The Oscars
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First Academy Awards
- May 16, 1929 (Host: Douglas Fairbanks)
- Outstanding Picture: Wings (The Racket, 7th Heaven)
- Best Director: Frank Borzage (7th Heaven)
- Best Actor: Emil Jannings (The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh)
- Best Actress: Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise)
Second Academy Awards
- April 3, 1930 (Host: William C. DeMille)
- Outstanding Picture: The Broadway Melody (Alibi, In Old Arizona, The Hollywood Revue of 1929, The Patriot)
- Best Director: Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)
- Best Actor: Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)
- Best Actress: Mary Pickford (Coquette)
Third Academy Awards
- November 5, 1930 (Host: Conrad Nagel)
- Outstanding Production: All Quiet on the Western Front (The Big House, Disraeli, The Divorcee, The Love Parade)
- Best Director: Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Best Actor: George Arliss (Disraeli)
- Best Actress: Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)
Fourth Academy Awards
- November 10, 1931 (Host: Lawrence Grant)
- Outstanding Production: Cimarron (East Lynne, The Front Page, Skippy, Trader Horn)
- Best Director: Norman Taurog (Skippy)
- Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
- Best Actress: Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
Fifth Academy Awards
- November 18, 1932 (Host: Conrad Nagel)
- Outstanding Production: Grand Hotel (Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, The Champ, Five Star Final, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express, The Smiling Lieutenant)
- Best Director: Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)
- Best Actor: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
- Best Actress: Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
Sixth Academy Awards
- March 16, 1934 (Host: Will Rogers)
- Outstanding Production: Cavalcade (42nd Street, A Farewell to Arms, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Lady for a Day, Little Women, The Private Life of Henry VIII, She Done Him Wrong, Smilin' Through, State Fair)
- Best Director: Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)
- Best Actor: Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
- Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
Seventh Academy Awards
- February 27, 1935 (Host: Irvin S. Cobb)
- Outstanding Production: It Happened One Night (The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild, Imitation of Life, One Night of Love, The Thin Man, Viva Villa!, The White Parade)
- Best Director: Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
- Best Actor: Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
- Best Actress: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
Eighth Academy Awards
- March 5, 1936 (Host: Frank Capra)
- Outstanding Production: Mutiny on the Bounty (Alice Adams, The Broaadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer, Les Miserables, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Naughty Mariette, Ruggles of Red Gap, Top Hat)
- Best Director: John Ford (The Informer)
- Best Actor: Victor McLaglen (The Informer)
- Best Actress: Bette Davis (Dangerous)
Ninth Academy Awards
- March 4, 1937 (Host: George Jessel)
- Outstanding Production: The Great Ziegfeld (Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, Libeled Lady, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, The Story of Louis Pasteur, A Tale of Two Cities, Three Smart Girls)
- Best Director: Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
- Best Actor: Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
- Best Actress: Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan (Come and Get It)
- Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)
Tenth Academy Awards
- March 10, 1938 (Host: Bob Burns)
- Outstanding Production: The Life of Emile Zola (The Awful Truth, Captains Courageous, Dead End, The Good Earth, In Old Chicago, Lost Horizon, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Stage Door, A Star is Born)
- Best Director: Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)
- Best Actor: Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
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