3rd Academy Awards

Infobox Academy AwardsB | name = 3rd
date = November 5, 1930
site = The Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles, California
host = Conrad Nagel
last = 2nd
next= 4thThe 3rd Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1929/1930, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Awards

For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: "3rd Academy Awards nominees and winners"

Best Motion Picture of the Year

*"All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)

Best Actor

*George Arliss as Benjamin Disraeli in "Disraeli" (1929)

NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot listed both "Disraeli" and "The Green Goddess" in Arliss' nomination, the award was announced for only the "Disraeli" performance. It has never been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges only listed the "Disraeli" performance in the results of the nominations voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots, the voters had indicated the "Disraeli" performance over the other.

Best Actress

*Norma Shearer as Jerry Bernard Martin in "The Divorcee" (1930)

NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot listed both "The Divorcee" and "Their Own Desire" in Shearer's nomination, the award was announced for only "The Divorcee" performance. It has never been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges only listed "The Divorcee" performance in the results of the nominations voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots, the voters had indicated "The Divorcee" performance over the other.

Best Art Direction

*Herman Rosse for "The King of Jazz" (1930)

Best Cinematography

*Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer for "With Byrd at the South Pole" (1930)

Best Director

*Lewis Milestone for "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)

Outstanding Production

*Universal Pictures for "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)

Best Sound Recording

*Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department (Douglas Shearer, sound director) for "The Big House" (1930)

Best Writing

*Frances Marion for "The Big House" (1930)

References

* [http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/ Academy Awards Database]