Recap / Second Academy Awards

2nd Academy Awards

Host: William C De Mille

Air Date: April 3, 1930

Outstanding Picture

• The Broadway Melody (winner)
• Alibi
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
• In Old Arizona
• The Patriot

Best Actor

• Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona (winner)
• George Bancroft - Thunderbolt
• Chester Morris - Alibi
• Paul Muni - The Valiant
• Lewis Stone - The Patriot

Best Actress

• Mary Pickford - Coquette (winner)
• Ruth Chatterton - Madame X
• Betty Compson - The Barker
• Jeanne Eagels - The Letter ^note  posthumous
• Corinne Griffith - The Divine Lady
• Bessie Love - The Broadway Melody

Best Director

• Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady (winner)
• Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody
• Frank Lloyd - Drag
• Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona
• Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
• Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot
• Frank Lloyd - Weary River

Best Writing

• The Patriot (winner)
• The Cop
• In Old Arizona
• The Last Of Mrs Cheyney
• The Leatherneck
• Our Dancing Daughters
• Sal Of Singapore
• Skyscraper
• The Valiant
• A Woman Of Affairs
• Wonder Of Women

Best Art Direction

• The Bridge Of San Luis Rey (winner)
• Alibi
• The Awakening
• Dynamite
• The Patriot
• Street Angel

Best Cinematography

• White Shadows in the South Seas (winner)
• Four Devils
• The Divine Lady
• Our Dancing Daughters
• Street Angel

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