1930 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Universal; Carl Laemmle, Jr.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
Paramount; Victor Heerman
ANNA CHRISTIE
MGM; Paul Bern, Clarence Brown & Irving
Thalberg
THE BIG HOUSE
MGM; Irving Thalberg
THE BLUE ANGEL
Paramount / Universum; Erich Pommer
THE DAWN PATROL
First National; Robert North
HELL'S ANGELS
United Artists / The Caddo Company; Howard
Hughes
MONTE CARLO
Paramount; Ernst Lubitsch
MOROCCO
Paramount; Hector Turnbull
ROMANCE
MGM; Clarence Brown
Also Considered:
ANOTHER FINE MESS (Hal Roach); CITY GIRL (William Fox);
THE DIVORCEE (Robert Z. Leonard & Irving Thalberg); HOLIDAY (E.B. Derr); L'AGE D'OR (Le Vicomte de Noailles); MIN & BILL (George W. Hill & Harry Rapf); PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (Seymour
Nebenzal & Edgar G. Ulmer); RAFFLES (Samuel Goldwyn); UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (Rene Clair); ZEMLYA (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Lew Ayres as "Paul Baumer" - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN
FRONT
Richard Barthelmess as "Dick Courtney" - THE DAWN
PATROL
Wallace Beery as "Bill" - MIN & BILL
Ronald Colman as "Willie Hale" - THE DEVIL TO
PAY
Leslie Howard as "Tom Prior" - OUTWARD BOUND
Walter Huston as "Abraham Lincoln" - ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
Emil Jannings as "Professor Immanuel Rath" - THE BLUE
ANGEL
Fredric March as "Tony Cavendish" - THE ROYAL FAMILY OF
BROADWAY
Herbert Marshall as "Sir John Menier" -
MURDER
Laurence Tibbett as "Yegor" - THE ROGUE SONG
Also Considered:
George Arliss (THE GREEN GODDESS); Maurice Chevalier (THE
BIG POND); Ronald Colman (RAFFLES); Gary Cooper (MOROCCO); Ralph Lynn (ROOKERY NOOK); Groucho Marx (ANIMAL CRACKERS); Robert Montgomery (THE DIVORCEE); Chester Morris (THE BIG HOUSE); William
Powell (STREET OF CHANCE); John Wayne (THE BIG TRAIL)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Nancy Carroll as "Hallie Hobart" - THE DEVIL'S
HOLIDAY
Ruth Chatterton as "Brooks Evans / Naomi Kellogg" - THE
RIGHT TO LOVE
Ina Claire as "Julie Cavendish" - THE ROYAL FAMILY OF
BROADWAY
Marlene Dietrich as "Lola Lola" - THE BLUE
ANGEL
Marlene Dietrich as "Amy Jolly" - MOROCCO
Marie Dressler as "Min" - MIN & BILL
Mary Duncan as "Kate" - CITY GIRL
Greta Garbo as "Anna Christie" - ANNA
CHRISTIE
Ann Harding as "Linda Seton" - HOLIDAY
Norma Shearer as "Jerry" - THE DIVORCEE
Also Considered:
Louise Brooks (BEAUTY PRIZE); Nancy Carroll (LAUGHTER);
Ruth Chatterton (SARAH & SON); Kay Francis (RAFFLES); Greta Garbo (ROMANCE); Miriam Hopkins (FAST & LOOSE); Dorothy Lee (THE CUCKOOS); Jeanette MacDonald (MONTE CARLO); Marilyn Miller
(SALLY); Barbara Stanwyck (LADIES OF LEISURE)
BEST DIRECTOR
Clarence Brown - ROMANCE
Luis Bunuel - L'AGE D'OR
Aleksandr Dovzhenko - ZEMLYA
D.W. Griffith - ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Howard Hawks - THE DAWN PATROL
George Hill - THE BIG HOUSE
Howard Hughes - HELL'S ANGELS
Lewis Milestone - ALL QUIET
ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Josef Von Sternberg - THE BLUE ANGEL
Josef Von Sternberg - MOROCCO
Also Considered:
Anthony Asquith (A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR); Clarence Brown
(ANNA CHRISTIE); Rene Clair (UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS); Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast (LAUGHTER); Edward H. Griffith (HOLIDAY); Robert Z. Leonard (THE DIVORCEE); Ernst Lubitsch (MONTE CARLO);
Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer (PEOPLE ON SUNDAY); Jean Vigo (A PROPOS DE NICE); Roland West (THE BAT WHISPERS)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Wallace Beery as "Butch
Schmidt" - THE BIG HOUSE
Charles Bickford as "Matt Burke" - ANNA CHRISTIE
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as "Douglas Scott" - THE DAWN
PATROL
Robert Montgomery as "Kent Marlowe" - THE BIG
HOUSE
David Torrence as "J.L. Tustine" - CITY GIRL
Also Considered:
Frank McHugh (THE DAWN PATROL); Adolphe Menjou (MOROCCO); Frank Morgan (FAST & LOOSE); H.B. Warner (THE GREEN GODDESS); Louis Wolheim (ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary Astor as "Julia Seton" - HOLIDAY
Marie Dressler as
"Marthy" - ANNA CHRISTIE
Margaret Dumont as "Mrs. Rittenhouse" - ANIMAL
CRACKERS
Jean Harlow as "Helen" - HELL'S ANGELS
Leila Hyams as "Anne Marlowe" - THE BIG
HOUSE
Also Considered:
Maude Eburne (THE BAT WHISPERS); Dorothy Jordan (MIN &
BILL); Carole Lombard (FAST & LOOSE); Beryl Mercer (ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT); Eve Southern (MOROCCO)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ADAPTATION
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN
FRONT
Maxwell Anderson, George
Abbott & Del Andrews
ANIMAL CRACKERS
Morrie Ryskind
ANNA CHRISTIE
Frances Marion
ANOTHER FINE MESS
H.M. Walker
CITY GIRL
Berthold Viertel & Marion Orth
THE DIVORCEE
John Meehan & Zelda Sears
MOROCCO
Jules Furthman
L'AGE D'OR
Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
RAFFLES
Sidney Howard
ROOKERY NOOK
Ben Travers
Also Considered:
THE BLUE ANGEL (Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller &
Robert Liebmann); THE CRIMINAL CODE (Fred Niblo & Seton I. Miller); THE CUCKOOS (Cyrus Wood & Fatty Arbuckle); FAST & LOOSE (Preston Sturges); HOLIDAY (Horace Jackson); LADIES OF
LEISURE (Jo Swerling); MIN & BILL (Frances Marion & Marion Jackson); MURDER (Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Mycroft & Alma Reville); ROMANCE (Bess Meredyth & Edwin Justus Mayer);
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BROADWAY (Herman J. Mankiewicz & Gertrude Purcell)
BEST SCREENPLAY - ORIGINAL
THE BIG HOUSE
Frances Marion
THE DAWN PATROL
John Monk Saunders, Howard Hawks, Dan Totheroh & Seton I.
Miller
THE DEVIL TO PAY
Benjamin Glazer
HOG WILD
H.M. Walker & Leo
McCarey
LAUGHTER
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Z. Doty, Donald Ogden
Stewart & Herman J. Mankiewicz
STREET OF CHANCE
Howard Estabrook, Lenore J. Coffee & Oliver H.P.
Garrett
UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS
Rene Clair
ZEMLYA
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Also Considered:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Stephen Vincent Benet); BEAUTY PRIZE
(Rene Clair & G.W. Pabst); THE DEVIL'S HOLIDAY (Edmund Goulding); FEET FIRST (John Grey, Al Cohn, Clyde Bruckman, Felix Adler & Lex Neal); JUST IMAGINE (Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown &
Ray Henderson); KING OF JAZZ (Harry Ruskin, Charles MacArthur & Edward T. Lowe, Jr.); PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (Billy Wilder); SONG O' MY HEART (Tom Barry & Sonya Levien)
BEST ART DIRECTION
THE BAT WHISPERS
Paul Crawley
JUST IMAGINE
Stephen Goodson & Ralph Hammeras
KING OF
JAZZ
Herman
Rosse
MOROCCO
Hans Dreier
RAFFLES
William Cameron Menzies & Park French
ROMANCE
Cedric Gibbons
SALLY
Jack Okey
TOM SAWYER
Bernard Herzbrun
THE VAGABOND KING
Hans Dreier
WHOOPEE!
Richard Day
Also Considered:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (William Cameron Menzies); ALL QUIET ON
THE WESTERN FRONT (Charles D. Hall & W.R. Schmidt); ANNA CHRISTIE (Cedric Gibbons); THE BLUE ANGEL (Otto Hunte); THE DIVORCEE (Cedric Gibbons); HOLIDAY (Carroll Clark); MADAM SATAN
(Cedric Gibbons & Mitchell Liesen); MONTE CARLO (credit unknown); PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (John Wenger); UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (Lazare Meerson)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Arthur Edeson
ANNA CHRISTIE
William H. Daniels
THE BAT WHISPERS
Ray June & Robert H. Planck
THE BLUE ANGEL
Günther Rittau & Hans Schneeberger
HELL'S ANGELS
Tony Gaudio & Harry Perry
KING OF JAZZ
Jerome Ash, Hal Mohr & Ray Rennahan
L'AGE D'OR
Albert Duverger
MOROCCO
Lee
Garmes
WITH BYRD AT THE SOUTH POLE
Joseph T. Rucker & Willard Van Der Veer
ZEMLYA
Daniil Damutski
Also Considered:
THE BIG HOUSE (Harold Wenstrom); THE BIG TRAIL (Lucien
Andriot & Arthur Edeson); THE DAWN PATROL (Ernest Haller); JOURNEY’S END (Benjamin H. Kline); JUST IMAGINE (Ernest Palmer); PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (Eugen Schüfftan); A PROPOS DE NICE (Boris
Kaufman); THE RIGHT TO LOVE (Charles Lang); THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BROADWAY (George J. Folsey); UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (Georges Perinal & Georges Raulet)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Walter Israel
THE BLUE ANGEL
Tihamer Varady
THE GREEN GODDESS
Earl Luick
KING OF
JAZZ
Herman
Rosse
LADIES OF LEISURE
Edward Stevenson
MONTE CARLO
Travis Banton
MOROCCO
Travis Banton
PARAMOUNT ON PARADE
Travis Banton
ROMANCE
Adrian
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BROADWAY
Travis Banton
Also Considered:
ANNA CHRISTIE (Adrian); THE DIVORCEE (Adrian); HOLIDAY (Gwen
Wakeling); JUST IMAGINE (Alice O'Neill & Dolly Tree); MADAM SATAN (Adrian); THE ROGUE SONG (Adrian); STREET OF CHANGE (Travis Banton); UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS (Rene Hubert); THE VAGABOND
KING (Travis Banton); WHOOPEE! (John Harkrider)
BEST FILM EDITING
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Edgar Adams & Milton Carruth
THE BIG HOUSE
Blanche Sewell
THE BIG TRAIL
Jack Dennis
THE DAWN PATROL
Ray Curtiss
HELL'S
ANGELS
Douglas Biggs & Frank
Lawrence
L’AGE D’OR
Luis Buñuel
WESTFRONT 1918
W.L. Bagier, Jean Oser & Marc Sorkin
ZEMLYA
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Also Considered:
THE BLUE ANGEL (Walter Klee & Sam Winston); CITY GIRL
(H.H. Caldwell & Katherine Hilliker); MIN & BILL (Basil Wrangell); MOROCCO (Sam Winston); A PROPOS DE NICE (Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman); RAFFLES (Stuart Heisler); UNDER THE ROOFS OF
PARIS (Rene Le Hanaff); WAY OUT WEST (William S. Gray & Jerome Thoms)
BEST MAKEUP
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
Robert
Stephanoff
THE BLUE ANGEL
Waldemar Jabs & Oscar Schmidt
KING OF JAZZ
Jack Pierce
Also Considered:
THE BAT WHISPERS (S.E. Jennings); THE ROGUE SONG (George
Westmore); THE VAGABOND KING (James Collins)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
ANNA CHRISTIE
William Axt
HELL'S ANGELS
Hugo Riesenfeld
MONTE CARLO
W. Franke Harling
MOROCCO
Karl Hajos
UNDER THE ROOFS OF
PARIS
Raoul Moretti & Vincent
Scotto
Also Considered:
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Sam Perry & Heinz
Roemheld); THE BLUE ANGEL (Friedrich Hollander); THE DAWN PATROL (Rex Dunn); HOG WILD (Marvin Hatley); JUST IMAGINE (Hugo Friedhofer)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"All I Want Is Just One Girl" - PARAMOUNT ON
PARADE
Richard A. Whiting & Leo Robin
"Always In All Ways" - MONTE CARLO
Richard A. Whiting, W. Franke Harling & Leo
Robin
"Beyond The Blue
Horizon" - MONTE CARLO
Richard A. Whiting, W. Franke
Harling & Leo Robin
"Down In Mexico" - THE CUCKOOS
Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby
"Falling In Love Again" - THE BLUE
ANGEL
Friedrich Hollander)
"Under The Roofs Of Paris" - UNDER THE ROOFS OF
PARIS
Raoul Moretti & Rene Nazalles
Also Considered:
"All Quiet On The Western Front" - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN
FRONT (Lou Handman & Bernie Grossman); "Anytime's The Time To Fall In Love" - PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (Elsie Janis & Jack King); "Blonde Women" - THE BLUE ANGEL (Friedrich Hollander); "Hello,
I Must Be Going" - ANIMAL CRACKERS (Harry Ruby & Bert Kalmar); "I Represent" - ANIMAL CRACKERS (Harry Ruby & Bert Kalmar); "Song Of The Big Trail" - THE BIG TRAIL (James F. Hanley &
Joseph McCarthy)
BEST SOUND
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN
FRONT
C. Roy
Hunter
THE BIG HOUSE
Douglas Shearer
THE CASE OF SERGEANT GRISCHA
John E. Tribby
HELL'S ANGELS
Lodge Cunningham
RAFFLES
Oscar Lagerstrom
Also Considered:
BILLY THE KID (Douglas Shearer); THE BLUE ANGEL (Fritz
Thiery); MOBY DICK (Charles David Forrest); MOROCCO (Harry D. Mills); THE SONG OF THE FLAME (George R. Groves)
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Frank H. Booth & Harry Lonsdale
THE DAWN PATROL
Fred Jackman & Harry Redmond
HELL'S
ANGELS
Roy
Davidson
Also Considered:
THE BIG TRAIL (credit unknown); JUST IMAGINE (credit unknown);
MOBY DICK (Fred Jackman)
Most Wins:
4 - All Quiet On The Western Front
2 - Abraham Lincoln; Hell's Angels; King Of Jazz
1 - Anna Christie; The Big House; The Blue Angel; Hog Wild; Monte Carlo; Under The Roofs Of Paris
Most Nominations:
8 - All Quiet On The Western Front; The Big House; The Blue Angel; Hell's Angels; Morocco
7 - Anna Christie; The Dawn Patrol
5 - Monte Carlo