1939 CinSpec Awards

1930 CinSpec Awards

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1937 CinSpec Awards

Winners indicated (*). Films I need to see include: Stage Door, Pépé le Moko, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Shall We Dance, Camille, Way Out West, Fire Over England, Conquest, Lady Killer, Dark Journey, Young and Innocent, A Damsel in Distress, The Prisoner of Zenda, You Only Live Once, and A Day at the Races.

1938 CinSpec Awards

Winners indicated (*). Films I still need to see include: Olympia, Vivacious Lady, La Marseillaise, Carefree, Merrily We Live, The Dawn Patrol, Suez, Kentucky, If I Were King, The Great Waltz, That Certain Age, Mannequin, They Drive by Night, Swing Your Lady, and Werther.

1939 CinSpec Awards

Starting today, I'll be completing my Decades series (or starting a My Ballot one?) by posting a full lineup of nominees every week. (So, these ballots will be linked on the Awards page with the winner posts.)

Best Film Editing: 1930s

1930: Hell's Angels (Douglass Biggs and Frank Lawrence)

Best Screenplays: 1930s

Note: The Academy's screenplay categories were different in the 1930s. For instance, there was only one writing category at the 1929/1930 ceremony. Also, the Adapted Screenplay winners credited below are actually from the Best Screenplay Oscar category, and the Original Screenplay winners are from the Best Original Story Oscar category.

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1930: All Quiet on the Western Front (Maxwell Anderson, George
Abbott, Del Andrews, and C. Gardner Sullivan)

Oscar winner: The Big House (Frances Marion) ('29/'30)

Was this nominated?: Yes

Best Music: 1930s

Note: The Academy didn't create the music categories until 1934.

Best Original Score:

1930: Under the Roofs of Paris (Raoul Moretti and Vincent Scotto)

Best Cinematography: 1930s

1930: Earth (Daniil Demutsky)

Oscar winner: With Byrd at the South Pole ('29/'30)

Was this film nominated?: No

Best Supporting Actor: 1930s

1930: Louis Wolheim, All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Supporting Actress: 1930s

I almost skipped the 1930s because I have not seen very many supporting performances of note. It was tough to come up with winners from what little I've seen. Of course, I'll come back and edit these once I see more performances from this decade.

1930: Marie Dressler, Anna Christie

Best Actor: 1930s

1930: Emil Jannings, The Blue Angel

Oscar winner: George Arliss, Disraeli ('29/'30)

Was he nominated?: No

Best Actress: 1930s

1930: Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel

Oscar winner: Norma Shearer, The Divorcee ('29/'30)

Was she nominated?: No

The Decades: 1930s

Here are my picks for best of the year for films released in the 1930s.

1930: Under the Roofs of Paris

Oscar winner: All Quiet on the Western Front ('29/'30)
Was this film nominated?: No

1931: City Lights

Oscar winner: Cimarron ('30/'31)
Was this film nominated?: No

1932: Love Me Tonight

Oscar winner: Grand Hotel ('31/'32)

Was this film nominated?: No

1933: 42nd Street

Oscar winner: Cavalcade ('32/'33)

Was this film nominated?: Yes

1934: It Happened One Night

Oscar winner: It Happened One Night

1935: The 39 Steps

Oscar winner: Mutiny on the Bounty
Was this film nominated?: No

1936: Modern Times

Oscar winner: The Great Ziegfeld
Was this film nominated?: No

1937: The Awful Truth

Oscar winner: The Life of Emile Zola
Was this film nominated?: Yes

1938: Grand Illusion

Oscar winner: You Can't Take It with You
Was this film nominated?: Yes

1939: The Rules of the Game

Oscar winner: Gone with the Wind
Was this film nominated?: No

Updated: 9/5/14