2nd Academy Awards

Date: April 3, 1930

Host: William C. DeMille

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Outstanding Picture

• Irving Thalberg and Lawrence Weingarten for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – "The Broadway Melody" (1929)

Roland West for United Artists – "Alibi" (1929)
Winfield Sheehan for Fox Film Corporation - "In Old Arizona" (1929)
Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapf for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – "Hollywood Revue" (1929)
Ernst Lubitsch for Paramount Pictures – "The Patriot" (1928)

Best Director

• Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)

Lionel Barrymore (Madame X)

Harry Beaumont (The Broadway Melody)

Irving Cummings (In Old Arizona)

Frank Lloyd (Drag)

Frank Lloyd (Weary River)

Ernst Lubitsch (The Patriot)

Best Actor

• Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)

George Bancroft (Thunderbolt)

Chester Morris (Alibi)

Paul Muni (The Valiant)

Lewis Stone (The Patriot)

Best Actress

• Mary Pickford (Coquette)

Ruth Chatterton (Madame X)

Betty Compson (The Barker)

Jeanne Eagels (The Letter)

Corinne Griffith (The Divine Lady)

Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody)

Best Writing

• Hanns Kräly (The Patriot)

Tom Barry (In Old Arizona)

Tom Barry (The Valiant)

Elliot Clawson (The Cop)

Elliot Clawson (The Leatherneck)

Elliot Clawson (Sal of Singapore)

Elliot Clawson (Skyscraper)

Hanns Kräly (The Last of Mrs. Cheyney)

Josephine Lovett (Our Dancing Daughters)

Bess Meredyth (A Woman of Affairs)

Bess Meredyth (Wonder of Women)

Best Cinematography

• Clyde De Vinna (White Shadows in the South Seas)

George Barnes (Our Dancing Daughters)

Arthur Edeson (In Old Arizona)

Ernest Palmer (Four Devils)

Ernest Palmer (Street Angel)

John F. Seitz (The Divine Lady)

Best Art Direction

• Clyde De Vinna (White Shadows in the South Seas)

George Barnes (Our Dancing Daughters)

Arthur Edeson (In Old Arizona)

Ernest Palmer (Four Devils)

Ernest Palmer (Street Angel)

John F. Seitz (The Divine Lady)

Cedric Gibbons (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)

Hans Dreier (The Patriot)

Mitchell Leisen (Dynamite)

William Cameron Menzies (Alibi)

William Cameron Menzies (The Awakening)

Harry Oliver (Street Angel)

Films with multiple nominations

• The Patriot (5)
• In Old Arizona (5)

The Broadway Melody (3)

Alibi (3) 

The Divine Lady (3)

Madame X (2)

The Valiant (2) 

Our Dancing Daughters (2)

Street Angel (2)