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Beste film

• Cimarron - RKO Radio
  • East Lynne - Fox
  • The Front Page - The Caddo Company
  • Skippy - Paramount Publix
  • Trader Horn - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Beste regisseur

• Norman Taurog - Skippy
  • Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron
  • Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
  • Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
  • Josef von Sternberg - Morocco

Beste acteur

• Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
  • Jackie Cooper - Skippy
  • Richard Dix - Cimarron
  • Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway
  • Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page

Beste actrice

• Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
  • Marlene Dietrich - Morocco
  • Irene Dunne - Cimarron
  • Ann Harding - Holiday
  • Norma Shearer - A Free Soul

Beste bewerkte scenario

• Cimarron - Howard Estabrook
  • The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller en Fred Niblo jr.
  • Holiday - Horace Jackson
  • Little Caesar - Francis Faragoh en Robert N. Lee
  • Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz en Sam Mintz

Beste verhaal

• The Dawn Patrol - John Monk Saunders
  • The Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
  • Laughter - Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty en Donald Ogden Stewart
  • The Public Enemy - John Bright en Kubec Glasmon
  • Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard en Joseph Jackson

Beste camerawerk

• Tabu - Floyd Crosby
  • Cimarron - Edward Cronjager
  • Morocco - Lee Garmes
  • The Right to Love - Charles Lang
  • Svengali - Barney "Chick" McGill

Beste artdirection

• Cimarron - Max Rée
  • Just Imagine - Stephen Goosson en Ralph Hammeras
  • Morocco - Hans Dreier
  • Svengali - Anton Grot
  • Whoopee! - Richard Day

Beste geluid

• Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
  • RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
  • Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department

De volgende films ontvingen meerdere nominaties:

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Academy Awards 1931 in de Internet Movie Database