1930-39 — Years in Review
The Fritz Golden Superlatives

1939

  1. Port of Shadows (dir: Marcel Carne; US release date)

  2. Alexander Nevsky (dir: Sergei Eisenstein; US release date) 

  3. The Wizard of Oz (dir: Victor Fleming and King Vidor)

  4. Stagecoah (dir: John Ford)

  5. Rules of the Game (dir: Jean Renoir)

  6. Dark Victory (dir: Edmond Goulding)

  7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir: Frank Capra)

  8. When Tomorrow Comes (dir: John M. Stahl)

  9. The Women (dir: George Cukor)

  10. Wuthering Heights (dir: William Wyler)

Judy Garland (and her little dog, too) in Victor Fleming and King Vidor's The Wizard of Oz

Judy Garland (and her little dog, too) in Victor Fleming and King Vidor's The Wizard of Oz

Best Picture: Port of Shadows
Directors: Marcel Carné Producer: Gregor Rabinovitch
US Distributor: Film Alliance of the United States

(left to right) Marcel Carné on Port of Shadows set; Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, Bette Davis in Dark Victory, Thomas Mithchell in Stagecoach and Geraldine Fitzgerald in Wuthering Heights

Best Director: Marcel Carné, Port of Shadows
Second Place: John Ford, Stagecoach
Third Place: Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky

Best Actor: Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
Second Place: Nikolai Cherkasov, Alexander Nevsky
Third Place: James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Best Actress: Bette Davis, Dark Victory
Second Place: Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind
Third Place: Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz

Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Mitchell, Stagecoach AND Only Angels Have Wings AND Gone with the Wind AND Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Second Place: Harry Carey, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Third Place: Claude Raines, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Best Supporting Actress: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wuthering Heights AND Dark Victory
Second Place: Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz
Third Place: Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind

(left to right) The Rules of the Game, The Women, Port of Shadows, Gone with the Wind (dir: Victor Fleming and Sam Wood), Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz

(left to right) The Rules of the Game, The Women, Port of Shadows, Gone with the Wind (dir: Victor Fleming and Sam Wood), Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz

Best Original Screenplay: Jean Renoir and Carl Koch, The Rules of the Game
Second Place: Sidney Buchman and Lewis R. Foster, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Third Place: Dudley Nichols and Ernest Haycox, Stagecoach
Fourth Place: Sergei Eisenstein and Pyotr Pavlenko, Alexander Nevsky

Best Adapted Screenplay: Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, The Women
Second Place: Dwight Taylor, When Tomorrow Comes
Third Place: Warren Duff and Norman Reilly Raine, Each Dawn I Die
Fourth Place: Sidney Howard and Ben Hecht, Gone with the Wind

Best Cinematography: Eugen Schüfftan, Port of Shadows
Second Place: Ernest Haller and Lee Garmes, Gone With the Wind
Third Place: Eduard Tisse, Alexander Nevsky

Best Film Editing: Dorothy Spencer and Otho Lovering, Stagecoach
Second Place: Blanche Sewell, The Wizard of Oz
Third Place: Marthe Huguet and Marguerite Renoir, The Rules of the Game

Best Original Score: Max Steiner, Gone With the Wind
Second Place: Herbert Stothart, The Wizard of Oz
Third Place: Dimitri Tiomkin, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Best Production Design: William Carlos Menzies, Lyle Wheeler and Howard Bristol, Gone With the Wind
Second Place: Malcolm Brown, William A. Horning and Jack Martin Smith, The Wizard of Oz
Third Place: Lionel Banks, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Best Costume Design: Adrian Greenburg, The Wizard of Oz
Second Place: Walter Plunkett, Gone With the Wind
Third Place: Adrian Greenburg, The Women

1938

  1. Holiday (dir: George Cukor)

  2. Bringing Up Baby (dir: Howard Hawks)

  3. Grand Illusion (dir: Jean Renoir; US release date)

  4. The Lady Vanishes (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

  5. Pygmalion (dir: Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard)

  6. The Adventures of Robin Hood (dir: Michael Curtiz and William Knightley)

  7. The Citadel (dir: King Vidor)

  8. Jezebel (dir: William Wyler)

  9. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (dir: David Hand)

  10. Algiers (dir: John Cromwell)

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Best Picture: Holiday
Director: George Cukor Producers: Everett Riskin
US Distributor: Columbia Pictures

(left to right) Howard Hawks on the set of Bringing Up Baby; Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby, Lew Ayres in Holiday and Spring Byington in You Can't Take it With You

(left to right) Howard Hawks on the set of Bringing Up Baby; Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby, Lew Ayres in Holiday and Spring Byington in You Can't Take it With You

Best Director:
1. Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby
2. Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion
3. George Cukor, Holiday
4. Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes
5. Michael Curtiz and William Knightley, The Adventures of Robin Hood

Best Actor:
1. Cary Grant, Bringing Up Baby AND Holiday
2. Charles Boyer, Algiers
3. Leslie Howard, Pygmalion
4. Jean Gabin, Grand Illusion
5. Errol Flynn, The Adventures of Robin Hood

Best Actress:
1. Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby AND Holiday
2. Wendy Hiller, Pygmalion
3. Jean Arthur, You Can't Take it With You
4. Bette Davis, Jezebel
5. Norma Shearer, Marie Antoinette

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Lew Ayres, Holiday
2. Erich von Stroheim, Grand Illusion
3. Basil Rathbone, The Adventures of Robin Hood
4. Ralph Richardson, The Citadel
5. Charles Ruggles, Bringing Up Baby

Best Supporting Actress:
1. Spring Byington, You Can’t Take it With You
2. May Whitty, The Lady Vanishes
3. Doris Nolan, Holiday
4. Fay Bainter, Jezebel
5. Ruth Donnelly, A Slight Case of Murder

(left to right) Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Vanishes, Algiers, Grand Illusions, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (dir: Norman Taurog)

(left to right) Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Vanishes, Algiers, Grand Illusions, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (dir: Norman Taurog)

Best Original Screenplay: Dudley Nichols and Hargar Wilde, Bringing Up Baby
Second Place: Jean Renoir and Charles Spaak, Grand Illusion
Third Place: John Wesxley, Warren Duff, and Rowland Brown, Angels with Dirty Faces

Best Adapted Screenplay: Sidney Gilliatt and Frank Launder, The Lady Vanishes
Second Place: Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Third Place: Sidney Buchman and Donald Ogden Stewart, Holiday

Best Cinematography: James Wong Howe, Algiers
Second Place: Christian Matras, Grand Illusion
Third Place: Tony Gaudio and Sol Polito, The Adventures of Robin Hood

Best Film Editing: Marthe Huguet, Renée Lichtig, and Marguerite Renoir, Grand Illusion
Second Place: R.E. Dearing, The Lady Vanishes
Third Place: David Lean, Pygmalion

Best Original Score: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Second Place: Herbert Stothart, Marie Antoinette
Third Place: Max Steiner, Jezebel

Best Production Design: Lyle Wheeler, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Second Place: Carl Jules Weyl, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Third Place: Alexander Toluboff, Algiers

Best Costume Design: Walter Plunkett, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Second Place: Milo Anderson, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Third Place: Adrian Greenburg and Gile Steele, Marie Antoinette

1937

  1. Make Way for Tomorrow (dir: Leo McCarey)

  2. The Lower Depths (dir: Jean Renoir; US release date)

  3. Stella Dallas (dir: King Vidor)

  4. The Awful Truth (dir: Leo McCarey)

  5. Easy Living (dir: Mitchell Leisen)

  6. The Tale of the Fox (dir: Wladyslaw Starewicz and Irene Starewicz; international release date)

  7. Nothing Sacred (dir: William A. Wellman)

  8. Lost Horizon (dir: Frank Capra)

  9. A Star is Born (dir: William Wellman)

  10. Stage Door (dir: Gregory La Cava)

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Best Picture: Make Way for Tomorrow
Director: Leo McCarey Producers: Leo McCarey, Adolph Zukor
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

(left to right) Jean Renoir in 1937; Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth; Eve Arden in Stage Door

(left to right) Leo McCarey in 1937; Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth; Eve Arden in Stage Door

Best Director:
1. Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow AND The Awful Truth
2. Wladyslaw Starewicz and Irene Starewicz, The Tale of the Fox
3. Mitchell Leisen, Easy Living
4. King Vidor, Stella Dallas
5. Jean Renoir, The Lower Depths

Best Actor:
1. Cary Grant, The Awful Truth AND Topper
2. Fredrich March, Nothing Sacred AND A Star Is Born
3. Victor Moore, Make Way for Tomorrow
4. Paul Muni, The Life of Emile Zola
5. Jean Gabin, The Lower Depths

Best Actress:
1. Irene Dunne, The Awful Truth
2. Barbara Stanwyck, Stella Dallas
3. Beulah Bondi, Make Way for Tomorrow
4. Jean Arthur, Easy Living
5. Janet Gaynor, A Star Is Born

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Ralph Bellamy, The Awful Truth
2. Thomas Mitchell, Lost Horizon
3. Joseph Schildkraut, The Life of Emile Zola
4. H.B. Warner, Lost Horizon
5. Louis Jouvet, The Lower Depths

Best Supporting Actress:
1. Eve Arden, Stage Door
2. Alice Brady, In Old Chicago
3. Anne Shirley, Stella Dallas
4. Fay Bainter, Make Way for Tomorrow
5. Claire Trevor, Dead End

(left to right) A Star Is Born, Make Way for Tomorrow, Dead End (dir: William Wyler), Nothing Sacred, The Story of the Fox, Lost Horizon, and The Prisoner of Zenda (dir: John Cromwell)

(left to right) A Star Is Born, Make Way for Tomorrow, Dead End (dir: William Wyler), Nothing Sacred, The Story of the Fox, Lost Horizon, and The Prisoner of Zenda (dir: John Cromwell)

Best Original Screenplay: Dorothy Parker, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson and Alan Campbell, A Star Is Born 
Runner-Up:
Third Place: Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker, Vincent Lawrence and David Hertz, History Is Made at Night

Best Adapted Screenplay: Vina Delmar, Make Way for Tomorrow
Second Place: Vina Delmar, The Awful Truth
Third Place: Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant, Henri Jeanson and Henri La Barthe, Pepe le Moko

Best Cinematography: Gregg Toland, Dead End
Second Place: Karl Freund, The Good Earth
Third Place: Fédote Bourgasoff, The Lower Depths

Best Film Editing: James E. Newcom, Nothing Sacred
Second Place: Daniel Mandell, Dead End
Third Place: Marguerite Beauge, Pepe le Moko 

Best Original Score: Vincent Scotto, The Story of the Fox
Second Place: Dimitri Tiompkin, Lost Horizon
Third Place: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, The Prince and the Pauper

Best Production Design: Stephen Goosson and Babs Johnstone, Lost Horizon
Second Place: Wladyslaw Starewicz, The Story of the Fox
Third Place: William Darling, Rudolph Sternad and Thomas Little, In Old Chicago

Best Costume Design: Ernest Dryden, The Prisoner of Zenda
Second Place: Omar Kiam, The Hurricane
Third Place: Gwen Wakeling, Heidi

1936

  1. Dodsworth (dir: William Wyler)

  2. Modern Times (dir: Charles Chaplin)

  3. Sisters of the Gion (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)

  4. Everybody’s Woman (dir: Max Ophüls; US Release Date)

  5. Fury (dir: Fritz Lang)

  6. Sabotage (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

  7. Swing Time (dir: George Stevens)

  8. My Man Godfrey (dir: Gregory La Cava)

  9. Camille (dir: George Cukor)

  10. Desire (dir: Frank Borzage)

Walter Huston in William Wyler's Dodsworth

Walter Huston in William Wyler's Dodsworth

Best Picture: Dodsworth
Director: William Wyler Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
US Distributor: United Artists

(left to right) Max Ophüls; Walter Huston in Dodsworth, Carole Lombard in Gregory La Cava's My Man Godfrey, Humphrey Bogart in Archie Mayo's The Petrified Forest and Mary Astor in Dodsworth

Best Director: Max Ophüls, Everybody’s Woman
Second Place: Charles Chaplin, Modern Times
Third Place: Kenji Mizoguchi, Sisters of the Gion

Best Actor: Walter Huston, Dodsworth
Second Place: William Powell, My Man Godfrey
Third Place: Spencer Tracy, Fury

Best Actress: Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey
Second Place: Sylvia Sidney, Fury
Third Place: Ingrid Bergman, Intermezzo

Best Supporting Actor: Humphrey Bogart, The Petrified Forest
Second Place: Paul Robeson, Show Boat
Third Place: Oscar Homolka, Sabotage

Best Supporting Actress: Mary Astor, Dodsworth
Second Place: Bonita Granville, These Three
Third Place: Gail Patrick, My Man Godfrey

(left to right) Fury, Sisters of the Gion, Desire,Modern Times, Camille

(left to right) Fury, Sisters of the Gion, Desire,Modern Times, Camille

Best Original Screenplay: Norman Krasna, Bartlett Cormack and Fritz Lang, Fury
Second Place: Charles Chaplin, Modern Times
Third Place: 

Best Adapted Screenplay: Kenji Mizoguchi and Yoshikata Yoda, Sisters of the Gion
Second Place: Sidney Howard, Dodsworth
Third Place: Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young, Samuel Hoffenstein, Desire

Best Cinematography: Charles Lang and Victor Milner, Desire
Second Place: Ubaldo Arta, Everybody’s Woman
Third Place: Ira H. Morgan and Rollie Totheroh, Modern Times

Best Film Editing: Charles Chaplin and Willard Nico, Modern Times
Second Place: William Shea, Desire
Third Place: Oscar Rosander, Intermezzo

Best Original Score:  Charles Chaplin, Modern Times
Second Place: Franz Waxman, Fury
Third Place: Herbert Stothart, Camille

Best Production Design: Charles D. Hall, Modern Times
Second Place: William Cameron Menzies, Vincent Korda and Frank Wells, Things to Come
Third Place: Cedric Gibbons, Henry Grace and Jack D. Moore, Camille

Best Costume Design: Adrian Greenburg, Camille
Second Place: Doris Zinkeisen, Show Boat
Third Place: John Armstrong, Rene Hubert and Catherine Mann, Things to Come

1935

  1. L'Atalante (dir: Jean Vigo; US release date)

  2. The Bride of Frankenstein (dir: James Whale)

  3. The Informer (dir: John Ford)

  4. The 39 Steps (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

  5. The Devil Is a Woman (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

  6. Mad Love (dir: Karl Freund)

  7. Ruggles of Red Gap (dir: Leo McCarey)

  8. Alice Adams (dir: George Stevens)

  9. The Good Fairy (dir: William Wyler)

Dita Parlo in Jean Vigo's L'Atalante

Dita Parlo in Jean Vigo's L'Atalante

Best Picture: L’Atalante
Director: Jean Vigo Producer: Jacques-Louis Nounez
US Distributor: Cine Classics

(left to right) Jean Vigo in 1934; Charles Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap, Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams, Michel Simon in L’Atalante and Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein

(left to right) Jean Vigo in 1934; Charles Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap, Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams, Michel Simon in L’Atalante and Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein

Best Director: Jean Vigo, L’Atalante
Second Place: James Whale, The Bride of Frankenstein
Third Place: Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps
Fourth Place: John Ford, The Informer

Best Actor: Charles Laughton, Ruggles of Red Gap
Second Place: Victor McLaglen, The Informer
Third Place: Peter Lorre, Mad Love

Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams AND Sylvia Scarlett
Second Place: Jean Arthur, The Whole Town's Talking
Third Place: Miriam Hopkins, Becky Sharp

Best Supporting Actor: Michel Simon, L’Atalante
Second Place: Ernest Thesiger, The Bride of Frankenstein
Third Place: Franchot Tone, Mutiny on the Bounty
Fourth Place: Edward Everett Horton, Top Hat

Best Supporting Actress: Elsa Lanchester, The Bride of Frankenstein
Second Place: Ida Lupino, Peter Ibbetson
Third Place: Zasu Pitts, Ruggles of Red Gap

(left to right) The Informer, Ruggles of Red Gap, L’Atalante, The 39 Steps, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Devil Is a Woman

(left to right) The Informer, Ruggles of Red Gap, L’Atalante, The 39 Steps, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Devil Is a Woman

Best Original Screenplay: Dudley Nichols and Liam O’Flaherty, The Informer
Second Place: William Hurlbut and John L. Balderson, The Bride of Frankenstein
Third Place: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and James Kevin McGuinness, A Night at the Opera

Best Adapted Screenplay: Walter DeLeon, Harlan Thompson and Humphrey Pearson, Ruggles of Red Gap
Second Place: Preston Sturges and Jane Hinton, The Good Fairy
Third Place: Charles Bennett and Ian Hay, The 39 Steps

Best Cinematography: Boris Kaufman, Jean-Paul Alphren and Louis Berger, L'Atalante
Second Place: Bernard Knowles, The 39 Steps
Third Place: Josef von Sternberg and Lucien Ballard, The Devil Is a Woman

Best Film Editing: D.N. Twist, The 39 Steps
Second Place: William LeVanway, A Night at the Opera
Third Place: George Hively, The Informer

Best Original Score: Franz Waxman, The Bride of Frankenstein
Second Place: Heinz Roemheld and John Leipold, The Devil Is a Woman
Third Place: Jack Beaver and Louis Levy, The 39 Steps

Best Production Design: Cedric Gibbons, Anna Karenina
Second Place: Van Nest Polglase, Top Hat
Third Place: Charles D. Hall, Bride of Frankenstein

Best Costume Design: Travis Banton and Henry West, The Devil Is a Woman
Second Place: Adrian Greenburg, Anna Karenina
Third Place: Vera West, The Good Fairy

1934

  1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (dir: Fritz Lang; UK Release Date)

  2. The Scarlet Empress (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

  3. Vampyr (dir: Carl Theodore Dyer; US release date)

  4. The Thin Man (dir: W.S. Van Dyke)

  5. The Black Cat (dir: Edgar G. Ulmer)

  6. Imitation of Life (dir: John M. Stahl)

  7. It Happened One Night (dir: Frank Capra)

  8. The Merry Widow (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

  9. Our Daily Bread (dir: King Vidor)

  10. Twentieth Century (dir: Howard Hawks)

Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Best Picture: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Fritz Lang Producers: Fritz Lang, Seymour Nebenzal
UK Distributor: Electa Films (1934)

(left to right) Fritz Lang in 1934; Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man, Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat and Louise Dresser in The Scarlet Empress

(left to right) Fritz Lang in 1934; Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man, Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat and Louise Dresser in The Scarlet Empress

Best Director: Fritz Lang, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Second Place: Carl Theodore Dyer, Vampyr
Third Place: Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress

Best Actor: William Powell, The Thin Man
Second Place: W.C. Fields, It's a Gift
Third Place: John Barrymore, Twentieth Century

Best Actress: Myrna Loy, The Thin Man
Second Place: Carole Lombard, Twentieth Century
Third Place: Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night AND Imitation of Life

Best Supporting Actor: Bela Lugosi, The Black Cat
Second Place: Edward Everett Horton, The Gay Divorcee
Third Place: John Lodge, The Scarlet Empress

Best Supporting Actress: Louise Dresser, The Scarlet Empress
Second Place: Joan Blondell, Dames
Third Place: Kathleen Howard, It's a Gift

(left to right) Our Daily Bread, The Thin Man, L'Atalante, The Scarlet Empress, It Happened One Night

(left to right) Our Daily Bread, The Thin Man, L'Atalante, The Scarlet Empress, It Happened One Night

Best Original Screenplay: King Vidor, Elizabeth Hill and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Our Daily Bread
Second Place: W.C. Fields, Jack Cunningham and J.P. McEvoy, It's a Gift
Third Place:

Best Adapted Screenplay: Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, The Thin Man
Second Place: Ben Hecht, Preston Sturges, Charles MacArthur and Gene Fowler, Twentieth Century
Third Place: William Hurlbut, Imitation of Life

Best Cinematography: Bert Glennon, The Scarlet Empress
Second Place: James Wong Howe, The Thin Man
Third Place:

Best Film Editing: Gene Havlick, It Happened One Night
Second Place:
Third Place: Ray Curtiss, The Black Cat

Best Original Score: Howard Jackson, It Happened One Night
Second Place: Heinz Roemheld, Imitation of Life
Third Place: Maurice Jaubert, L'Atalante

Best Production Design: Hans Dreir, The Scarlet Empress
Second Place: Roland Anderson and Hans Dreir, Cleopatra
Third Place: Carroll Clark and Van Nest Polglase, The Gay Divorcee

Best Costume Design: Travis Banton, The Scarlet Empress
Second Place: Vicky Williams, Cleopatra
Third Place: Walter Plunkett, The Gay Divorcee

1933

  1. Marius (dir: Alexander Korda; US release date)

  2. Design for Living (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

  3. The Invisible Man (dir: James Whale)

  4. Footlight Parade (dir: Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley)

  5. Zero for Conduct (dir: Jean Vigo)

  6. The Private Life of Henry VIII (dir: Alexander Korda)

  7. Heroes for Sale (dir: William A. Wellman)

  8. 42nd Street (dir: Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley)

  9. Dinner at Eight (dir: George Cukor)

  10. Secrets (dir: Frank Borzage)

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Best Picture: Marius
Director: Alexander Korda Producers: Marcel Pagnol, Robert Kane
US Distributor: Paramount

(left to right) James Whale in 1933; Raimu in Marius, Miriam Hopkins in Design for Living, Robert Barrat in Heroes for Sale, and Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight

Best Director: James Whale, The Invisible Man
Second Place: Alexander Korda, Marius AND The Private Life of Henry VIII
Third Place: Ernst Lubitsch, Design for Living

Best Actor: Raimu, Marius
Second Place: Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII
Third Place: Gary Cooper, Design for Living

Best Actress:  Miriam Hopkins, Design for Living
Second Place: Mary Pickford, Secrets
Third Place: Ruby Keeler, 42nd Street

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Barrat. Heroes for Sale
Second Place: John Barrymore, Dinner at Eight
Third Place: Frank Morgan, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!

Best Supporting Actress: Jean Harlow, Dinner at Eight
SecondPlace: Una O'Connor, The Invisible Man
Third Place: Joan Blondell, Footlight Parade

(left to right) The Private Life of Henry VIII, Design For Living, The Invisible Man, Dancing Lady,, Secrets,

(left to right) The Private Life of Henry VIII, Design For Living, The Invisible Man, Dancing Lady,, Secrets,

Best Original Screenplay: Lajos Biro and Arthur Wimperis, The Private Life of Henry VIII
Second Place: Jean Vigo, Zero for Conduct
Third Place: Ben Hecht and S.N. Behrman, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!

Best Adapted Screenplay: Ben Hecht and Samuel Hoffenstein, Design For Living
Second Place: R.C. Sherriff, Preston Sturges and Philip Wylie, The Invisible Man
Third Place: Marcel Pagnol, Marius

Best Cinematography: Arthur Edeson, The Invisible Man
Second Place: Georges Perinal, The Private Life of Henry VIII
Third Place: Boris Kaufman, Zero for Conduct

Best Film Editing: Margaret Booth and Slavko Vorkapich, Dancing Lady
Second Place: Jean Vigo, Zero for Conduct
Third Place: Ted Kent, The Invisible Man

Best Original Score: Alfred Newman, Secrets
Second Place: Kurt Schröder, The Private Life of Henry VIII
Third Place: Vincent Scotto, Cesar

Best Production Design: Vincent Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII
Second Place:
Third Place: Charles D. Hall, The Invisible Man

Best Costume Design: John Armstrong, The Private Life of Henry VIII 
Second Place: Adrian Greenburg, Queen Christina
Third Place: Adrian Greenburg, Secrets

1932 

  1. M (dir: Fritz Lang; US release date)

  2. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang! (dir: Mervyn LeRoy)

  3. Freaks (dir: Tod Browning)

  4. Trouble in Paradise (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

  5. Red Dust (dir: Victor Fleming)

  6. Blonde Venus (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

  7. Boudu, Saved from Drowning (dir: Jean Renoir)

  8. The Shanghai Express (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

  9. The Old Dark House (dir: James Whale)

  10. Love Me Tonight (dir: Rouben Mamoulian)

Best Picture: M
Director: Fritz Lang Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

(left to right) Fritz Lang in 1931; Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang!, Miriam Hopkins in Trouble in Paradise, Edward Everett Horton in Trouble in Paradise and Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House

(left to right) Fritz Lang in 1931; Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang!, Miriam Hopkins in Trouble in Paradise, Edward Everett Horton in Trouble in Paradise and Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House

Best Director: Fritz Lang, M
Second Place: Mervyn LeRoy, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Third Place: Tod Browning, Freaks

Best Actor: Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang! AND Scarface
Second Place: Herbert Marshall, Trouble in Paradise
Third Place: Michel Simon, Boudu, Saved from Drowning

Best Actress: Miriam Hopkins, Trouble in Paradise
Second Place: Jean Harlow, Red Dust
Third Place: Marlene Dietrich, The Shanghai Express

Best Supporting Actor: Edward Everett Horton, Trouble in Paradise
Second Place: Ernest Thesiger, The Old Dark House
Third Place: Lionel Barrymore, Grand Hotel

Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Stuart, The Old Dark House
Second Place: Mary Astor, Red Dust
Third Place: Kay Francis, Trouble in Paradise

(left to right) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (dir: Mervyn LeRoy), Red Dust, Vampyr, The Shanghai Express (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

(left to right) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (dir: Mervyn LeRoy), Red Dust, Vampyr, The Shanghai Express (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

Best Original Screenplay: Brown Holmes, Howard J. Green, Sheridan Gibney and Robert E. Burns, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Second Place: Grigori Aleksandrov, ¡Que Viva Mexico!
Third Place: Jules Furthman and Harry Hervey, Shanghai Express

Best Adapted Screenplay: John Mahin and Donald Ogden Stewart, Red Dust
Second Place: Samson Raphaelson and Glover Jones, Trouble in Paradise
Third Place: Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion, Jr. and Waldemar Young, Love Me Tonight

Best Cinematography: Fritz Arno Wagner, M
Second Place: Harold Rosson and Arthur Edeson, Red Dust
Third Place: Lee Garmes and James Wong Howe, Shanghai Express
Fourth Place: Arthur Edeson, The Old Dark House

Best Film Editing: Basil Wrangell, Freaks
Second Place: Blanche Sewell, Red Dust
Third Place: Suzanne de Troeye and Marguerite Renoir, Boudu Saved from Drowning

Best Original Score: Bernhard Kaun, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang!
Second Place:
Third Place:

Best Production Design: Hans Dreier, The Shanghai Express
Second Place: Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye, Freaks
Third Place: Charles D. Hall and Russell Gausman, The Old Dark House

Best Costume Design: Travis Banton, The Shanghai Express
Second Place: Travis Banton, Blonde Venus
Third Place: Travis Banton, Trouble in Paradise

1931

  1. Frankenstein (dir: James Whale)

  2. Dishonored (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

  3. City Lights (dir: Charles Chaplin)

  4. The Miracle Woman (dir: Frank Capra)

  5. The Smiling Lieutenant (dir: Ernst Lubitsch)

  6. Le Million (dir: René Clair)

  7. The Public Enemy (dir: William A. Wellman)

  8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (dir: Rouben Mamoulian)

  9. Dracula (dir: Tod Browning)

  10. Street Scene (dir: King Vidor)

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Best Picture: Frankenstein
Director: James Whale; Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
US Distributor: Universal Pictures

(left to right) Joseph von Sternberg in 1931; Charles Chapin in City Lights, Barbara Stanwyck and David Manners in The Miracle Woman, and Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

(left to right) Joseph von Sternberg in 1931; Charles Chapin in City Lights, Barbara Stanwyck and David Manners in The Miracle Woman, and Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Best Director: Josef von Sternberg, Dishonored
Second Place: Charles Chaplin, City Lights
Third Place: James Whale, Frankenstein

Best Actor: Charles Chaplin, City Lights
Second Place: James Cagney, The Public Enemy
Third Place: Boris Karloff, Frankenstein
Fourth Place: Victor McLaglen, Dishonored

Best Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, The Miracle Woman
Second Place: Jean Harlow, Platinum Blonde
Third Place: Sylvia Sidney, Street Scene
Fourth Place: Marlene Deitrich, Dishonored

Best Supporting Actor: David Manners, The Miracle Woman
Second Place: Harry Myers, City Lights
Third Place: Dwight Frye, Dracula

Best Supporting Actress: Miriam Hopkins, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde AND The Smiling Lieutenant
Second Place:
Third Place: Sylvia Sidney, An American Tragedy

(left to right) Dishonored, The Miracle Woman, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Le Million, Frankenstein

(left to right) Dishonored, The Miracle Woman, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Le Million, Frankenstein

Best Original Screenplay: Josef von Sternberg and Daniel Nathan Rubin, Dishonored
Second Place: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Harvey Thew, The Public Enemy
Third Place: Charles Chaplin, City Lights

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jo Swerling, The Miracle Woman
Second Place: Francis Edward Faragoh and Garret Fort, Frankenstein
Third Place: Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson, The Smiling Lieutenant

Best Cinematography: Karl Freund, Dracula
Second Place: Floyd Crosby, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Third Place: Lee Garmes, Dishonored

Best Film Editing: William Shea, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Second Place: Josef von Sternberg, Dishonored
Third Place: Clarence Kolster, Frankenstein

Best Original Score: Georges Van Parys, Philippe Pares and Armand Bernard, Le Million
Second Place: Violeta Dinescu, Hugo Riesenfeld and W. Franke Harling, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Third Place: Charles Chaplin, City Lights

Best Production Design: Charles D. Hall, Frankenstein
Second Place: Lazare Meerson, Le Million
Third Place: Hans Drier, The Smiling Lieutenant

Best Costume Design: Travis Banton, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Second Place: Max Ree, Cimarron
Third Place: Vera West and Ed Ware, Dracula
Fourth Place: Travis Banton, Dishonored

1930

  1. The Blue Angel (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

  2. All Quiet on the Western Front (dir: Lewis Milestone)

  3. Under the Roofs of Paris (dir: Rene Clair)

  4. City Girl (dir: F.W. Murnau)

  5. Earth (dir: Aleksandr Dovzhenko)

  6. L’Age d’Or (dir: Luis Buñuel)

  7. Hell's Angels (dir: Howard Hughes and James Whale) 

  8. Anna Christie (dir: Clarence Brown)

  9. Morocco (dir: Josef von Sternberg)

  10. Murder (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

Malene Dietrich and Emil Jannings in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel

Malene Dietrich and Emil Jannings in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel

Best Picture: The Blue Angel
Director: Josef von Sternberg Producer: Erich Pommer
US Distributor: Paramount Pictures

(left to right) Lewis Milestone; Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, Adolphe Menjou in Morocco and Jean Harlow in Hell's Angels

(left to right) Lewis Milestone; Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, Adolphe Menjou in Morocco and Jean Harlow in Hell's Angels

Best Director: Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front
Second Place: Rene Clair, Under the Roofs of Paris
Third Place: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Earth

Best Actor: Emil Jannings, The Blue Angel
Second Place: Charles Farrell, City Girl
Third Place: Lew Ayres, All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Actress: Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel
Second Place: Pola Íllery, Under the Roofs of Paris
Third Place: Greta Garbo, Anna Christie

Best Supporting Actor: Adolphe Menjou, Morocco
Second Place: Louis Wolheim, All Quiet On the Western Front
Third Place: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dawn Patrol

Best Supporting Actress: Jean Harlow, Hell's Angels
Second Place: Marie Dressler, Anna Christie
Third Place: Dorothy Jordan, Min and Bill

(left to right) Under the Roofs of Paris, All Quiet of the Western Front, The Bat Whispers, Earth, Hell's Angels

(left to right) Under the Roofs of Paris, All Quiet of the Western Front, The Bat Whispers, Earth, Hell's Angels

Best Original Screenplay: Rene Clair, Under the Roofs of Paris
Second Place: Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, L'Age d'Or
Third Place: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Earth

Best Adapted Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott and Del Andrews, All Quiet on the Western Front
Second Place: Morrie Ryskind, Animal Crackers
Third Place: Marion Orth, Berthold Viertel and Elliott Lester, City Girl

Best Cinematography: Ray June and Robert H. Planck, The Bat Whispers
Second Place: Danii Demutsky, Earth
Third Place: Georges Perinal and Georges Raulet, Under the Roofs of Paris

Best Film Editing: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Earth
Second Place: Edgar Adams, Milton Carruth and Edward Cahn, All Quiet on the Western Front
Third Place: Walter Klee and Sam Winston, The Blue Angel

Best Original Score: Heinz Roemheld and Sam Perry, All Quiet on the Western Front
Second Place: Hugo Riesenfeld, Hell's Angels
Third Place: Karl Hajos, Morocco

Best Production Design: Carroll Clark and Julian Boone-Fleming, Hell's Angels
Second Place: Charles D. Hall and William R. Schmidt, All Quiet on the Western Front
Third Place:

Best Costume Designer: Howard Greer, Hell's Angels
Second Place: Travis Banton, Morocco
Third Place: Adrian Greenburg, Anna Christie