BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE PICTURE
Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera) – WINNER!
- Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box)
- Arsenal
- Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl)
- Asphalt
BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE
Hallelujah! – WINNER!
- A Cottage on Dartmoor
- The Cocoanuts
- Blackmail
- The Love Parade
BEST ACTOR
Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade) WINNER! (tied)
Uno Henning (A Cottage on Dartmoor) WINNER! (tied)
- Chico Marx (The Cocoanuts)
- Groucho Marx (The Cocoanuts)
- Harpo Marx (The Cocoanuts)
BEST ACTRESS
Louise Brooks (Die Büchse der Pandora) – WINNER!
- Anna May Wong (Piccadilly)
- Helen Morgan (Applause)
- Gloria Swanson (Queen Kelly)
- Jeanne Eagels (The Letter)
- Ita Rina (Erotikon)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Lupino Lane (The Love Parade) – WINNER!
- Donald Calthrop (Blackmail)
- Hans Adalbert Schlettow (A Cottage on Dartmoor)
- Francis Lederer (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah!) – WINNER!
- Seena Owen (Queen Kelly)
- Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody)
- Marie Prevost (The Godless Girl)
- Margaret Dumont (The Cocoanuts)
- Lillian Roth (The Love Parade)
BEST DIRECTOR
Dziga Vertov (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) – WINNER!
- G. W. Pabst (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- King Vidor (Hallelujah!)
- Anthony Asquith (A Cottage on Dartmoor)
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Arsenal)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ladislaus Vajda [from the plays "Die Büchse der Pandora" and "Erdgeist" by Frank Wedekind] (Die Büchse der Pandora) – WINNER!
- Alfred Hitchcock, Benn W. Levy & Charles Bennett [from the play by Bennett] (Blackmail)
- Morrie Ryskind [from the play by George S. Kaufman] (The Cocoanuts)
- Rudolf Leonhardt [from the novel by Margarete Böhme] (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen)
- Ernest Vajda & Guy Bolton [from the play "The Prince Consort" by Leon Xanrof] (The Love Parade)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Akira Fushimi & Yasujirô Ozu ( Gakusei romance: Wakaki hi – Days of Youth) – WINNER!
- Wanda Tuchock, Ransom Rideout, Richard Schayer & King Vidor (Hallelujah!)
- Anthony Asquith & Herbert Price (A Cottage on Dartmoor)
- Jeanie Macpherson (The Godless Girl)
- Erich von Stroheim (Queen Kelly)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Chelovek s kino-apparatom – WINNER!
- Die Büchse der Pandora
- Arsenal
- Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
- Hallelujah!
BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE
Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed (original songs) (The Broadway Melody) – WINNER!
- Victor Schertzinger & Clifford Grey (original songs) (The Love Parade)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Singin’ in the Rain”, Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed (Hollywood Revue of 1929) – WINNER!
- “You Were Meant for Me”, Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed (The Broadway Melody)
- “Waiting at the End of the Road”, Irving Berlin (Hallelujah!)
- “Swanee Shuffle”, Irving Berlin (Hallelujah)
BEST FILM EDITING
Dziga Vertov (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) – WINNER!
- Josep Fleisler (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Arsenal)
- Emile de Ruelle (Blackmail)
- Hugh Wynn (Hallelujah!)
BEST ART DIRECTION
Cedric Gibbons (Hallelujah!) – WINNER!
- Cedric Gibbons & Mitchell Leisen (Dynamite)
- Harold Miles (Queen Kelly)
- W.C. Arnold (Blackmail)
- Hans Rouc (Mocny Czlowiek)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ernö Metzner (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) – WINNER!
- Gottlieb Hesch (Die Büchse der Pandora)
- Uncredited (Piccadilly)
- Travis Banton (The Love Parade)
- Paul Burns (The Iron Mask)
- Max Rée (Queen Kelly)
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Chelovek s kino-apparatom – WINNER!
BEST SHORT FILM
Un Chien Andalou – WINNER!
- The Skeleton Dance
- Big Business
- Regen
- Wrong Again
