The 1930s: The Arts: Awards

THE 1930s: THE ARTS: AWARDS

academy of motion picture arts and sciences awards (the oscars)

1930

Production: All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal)

Actor: George Arliss in Disraeli

Actress: Norma Shearer in The Divorcee

Direction: Lewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front

1931

Production: Cimarron (RKO)

Actor: Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul

Actress: Marie Dressier in Min and Bill

Direction: Norman Taurog for Skippy

1932

Production: Grand Hotel (M-G-M)

Actor: Frederic March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wallace Beery in The Champ

Actress: Helen Hayes in The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Direction: Frank Borzage for Bad Girl

1933

Production: Cavalcade (Fox)

Actor: Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII

Actress: Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory

Direction: Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade

1934

Production: It Happened One Night (Columbia)

Actor: Clark Gable in It Happened One Night

Actress: Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night

Direction: Frank Capra for It Happened One Night

1935

Production: Mutiny on the Bounty (M-G-M)

Actor: Victor McLaglen in The Informer

Actress: Bette Davis in Dangerous

Direction: John Ford for The Informer

1936

Production: The Great Ziegfeld (M-G-M)

Actor: Paul Muni in The Story of Louis Pasteur

Actress: Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfield

Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan in Come and Get It

Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse

Direction: Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1937

Production: The Life of Emile Zola (Warner Bros.)

Actor: Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous

Actress: Luise Rainer in The Good Earth

Supporting Actor: Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola

Supporting Actress: Alice Brady in In Old Chicago

Direction: Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth

1938

Production: You Cant Take It With You (Columbia)

Actor: Spencer Tracy in Boys' Town

Actress: Bette Davis in Jezebel

Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan in Kentucky

Supporting Actress: Fay Bainter in Jezebel

Direction: Frank Capra for You Can't Take It With You

1939

Production: Gone With the Wind (Selznick-M-G-M)

Actor: Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Actress: Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind

Supporting Actor: Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach

Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind

Direction: Victor Fleming for Gone With the Wind

nobel prizes in literature

1930

Sinclair Lewis

1936

Eugene O'Neill

1938

Pearl Buck

pulitzer prizes in letters

1930

Novel: Laughing Boy, by Oliver La Farge

Drama: The Green Pastures, by Marc Connelly

History: The War of Independence, by Claude H. Van Tyne

Biography or Autobiography: The Raven, by Marquis James

Poetry: Selected Poems, by Conrad Aiken

1931

Novel: Years of Grace, by Margaret Aver Barnes

Drama: Alison's House, by Susan Glaspell

History: The Coming of the War: 1914, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt

Biography or Autobiography: Charles W. Eliot, by Henry James

Poetry: Collected Poems, by Robert Frost

1932

Novel: The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

Drama: Of Thee I Sing, by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin

History-My Experiences in the World War, by John J. Pershing

Biography or Autobiography: Theodore Roosevelt, by Henry F. Pringle

Poetry: The Flowering Stone, by George Dillon

1933

Novel: The Store, by T. S. Stribling

Drama: Both Your Houses, by Maxwell Anderson

History: The Significance of Sections in American History, by Frederick J. Turner

Biography or Autobiography: Grover Cleveland, by Allan Nevins

Poetry: Conquistador, by Archibald MacLeish

1934

Novel: Lamb in His Bosom, by Caroline Miller

Drama: Men in White, by Sidney Kingsley

History: The People's Choice, by Herbert Agar

Biography or Autobiography: John Hay, by Tyler Dennett

Poetry: Collected Verse, by Robert Hillyer

1935

Novel: Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson

Drama: The Old Maid, by Zoe Akins

History: The Colonial Period of American History, by Charles McLean Andrews

Biography or Autobiography: R. E. Lee, by Douglas S, Freeman

Poetry: Blight Ambush, by Audrey Wurdemann

1936

Novel: Honey in the Horn, by Harold L. Davis

Drama: Idiot's Delight, by Robert E. Sherwood

History: The Constitutional History of the United States, by Andrew C. McLaughlin

Biography or Autobiography: The Thought and Character of William James, by Ralph Barton Perry

Poetry: Strange Holiness, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

1937

Novel: Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Drama: You Cant Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

History: The Flowering of New England, by Van Wyck Brooks

Biography or Autobiography: Hamilton Fish, by Allan Nevins

Poetry: A Further Range, by Robert Frost

1938

Novel: The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand

Drama: Our Town, by Thornton Wilder

History: The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900, by Paul Hernan Buck

Biography or Autobiography: Pedlar's Progress, by Odell Shephard; Andrew Jackson, 2 volumes, by Marquis James

Poetry: Cold Morning Sky, by Marya Zaturenska

1939

Novel: The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Drama: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert E. Sherwood

History: A History of American Magazines, by Frank Luther Mott

Biography or Autobiography: Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren

Poetry: Selected Poems, by John Gould Fletcher