Classic Film Guide

1930-1931

1930-1931 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees)

(winners listed first, in bold print)

Best Picture

Cimarron (1931)

East Lynne (1931)

The Front Page (1931)

Skippy (1931)

Trader Horn (1931)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul (1931)

Richard Dix, Cimarron (1931)

Adolphe Menjou, The Front Page (1931)

Fredric March, The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)

Jackie Cooper, Skippy (1931)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Marie Dressler, Min and Bill (1930)

Irene Dunne, Cimarron (1931)

Norma Shearer, A Free Soul (1931)

Ann Harding, Holiday (1930)

Marlene Dietrich, Morocco (1930)

Best Director

Norman Taurog, Skippy (1931)

Wesley Ruggles, Cimarron (1931)

Clarence Brown, A Free Soul (1931)

Lewis Milestone, The Front Page (1931)

Josef von Sternberg, Morocco (1930)

Best Writing, Original Story

John Monk Saunders, The Dawn Patrol (1930)

Rowland Brown, The Doorway to Hell (1930)

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty, & Donald Ogden Stewart for Laughter (1930)

John Bright & Kubec Glasmon for The Public Enemy (1931)

Lucien Hubbard & Joseph Jackson for Smart Money (1931)

Best Writing, Adaptation

Howard Estabrook, Cimarron (1931)

Seton Miller & Fred Niblo Jr. for The Criminal Code (1931)

Horace Jackson, Holiday (1930)

Francis Edward Faragoh & Robert N. Lee for Little Caesar (1931)

Joseph Mankiewicz & Sam Mintz for Skippy (1931)

Best Cinematography

Floyd Crosby, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

Edward Cronjager, Cimarron (1931)

Lee Garmes, Morocco (1930)

Charles Lang, The Right to Love (1930)

Barney McGill, Svengali (1931)

Best Art Direction

Max Rée, Cimarron (1931)

Stephen Goosson & Ralph Hammeras for Just Imagine (1930)

Hans Dreier, Morocco (1930)

Anton Grot, Svengali (1931)

Richard Day, Whoopee! (1930)

Best Sound, Recording

Paramount

MGM

RKO Radio

Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists