2nd Academy Awards

2nd Academy Awards
Date	April 3, 1930
Site	Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)
Hosted by	William C. DeMille
Highlights
Best Picture	The Broadway Melody
Most awards	Seven films each received one award. No film received more than one award at this ceremony.
Most nominations	In Old Arizona and The Patriot (5)

The 2nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films released between August 1, 1928, and July 31, 1929. They took place on April 3, 1930, at an awards banquet in the Cocoanut Grove of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Radio coverage began with this ceremony, with a local broadcast by KNX, Los Angeles.^[1]

As the ceremony was being held more than eight months after the end of the eligibility period, it was decided that the 3rd Academy Awards would be held in November 1930, so as to bring the awards ceremony closer to the relevant time period. As a result, 1930 was the only calendar year in which two awards ceremonies were held.

The second ceremony included a number of changes over the first. Most importantly, it was the first presentation for which the winners were not announced in advance. Additionally, the number of categories was reduced from twelve to seven.

The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.

The Divine Lady is the only film to ever win Best Director without a Best Picture nomination, excluding the first year where there was an award for comic director.

This is the only year in which no movie won more than one Oscar. The Broadway Melody became the second of seven films (Wings, Grand Hotel, Cavalcade, Hamlet, The Sound of Music, and Titanic are the others) to win Best Picture without a writing nomination, and the first of three to win Best Picture and nothing else (Grand Hotel and Mutiny on the Bounty are the others).

Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double-dagger ().

Outstanding Picture The Broadway Melody – Irving Thalberg and Lawrence Weingarten for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Alibi – Roland West for United Artists The Hollywood Revue of 1929 – Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapf for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In Old Arizona – Winfield Sheehan for Fox Film Corporation The Patriot – Ernst Lubitsch for Paramount Pictures	Best Director Frank Lloyd – The Divine Lady Harry Beaumont – The Broadway Melody Frank Lloyd – Drag Irving Cummings – In Old Arizona Lionel Barrymore – Madame X Ernst Lubitsch – The Patriot Frank Lloyd – Weary River
Best Actor *Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona* as The Cisco Kid** George Bancroft – Thunderbolt as Thunderbolt Jim Lang Chester Morris – Alibi as Chick Williams Paul Muni – The Valiant as James Dyke Lewis Stone – The Patriot as Count Pahlen	Best Actress *Mary Pickford – Coquette* as Norma Besant** Ruth Chatterton – Madame X as Jacqueline Floriot Betty Compson – The Barker as Carrie Jeanne Eagels (posthumous nomination) – The Letter as Leslie Crosbie Corinne Griffith – The Divine Lady as Emma Hart Bessie Love – The Broadway Melody as Harriet "Hank" Mahoney
Best Art Direction The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Cedric Gibbons Alibi – William Cameron Menzies The Awakening – William Cameron Menzies Dynamite – Mitchell Leisen The Patriot – Hans Dreier Street Angel – Harry Oliver	Best Cinematography White Shadows in the South Seas – Clyde De Vinna 4 Devils – Ernest Palmer The Divine Lady – John F. Seitz In Old Arizona – Arthur Edeson Our Dancing Daughters – George Barnes Street Angel – Ernest Palmer
Best Writing The Patriot – Hanns Kräly, based on Ashley Dukes' translation of the play Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann, and the story "Paul I" by Dmitry Merezhkovsky The Cop – Elliot Clawson In Old Arizona – Tom Barry, based on the story "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry The Last of Mrs. Cheyney – Hanns Kräly, based on the play by Frederick Lonsdale The Leatherneck – Elliot Clawson Our Dancing Daughters – Josephine Lovett Sal of Singapore – Elliot Clawson, based on the story "The Sentimentalists" by Dale Collins Skyscraper – Elliot Clawson, based on a story by Dudley Murphy The Valiant – Tom Barry, based on the play by Halworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass A Woman of Affairs – Bess Meredyth, based on the novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen Wonder of Women – Bess Meredyth, based on the novel Die Frau des Steffen Thromholt by Hermann Sudermann

Multiple nominations and awards

The following 9 films received multiple nominations:

5 nominations: The Patriot and In Old Arizona
3 nominations: The Broadway Melody, Alibi, and The Divine Lady
2 nominations: Madame X, The Valiant, Our Dancing Daughters, and Street Angel

No film received multiple awards at this ceremony. This is the only year to date in which no movie won more than one Oscar.

References

↑ Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.

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[Dunning-1] Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.

2nd Academy Awards

Awards

Multiple nominations and awards

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References

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