2nd Academy Awards

Infobox Academy AwardsB
name = 2nd
date = April 3, 1930
site = The Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles, California
host = William C. DeMille
last = 1st
next = 3rdThe 2nd Academy Awards were presented on April 3, 1930 at an awards banquet in the Cocoanut Grove of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and broadcast live on the radio. This second ceremony would include a number of changes over the first. Most importantly, this was the first presentation where the winners were not announced in advance. In addition, the number of categories was reduced from twelve to seven.

Note that this is the only Academy Awards ceremony where only winners were announced, not nominees. Therefore, all of the nominees listed here are "unofficial"-- but supported by the Academy of Motion Pictures' awards database as the films being evaluated by the judges.

Both the 2nd and 3rd Academy Awards were held in 1930. This compensation allowed future ceremonies to always be one per year, featuring the movies of the previous calendar year.

Awards

For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: "2nd Academy Awards nominees and winners"

Outstanding Picture

Winner: "The Broadway Melody"

Nominations: "Alibi", "In Old Arizona", "Hollywood Revue", "The Patriot"

Best Actor

Winner: Warner Baxter in "In Old Arizona"

Nominations: George Bancroft in "Thunderbolt", Chester Morris in "Alibi", Paul Muni in "The Valiant", and Lewis Stone in "The Patriot"

Best Actress

Winner: Mary Pickford in "Coquette"

Nominations: Ruth Chatterton in "Madame X", Betty Compson in "The Barker", Jeanne Eagels in "The Letter", Corinne Griffith in "The Divine Lady", and Bessie Love in "The Broadway Melody"

Best Director

Winner: Frank Lloyd for "The Divine Lady"

Nominations: Lionel Barrymore for "Madame X", Harry Beaumont for "The Broadway Melody", Irving Cummings for "In Old Arizona", Frank Lloyd for "Drag" and "Weary River", and Ernst Lubitsch for "The Patriot"

Best Writing

Winner: Hans Kraly for "The Patriot"

Nominations: Tom Barry for "In Old Arizona" and "The Valiant"; Elliott Clawson for "The Cop", "The Leatherneck", "Sal of Singapore", and "Skyscraper"; Hans Kraly for "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney"; Josephine Lovett for "Our Dancing Daughters"; and Bess Meredyth for "A Woman of Affairs" and "Wonder of Women"

Best Cinematography

Winner: Clyde De Vinna for "White Shadows in the South Seas"

Nominations: George Barnes for "Our Dancing Daughters", Arthur Edeson for "In Old Arizona", Ernest Palmer for "Four Devils" and "Street Angel", and John Seitz for "The Divine Lady"

Art Direction

Winner: Cedric Gibbons for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"

Nominations: Hans Dreier for "The Patriot", Mitchell Leisen for "Dynamite", William Cameron Menzies for "Alibi" and "The Awakening", and Harry Oliver for "Street Angel"

References

* [http://www.filmsite.org/aa28.html FilmSite.org writeup of 1928/29 Academy Awards]
* [http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/ Academy Awards Database]