1930-31 (4th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1930-31 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film or person in the list to display more information about that film or person Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Production

Cimarron, RKO Radio.

Best Actor

Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Best Actress

Marie Dressler in Min and Bill, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directing

Skippy, Paramount Publix. Norman Taurog.

Art Direction

Cimarron, RKO Radio. Max Ree.

Cinematography

Tabu, Paramount Publix. Floyd Crosby.

Sound Recording

Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department

Writing

(Adaptation)

Cimarron, RKO Radio. Howard Estabrook.

(Original Story)

The Dawn Patrol, First National. John Monk Saunders.

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Electrical Research Products, Inc., RCA-Photophone, Inc., and RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., for noise reduction recording equipment.

To DuPont Manufacturing Corp. and Eastman Kodak Company for super-sensitive panchromatic film.

(Class II)

To Fox Film Corp. for effective use of synchro-projection composite photography.

(Class III)

To Electrical Research Products, Inc., for moving coil microphone transmitters.

To RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. for reflex type microphone concentrators.

To RCA-Photophone, Inc. for ribbon microphone transmitters.