1930 in film

Events

Top grossing films

1. The Indians Are Coming
2. Madam Satan
3. Der Blaue Engel

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front – Universal Studios
• Best Actress: Norma Shearer – The Divorcee

Movies released

Movies released in 1930 include:

• All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone
• Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers
• Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo
• The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
• The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
• The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Der Blaue Engel, starring Marlene Dietrich
• The Divorcee – Starring: Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Director: Robert Z. Leonard.
• Hell's Angels (movie), directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
• The Indians Are Coming (a serial)
• Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
• Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Puttin' on the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman

Births

• January 3 – Robert Loggia, actor
• January 10 – Roy Edward Disney, film executive
• January 11 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor
• January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, actress
• February 27 – Joanne Woodward, actress
• May 31 – Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
• August 25 – Sir Sean Connery, actor
• October 1 – Sir Richard Harris, actor
• December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor

Deaths

• February 20 – Mabel Normand, actress
• July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
• August 26 – Lon Chaney, actor