Quiet on the Western Front, with presenter Louis B. Mayer

Norma Shearer

Best Actress winner for The Divorcee

WINNERS & NOMINEES

A

All Quiet on the Western Front

4 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS

  • * Directing - Lewis Milestone
  • * Outstanding Production - Universal
  • Cinematography - (Arthur Edeson)
  • Writing - (George Abbott), (Maxwell Anderson), (Del Andrews)

Anna Christie

3 NOMINATIONS

  • Actress - Greta Garbo
  • Cinematography - (William Daniels)
  • Directing - Clarence Brown

B

The Big House

4 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS

  • * Sound Recording - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
  • * Writing - Frances Marion
  • Actor - Wallace Beery
  • Outstanding Production - Cosmopolitan

The Big Pond

1 NOMINATION

  • Actor - Maurice Chevalier

Bulldog Drummond

2 NOMINATIONS

  • Actor - Ronald Colman
  • Art Direction - (William Cameron Menzies)

C

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

1 NOMINATION

  • Sound Recording - (RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Tribby, Sound Director)

Condemned

1 NOMINATION

  • Actor - Ronald Colman

D

The Devil's Holiday

1 NOMINATION

  • Actress - Nancy Carroll

Disraeli

3 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN

  • * Actor - George Arliss
  • Outstanding Production - Warner Bros.
  • Writing - (Julian Josephson)

The Divorcee

4 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN

  • * Actress - Norma Shearer
  • Directing - Robert Leonard
  • Outstanding Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Writing - (John Meehan)

G

The Green Goddess

1 NOMINATION

  • Actor - George Arliss

H

Hallelujah

1 NOMINATION

  • Directing - King Vidor

Hell's Angels

1 NOMINATION

  • Cinematography - (Gaetano Gaudio), (Harry Perry)

K

King of Jazz

1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION

  • * Art Direction - Herman Rosse

L

The Love Parade

6 NOMINATIONS

  • Actor - Maurice Chevalier
  • Art Direction - (Hans Dreier)
  • Cinematography - (Victor Milner)
  • Directing - Ernst Lubitsch
  • Outstanding Production - Paramount Famous Lasky
  • Sound Recording - (Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Department, Franklin Hansen, Sound Director)

R

Raffles

1 NOMINATION

  • Sound Recording - (United Artists Studio Sound Department, Oscar Lagerstrom, Sound Director)

The Rogue Song

1 NOMINATION

  • Actor - Lawrence Tibbett

Romance

2 NOMINATIONS

  • Actress - Greta Garbo
  • Directing - Clarence Brown

S

Sally

1 NOMINATION

  • Art Direction - (Jack Okey)

Sarah and Son

1 NOMINATION

  • Actress - Ruth Chatterton

Song of the Flame

1 NOMINATION

  • Sound Recording - (First National Studio Sound Department, George Groves, Sound Director)

Street of Chance

1 NOMINATION

  • Writing - (Howard Estabrook)

T

Their Own Desire

1 NOMINATION

  • Actress - Norma Shearer

The Trespasser

1 NOMINATION

  • Actress - Gloria Swanson

V

The Vagabond King

1 NOMINATION

  • Art Direction - (Hans Dreier)

W

With Byrd at the South Pole

1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION

  • * Cinematography - Joseph T. Rucker, Willard Van Der Veer

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