Academy Award Winners 1930-1940

1930-31
Best Picture: CIMARRON
Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore, in A FREE SOUL
Best Actress: Marie Dressier, in MIN AND BILL
Best Director: Norman Taurog, for SKIPPY

1931-32
Best Picture: GRAND HOTEL
Best Actor: Wallace Beery, in THE CHAMP
Fredric March, in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (tie)
Best Actress: Helen Hayes, in THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET
Best Director: Frank Borzage, for BAD GIRL

1932-33
Best Picture: CAVALCADE
Best Actor: Charles Laughton, in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn, in MORNING GLORY
Best Director: Frank Lloyd, for CAVALCADE

1934
Best Picture: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Best Actor: Clark Gable, in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Best Actress: Claudette Colbert, in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Best Director: Frank Capra, for IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

1935
Best Picture: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Best Actor: Victor McLaglen, in THE INFORMER
Best Actress: Bette Davis, in DANGEROUS
Best Director: John Ford, for THE INFORMER

1936
Best Picture: THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Best Actor: Paul Muni, in THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR
Best Actress: Luise Rainer, in THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
Best Director Frank Capra, for MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN

1937
Best Picture: THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
Best Actor: Spencer Tracy, in CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
Best Actress: Luise Rainer, in THE GOOD EARTH
Best Director:Leo McCarey, for THE AWFUL TRUTH

1938
Best Picture: YOU CANT TAKE IT WITH YOU
Best Actor: Spencer Tracy, in BOYS TOWN
Best Actress: Bette Davis, in JEZEBEL
Best Director: Frank Capra, for YOU CANT TAKE IT WITH YOU

1939
Best Picture: GONE WITH THE WIND
Best Actor: Robert Donat, in GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh, in GONE WITH THE WIND
Best Director: Victor Fleming, for GONE WITH THE WIND

1940
Best Picture: REBECCA
Best Actor: James Stewart, in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Best Actress: Ginger Rogers, in KITTY FOYLE
Best Director: John Ford, for THE GRAPES OF WRATH

1941
Best Picture: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Best Actor: Gary Cooper, in SERGEANT YORK
Best Actress: Joan Fontaine, in SUSPICION
Best Director: John Ford, for HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY