Congress Dances with Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey.
Best Film
À nous la liberté (“Freedom for Us”), dir. & Scr.: René Clair
City Streets – Dir.: Rouben Mamoulian; Scr.: Max Marcin, Oliver H.P. Garrett & Dashiell Hammett
Congress Dances / Der Kongreß tanzt – Dir.: Erik Charell; Scr.: Norbert Falk & Robert Liebmann
Daybreak – Dir.: Jacques Feyder; Scr.: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume & Zelda Sears
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Dir.: Rouben Mamoulian; Scr.: Samuel Hoffenstein & Percy Heath
Five Star Final – Dir.: Mervyn LeRoy; Scr.: Robert Lord & Byron Morgan
Frankenstein – Dir.: James Whale; Scr.: John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh & Garrett Fort
Little Caesar – Dir.: Mervyn LeRoy; Scr.: Robert N. Lee & Francis Edwards Faragoh
The Mad Genius – Dir.: Michael Curtiz; Scr.: J. Grubb Alexander & Harvey Thew
The Maltese Falcon / Dangerous Female – Dir.: Roy del Ruth; Scr.: Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard & Brown Holmes
The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford – Dir.: Sam Wood; Scr.: Charles MacArthur
Smart Money – Dir.: Alfred E. Green; Scr.: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Lucien Hubbard & Joseph Jackson
The Smiling Lieutenant – Dir.: Ernst Lubitsch; Scr.: Ernest Vajda & Samson Raphaelson
Transatlantic – Dir.: William K. Howard; Scr.: Guy Bolton & Lyn Harling
Best Actor
John Barrymore – The Mad Genius
Ricardo Cortez – The Maltese Falcon
Willy Fritsch – Congress Dances
Boris Karloff – Frankenstein
Edmund Lowe – Transatlantic
Ramon Novarro – Daybreak
Raimu – Marius
Edward G. Robinson – Five Star Final
Edward G. Robinson – Little Caesar
Edward G. Robinson – Smart Money
Michel Simon – The Bitch / La Chienne
Best Actress
Helen Chandler – The Last Flight
Marion Davies – Five and Ten
Marlene Dietrich – Dishonored
Lilian Harvey – Congress Dances
Miriam Hopkins – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Miriam Hopkins – The Smiling Lieutenant
Ruan Lingyu – The Peach Girl
Dorothy Mackaill – Safe in Hell
Norma Shearer – A Free Soul
Norma Shearer – Strangers May Kiss
Sylvia Sidney – City Streets
Best Supporting Actor
Charpin – Marius
Dudley Digges – The Maltese Falcon
Boris Karloff – Five Star Final
Guy Kibbee – City Streets
Paul Lukas – City Streets
Otto Matieson – The Maltese Falcon
Carl-Heinz Schroth – Congress Dances
Ernest Torrence – The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Best Supporting Actress
Louise Fazenda – The Cuban Love Song
Aline MacMahon – Five Star Final
Janie Marèze – La Chienne
Edna May Oliver – Cimarron
Best Cinematography
City Streets – Lee Garmes
Congress Dances – Carl Hoffman
Daybreak – Merritt B. Gerstad
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Karl Struss
Dracula – Karl Freund
The Mad Genius – Barney McGill
Mata Hari – William H. Daniels
The Smiling Lieutenant – George J. Folsey
Tabu – Floyd Crosby & Robert Flaherty
Transatlantic – James Wong Howe