Winner

Lionel Barrymore

A Free Soul

Nominated

Adolphe Menjou

The Front Page

Fredric March

The Royal Family of Broadway

Jackie Cooper

Skippy

Richard Dix

Cimarron

Winner

Marie Dressler

Min and Bill

Nominated

Marlene Dietrich

Morocco

Irene Dunne

Cimarron

Ann Harding

Holiday

Norma Shearer

A Free Soul

Winner

Cimarron

Max Rée

Nominated

Morocco

Hans Dreier

Just Imagine

Stephen Goosson

Ralph Hammeras

Whoopee!

Richard Day

Svengali

Anton Grot

Winner

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Floyd Crosby

Nominated

The Right to Love

Charles Lang

Morocco

Lee Garmes

Svengali

Barney McGill

Cimarron

Edward Cronjager

Winner

Norman Taurog

Skippy

Nominated

Wesley Ruggles

Cimarron

Josef von Sternberg

Morocco

Clarence Brown

A Free Soul

Lewis Milestone

The Front Page

Winner

Cimarron

Nominated

Skippy

Trader Horn

The Front Page

East Lynne

Winner

Cimarron

Howard Estabrook

Nominated

Little Caesar

Francis Edward Faragoh

Robert N. Lee

The Criminal Code

Seton I. Miller

Fred Niblo Jr.

Skippy

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Sam Mintz

Holiday

Horace Jackson

Winner

The Dawn Patrol

John Monk Saunders

Nominated

The Doorway to Hell

Rowland Brown

Smart Money

Lucien Hubbard

Joseph Jackson

Laughter

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast

Douglas Z. Doty

Donald Ogden Stewart

The Public Enemy

John Bright

Kubec Glasmon