3rd Academy Awards

Date: November 5, 1930

Host: Conrad Nagel

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Outstanding Production

• Carl Laemmle, Jr., for Universal Studios – "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)

Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – "The Big House" (1930)
Jack L. Warner and Darryl F. Zanuck for Warner Bros. – "Disraeli" (1929)
Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – "The Divorcee" (1930)
Ernst Lubitsch for Paramount Pictures – "The Love Parade" (1929)


Best Director

• Carl Laemmle, Jr., for Universal Studios (All Quiet on the Western Front)

Irving Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (The Big House)
Jack L. Warner and Darryl F. Zanuck for Warner Bros. (Disraeli)
Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (The Divorcee)
Ernst Lubitsch for Paramount Pictures (The Love Parade)
Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Clarence Brown (Anna Christie)
Clarence Brown (Romance)
Robert Z. Leonard (The Divorcee)
Ernst Lubitsch (The Love Parade)
King Vidor (Hallelujah!)


Best Actor

• George Arliss (Disraeli)

George Arliss (The Green Goddess)
Wallace Beery (The Big House)
Maurice Chevalier (The Big Pond / The Love Parade)
Ronald Colman (Bulldog Drummond /Condemned)
Lawrence Tibbett (The Rogue Song)


Best Actress

• Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)

Nancy Carroll (The Devil's Holiday)
Ruth Chatterton (Sarah and Son)
Greta Garbo (Anna Christie / Romance)
Norma Shearer (Their Own Desire)
Gloria Swanson (The Trespasser)


Best Writing

• Frances Marion (The Big House)

George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson and Del Andrews (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Julien Josephson (Disraeli)
John Meehan (The Divorcee)
Howard Estabrook (Street of Chance)


Best Sound Recording

• Douglas Shearer (The Big House)

John E. Tribby (The Case of Sergeant Grischa)
Franklin Hansen (The Love Parade)
Oscar Lagerstrom (Raffles)
George Groves (The Song of the Flame)


Best Cinematography

• Joseph T. Ruckerand Willard Van der Veer (With Byrd at the South Pole)

Arthur Edeson (All Quiet on the Western Front)
William H. Daniels (Anna Christie)
Tony Gaudio and Harry Perry (Hell's Angels)
Victor Milner (The Love Parade)


Best Art Direction

• Herman Rosse (The King of Jazz)

William Cameron Menzies (Bulldog Drummond)
Hans Dreier (The Love Parade)
Jack Okey (Sally)
Hans Dreier (The Vagabond King)


Films with multiple nominations

• The Love Parade (6)

All Quiet on the Western Front (4)
The Big House (4)
The Divorcee (4)
Disraeli (3)
Anna Christie (3)
Bulldog Drummond (2)
Romance (2)


Films with multiple awards

• All Quiet on the Western Front (2)
• The Big House (2)