As the 1930s brought a new decade, the Academy Awards were catching on both with the industry players and movie fans. The Academy members were still not settled on what they wanted in or out as far as categories. Some came, went and came back again - "Screenplay Writing". Other odd ones were added "Assistant Director", and at one point even write-ins were allowed. Some of the most popular films during the decade - and ones still watched today - failed to get nominations, which supports the theory that studio manipulations were part of the process.

4th Annual Academy Awards 1930-1931 - Host; Lawrence Grant

November 10, 1931 at the Sala D'Oro of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles

Picture: "Cimarron"- RKO

Actor: Lionel Barrymore "A Free Soul"

Actress: Marie Dressler "Min and Bill"

Director: Norman Taurog "Skippy"

Original Story: John Monk Saunders "The Dawn Patrol"

Adapted Screenplay: Howard Eastbrook "Cimarron"

Cinematography: Floyd Crosby "Tabu"

Interior Decoration: Maz Ree "Cimarron"

Sound: Paramount Sound Department

5th Annual Academy Awards 1931-1932 - Host; Lionel Barrymore

November 18, 1932 in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Picture: "Grand Hotel" - MGM

Actor: Tie -Wallace Beery "The Champ" and Fredric March "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

Actress: Helen Hayes "The Sin of Madelon Claudet"

Director: Frank Borzage "Bad Girl"

Original Story: Francis Marion "The Champ"

Adapted Screenplay: Edwin Burke "Bad Girl"

Cinematography: Lee Garmes "Shanghai Express"

Interior Decoration: Gordon Wiles "Transatlantic"

Sound: Paramount Studio Sound Department

Short Films: Flower and Trees "Cartoons"; The Music Box "Comedy"; Wrestling Swordfish "Novelty"

Special Award: Walt Disney - For creating Mickey Mouse

6th Annual Academy Awards 1932 -1933 - Host; Will Rogers

March 16, 1934 in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Picture: "Cavalcade"- Fox

Actor: Charles Laughton "The Private Life of Henry VIII"

Actress: Katharine Hepburn "Morning Glory"

Director: Frank Lloyd "Cavalcade"

Assistant Director: Charles Barton "Wagon Wheel"

Original Story: Robert Lord "One Way Passage"

Adapted Screenplay: Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason "Little Women"

Cinematography: Charles Bryant Lang, Jr. "A Farewell to Arms"

Interior Decoration: William S. Darling "Cavalcade"

Sound: "A Farewell to Arms" Paramount

Short Films: The Three Little Pigs "Cartoons"; So This Is Harris "Comedy"; Krakatoa "Novelty"

7th Annual Academy Awards 1934 - Host; Irwin S. Cobb

February 27, 1935 at the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Picture: Frank Capra "It Happened One Night"

Actor: Clark Gable "It Happened One Night"

Actress: Claudette Colbert "It Happened One Night"

Director: Frank Capra "It Happened One Night"

Original Story: Arthur Caesar "Manhattan Melodrama"

Adapted Screenplay: Robert Riskin "It Happened One Night"

Cinematography: Victor Milner "Cleopatra"

Film Editing: Conrad Nervig "Eskimo"

Interior Decoration: Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope "The Merry Widow"

Sound: "One Night of Love" Columbia

Score: Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn" One Night of Love"

Song: "The Continental" - "The Gay Divorcee"

Short Films: The Tortoise and the Hare "Cartoons; "La Cucaracha "Comedy"; City of Wax "Novelty"

Special Award: Shirley Temple - Outstanding Contribution to Screen Entertainment during 1934

8th Annual Academy Awards 1935 - Host; Frank Capra

March 5, 1936 at the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel in Loa Angeles.

Picture: "Mutiny on the Bounty"

Actor: Victor McLaglen "The Informer"

Actress: Bette Davis "Dangerous"

Director: John Ford "The Informer"

Original Story: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur "The Scoundrel"

Adapted Screenplay: Dudley Nichols "The Informer"

Cinematography: Hal Mohr "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Film Editing: Ralph Dawson "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Interior Decoration: Richard Day "The Dark Angel"

Sound: Douglas Shearer "Naughty Marietta"

Score: Max Steiner "The Informer"

Song: "Lullaby of Broadway" - "Gold Diggers of 1935"

Dance Direction: David Gould - "Broadway Melody of 1936" and "Folies Bergere"

Short Films: Three Orphan Kittens "Cartoons"; How to Sleep "Comedy"; Wings Over Mt. Everest "Novelty"

Special Award: David Wark Griffith - Distinguished achievement as director, producer and contributions to the progress of motion picture arts.

9th Annual Academy Awards 1936 - Host; George Jessel

March 4, 1937 at the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Picture: "The Great Ziegfeld"

Actor: Paul Muni "The Story of Louis Pasteur"

Actress: Luise Rainer "The Great Ziegfeld"

Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan "Come and Get It"

Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard "Anthony Adverse"

Director: Frank Capra "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"

Original Story: Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney "The Story of Louis Pasteur"

Adapted Screenplay: Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney "The Story of Louis Pasteur"

Cinematography: Gaetano Gaudio "Anthony Adverse"

Film Editing: Ralph Dawson "Anthony Adverse"

Interior Decoration: Richard Day "Dodsworth"

Sound: Douglas Shearer "San Francisco"

Score: Erich Wolfgang Korngold "Anthony Adverse"

Song: "The Way You Look Tonight" "Swing Time"

Dance Direction: Seymour Felix "The Great Ziegfield"

Short Films: Country Cousin "Cartoons; Bored of Education "One-Reel"; The Public Pays "Two-Reel"; Give Me Liberty "Color"

Special Award: W.

Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for color cinematography of "The Garden of Allah."

10th Annual Academy Awards 1937 - Host; Bob Burns

March 10, 1938 at the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Picture: "The Life of Emile Zola"

Actor: Spencer Tracy "Captains Courageous"

Actress: Luise Rainer "The Good Earth"

Supporting Actor: Joseph Schildkraut "The Life of Emile Zola"

Supporting Actress: Alice Brady "In Old Chicago"

Director: Leo McCarey "The Awful Truth"

Original Story: William A. Wellman and Robert Carson "A Star Is Born"

Adapted Screenplay: Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine "The Life of Emile Zola"

Cinematography: Karl Freund "The Good Earth"

Film Editing: Gene Havlick and Gene Milford "Lost Horizon"

Interior Decoration: Stephen Goosson "Lost Horizon"

Sound: Thomas Moulton "The Hurricane"

Score: "100 Men and a Girl"

Song: Harry Owens "Sweet Leilani" "Waikiki Wedding"

Dance Direction: Hermes Pan "Damsel in Distress"

Short Films: The Old Mill "Cartoons"; Private Life of the Gannetts "One-Reel"; Torture Money "Two-Reel"; Penny Wisdom "Color"

Special Awards: Mack Sennett - For his contribution to comedy technique on the screen; Edgar Bergen - For his creation of Charlie McCarthy; The Museum of Modern Art Film Library; W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson for color cinematography of "A Star is Born."

11th Annual Academy Awards 1938 - Host; None

February 23, 1939 at the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Picture: "You Can't Take It With You"

Actor: Spencer Tracy "Boys Town"

Actress: Bette Davis "Jezebel"

Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan "Kentucky"

Supporting Actress: Fay Bainter "Jezebel"

Director: Frank Capra "You Can't Take It With You"

Original Story: Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary "Boys Town"

Adapted Screenplay: Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, and W. P. Lipscomb "Pygmalion"

Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg "The Great Waltz"

Film Editing: Ralph Dawson "The Adventures of Robin Hood"

Interior Decoration: Carl J. Weyl "The Adventures of Robin Hood"

Sound: Thomas Moulton "The Cowboy and the Lady"

Score: Alfred Newman "Alexander's Ragtime Band The Adventures of Robin Hood" [ p] Song: "Thanks for the Memory" "Big Broadcast of 1938"

Short Films: Ferdinand the Bull "Cartoons; That Mothers Might Live "One-Reel"; Declaration of Independence "Two-Reel"

Special Award: Irving G. Thalberg Award - Hal B. Wallis; Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney - For bringing the spirit and personification of youth to the screen; Harry W. Warner - For recognition of patriotic services in productions of historicals short subjects; Walt Disney - For "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"; Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey - For color cinematography in "Sweethearts"; Paramount Special Effects Department - For Spawn of the North; J. Arthur Ball - For advancement in color photography in motion pictures.

12th Annual Academy Awards 1939 - Host; Bob Hope

February 29, 1940 at the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Picture: "Gone With the Wind"

Actor: Robert Donat "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"

Actress: Vivien Leigh "Gone With the Wind"

Supporting Actor: Thomas Mitchell "Stagecoach"

Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel "Gone With the Wind"

Director: Victor Fleming "Gone With the Wind"

Original Story: Lewis R. Foster "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

Adapted Screenplay: Sidney Howard "Gone With the Wind"

Cinematography: Gregg Toland "Wuthering Heights" "Black and White" Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan "Gone With the Wind" "Color"

Film Editing: Hal C.

Kern and James E. Newcom "Gone With the Wind"

Interior Decoration: Lyle Wheeler "Gone With the Wind"

Sound: Bernard B. Brown "When Tomorrow Comes"

Score: "Stagecoach" and "The Wizard of Oz"

Song: "Over the Rainbow" "The Wizard of Oz"

Special Effects: Fred Sersen and E. H. Hansen" The Rains Came"

Short Films: The Ugly Duckling "Cartoons"; Busy Little Bears "One-Reel"; Sons of Liberty "Two-Reel"

Special Award: Douglas Fairbanks - For contribution to Academy - First President; Judy Garland - For outstanding performance as a child actress; William Cameron Menzies -For outstanding achievement in "Gone With the Wind"; The Motion Picture relief Fund; The Technicolor Company.

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