1930 in film

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Events

Top grossing films

# "Tom Sawyer"
# "Whoopee!
# "Common Clay"
# "Check and Double Check"
# "Feet First"
# "All Quiet on the Western Front"
# "The Big House (film)"
# "Min and Bill"
# "Song O' My Heart"
# "Anna Christie"
# "Raffles"
# "The Indians are Coming"
# "Romance"
# "Madam Satan"
# "Der Blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel")
# "L'Age d'Or
# "Journey's End"
# "Outward Bound"
# "Lightnin'"
# "So This is London"
# "The Rogue Song"
# "The Devil to Pay "
# "With Byrd at the South Pole"
# "The Lady of Scandal"
# "Holiday"
# "Abraham Lincoln"
# "The Man from Blankley's"
# "Old English"
# "The King of Jazz"
# "Just Imagine"
# "Animal Crackers"
# "Kismet"
# "Monte Carlo"
# "The Royal Family of Broadway"
# "The Big Trail"
# "Laughter"
# "New Moon"
# "The Laughing Lady"
# "Men Without Women"
# "Liliom"
# "Tol'able David"
# "Scotland Yard"
# "A Lady's Morals"
# "Sous les Toits de Paris"
# "The Texan"
# "Seven Days' Leave"

Academy Awards

*Best Picture: "All Quiet on the Western Front" - Universal Studios
*Best Actress: Norma Shearer - "The Divorcee"
*Best Actor: George Arliss - "Disraeli"

Films released in 1930

*"Alraune"
*"L'Âge d'Or", directed by Luis Buñuel
*"All Quiet on the Western Front", directed by Lewis Milestone
*"Animal Crackers", starring the Marx Brothers
*"Anna Christie", starring Greta Garbo
*"Big Boy", a musical comedy with Al Jolson
*"The Big House", starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
*"The Big Trail", starring John Wayne
*"The Big Pond"
*"Der blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel"), starring Marlene Dietrich
*"The Blood of a Poet" ("Le Sang d'un Poete"), directed by Jean Cocteau
*"The Bride of the Regiment" (1930)
*"Bright Lights" (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor
*"Call of the Flesh", a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
*"Chasing Rainbows", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Children of Pleasure", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"The Cuckoos", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Danger Lights", starring Louis Wolheim
*"The Divorcee", starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery, director: Robert Z. Leonard
*"Dixiana", a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Elstree Calling", a British revue with color sequences
*"Feet First", a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
*"Floradora Girl", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Follow Thru" (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
*"Free and Easy", starring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, and Robert Montgomery
*"General Crack", a drama with Technicolor sequences starring John Barrymore
*"Good News", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Golden Dawn" (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
*"Hell's Angels", directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
*"Hold Everything" (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
*"Journey's End", by George Pearson (see Journey's End)
*"King of Jazz" (1930), a revue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra entirely in Technicolor
*"Leathernecking", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Lord Byron of Broadway", a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
*"Lottery Bride", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"The Life of the Party" (1930), musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
*"Mamba" (1930), first talking drama entirely in Technicolor
*"Madam Satan", directed by Cecil B. DeMille
*"Mammy", a musical comedy starring Al Jolson with Technicolor sequences
*"Melody Man", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Min and Bill"
*"Morocco", starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
*"Murder!", directed by Alfred Hitchcock
*"New Movietone Follies of 1930", a musical revue with Technicolor sequences
*"No No Nanette", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Not So Dumb"
*"Paramount on Parade", an all-star revue with Technicolor sequences
*"Peacock Alley", a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
*"Puttin' on the Ritz", directed by Edward Sloman, with Technicolor sequences
*"Raffles", featuring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis
*"The Rogue Song" (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
*"Showgirl in Hollywood", a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
*"Son of the Gods", a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess
*"Song of the Flame" (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
*"Song of the West" (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor
*"Sunny", a musical comedy with Marilyn Miller
*"Sweet Kitty Bellairs" (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
*"True to the Navy", starring Clara Bow and Fredric March
*"Under a Texas Moon" (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
*"The Vagabond King" (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor
*"Whoopee!" (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor

erials

*"Across the World with Mr & Mrs Martin Johnson"
*"Hunting Tigers in India"
*"The Indians Are Coming"
*"The Jade Box"
*"The Lightning Express"
*"The Lone Defender", starring Rin Tin Tin
*"Terry of the Times"
*"The Voice from the Sky"

hort film series

*"Buster Keaton" (1917-1941)
*"Our Gang" (1922-1944)
*"Laurel and Hardy" (1921-1943)

Animated short film series

*"Felix the Cat" (1919-1930)
*"Aesop's Film Fables" (1921-1933)
*"Krazy Kat" (1925-1940)
*"Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" (1927-1938)
*"Mickey Mouse" (1928-1953)
*"Silly Symphonies" (1929-1939)
*"Screen Songs" (1929-1938)
*"Talkartoons" (1929-1932)
*"Looney Tunes" (1930-1969)
*"Flip the Frog" (1930-1933)
*"Terrytoons" (1930-1964)
*"Toby the Pup" (1930-1931)

Births

*January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
*January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
*January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
*January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
*January 30 - Gene Hackman, actor
*February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress
*March 24 - Steve McQueen, actor
*April 28 - Carolyn Jones, actress (+1983)
*May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
*June 16 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer
*August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
*October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
*December 3 - Jean-Luc Godard, director
*December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor

Film debuts

*Laurence Olivier
*Buster Crabbe
*Rex Harrison
*Ethel Merman

Deaths

*January 31 - Dorothy Seastrom, American actress
*February 20 - Mabel Normand, American actress
*July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
*August 26 - Lon Chaney, American actor
*September 15 - Milton Sills, American actor
*December 15 - Diane Ellis, American actress