1930/31 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 40 Academy Award records for the 1930/31 film year, covering 22 films and including 8 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ CimarronRKO Radio
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- Cimarron
3 wins from 7 award records
- Skippy
1 win from 4 award records
- A Free Soul
1 win from 3 award records
- Min and Bill
1 win from 1 award record
- Tabu
1 win from 1 award record
- The Dawn Patrol
1 win from 1 award record
Category winners
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- ★ Cimarron
- ★ A Free Soul — Stephen Ashe
- ★ Min and Bill — Min
- ★ Cimarron
- ★ Tabu
- ★ Skippy
- ★ Cimarron
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 40 of 40 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ Cimarron IMDB — RKO Radio
- East Lynne IMDB — Fox
- The Front Page IMDB — The Caddo Company
- Skippy IMDB — Paramount Publix
- Trader Horn IMDB — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Actor
- ★ A Free Soul IMDB — Lionel BarrymoreStephen Ashe
- Skippy IMDB — Jackie CooperSkippy Skinner
- Cimarron IMDB — Richard DixYancey Cravat
- The Royal Family of Broadway IMDB — Fredric MarchTony Cavendish
- The Front Page IMDB — Adolphe MenjouWalter Burns
Best Actress
- ★ Min and Bill IMDB — Marie DresslerMin
- Morocco IMDB — Marlene DietrichAmy Jolly
- Cimarron IMDB — Irene DunneSabra Cravat
- Holiday IMDB — Ann HardingLinda Seton
- A Free Soul IMDB — Norma ShearerJan Ashe
Art Direction
- ★ Cimarron IMDB — Max Rée
- Just Imagine IMDB — Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras
- Morocco IMDB — Hans Dreier
- Svengali IMDB — Anton Grot
- Whoopee! IMDB — Richard Day
Cinematography
Best Director
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ Cimarron IMDB — Howard Estabrook
- The Criminal Code IMDB — Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr.
- Holiday IMDB — Horace Jackson
- Little Caesar IMDB — Francis Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
- Skippy IMDB — Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz
Writing (Original Story)
- ★ The Dawn Patrol IMDB — John Monk Saunders
- The Doorway to Hell IMDB — Rowland Brown
- Laughter IMDB — Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart
- The Public Enemy IMDB — John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
- Smart Money IMDB — Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
Nominated films and other recorded entries
22 films represented in the 1930/31 archive selection.
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.
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