2nd Academy Awards (1929)
Highlights of 2nd Academy Awards ceremony
The 2nd Academy Awards honored the best films released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.
The award ceremony was held on 3rd April 1930.
The Broadway Melody won the Best Picture Award.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Broadway Melody
Alibi
In Old Arizona
Hollywood Revue
The Patriot
Best Director
The Divine Lady
- Frank Lloyd
Madame X
- Lionel Barrymore
The Broadway Melody
- Harry Beaumont
In Old Arizona
- Irving Cummings
Drag and Weary River
- Frank Lloyd
The Patriot
- Ernst Lubitsch
Best Actor in a Leading Role
In Old Arizona
- Warner Baxter
Thunderbolt
- George Bancroft
Alibi
- Chester Morris
The Valiant
- Paul Muni
The Patriot
- Lewis Stone
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Coquette
- Mary Pickford
Madame X
- Ruth Chatterton
The Barker
- Betty Compson
The Letter
- Jeanne Eagels
The Divine Lady
- Corinne Griffith
The Broadway Melody
- Bessie Love
Best Art Direction
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Cedric Gibbons
The Patriot
- Hans Dreier
Dynamite
- Mitchell Leisen
Alibi
- William Cameron Menzies
The Awakening
- William Cameron Menzies
Street Angel
- Harry Oliver
Best Cinematography
White Shadows in the South Seas
- Clyde de Vinna
Our Dancing Daughters
- George Barnes
In Old Arizona
- Arthur Edeson
Four Devils and Street Angel
- Ernest Palmer
The Divine Lady
- John F. Seitz
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
The Patriot
- Hanns Kraly
In Old Arizona and The Valiant
- Tom Barry
The Cop
- Elliot Clawson
The Leatherneck
- Elliot Clawson
Sal of Singapore
- Elliot Clawson
Skyscraper
- Elliot Clawson
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- Hanns Kraly
Our Dancing Daughters
- Josephine Lovett
A Woman of Affairs and Wonder of Women
- Bess Meredyth