Awards - Academy Awards - 1929-1934

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Cavalcade
• 42nd Street
• A Farewell to Arms
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• Lady for a Day
• Little Women
• The Private Life of Henry VIII.
• She Done Him Wrong
• Smilin' Through
• State Fair

Best Achievement in Directing

• Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)
• Frank Capra (Lady for a Day)
• George Cukor (Little Women)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII.)
• Leslie Howard (Berkeley Square)
• Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
• May Robson (Lady for a Day)
• Diana Wynyard (Cavalcade)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason (Little Women)
• Robert Riskin (Lady for a Day)
• Paul Green, Sonya Levien (State Fair)

Best Original Story

• Lord Robert (One Way Passage)
• The Prizefighter and the Lady
• Rasputin and the Empress

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms)
• George J. Folsey (Reunion in Vienna)
• Karl Struss (The Sign of the Cross)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Cavalcade
• A Farewell to Arms
• When Ladies Meet

Best Sound Mixing

• A Farewell to Arms
• 42nd Street
• Gold Diggers of 1933
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Best Short Subject (Comedy)

• So This Is Harris!
• Mister Mugg
• A Preferred List

Best Short Subject (Drama)

• Krakatoa
• Menu
• Morze

Best Animated Short Film

• Three Little Pigs
• Building a Building
• The Merry Old Soul

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Grand Hotel
• Arrowsmith
• Bad Girl
• The Champ
• Five Star Final
• One Hour with You
• Shanghai Express
• The Smiling Lieutenant

Best Achievement in Directing

• Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)
• King Vidor (The Champ)
• Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Wallace Beery (The Champ)
• Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
• Alfred Lunt (The Guardsman)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
• Marie Dressler (Emma)
• Lynn Fontanne (The Guardsman)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Edwin J. Burke (Bad Girl)
• Sidney Howard (Arrowsmith)
• Percy Heath, Samuel Hoffenstein (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Best Original Story

• Frances Marion (The Champ)
• Lady and Gent
• The Star Witness
• What Price Hollywood?

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express)
• Ray June (Arrowsmith)
• Karl Struss (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Transatlantic
• Freedom for Us
• Arrowsmith

Best Short Subject (Comedy)

• The Music Box
• The Loud Mouth
• Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
• Scratch-As-Catch-Can

Best Short Subject (Drama)

• Wrestling Swordfish
• Screen Souvenirs
• Swing High

Best Animated Short Film

• Flowers and Trees
• It's Got Me Again!
• Mickey's Orphans

Honorary Award

• Walt Disney (for the creation of Mickey Mouse)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Cimarron
• East Lynne
• The Front Page
• Skippy
• Trader Horn

Best Achievement in Directing

• Norman Taurog (Skippy)
• Clarence Brown (A Free Soul)
• Lewis Milestone (The Front Page)
• Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron)
• Josef von Sternberg (Morocco)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
• Jackie Cooper (Skippy)
• Richard Dix (Cimarron)
• Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway)
• Adolphe Menjou (The Front Page)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
• Marlene Dietrich (Morocco)
• Irene Dunne (Cimarron)
• Ann Harding (Holiday)
• Norma Shearer (A Free Soul)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Howard Estabrook (Cimarron)
• Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. (The Criminal Code)
• Horace Jackson (Holiday)
• Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee (Little Caesar)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz (Skippy)

Best Original Story

• John Monk Saunders (The Dawn Patrol)
• The Doorway to Hell
• Laughter
• The Public Enemy
• Smart Money

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Floyd Crosby (Tabu: A Story of the South Seas)
• Edward Cronjager (Cimarron)
• Lee Garmes (Morocco)
• Charles Lang (The Right to Love)
• Barney McGill (Svengali)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Cimarron
• Just Imagine
• Morocco
• Svengali
• Whoopee!

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Big House
• Disraeli
• The Divorcee
• The Love Parade

Best Achievement in Directing

• 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 Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Original Story

• Frances Marion (The Big House)
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Disraeli
• The Divorcee
• Street of Chance

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Joseph T. Rucker, 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, Harry Perry (Hell's Angels)
• Victor Milner (The Love Parade)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• King of Jazz
• Bulldog Drummond
• The Love Parade
• Sally
• The Vagabond King

Best Sound Mixing

• The Big House
• The Case of Sergeant Grischa
• The Love Parade
• Raffles
• The Song of the Flame

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Broadway Melody
• Alibi
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
• In Old Arizona
• The Patriot

Best Achievement in Directing

• Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)
• Lionel Barrymore (Madame X)
• Harry Beaumont (The Broadway Melody)
• Irving Cummings (In Old Arizona)
• Frank Lloyd (Weary River)
• Frank Lloyd (Drag)
• Ernst Lubitsch (The Patriot)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)
• George Bancroft (Thunderbolt)
• Chester Morris (Alibi)
• Paul Muni (Valiant, The)
• Lewis Stone (The Patriot)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• 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 Original Story

• Hanns Kräly (The Patriot)
• The Cop
• In Old Arizona
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
• The Leatherneck
• Our Dancing Daughters
• Sal of Singapore
• Skyscraper
• Valiant, The
• A Woman of Affairs
• Wonder of Women

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Clyde De Vinna (With Byrd at the South Pole)
• John F. Seitz (The Divine Lady)
• Ernest Palmer (4 Devils)
• Arthur Edeson (In Old Arizona)
• George Barnes (Our Dancing Daughters)
• Ernest Palmer (Street Angel)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Alibi
• The Awakening
• Dynamite
• The Patriot
• Street Angel

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Wings
• The Racket
• Seventh Heaven

Best Picture with Unique and Artistic Production

• Sunrise
• Chang
• The Crowd

Best Achievement in Directing

• Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights)
• Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven)
• Ted Wilde (Speedy)
• Herbert Brenon (Sorrell and Son)
• King Vidor (The Crowd)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Emil Jannings (The Last Command)
• Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh)
• Richard Barthelmess (The Noose)
• Richard Barthelmess (The Patent Leather Kid)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven)
• Janet Gaynor (Sunrise)
• Janet Gaynor (Street Angel)
• Louise Dresser (A Ship Comes In)
• Gloria Swanson (Sadie Thompson)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Benjamin Glazer (Seventh Heaven)
• Glorious Betsy
• The Jazz Singer

Best Original Story

• Ben Hecht (Underworld)
• The Last Command

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Charles Rosher, Karl Struss (Sunrise)
• George Barnes (The Devil Dancer)
• George Barnes (The Magic Flame)
• George Barnes (Sadie Thompson)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Dove
• Tempest
• Seventh Heaven
• Sunrise

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Wings

Honorary Award

• Charlie Chaplin (The Circus)
• The Jazz Singer (to Warner Bros.)