Winners

• Warner Baxter

The Cisco Kid

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.

• Mary Pickford

Norma Besant

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.

• Cedric Gibbons

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.

• Clyde De Vinna

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.

• 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.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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.

• Hans Kraly

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.

• Emil Jannings

General Dolgorucki [Grand Duke Sergius Alexander]|August Schilling

• Janet Gaynor

Diane|Angela|The Wife

• William Cameron Menzies

• Charles Rosher
• Karl Struss

NOTE: For this awards year, awards were presented in the name of the individual and could honor work on one or more films. Charles Rosher and Karl Struss were both honored for cinematography on this film. It is considered a single nomination for the film.

• Lewis Milestone

• Frank Borzage

• Roy Pomeroy

• Paramount Famous Lasky

• Fox

• Benjamin Glazer

• Ben Hecht

• Joseph Farnham

NOTE: This award was not associated with any specific film title.

• Warner Bros.

• Charles Chaplin

NOTE: \"The Academy Board of Judges on merit awards for individual achievements in motion picture arts during the year ending August 1, 1928, unanimously decided that your name should be removed from the competitive classes, and that a special first award be conferred upon you for writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus. The collective accomplishments thus displayed place you in a class by yourself.\" (Letter from the Academy to Mr. Chaplin, dated February 19, 1929.)