2nd Annual Academy Awards hosted by William C. DeMille on April 3, 1930
Best Picture: The Broadway Melody The Man with a Movie Camera
Best Director: Frank Lloyd (Divine Lady) Sergei Eisenstein (October: Ten Days that Shook the World)
Sergei Eisenstein invented the montage in Battleship Potemkin (1925). But seeing as the Oscars weren’t even around then, Eistenstein gets our statue for October: Ten Days that Shook the World, a film that is a chore to get through, but one that carries symbolic image juxtapositions.
Best Actor: Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona) Buster Keaton (Steamboat Bill Jr.)
Best Actress: Mary Pickford (Coquette) Maria Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
Best Screenplay: The Patriot The Passion of Joan of Arc
