List of all people nominated for Oscar
by runefromnorway | created - 04 Feb 2016 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicAll categories. All years. 1929-2024.
1. Emil Jannings
Actor | The Last Command
His real name was Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, and in the early 1900s, he was already working in the theater under Max Reinhardt's company. Important movies where he defined himself as a convincing actor were Passion (1919) and Quo Vadis? (1924), followed by The Last Laugh (1924) (aka The Last ...
1884-1950 (65 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1929, The Last Command/The Way of All Flesh)
2. Richard Barthelmess
Actor | Only Angels Have Wings
Richard Barthelmess was born into a theatrical family in which his mother was an actress. While attending Trinity College in Connecticut, he began appearing in stage productions. While on vacation in 1916, a friend of his mother, actress Alla Nazimova, offered him a part in War Brides (1916), and ...
1895-1963 (68 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1929, The Patent Leather Kid)
Actor in a leading role (1929, The Noose)
3. Janet Gaynor
Actress | A Star Is Born
Janet Gaynor was born Laura Gainor on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she & her parents moved to San Francisco, California, where she graduated from high school in 1923. She then moved to Los Angeles where she enrolled in a secretarial school. She got a job at a shoe ...
1906-1984 (77 years old)
Wins:
Actress in a leading role (1929, 7th Heaven/Street Angel/Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1938, A Star is Born)
4. Louise Dresser
Actress | The Scarlet Empress
This knowing, plump-framed, strong-willed actress went on to play the gamut of emotions, from downtrodden, drunken ex-stars to self-controlled dowager empresses, in both silent pictures and early talkies. Grandly supporting the huge stars of her day (including Rudolph Valentino and Will Rogers), ...
1878-1965 (86 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1929, A Ship Comes In)
5. Gloria Swanson
Actress | Sunset Blvd.
Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public. Gloria certainly didn't intend on ...
1899-1983 (84 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1929, Sadie Thompson)
Actress in a leading role (1930, The Trespasser)
Actress in a leading role (1951, Sunset Blvd.)
6. Lewis Milestone
Director | All Quiet on the Western Front
Lewis Milestone, a clothing manufacturer's son, was born in Bessarabia (now Moldova), raised in Odessa (Ukraine) and educated in Belgium and Berlin (where he studied engineering). He was fluent in both German and Russian and an avid reader. Milestone had an affinity for the theatre from an early ...
1895-1980 (84 years old)
Wins:
Director, comedy picture (1929, Two Arabian Knights)
Director (1930, All Quiet on the Western Front)
Nominations:
Director (1931, The Front Page)
7. Ted Wilde
Director | Speedy
Ted Wilde was born on December 16, 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Speedy (1928), The Kid Brother (1927) and For Heaven's Sake (1926). He died on December 17, 1929 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1889-1929 (40 years old)
Nominations:
Director, comedy picture (1929, Speedy)
8. Frank Borzage
Director | Bad Girl
Frank Borzage was born on April 23, 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Bad Girl (1931), 7th Heaven (1927) and No Greater Glory (1934). He was married to Juanita Scott, Edna Skelton and Rena Rogers. He died on June 19, 1962 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...
1894-1962 (68 years old)
Wins:
Director, dramatic picture (1929, 7th Heaven)
Director (1932, Bad Girl)
9. Herbert Brenon
Director | Beau Geste
Herbert Brenon was born on January 13, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was a director and writer, known for Beau Geste (1926), Ivanhoe (1913) and Sorrell and Son (1927). He was married to Mrs. Herbert Brenon. He died on June 21, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1880-1958 (78 years old)
Nominations:
Director, dramatic picture (1929, Sorrell and Son)
10. King Vidor
Director | War and Peace
King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...
1894-1982 (88 years old)
Nominations:
Director, dramatic picture (1929, The Crowd)
Director (1930, Hallelujah)
Director (1932, The Champ)
Director (1939, The Citadel)
Director (1957, War and Peace)
Honorary award:
1979 - For his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator.
11. Ben Hecht
Writer | Notorious
Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing...
1894-1964 (70 years old)
Wins:
Writing, original story (1929, Underworld)
Writing, original story (1936, The Scoundrel)
Nominations:
Writing, adaptation (1935, Viva Villa!)
Writing, screenplay (1940, Wuthering Heights)
Writing, original screenplay (1941, Angels Over Broadway)
Writing, original screenplay (1947, Notorious)
12. Lajos Biró
Writer | The Thief of Bagdad
Lajos Biró was born on August 22, 1880 in Nagyvarad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Bihor, Romania]. He was a writer, known for The Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Last Command (1928) and Women Everywhere (1930). He died on September 9, 1948 in London, England, UK.
1880-1948 (68 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, original story (1929, The Last Command)
13. Benjamin Glazer
Writer | 7th Heaven
Benjamin Glazer was born on May 7, 1887 in Belfast, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK. He was a writer and producer, known for 7th Heaven (1927), Arise, My Love (1940) and Paris Calling (1941). He was married to Sharon Lynn. He died on March 18, 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1887-1956 (68 years old)
Wins:
Writing, adaptation (1929, 7th Heaven)
Writing, original story (1941, Arise, My Love)
14. Anthony Coldeway
Writer | Pacific Liner
Anthony Coldeway was born on August 1, 1887 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Pacific Liner (1939), Glorious Betsy (1928) and Men of the Hour (1935). He died on January 29, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1887-1963 (75 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, adaptation (1929, Glorious Betsy)
15. Alfred A. Cohn
Writer | The Jazz Singer
Alfred Cohn moved to Cleveland, where he got a newspaper job. After getting married, he moved to Galveston, Texas, to run a newspaper. He then moved to Arizona, where he served as secretary to the constitutional convention of Arizona when it was admitted as a state in 1912.
Eventually, he moved to ...
1880-1951 (70 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, adaptation (1929, The Jazz Singer)
16. Joseph Farnham
Writer | Thunder
Joseph Farnham was born on December 2, 1884 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer and editor, known for Thunder (1929), Where East Is East (1929) and The Trail of '98 (1928). He was married to Rose Alma LeCourt and Emily Ardis. He died on June 2, 1931 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, ...
1884-1931 (46 years old)
Wins:
Writing, title writing (1929)
17. George Marion Jr.
Writer | Let's Go Native
George Marion Jr. was born on August 30, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Let's Go Native (1930), Adorable (1933) and The Eagle (1925). He was married to Dorothy Maldeis. He died on February 25, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA.
1899-1968 (68 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, title writing (1929)
18. Gerald C. Duffy
Writer | The Private Life of Helen of Troy
American journalist, short-story writer, and film scenarist. Duffy was editor of Redbook magazine and a most prolific contributor of short stories to it and other serial magazines. He had written over 200 stories by the age of 23. His popularity as a writer led to employment by First National ...
1896-1928 (32 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, title writing (1929, The Private Life of Helen of Troy)
19. Charles Rosher
Cinematographer | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Among the foremost technical innovators in his field, a charter member of the American Society of Cinematographers, English-born Charles Rosher had initially aimed for a diplomatic career. Fortunately, he chose a different career option and attended lessons in photography at the London Polytechnic ...
1885-1974 (88 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography (1929, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
Cinematography, color (1947, The Yearling)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1935, The Affairs of Cellini)
Cinematography, color (1945, Kismet)
Cinematography, color (1951, Annie Get Your Gun)
Cinematography, color (1952, Show Boat)
20. Karl Struss
Cinematographer | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Oscar-winning cinematographer Karl Struss was born on November 30, 1886, in New York City. He became a professional photographer after studying photography with Clarence H. White and became part of the group associated with the great photographer Alfred Stieglitz. His photographs, which he ...
1886-1981 (95 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography (1929, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1932, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Cinematography (1934, The Sign of the Cross)
Cinematography, color (1942, Aloma of the South Seas)
21. George Barnes
Cinematographer | Rebecca
Veteran cinematographer George S. Barnes had a well-earned reputation for reliability and a knack for combining artistry with economic efficiency. As a result, he was seldom out of work.
Having started as a still photographer for Thomas H. Ince in 1918, Barnes quickly rose through the ranks to ...
1892-1953 (60 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography, black and white (1941, Rebecca)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1929, Sadie Thompson)
Cinematography (1929, The Magic Flame)
Cinematography (1929, The Devil Dancer)
Cinematography (1930, Our Dancing Daughters)
Cinematography, color (1946, The Spanish Main)
Cinematography, black and white (1946, Spellbound)
Cinematography, color (1951, Samson and Delilah)
22. William Cameron Menzies
Production_designer | Gone with the Wind
William Cameron Menzies was educated at Yale University, the University of Edinburgh and at the Art Students League in New York. He entered the film industry in 1919, after serving with the U.S. Expeditionary Forces in World War I. His initial assignments were in film design and special effects, as...
1896-1957 (60 years old)
Wins:
Art direction (1929, Tempest)
Art direction (1929, The Dove)
Nominations:
Art direction (1930, Bulldog Drummond)
Art direction (1930, The Awakening)
Art direction (1930, Alibi)
Honorary award:
1940 - For outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind.
23. Harry Oliver
Art_department | Scarface
Harry Oliver was born on April 4, 1888 in Hastings, Minnesota, USA. He was an art director and set decorator, known for Scarface (1932), 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928). He died on July 5, 1973 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
1888-1973 (85 years old)
Nominations:
Art direction (1929, 7th Heaven)
Art direction (1930, Street Angel)
24. Rochus Gliese
Director | Brüder
Rochus Gliese was born on January 6, 1891 in Berlin, Germany. He was an art director and director, known for Brüder (1923), Komödie des Herzens (1924) and Die schöne Prinzessin von China (1917). He died on December 22, 1978 in West Berlin, West Germany.
1891-1978 (87 years old)
Nominations:
Art direction (1929, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
25. Roy Pomeroy
Director | Shock
Roy Pomeroy was born on April 20, 1892 in Darjeeling, India. He was a director, known for Shock (1934), Inside the Lines (1930) and Interference (1928). He was married to Sylvia. He died on September 3, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1892-1947 (55 years old)
Wins:
Effects, engineering effects (1929, Wings)
26. Nugent Slaughter
Nugent Slaughter was born on March 17, 1888 in Virginia, USA. He died on December 27, 1968 in Oroville, California, USA.
1888-1968 (80 years old)
Nominations:
Effects, engineering effects (1929)
27. Ralph Hammeras
Visual_effects | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Ralph Hammeras was born on March 24, 1894 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Just Imagine (1930) and In Old Chicago (1938). He was married to Fay Mansker and Emma May Flynn. He died on February 3, 1970 in Los Angeles, California,...
1894-1970 (75 years old)
Nominations:
Effects, engineering effects (1929)
Art direction (1931, Just Imagine)
Effects, special effects (1949, Deep Waters)
28. Warner Baxter
Actor | Penthouse
Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent." When he was age 9, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco where, following ...
1889-1951 (62 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1930, In Old Arizona)
29. George Bancroft
Actor | Stagecoach
George Bancroft was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school at Tomes Institute (Philadelphia). He won an impressive appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated as a commissioned officer. He served in the Navy for the prescribed period of required service but no...
1882-1956 (74 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, Thunderbolt)
30. Chester Morris
Actor | The Divorcee
The Academy Award-nominated film actor Chester Morris, who will forever be associated with the character Boston Blackie, was born John Chester Brooks Morris on February 16 1901 in New York City, the son of actor William Morris and comedienne Etta Hawkins.
Chester Morris made his Broadway debut as a ...
1901-1970 (69 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, Alibi)
31. Paul Muni
Actor | Scarface
Paul Muni was born Sept. 22, 1895, in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Salli and Phillip Weisenfreund, who were both professionals. His family was Jewish, and spoke Yiddish. Paul was educated in New York and Cleveland public schools. He was described as 5 feet 10 inches, with black hair and ...
1895-1967 (71 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1937, The Story of Louis Pasteur)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, The Valiant)
Actor in a leading role (1934, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)
Actor in a leading role (1935, Black Fury)
Actor in a leading role (1938, The Life of Emile Zola)
Actor in a leading role (1960, The Last Angry Man)
32. Lewis Stone
Actor | The Mask of Fu Manchu
By the time that he was 20, Lewis Stone had turned prematurely grey. He enlisted to fight in the Spanish American War and when he returned, he returned to be a writer. This turned to acting and he began to appear in films during the middle teens. His career was again interrupted by war as he served...
1879-1953 (73 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, The Patriot)
33. Mary Pickford
Actress | Coquette
Mary Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Elsie Charlotte (Hennessy) and John Charles Smith. She was of English and Irish descent. Pickford began in the theater at age seven. Then known as "Baby Gladys Smith", she toured with her family in a number of theater ...
1892-1979 (87 years old)
Wins:
Actress in a leading role (1930, Coquette)
Honorary awards:
1976 - In recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium.
34. Ruth Chatterton
Actress | Dodsworth
Beginning as a chorus girl at age 14, Ruth Chatterton became a Broadway star with "Daddy Long Legs" in 1914. She appeared in such shows as "Mary Rose" and "Come Out of the Kitchen" before moving to Hollywood in 1925. As her film career faded in the late 1930s, she returned to the stage in revivals,...
1892-1961 (68 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, Sarah and Son)
Actress in a leading role (1930, Madame X)
35. Betty Compson
Actress | Street Girl
A mining engineer's daughter, blond, blue-eyed Betty Compson began in show business playing the violin in a Salt Lake City vaudeville establishment for $15 a week. Following that, she went on tour, accompanied by her mother, with an act called 'The Vagabond Violinist'. Aged eighteen, she appeared ...
1897-1974 (77 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, The Barker)
36. Jeanne Eagels
Actress | The Letter
Jeanne Eagels, one of the most intriguing stars of late silent films and the early talkies, was born Amelia Jean Eagles on June 26, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Edward and Julia Sullivan Eagles. Young Jean was part of an impoverished family of eight, with three brothers and two sisters. She ...
1890-1929 (39 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, The Letter)
37. Corinne Griffith
Actress | The Divine Lady
Corinne Griffith was a popular star of the silent movies. She started her film career at Vitagraph in 1916 and later moved to First National, where she became one of that studio's biggest stars. At the height of her popularity she was known as the "Orchid Lady of the Screen." Black Oxen (1923) was ...
1894-1979 (84 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, The Divine Lady)
38. Bessie Love
Actress | The Broadway Melody
Bessie Love was born in Texas. Her cowboy father moved the family to Hollywood, where he became a chiropractor. As the family needed money, Bessie's mother sent her to Biograph Studios, hoping she would become an actress. D.W. Griffith saw she was pretty and had some acting talent, and put her in ...
1898-1986 (87 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, The Broadway Melody)
39. Frank Lloyd
Director | Mutiny on the Bounty
Frank Lloyd was an unpretentious, technically skilled director, who crafted several enduring Hollywood classics during the 1930's. He started out as a stage actor and singer in early 1900's London and was well-known as an imitator of Harry Lauder. After several years in music hall and with touring ...
1886-1960 (74 years old)
Wins:
Director (1930, The Divine Lady)
Director (1934, Cavalcade)
Nominations:
Director (1930, Drag)
Director (1930, Weary River)
Director (1936, Mutiny on the Bounty)
40. Lionel Barrymore
Actor | You Can't Take It with You
Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon...
1878-1954 (76 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1931, A Free Soul)
Nominations:
Director (1930, Madame X)
41. Harry Beaumont
Director | The Broadway Melody
Born in Abilene, KS, in 1888, Harry Beaumont started his show-business career early--he quit school to become an actor in a traveling stock company, and eventually made his way to the New York stage. In 1912 he began working as a film actor for Edison studios--which was headquartered across the ...
1888-1966 (78 years old)
Nominations:
Director (1930, The Broadway Melody)
42. Irving Cummings
Director | Curly Top
New York-born Irving Cummings began his career as an actor on the Broadway stage in his late teens, and appeared with the legendary Lillian Russell's company. He entered films in 1909 as an actor, and became a very popular leading man in the early 1920s. He began directing at around that time, ...
1888-1959 (70 years old)
Nominations:
Director (1930, In Old Arizona)
43. Ernst Lubitsch
Director | To Be or Not to Be
From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ...
1892-1947 (55 years old)
Nominations:
Director (1930, The Love Parade)
Director (1930, The Patriot)
Director (1944, Heaven Can Wait)
Honorary Award:
1947 - For his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture
44. Hanns Kräly
Writer | The Patriot
Hanns Kräly was born on January 16, 1884 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for The Patriot (1928), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) and Broadway Gondolier (1935). He died on November 11, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1884-1950 (66 years old)
Wins:
Writing, achievement (1930, The Patriot)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney)
Writing, original story (1938, One Hundred Men and a Girl)
45. Elliott J. Clawson
Writer | The Cop
Elliott J. Clawson was born on January 19, 1883 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Elliott J. was a writer and producer, known for The Cop (1928), Sal of Singapore (1928) and Skyscraper (1928). Elliott J. died on July 21, 1942 in Vista, California, USA.
1883-1942 (59 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, Skycraper)
Writing, achievement (1930, Sal of Singapore)
Writing, achievement (1930, The Leatherneck)
Writing, achievement (1930, The Cop)
46. Tom Barry
Writer | In Old Arizona
Tom Barry was born on July 31, 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for In Old Arizona (1928), The Valiant (1929) and Under Suspicion (1930). He died on November 7, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1885-1931 (46 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, The Valiant)
Writing, achievement (1930, In Old Arizona)
47. Josephine Lovett
Writer | Our Dancing Daughters
Josephine Lovett was born on October 21, 1877 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Annie Laurie (1927) and The Fighting Blade (1923). She was married to John S. Robertson. She died on September 17, 1958 in Rancho Santa Fe, ...
1877-1958 (80 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, Our Dancing Daughters)
48. Bess Meredyth
Writer | Wonder of Women
Bess Meredyth was born on February 12, 1890 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Wonder of Women (1929), Morgan's Raiders (1918) and A Woman of Affairs (1928). She was married to Michael Curtiz, Wilfred Lucas and Burton Leslie. She died on July 13, 1969 in Woodland ...
1890-1969 (79 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, Wonder of Women)
Writing, achievement (1930, A Woman of Affairs)
49. Clyde De Vinna
Cinematographer | White Shadows in the South Seas
Educated at the University of Arkansas, Clyde De Vinna entered the film business almost at its beginnings, and became a cinematographer in 1915. He was behind the camera on dozens of films for many different studios, but did much work for independent producer Thomas H. Ince and MGM. De Vinna didn't...
1890-1953 (63 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography (1930, White Shadows in the South Seas)
50. John F. Seitz
Cinematographer | Double Indemnity
Distinguished veteran cinematographer John F. Seitz had eighteen patents for various photographic processes to his name. These included illuminating devices, processes for making dissolves and the matte shot, which he perfected during filming of Rex Ingram's Trifling Women (1922). Seitz started ...
1892-1979 (86 years old)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1930, The Divine Lady)
Cinematography, black and white (1944, Five Graves to Cairo)
Cinematography, black and white (1945, Double Indemnity)
Cinematography, black and white (1946, The Lost Weekend)
Cinematography, black and white (1951, Sunset Blvd.)
Cinematography, color (1951, When Worlds Collide)
Cinematography, black and white (1955, Rogue Cop)
51. Ernest Palmer
Cinematographer | Blood and Sand
Ernest Palmer was born on December 6, 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Blood and Sand (1941), Broken Arrow (1950) and Street Angel (1928). He died on February 22, 1978 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
1885-1978 (92 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography, color (1942, Blood and Sand)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1930, Street Angel)
Cinematography (1930, 4 Devils)
Cinematography, color (1951, Broken Arrow)
52. Arthur Edeson
Cinematographer | Casablanca
Arthur Edeson is an American cinematographer who was a pioneer of his craft. His career spanned four decades and encompassed many films now regarded as classics.
Born in New York in 1891, Edeson first worked as a still photographer. In 1911 he entered the movie business at Eclair Studios, a ...
1891-1970 (78 years old)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1930, All Quiet on the Western Front)
Cinematography (1930, In Old Arizona)
Cinematography, black and white (1944, Casablanca)
53. Cedric Gibbons
Art_director | Gaslight
After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, ...
1893-1960 (67 years old)
Wins:
Art direction (1930, The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
Art direction (1935, The Merry Widow)
Art direction, black and white (1941, Pride and Prejudice)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1942, Blossoms in the Dust)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1945, Gaslight)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1947, The Yearling)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1950, Little Women)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1952, An American in Paris)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1953, The Bad and the Beautiful)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1953, Julius Caesar)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1957, Somebody Up There Likes Me)
Nominations:
Art direction (1934, When Ladies Meet)
Art direction (1937, Romeo and Juliet)
Art direction (1937, The Great Ziegfeld)
Art direction (1938, Conquest)
Art direction (1939, Marie Antoinette)
Art direction (1940, The Wizard of Oz)
Art direction, color (1941, Bitter Sweet)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1942, When Ladies Meet)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1943, Random Harvest)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1944, Thousands Cheer)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1944, Madame Curie)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1945, Kismet)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1946, National Velvet)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1946, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1950, Madame Bovary)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1951, Annie Get Your Gun)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1951, The Red Danube)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1952, Quo Vadis)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1952, Too Young to Kiss)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1953, The Merry Widow)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1954, Young Bess)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1954, The Story of Three Loves)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1954, Lili)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1955, Brigadoon)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1955, Executive Suite)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1956, I'll Cry Tomorrow)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1956, Blackboard Jungle)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1957, Lust for Life)
54. Mitchell Leisen
Director | Death Takes a Holiday
Mitchell Leisen was born on October 6, 1898 in Menominee, Michigan, USA. He was a director and art director, known for Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Mating Season (1951) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941). He was married to Stella Yeager. He died on October 28, 1972 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...
1898-1972 (74 years old)
Nominations:
Art direction (1930, Dynamite)
55. Hans Dreier
Art_director | Sunset Blvd.
The extraordinarily prolific and eclectic art director Hans Dreier studied at Munich University where he majored in engineering and architecture. Following military service during the First World War, he spent time working as a supervising architect in the Cameroons and South Africa. Between 1919 ...
1885-1966 (81 years old)
Wins:
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1946, Frenchman's Creek)
Art direction-set decoration, color (1951, Samson and Delilah)
Art direction-set decoration, black and white (1951, Sunset Blvd.)
Nominations:
Art direction (1930, The Vagabond King)
Art direction (1930, The Love Parade)
Art direction (1930, The Patriot)
Art direction (1931, Morocco)
Art direction (1934, A Farewell to Arms)
Art direction (1936, The Lives of Bengal Lancer)
Art direction (1938, Souls at Sea)
Art direction (1939, If I Were King)
Art direction (1940, Beau Geste)
Art direction, color (1941, North West Mounted Police)
Art direction, black and white (1941, Arise, My Love)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1942, Hold Back the Dawn)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1943, Reap the Wild Wind)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1943, Take a Letter, Darling)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1944, For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1944, Five Graves to Cairo)
Art direction-interior decoration, color (1945, Lady in the Dark)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1945, No Time for Love)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1946, Love Letters)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1947, Kitty)
56. George Arliss
Actor | Disraeli
One of the oldest actors on the screen in the 1920s and 1930s, George Arliss starred on the London stage from an early age. He came to the United States and starred in several films, but it was his role as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) that brought him his greatest ...
1868-1946 (77 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1930, Disraeli)
Nominations
Actor in a leading role (1930, The Green Goddess)
57. Wallace Beery
Actor | A Date with Judy
In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer. He left two years later after a leopard clawed his arm. Beery next went to New York, where he found work in musical variety shows. He became a leading man in musicals and appeared on ...
1885-1949 (64 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1932, The Champ)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, The Big House)
58. Maurice Chevalier
Actor | Gigi
Maurice Chevalier's first working job was as an acrobat, until a serious accident ended that career. He turned his talents to singing and acting, and made several short films in France. During World War I he enlisted in the French army. He was wounded in battle, captured and placed in a POW camp by...
1888-1972 (83 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, The Love Parade)
Actor in a leading role (1930, The Big Pond)
Honorary award:
1959 - For his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century.
59. Ronald Colman
Actor | A Double Life
British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he discovered amateur theatre. He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's ...
1891-1958 (67 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1948, A Double Life)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, Condemned)
Actor in a leading role (1930, Bulldog Drummond)
Actor in a leading role (1943, Random Harvest)
60. Lawrence Tibbett
Actor | The Cuban Love Song
One of the great voices of the Metropolitan Opera, Lawrence Mervil Tibbet was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1896. Born at the end of the "wild west" era, he was only six when his father, who was a Kern County deputy sheriff, was killed by bandits. After training with, among others, ...
1896-1960 (63 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1930, The Rogue Song)
61. Norma Shearer
Actress | The Divorcee
She won a beauty contest at age fourteen. In 1920 her mother, Edith Shearer, took Norma and her sister Athole Shearer (Mrs. Howard Hawks) to New York. Ziegfeld rejected her for his "Follies," but she got work as an extra in several movies. She spent much money on eye doctor's services trying to ...
1902-1983 (80 years old)
Wins:
Actress in a leading role (1930, The Divorcee)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, Their Own Desire)
Actress in a leading role (1931, A Free Soul)
Actress in a leading role (1935, The Barretts of Wimpole Street)
Actress in a leading role (1937, Romeo and Juliet)
Actress in a leading role (1939, Marie Antoinette)
62. Nancy Carroll
Actress | The Kiss Before the Mirror
Nancy Carroll was born Ann Veronica Lahiff on November 19, 1903 in New York City. Nancy was the youngest of seven children. At the age of sixteen she dropped out of high school to work as a stenographer. Then she began performing in local talent competitions. She was a gifted dancer and appeared in...
1903-1965 (61 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, The Devil's Holiday)
63. Greta Garbo
Actress | Ninotchka
Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and ...
1905-1990 (84 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1930, Romance)
Actress in a leading role (1930, Anna Christie)
Actress in a leading role (1938, Camille)
Actress in a leading role (1940, Ninotchka)
Honorary award:
1955 - For her unforgettable screen performances.
64. Clarence Brown
Director | Anna Karenina
Clarence Leon Brown was the son of Larkin Harry and Catherine Ann (Gaw) Brown of Clinton, Massachusetts. His family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, when he was 12 years old. He graduated from Knoxville High School in 1905 and from the University of Tennessee with a B.A. in mechanical and electrical ...
1890-1987 (97 years old)
Nominations:
Director (1930, Romance)
Director (1930, Anna Christie)
Director (1931, A Free Soul)
Director (1944, The Human Comedy)
Director (1946, National Velvet)
Director (1947, The Yearling)
65. Robert Z. Leonard
Director | The Great Ziegfeld
Chicago-born Robert Z. Leonard studied law at the University of Colorado, but the legal profession proved not to be his forte and he dropped out in favor of a career in the theatre. When his family moved to Hollywood in 1907 Leonard sought work in the fledgling film industry, starting as an actor ...
1889-1968 (78 years old)
Nominations:
Director (1930, The Divorcee)
Director (1937, The Great Ziegfeld)
66. Frances Marion
Writer | The Big House
The most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century, and one of the most respected scripters of any gender, Frances Marion was born in San Francisco. She modeled and acted and had some success as a commercial artist. She entered into journalism and served in Europe as a combat correspondent ...
1888-1973 (84 years old)
Wins:
Writing, achievement (1930, The Big House)
Writing, original story (1932, The Champ)
Nominations:
Writing, original story (1934, The Prizefighter and the Lady)
67. George Abbott
Writer | The Pajama Game
Legendary Broadway writer/producer/director George Abbott was born in 1887 in Forestville, New York. His father was mayor of Salamanca, New York, for two terms. In 1898 his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Abbott attended Kearney Military Academy. The family returned to New York, where Abbott...
1887-1995 (107 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, All Quiet on the Western Front)
68. Maxwell Anderson
Writer | All Quiet on the Western Front
James Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1888 to William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela (Stephenson) Anderson. The second child born to the couple, Anderson spent his formative years on his maternal grandmother's farm in Atlantic before the family moved ...
1888-1959 (70 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, All Quiet on the Western Front)
69. Del Andrews
Writer | All Quiet on the Western Front
Del Andrews was born on October 5, 1894 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Del was a director and writer, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Is That Nice? (1926) and The Hottentot (1922). Del was married to Edith E.. Del died on October 27, 1942 in Tonopah, Nevada, USA.
1894-1942 (48 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, All Quiet on the Western Front)
70. Julien Josephson
Writer | Disraeli
Julien Josephson was born on October 24, 1881 in Roseburg, Oregon, USA. He was a writer, known for Disraeli (1929), Fuss and Feathers (1918) and Lady Windermere's Fan (1925). He died on April 14, 1959 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
1881-1959 (77 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, Disraeli)
71. John Meehan
Writer | The Divorcee
John Meehan, the Oscar-nominated Cando-American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the classic Boys Town (1938), was born on May 8, 1884 in Lindsay, Ontario. His first dream was to be a chef, but after studying the culinary arts in Austria, he went to New York to seek fame and ...
1890-1954 (64 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, The Divorcee)
Writing, screenplay (1939, Boys Town)
72. Howard Estabrook
Writer | Cimarron
Detroit-born Howard Estabrook entered show business as a stage actor in New York in 1904. He appeared in several films starting in 1914 and even directed a few in 1917. He left films for a career in the business world, but returned in 1921 in executive positions with various studios, then began ...
1884-1978 (94 years old)
Wins:
Writing, adaptation (1931, Cimarron)
Nominations:
Writing, achievement (1930, Street of Chance)
73. Joseph T. Rucker
Cinematographer | With Byrd at the South Pole
Joseph T. Rucker was, for the better part of his forty year career, a newsreel cameraman for Paramount News. He is remembered for filming the 1915 opening of the Panama Canal, the aftermath of the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, the 1927 civil war in China and Richard E. Byrd Jr.'s 1928 and 1930 expeditions...
1887-1957 (70 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography (1930, With Byrd at the South Pole)
74. Willard Van der Veer
Cinematographer | With Byrd at the South Pole
Willard Van der Veer was born on August 23, 1894 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for With Byrd at the South Pole (1930), Maintain the Right (1940) and The Crawling Hand (1963). He died on June 16, 1963 in Encino, California, USA.
1894-1963 (68 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography (1930, With Byrd at the South Pole)
75. William H. Daniels
Cinematographer | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Oscar-winning director of photography William Daniels was a master of black-and-white cinematographer most famous for the 21 films he shot that starred the immortal Greta Garbo between 1926 and 1939. Among the Gabro classics he lensed were The Torrent (1924), Flesh and the Devil (1926), Love (1927)...
1901-1970 (68 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography, black and white (1949, The Naked City)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1930, Anna Christie)
Cinematography, color (1959, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Cinematography, color (1964, How the West Was Won)
76. Tony Gaudio
Cinematographer | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Tony Gaudio was born Gaetano Antonio Gaudio on November 20, 1883, in Cosenza, Italy, to a professional photographer. After attended art school in Rome, he became an assistant to his father and elder brother, who were portrait photographers. Eventually he segued into cinema, starting with "Napoleon ...
1883-1951 (67 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography (1937, Anthony Adverse)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1930, Hell's Angels)
Cinematography, black and white (1940, Juarez)
Cinematography, black and white (1941, The Letter)
Cinematography, black and white (1944, Corvette K-225)
Cinematography, color (1946, A Song to Remember)
77. Harry Perry
Cinematographer | Hell's Angels
Harry Perry was born on May 2, 1888. He was a cinematographer, known for Hell's Angels (1930), Wings (1927) and The Crimson Challenge (1922). He died on February 9, 1985 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
1888-1985 (96 years old)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1930, Hell's Angels)
78. Victor Milner
Cinematographer | Reap the Wild Wind
Pioneering cinematographer Victor Milner acquired his fascination with the celluloid media during the days of the nickelodeon. After working as a lab assistant for a film equipment manufacturer, he joined Pathe Weekly News in the capacity of projectionist and newsreel cameraman. Among other events,...
1893-1972 (78 years old)
Wins:
Cinematography (1935, Cleopatra)
Nominations:
Cinematography (1930, The Love Parade)
Cinematography (1936, The Crusades)
Cinematography (1937, The General Died at Dawn)
Cinematography (1939, The Buccaneer)
Cinematography, black and white (1940, The Great Victor Herbert)
Cinematography, color (1941, North West Mounted Police)
Cinematography, color (1943, Reap the Wild Wind)
Cinematography, black and white (1951, The Furies)
79. Herman Rosse
Art_director | King of Jazz
Herman Rosse was born on January 1, 1887 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an art director and production designer, known for King of Jazz (1930), East Is West (1930) and Strictly Dishonorable (1931). He died on April 13, 1965 in Nyack, New York, USA.
1887-1965 (78 years old)
Wins:
Art direction (1930, King of Jazz)
80. Jack Okey
Art_director | Out of the Past
Jack Okey was born on June 3, 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and set decorator, known for Out of the Past (1947), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Outlaws of the Sea (1923). He was married to Marie. He died on January 8, 1963 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1889-1963 (73 years old)
Nominations:
Art direction (1930, Sally)
Art direction-interior decoration, black and white (1946, Experiment Perilous)
81. Douglas Shearer
Sound_department | The Wizard of Oz
Douglas Shearer came to MGM to visit his sister, Norma Shearer, and was hired as an assistant in the camera department. When MGM decided to make sound pictures, Douglas was appointed head of the sound department. In 1928, Douglas took the silent 'White Shadows in the South Seas' to a New Jersey ...
1899-1971 (71 years old)
Wins:
Sound, recording (1930, The Big House)
Sound, recording (1936, Naughty Marietta)
Sound, recording (1937, San Francisco)
Sound, recording (1941, Strike Up the Band)
Effects, special effects (1945, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo)
Effects, special effects (1948, Green Dolphin Street)
Sound, recording (1952, The Great Caruso)
Nominations:
Sound, recording (1935, Viva Villa!)
Sound, recording (1938, Maytime)
Sound, recording (1939, Sweethearts)
Effects, special effects (1940, The Wizard of Oz)
Sound, recording (1940, Balalaika)
Effects, special effects (1941, Boom Town)
Effects, special effects (1942, Flight Command)
Sound, recording (1942, The Chocolate Soldier)
Effects, special effects (1943, Mrs. Miniver)
Sound, recording (1943, Mrs. Miniver)
Sound, recording (1944, Madame Curie)
Sound, recording (1945, Kismet)
Sound, recording (1946, They Were Expendable)
Sound, recording (1948, Green Dolphin Street)
Technical achievement awards:
1936 - For their automatic control system for cameras and sound recording machines and auxiliary stage equipment.
1938 - For the design of the film drive mechanism as incorporated in the ERPI 1010 reproducer.
1942 - For pioneering the development of fine grain emulsions for variable density original sound recording in a studio production.
1964 - For the engineering of an improved Background Process Projection System.
Honorary awards:
1937 - Academy Award of Merit - For the development of a practical two-way horn system and a biased Class A push-pull recording system.
Scientific and engineering awards:
1938 - For a method of varying the scanning width of variable density sound tracks (squeeze tracks) for the purpose of obtaining an increased amount of noise reduction.
1960 - For the development of a system of producing and exhibiting wide film motion pictures known as Camera 65.
82. John E. Tribby
Sound_department | Notorious
John E. Tribby was born on October 30, 1903 in Marshall County, Indiana, USA. He is known for Notorious (1946), Suspicion (1941) and The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930). He died in February 1983 in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
1903-1983 (79 years old)
Nominations:
Sound, recording (1930, The Case of Sergeant Grischa)
83. Franklin Hansen
Sound_department | Man-Eater of Kumaon
Franklin Hansen was born on May 2, 1897 in Saugerties, New York, USA. He is known for Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948), Blonde for a Day (1946) and Bell Book and Candle (1958). He died on January 13, 1982 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
1897-1982 (84 years old)
Wins:
Sound, recording (1934, A Farewell to Arms)
Nominations:
Sound, recording (1930, The Love Parade)
Sound, recording (1935, Cleopatra)
Sound, recording (1936, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
Sound, recording (1937, The Texas Rangers)
84. Oscar Lagerstrom
Sound_department | Dodsworth
Oscar Lagerstrom was born on November 19, 1890 in Delhi, Minnesota, USA. He is known for Dodsworth (1936), Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942) and A Star Is Born (1937). He was married to Grace. He died on July 30, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1890-1974 (83 years old)
Nominations:
Sound, recording (1930, Raffles)
Sound, recording (1937, Dodsworth)
85. George Groves
Sound_department | The Song of the Flame
George Groves was born on December 13, 1901 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK. He is known for The Song of the Flame (1930), Sunrise at Campobello (1960) and The Desert Song (1929). He was married to Jane Blackman Wilmott. He died on September 4, 1976 in North Hollywood, California, USA.
1901-1976 (74 years old)
Wins:
Sound, recording (1958, Sayonara)
Sound (1965, My Fair Lady)
Nominations:
Sound, recording (1930, The Song of the Flame)
Sound (1960, The Nun's Story)
Sound (1961, Sunrise at Campobello)
Sound (1963, The Music Man)
Sound (1966, The Great Race)
Sound (1967, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
86. Jackie Cooper
Actor | Superman
Jackie Cooper was born John Cooper in Los Angeles, California, to Mabel Leonard, an Italian-American stage pianist, and John Cooper. Through his mother, he was the nephew of actress Julie Leonard, screenwriter Jack Leonard, and (by marriage) director Norman Taurog. Jackie served with the Navy in ...
1922-2011 (88 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1931, Skippy)
87. Richard Dix
Actor | Cimarron
Richard Dix was a major leading man at RKO Radio Pictures from 1929 through 1943. He was born Ernest Carlton Brimmer July 18, 1893, in St. Paul, Minnesota. There he was educated, and at the desires of his father, studied to be a surgeon. His obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him...
1893-1949 (56 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1931, Cimarron)
88. Fredric March
Actor | The Best Years of Our Lives
Fredric March began a career in banking but in 1920 found himself cast as an extra in films being produced in New York. He starred on the Broadway stage first in 1926 and would return there between screen appearances later on. He won plaudits (and an Academy Award nomination) for his send-up of ...
1897-1975 (77 years old)
Wins:
Actor in a leading role (1932, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Actor in a leading role (1947, The Best Years of Our Lives)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1931, The Royal Family of Broadway)
Actor in a leading role (1938, A Star is Born)
Actor in a leading role (1952, Death of a Salesman)
89. Adolphe Menjou
Actor | Paths of Glory
The words "suave" and "debonair" became synonymous with the name Adolphe Menjou in Hollywood, both on- and off-camera. The epitome of knavish, continental charm and sartorial opulence, Menjou, complete with trademark waxy black mustache, evolved into one of Hollywood's most distinguished of artists...
1890-1963 (73 years old)
Nominations:
Actor in a leading role (1931, The Front Page)
90. Marie Dressler
Actress | Dinner at Eight
Once you saw her, you would not forget her. Despite her age and weight, she became one of the top box office draws of the sound era. She was 14 when she joined a theater group and she went on to work on stage and in light opera. By 1892, she was on Broadway and she later became a star comedienne on...
1868-1934 (65 years old)
Wins:
Actress in a leading role (1931, Min and Bill)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1932, Emma)
91. Marlene Dietrich
Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution
Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...
1901-1992 (90 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1931, Morocco)
92. Irene Dunne
Actress | The Awful Truth
Irene Marie Dunne was born on December 20, 1898, in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Joseph Dunne, who inspected steamships, and Adelaide Henry, a musician who prompted Irene in the arts. Her first production was in Louisville when she appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the age...
1898-1990 (91 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1931, Cimarron)
Actress in a leading role (1937, Theodora Goes Wild)
Actress in a leading role (1938, The Awful Truth)
Actress in a leading role (1940, Love Affair)
Actress in a leading role (1949, I Remember Mama)
93. Ann Harding
Actress | When Ladies Meet
Ann, born Dorothy Gatley, spent most of her childhood as an "army brat" constantly moving around before the family finally settled in New York. Ann first appeared on the stage while she spent a year attending Bryn Mawr College. She became a clerk and freelance script reader with a film company ...
1901-1981 (80 years old)
Nominations:
Actress in a leading role (1931, Holiday)
94. Norman Taurog
Director | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A successful child actor (on stage from 1907) and rather less successful romantic lead, baby-faced Norman Taurog found being behind the camera a more rewarding experience. Before becoming a director, he paid his dues as a prop man and editor. By 1919, he was put in charge of two-reel comedies, ...
1899-1981 (82 years old)
Wins:
Director (1931, Skippy)
Nominations:
Director (1939, Boys Town)
95. Wesley Ruggles
Director | London Town
The younger brother of Hollywood character player Charles Ruggles, Wesley Ruggles spent most of his early years in San Francisco. He attended university there, began a lengthy apprenticeship in stock and musical comedy and then joined Keystone in Hollywood as an actor in 1914 working alongside Syd ...
1889-1972 (82 years old)
Nominations:
Director (1931, Cimarron)
96. Josef von Sternberg
Director | The Devil Is a Woman
Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...
1894-1969 (75 years old)
Nominations:
Director (1931, Morocco)
Director (1932, Shanghai Express)
97. John Monk Saunders
Writer | The Dawn Patrol
John Monk Saunders was born on November 22, 1895 in Hinckley, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Dawn Patrol (1930), Wings (1927) and Devil Dogs of the Air (1935). He was married to Fay Wray and Avis Bissell (Hughes). He died on March 11, 1940 in Ft. Myers, Florida, USA.
1895-1940 (44 years old)
Wins:
Writing, original story (1931, The Dawn Patrol)
98. Rowland Brown
Writer | Angels with Dirty Faces
Rowland Brown was born on November 6, 1897 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Blood Money (1933) and Hell's Highway (1932). He was married to Karen van Ryan and Marie Helis. He died on May 6, 1963 in Costa Mesa, California, USA.
1897-1963 (65 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, original story (1931, The Doorway to Hell)
Writing, original story (1939, Angels with Dirty Faces)
99. Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Director | Laughter
Harry d'Arrast's entry into the movie industry was somewhat unusual--he was wounded while serving in the French army during WW I, and while recuperating in a military hospital met French-born American film director George Fitzmaurice, who invited him to come to Hollywood after he had recovered. He ...
1897-1968 (70 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, original story (1931, Laughter)
100. Douglas Z. Doty
Writer | Laughter
Douglas Z. Doty was born on October 15, 1874 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Laughter (1930), Fighting the Flames (1925) and The Great Sensation (1925). He was married to Josephine Whiting, Gladys Maclaghlan and Kathryn C.. He died on February 20, 1935 in Los Angeles, ...
1874-1935 (60 years old)
Nominations:
Writing, original story (1931, Laughter)
Tell Your Friends