Oscar Rewrite: 1930/31

 

Best Picture: Cimarron    City Lights

Best Director: Norman Taurog (Skippy)   Fritz Lang (M)

Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)   Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar)

Best Actress: Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)   Marlene Dietrich (Morocco)

Best Supporting Actor: N/A    Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Little Caesar)

Best Supporting Actress: N/A    Mae Clarke (The Public Enemy)

Best Original Story: The Dawn Patrol    Little Caesar

Best Adapted Screenplay: Cimarron   The Public Enemy

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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