2nd Academy Awards (1928/29): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
5 – 3 – –	In Old Arizona The Patriot Alibi The Broadway Melody The Divine Lady	1 – – – – – –	The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Broadway Melody Coquette The Divine Lady In Old Arizona The Patriot White Shadows in the South Seas
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

OUTSTANDING PICTURE

Alibi – Feature Productions [2]
The Broadway Melody – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [1]
Hollywood Revue – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [2]
In Old Arizona – Fox [2]
The Patriot – Paramount Famous Lasky [2]

DIRECTING

Lionel Barrymore – Madame X [2]
Harry Beaumont – The Broadway Melody [2]
Irving Cummings – In Old Arizona [2]
Frank Lloyd – The Divine Lady [1]
Frank Lloyd – Drag; Weary River [2]
Ernst Lubitsch – The Patriot [2]

ACTOR

George Bancroft – Thunderbolt [2]
Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona [1]
Chester Morris – Alibi [2]
Paul Muni – The Valiant [2]
Lewis Stone – The Patriot [2]

ACTRESS

Ruth Chatterton – Madame X [2]
Betty Compson – The Barker [2]
Jeanne Eagels – The Letter [2]
Corinne Griffith – The Divine Lady [2]
Bessie Love – The Broadway Melody [2]
Mary Pickford – Coquette [1]

WRITING

Tom Barry – In Old Arizona; The Valiant [2]
Elliott Clawson – The Cop; The Leatherneck; Sal of Singapore; Skyscraper [2]
Hans Kraly – The Last of Mrs. Cheyney [2]
Hans Kraly – The Patriot [1]
Josephine Lovett – Our Dancing Daughters [2]
Bess Meredyth – A Woman of Affairs; Wonder of Women [2]

CINEMATOGRAPHY

George Barnes – Our Dancing Daughters [2]
Clyde De Vinna – White Shadows in the South Seas [1]
Arthur Edeson – In Old Arizona [2]
Ernest Palmer – Four Devils; Street Angel [2]
John Seitz – The Divine Lady [2]

ART DIRECTION

Hans Dreier – The Patriot [2]
Cedric Gibbons – The Bridge of San Luis Rey [3]
Mitchell Leisen – Dynamite [2]
William Cameron Menzies – Alibi; The Awakening [2]
Harry Oliver – Street Angel [2]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. [NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930.]
2. [NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930. Though not official nominations, the additional names in each category, according to in-house records, were under consideration by the various boards of judges.]
3. [NOTE: The award citation reads ‘for ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’ and other pictures.’ THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930.]