Oscar Nominations and Winners (1930-1931)

Best Picture

• Cimarron
• East Lynne
• The Front Page
• Skippy
• Trader Horn

Best Director

• Clarence Brown (A Free Soul)
• Lewis Milestone (The Front Page)
• Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron)
• Norman Taurog (Skippy)
• Josef Von Sternberg (Morocco)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
• Jackie Cooper (Skippy)
• Richard Dix (Cimarron)
• Fredric March (The Royal Family of Broadway)
• Adolphe Menjou (The Front Page)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Marlene Dietrich (Morocco)
• Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
• Irene Dunne (Cimarron)
• Ann Harding (Holiday)
• Norma Shearer (A Free Soul)

Best Original Story

• The Dawn Patrol (John Monk Saunders)
• The Doorway to Hell (Rowland Brown)
• Laughter (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty and Donald Ogden Stewart)
• The Public Enemy (John Bright and Kubec Glasmon)
• Smart Money (Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson)

Best Adaptation

• Cimarron (Howard Estabrook)
• The Criminal Code (Seton Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr.)
• Holiday (Horace Jackson)
• Little Caesar (Francis Faragoh and Robert N. Lee)
• Skippy (Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz)

Art Direction

• Cimmaron
• Just Imagine
• Morocco
• Svengali
• Whoopee!

Cinematography

• Cimarron
• Morocco
• The Right to Love
• Svengali
• Tabu

Sound

• MGM Studio Sound Department
• Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
• RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
• Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department