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	...Best Art Direction
	...Best Sound, Recording



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Academy Awards, USA: 1930

Oscar

Date:	5 November (banquet)
Host:	Conrad Nagel
Location:	Fiesta Room, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:	The awards are given for movies made between 1 August 1929 and 31 July 1930. Thomas A. Edison was presented an honorary Academy membership and gave a post-dinner talk. George Eastman was also presented an honorary membership. For the third and last time, the statuettes are made of bronze castings with 24k gold plating. Later statuettes are all made of britannium.

Best Picture


Winner:
	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Universal
Other Nominees:
	Disraeli (1929) - Warner Bros. The Big House (1930) - Cosmopolitan The Divorcee (1930) - M-G-M The Love Parade (1929) - Paramount Famous Lasky

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Disraeli (1929) - George Arliss
Other Nominees:
	Bulldog Drummond (1929) - Ronald Colman Condemned (1929) - Ronald Colman The Big House (1930) - Wallace Beery The Big Pond (1930) - Maurice Chevalier (I) The Green Goddess (1930) - George Arliss The Love Parade (1929) - Maurice Chevalier (I) The Rogue Song (1930) - Lawrence Tibbett

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	The Divorcee (1930) - Norma Shearer
Other Nominees:
	Anna Christie (1930) - Greta Garbo Romance (1930) - Greta Garbo Sarah and Son (1930) - Ruth Chatterton The Devil's Holiday (1930) - Nancy Carroll (I) The Trespasser (1929) - Gloria Swanson Their Own Desire (1929) - Norma Shearer

Best Director


Winner:
	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Lewis Milestone
Other Nominees:
	Anna Christie (1930) - Clarence Brown (I) Hallelujah! (1929) - King Vidor Romance (1930) - Clarence Brown (I) The Divorcee (1930) - Robert Z. Leonard The Love Parade (1929) - Ernst Lubitsch

Best Writing, Achievement


Winner:
	The Big House (1930) - Frances Marion
Other Nominees:
	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - George Abbott; Maxwell Anderson (I); Del Andrews Disraeli (1929) - Julien Josephson Street of Chance (1930) - Howard Estabrook The Divorcee (1930) - John Meehan (I)

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) - Joseph T. Rucker; Willard Van der Veer
Other Nominees:
	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Arthur Edeson Anna Christie (1930) - William H. Daniels Hell's Angels (1930) - Tony Gaudio; Harry Perry (I) The Love Parade (1929) - Victor Milner

Best Art Direction


Winner:
	King of Jazz (1930) - Herman Rosse
Other Nominees:
	Bulldog Drummond (1929) - William Cameron Menzies Sally (1929) - Jack Okey The Love Parade (1929) - Hans Dreier The Vagabond King (1930) - Hans Dreier

Best Sound, Recording


Winner:
	The Big House (1930) - Douglas Shearer (sound director); M-G-M Studio Sound Department
Other Nominees:
	Raffles (1930) - Oscar Lagerstrom (sound director); United Artists Studio Sound Department The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930) - John E. Tribby (sound director); RKO Radio Studio Sound Department The Love Parade (1929) - Franklin Hansen (sound director); Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Department The Song of the Flame (1930) - George Groves (I) (sound director); First National Studio Sound Department