2nd Academy Awards nominees and winners

This is a complete list of nominees and winners of the 2nd Academy Awards. They were given out on April 3 1930.

"Winners are highlighted in boldface".

=Best Motion Picture Of The Year=

*"Alibi"
*"In Old Arizona"
*"The Broadway Melody"
*"Hollywood Revue"
*"The Patriot"

Achievement In Direction

*Lionel Barrymore - "Madame X"
*Harry Beaumont - "The Broadway Melody"
*Irving Cummings - "In Old Arizona"
*Frank Lloyd - "The Divine Lady"
*Frank Lloyd - "Drag" and "Weary River"
*Ernst Lubitsch - "The Patriot"

=Best Performance By An Actor=

*George Bancroft - "Thunderbolt"
*Warner Baxter - "In Old Arizona"
*Chester Morris - "Alibi"
*Paul Muni - "The Valiant"
*Lewis Stone - "The Patriot"

=Best Performance By An Actress=

*Ruth Chatterton - "Madame X"
*Betty Compson - "The Barker"
*Jeanne Eagels - "The Letter" (this was a posthumous nomination, the only such nomination in the history of this award)
*Corinne Griffith - "The Divine Lady"
*Bessie Love - "The Broadway Melody"
*Mary Pickford - "Coquette"

Best Writing

*Tom Barry - "In Old Arizona" and "The Valiant"
*Elliot Clawson - "The Cop", "The Leatherneck", "Sal of Singapore", and "Skyscraper"
*Hanns Kräly - "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney"
*Hanns Kräly - "The Patriot"
*Josephine Lovett - "Our Dancing Daughters"
*Bess Meredyth - "A Woman of Affairs" and "Wonder of Women"

=Achievement In Art Direction=

*Hans Dreier - "The Patriot"
*"'Cedric Gibbons - "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
*Mitchell Leisen - "Dynamite"
*William Cameron Menzies - "Alibi" and "The Awakening"
*Harry Oliver - "Street Angel"

=Achievement In Cinematography=

*George Barnes - "Our Dancing Daughters"
*Clyde de Vinna - "White Shadows in the South Seas"
*Arthur Edeson - "In Old Arizona"
*Ernest Palmer - "Four Devils" and "Street Angel"
*John F. Seitz - "The Divine Lady"