DIRECTING

• Michael Curtiz

came in 2nd|NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. Write-in candidate.

• Henry Hathaway

came in 3rd

• Frank Lloyd

• Victor Schertzinger

came in 3rd

• W. S. Van Dyke

came in 2nd

• Frank Capra

came in 2nd

• George Cukor

came in 3rd

• King Vidor

• Josef Von Sternberg

• Wesley Ruggles

• Clarence Brown

• Lewis Milestone

• Josef Von Sternberg

• Clarence Brown

• Robert Leonard

• Ernst Lubitsch

• King Vidor

• Lionel Barrymore

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.

• Harry Beaumont

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.

• Irving Cummings

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.

• Frank Lloyd

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.

• Ernst Lubitsch

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.