2nd Academy Awards

2nd
Date	April 3, 1930
Site	The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	William C. DeMille

The 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

• FilmSite.org writeup of 1928/29 Academy Awards
• Academy Awards Database