Winner

Lionel Barrymore

A Free Soul

Nominated

Adolphe Menjou

The Front Page

Jackie Cooper

Skippy

Richard Dix

Cimarron

Fredric March

The Royal Family of Broadway

Winner

Marie Dressler

Min and Bill

Nominated

Marlene Dietrich

Morocco

Irene Dunne

Cimarron

Norma Shearer

A Free Soul

Ann Harding

Holiday

Winner

Cimarron

Max Rée

Nominated

Svengali

Anton Grot

Just Imagine

Stephen Goosson

Ralph Hammeras

Whoopee!

Richard Day

Morocco

Hans Dreier

Winner

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Floyd Crosby

Nominated

Cimarron

Edward Cronjager

Morocco

Lee Garmes

Svengali

Barney McGill

The Right to Love

Charles Lang

Winner

Norman Taurog

Skippy

Nominated

Lewis Milestone

The Front Page

Josef von Sternberg

Morocco

Clarence Brown

A Free Soul

Wesley Ruggles

Cimarron

Winner

Cimarron

Nominated

The Front Page

Trader Horn

East Lynne

Skippy

Winner

Cimarron

Howard Estabrook

Nominated

The Criminal Code

Seton I. Miller

Fred Niblo Jr.

Skippy

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Sam Mintz

Holiday

Horace Jackson

Little Caesar

Francis Edward Faragoh

Robert N. Lee

Winner

The Dawn Patrol

John Monk Saunders

Nominated

Smart Money

Lucien Hubbard

Joseph Jackson

Laughter

Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast

Douglas Z. Doty

Donald Ogden Stewart

The Doorway to Hell

Rowland Brown

The Public Enemy

John Bright

Kubec Glasmon