Monday, March 16, 2009

2nd Academy Awards nominees and winners

list of winners and nominees of the 2nd Academy Awards. They were given out on April 3, 1930.

Best Motion Picture Of The Year
The Broadway Melody
Alibi
In Old Arizona
Hollywood Revue
The Patriot

Achievement In Direction
Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady
Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody
Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona
Frank Lloyd - Drag and Weary River
Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot

Best Performance By An Actor
Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona

George Bancroft - Thunderbolt
Chester Morris - Alibi
Paul Muni - The Valiant
Lewis Stone - The Patriot

Best Performance By An Actress
Mary Pickford - Coquette

Ruth Chatterton - Madame X
Betty Compson - The Barker
Jeanne Eagels - The Letter (this was a posthumous nomination, the only such nomination in the history of this award)
Corinne Griffith - The Divine Lady
Bessie Love - The Broadway Melody

Best Writing
Hanns Kräly - The Patriot

Tom Barry - In Old Arizona and The Valiant
Elliot Clawson - The Cop, The Leatherneck, Sal of Singapore, and Skyscraper
Hanns Kräly - The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Josephine Lovett - Our Dancing Daughters
Bess Meredyth - A Woman of Affairs and Wonder of Women

Achievement In Art Direction
Cedric Gibbons - The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Hans Dreier - The Patriot
Mitchell Leisen - Dynamite
William Cameron Menzies - Alibi and The Awakening
Harry Oliver - Street Angel

Achievement In Cinematography
Clyde de Vinna - White Shadows in the South Seas

George Barnes - Our Dancing Daughters
Arthur Edeson - In Old Arizona
Ernest Palmer - Four Devils and Street Angel
John F. Seitz - The Divine Lady