The 3rd Academy Awards in 1930

Louis B. Mayer presents Carl Laemmle the Oscar for Best Picture for "All Quiet on the Western Front," Norma Shearer accepts the Oscar for Best Actress for "The Divorcee," and Jack Cunningham presents the Oscar for Writing to Frances Marion for "The Big House."

[@bucklakelukie]

it's hard to imagine this in color and high quality. it's like they lived in black and white

[@GehanCooray]

Haven't you watched Norma Shearer in colour from her 1929 performance of Juliet's Balcony Scene in HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929?

[@tenpc1751]

@Ahmad Sheikh-Ali why does anyone care john mccains mum is alive go comment that on a relevent video lmao

[@jaelvictoria5771]

Luke Donovan ikr?

[@jaelvictoria5771]

Derrick Langford Me too 😂

[@javadjo3118]

Luke Donovan me also

[@rajkittur1998]

Watching it after 90 years!!! It feels so great.

[@AntarikshRajkonwar]

Yes we are watching it in 2020 in the midst of coronavirus pandemic

[@MohanMohan-jj1iw]

Are u 100+

[@MohanMohan-jj1iw]

What is ur age,😱😃

[@rajkittur1998]

It is necessary that anyone should be older than the video they comment on. I am not human 😂😂

[@annkow9154]

@@rajkittur1998 Betty White

[@Magnetron33]

First time I have seen footage of Carl Laemmle. All Quiet on the Western Front is still one of the greatest War/antiwar movies even made. Absolute classic!

[@kalevala29]

Norma was such an elegant and classy lady. Love her in the Women.

[@January.]

*The Women

[@globalman]

What a beautiful time capsule moment. Thank you for sharing this. People should not be misled, this was not the full award ceremony. This film was made especially for newsreels shown in cinemas before the main feature. It was good publicity and Something to share with the public who after all were the reason Hollywood existed. The early award ceremonies were an elaborate dinner held in a hotel ballroom followed by award presentations. They were more like grand dinner parties.

[@ianbentley7276]

interesting, thanks.

[@ericplunder2744]

Yes. The description is a bit misleading

[@ChadSteahly]

Thank you for this context. I was wondering for what this footage was shot. The ceremony wasn’t broadcast to the public visually until the early 50s, so I found this footage interesting. Thanks for the historical background on this.

[@Iamloveandloveisme]

For 1930, I'm impressed with the hole quality of this video and audio..

[@January.]

*whole

[@samharper5881]

It's very nice to find a good quality hole, especially when it originates as far back as 1930.

[@cormacdoheny470]

The first Oscars ceremony broadcast to the public and on air.

[@ninnaaaaaaaaaa]

Cormac Doheny Was is not year 1929?

[@arfansthename]

@@ninnaaaaaaaaaa The 1929 one was the first. It wasn't broadcast. The second, also in 1930 was the first to be broadcast, in radio.

[@tuantakur48]

@@arfansthename thanks for ur answer, smart people 👌

[@kittyvaughn76]

I love Norma Shearer. She has such a lovely softness, classic regal lady like quality few actresses had then or now...my favorite actress.

[@girlmeetsreggae]

Beautifully said! I totally agree with you - she's charming, soft, elegant and grand ❤

[@MCO18]

Now the Oscars are four hours long!

[@Smiles2U4Ever]

4 hours of liberal cultural indoctrinated bullshit.

[@joebaby1975]

I REALY hate that crap. Tweet about it instead of rattling on about the same shit.

[@acastrohowell]

Max Power and I don’t care to watch it

[@calfman3333]

Yeah. I mean I don’t mind people expressing their ideologies and I really don’t mind listening to Republican and Democratic ideas but they should leave that aside because this is an awards show for the Motion Picture Arts, not some political stand-up comedy show.

[@gauravw6947]

CalfMan Politics affects arts as much as commerce.. Artists have the right to express their opinion wherever they want.. Moreover, the world doesn't around America and it's politics..

[@ryanswan7566]

Pretty neat to have found this as Conrad Nagel was my great uncle. The hosting of the 3rd Academy Awards was always one of the stories that I heard growing up. Glad I was able to finally see it.

[@WCaron23001]

Conrad was a great sensitive actor.

[@davids7472]

Ryan Swan can u tell him I said hi my name is David by the way

[@hmh9661]

Wonderful ❤️

[@mikkimikki5376]

I'm i

[@liannarivera5358]

Crazy how the Oscars have evolved from being super formal and professional into will smith slapping chris rock

[@omareduardo93]

🤭

[@amisamiamiam]

I think you mean de-volved.

[@surfandonaboavibe9322]

@Site Web mais digno rs

[@SmartStart24]

Lmaoooo 😂

[@throughmyeyes9940]

@Site Web self control

[@MTknitter22]

When public speaking was polite, practiced and eloquent at the Academy Awards.

[@Diane18]

For sure!!!

[@johndillinger1851]

That 1st old man 😢 talked about his grandchild being his greatest accomplishment..... What on earth is happening to us? People knew what was really important then.....

[@RonGerstein]

That "old man" is the founder of Universal Studios, which is the top 5 studios in the motion picture industry. Currently, it is owned by NBC and is called NBCUniversal.

[@alef_19]

Norma shearer my favorite actress of all times!!

[@pittsburge88]

The Queen of MGM

[@anmolagrawal5358]

Such professionalism and grace..

[@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii]

Very rare to see one of the very first Academy Awards!

[@MetrognomeVideos]

Norma Shearer's hair and outfit are awesome

[@cleberrobertomourabenincas879]

Norma Shearer! Top 10 actress of all time!

[@pittsburge88]

The Queen of MGM

[@tvmonte]

Nice to see and hear movie moguls Louis B. Mayer and Carl Laemle talking to each other as the former presents the Oscar to the latter. How rare! Also nice to see a rare female screenwriter accept her award. Only wish Ms. Marion had given a speech as well.

[@melissa2688]

Carl Laemmle, Sr. was an amazing man. He not only took on Thomas Edison but the Nazis too. He ran Edison out of the film industry & he helped bring German Jews to the US during WWII. Gave us Universal Pictures along with his son Carl, Jr., great silent films like Hunchback of Notre Dame & Phantom of the Opera, early horror movies like Dracula & Frankenstein, and All Quiet On the Western Front. All classics.

[@SamBryans128]

Norma Shearer and her brother Douglas both won Oscars this year making them the first siblings to both become Oscar winners.

[@bostonblackie9503]

First actress to receive an AA was Janet Gaynor an American. The next three were Canadian, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer and Marie Dressler. Shows you how big a part Canadians played in front and behind the camera in creating Hollywood.

[@653j521]

But not the Canadian film industry?

[@GehanCooray]

Best Acceptance Speech ever, by Norma Shearer. Both her delivery and her comportment/posture/body language are perfect here. Vivien Leigh would try to match it 10 years later, but wouldn't have the same effect. By the way, Norma Shearer was originally announced as Scarlett O'Hara in June 1939, but then she withdrew from the role because her fans didn't want her to play such an unsympathetic character. Norma herself felt she shouldn't do anything to tarnish the glory of her iconic role as Marie Antoinette, so she stepped aside, allowing Vivien Leigh to eventually do GWTW.

[@annla7834]

According to some recent reading, Shearer wanted to change the story to make Scarlett more sympathetic. Selznick got tons of angry letters about both the idea of her being (mis)cast and the possible plot change. And they were right.

[@philipc67]

Your timing is imagined and all wrong. Vivien Leigh was confirmed as Scarlett in December 1938, shortly after the burning of Atlanta was filmed. Principal photography on the film began in February 1939. Norma Shearer was never a serious contender for the role.

[@DonnaChamberson]

She’s beautiful

[@johnfulton4061]

The only.reason she won an Oscar was because MGM ruled and her husband was golden boy Irving Thalberg was her husband she was at best a competent actress and she was not that attractive she is forgotten for the simple reason that she is forgettable a lot of the roles that she played should have. been given to women that were more attractive and talented like Joan Crawford or Roz Russell

[@OldGrooves-eh5uz]

@@johnfulton4061 aw, come on. She was a doll!

[@user-sn5jr1ji9h]

Norma Shearer was so chic, the epitome of old Hollywood glamour.

[@Delicious1922]

Almost scary because of how serene this film is! Blessed to have this footage with such clarity! Thanks for sharing this

[@gregvadimsky2781]

Great posting - thank you!! To get to hear Carl Laemmle, Sr. speak is amazing!

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Although this was shot for the newsreels, this re-enactment of the Oscars for 1930 gave moviegoers an idea of how they went and to give the audience a feel for just witnessing history. Thanks for showing the above clip.

[@brandonmilesmay]

Thank you so much for posting this! I've been looking everywhere for Norma's acceptance speech and now I've found it. I would love to see more!

[@alyssajones4368]

Such class. Such poise. How in the word did the Oscars go from this to the bullshit nowadays? Especially after what Will Smith did.

[@Kaboomboo]

It became a spectacle. All flash and no class.

[@alyssajones4368]

@@Kaboomboo So true.

[@_-Species-_]

The Oscar in those years just have a charm that we can’t see today

[@dp85112]

Absolutely love Norma! So graceful ❤️❤️❤️

[@harryvswayne1]

Undeniably a class act.

[@SilviaFernandez-kk7nh]

Love this and Conrad Nagel as the host! Thanks so much for posting. Would love to see more of these.

[@yes350yes]

Amazing that this film exists and is such good quality. The oscars have advanced to what it is now something I rarely watch its so disgusting with a lack of reverence.

[@brianoyler706]

morris wright...the Academy Awards ceremony has not advanced; it has regressed to degrading. Never in the ceremony's entire history had it looked so pathetic as the 2022 ceremony!! And the recipients, producers, directors, etc...out there in Hollywood in recent years think they are so sophisticated, worldly and God's gift to entertainment and the world. Oh, how I beg to differ!! This 1930 clip tells all.

[@microwavedcarrot4613]

It’s so quiet 😍 I love it

[@nowdid]

The audio is magnificent considering that silent movies were so dominant back in the fall of 1930

[@ChickenGeorgeClooney]

They weren't really dominant. Sound films were made for three years at this point and had pretty much overtaken the silent genre, though there were a few holdouts.

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

@@ChickenGeorgeClooney When I read David's comment, I actually said aloud "They weren't really dominant," and then clicked "View Replies" and those were your very first words! :D

[@brianoyler706]

No, by fall of 1930 talkies were "the thing". Silents we're quickly becoming "passe"...

[@namourramkumar9153]

i cannot believe this one is almost 90 years old still oscar is a thing

[@meandean5609]

Norma Shearer Canadian export to the Oscars classy lady

[@ChadSteahly]

I’m reading Neal Gabler’s Empire of Their Own right now. The book focuses on the creation of the motion picture industry. Carl Laemmle is obviously a main character in that story. Incredible to see footage of Carl from 1930! A great companion video to Neal’s book. Thank you for sharing this moment in history with us.

[@dwightb2500]

I will always have a crush on Norma, from the very first time I saw her in "The Women".

[@fulton92503]

before Bob Hope!

[@jodi2847]

This is what dignity looks like, Hollywood. It's having the courtesy to at least ACT like decent human beings when before the camera, speaking to those who pay to see your films.

[@karac.a.]

I didn't know she won an award for The Divorcee! Awesome!

[@JoseMiguelPujol]

Everybody introducing everybody without claping, the shure love and respect arts, I love that

[@653j521]

No audience. Terrible acting. Terrible staging. Utterly static. Did they learn nothing from the movies they made?

[@lemorab1]

This is the first footage I have seen of Frances Marion. Thank you.

[@lillinablue]

Testimony of the value of memory. Two women still modern in their uniqueness IMO. Thanks for sharing the video

[@edwinkirkland8856]

God rest and bless norma....

[@detassler1299]

I would have thought that the winner of the Oscar awarded by the Writers Guild would have had more to say than Thank you very much.

[@cpetrizzi]

The Oscars have gone from a 7 minute formal event to a 7 hour slap-stick comedy.

[@DamianValencia-qc4hu]

So this the time era when the first person ever got smacked at the oscars…

[@KellyODo]

1930 acceptance speech: "Thank you. I'm humbled and honored." Today's acceptance speech: "I'm so important. I'm a mouthpiece for social justice. Look how good I am."

[@spudskie3907]

Now the Oscars have devolved into Will Smith slapping Chris Rock.

[@FabinhoFlapp]

Shearer ❤

[@walterbenjamin1386]

Love their accents - all had that cultured affectation except for Mayer and Lemmle who were very old world. Fantastic historic archive.

[@January.]

*who were.... They were both immigrants. Mayer from Russia to Canada as a child, and Laemmle, from Germany to the U.S. as a teenager.

[@randykirkland3927]

Norma ! Norma ! Norma !

[@xenafan234]

Wow Mr.Laemmle! I was Just at One of His Theatres! ♥

[@barrettgrey]

I love that you're looking at older movies. Can't wait when you look at barbara Stanwycks career

[@ajg5138]

such class. I wish the american accent stayed like that for centuries to come.

[@Amal757]

Austin Gerhardt I was just about to comment on the accent. It would be interesting to know how it was lost.

[@loribollinger2457]

Transatlantic accent

[@omnibus4157]

@@Amal757 The only people who ever had this accent naturally were from the upper class on the US East Coast. Most actors in those days (aside from Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn) were not of that class, and were taught this accent by elocution teachers. Once acting became more naturalistic, the incentive to teach it was gone. By the late 1930s, fewer adult actors use this accent. The last famous person I recall having it naturally was the conservative TV pundit William F. Buckley, who died in 2008.

[@ya.thegoat8795]

It's because the English crafted the accent so it sounds like English accent. The guy said "metro goldwin mayor" instead of "mare"

[@653j521]

@@ya.thegoat8795 That's how Mayer is pronounced.

[@IK-fg4gw]

All quiet at the western front even existed in 1930 and won Oscar just like in 2023. Damn!!

[@michaelzadell9063]

At this time the awards were announced ahead of time. That changed a few years later. Read The Garden of Allah novels, centered around that hotel in old Hollywood. They are a deep dive into old Hollywood.

[@joeljain10]

Their voice 👌

[@7niahceulb]

What if someone walked up there and slapped someone

[@brianoyler706]

The first time it ever happened was 2022 ceremony. Never ever in the 95 year history of these awards has anyone slapped another. That is why the Academy will never invite Will Smith back to another ceremony. Totally uncalled for...

[@SmartStart24]

Did he say “short of becoming a grandfather” it was his greatest honor? That was soooo cute 🥲

[@ramongonzalez2112]

So dignified; now the Oscars is a contest in America-bashing and perversity.🙏🇺🇸

[@Deagle-lj7tv]

I'd like to thank the academy for about 76 years of doing things right! After that they really started to get very strange

[@tamilrockerz734]

Watching 90 years old Oscars good to see

[@costernocht]

I prefer this version to what the Oscars have become. No political grandstanding, no vulgarity, no mediocre musical numbers, no nonsense.

[@KneeJerkish]

No political grandstanding, no vulgarity, no important things to say. Yeah, I can see why you would prefer that.

[@kn1feprty729]

I like what he said to her and her speech but the rest is kinda boring 🤷🏽

[@kn1feprty729]

I think the oscars are good 1969-now but what I can't wait to see is the 2019 Oscars (mostly because of Black Panther)

[@KneeJerkish]

@Willie Gordon Sorry if I hurt your feelings. It's going to be okay, I promise. Please don't shoot anyone.

[@shane2609]

I’m seeing this in 2024. In 6 years this footage will be 100

[@viarach1177]

Norma Shearer should have won for Marie Antoinette too.

[@plutoshearer3650]

I agree with you, although i love Bette Davis in Jezebel. But i would've give the Oscar to Norma with her Marie Antoinette performance.

[@brianoyler706]

This clip is the third award ceremony from 1930. There were two different 1930 ceremonies that year. Marie Antoinette was in 1938 with Shearer and Power. Bette Davis won for Jezebel. Marie Antoinette was nominated for best pic. Please keep comments directed toward clip. We are not commenting on the "would have, should haves" of the futures of these winners.

[@nothingfancy4024]

When she went back behind that curtain she probably was like AWWWWWWW!!!!

[@jettrink7510]

Conrad Nagel is being too modest... he deserves equal credit for creation of the Academy.

[@totogirl0]

That man that first received an Oscar was probably born in the Victorian era. Crazy.

[@annla7834]

He was born right after the Civil War!

[@davediamond7228]

1867...he was only 63 years old here..he died 9 ears later at 72 in 1930 the life span was 58 for men and 62 for women

[@miriamhavard7621]

So, Victorian era.

[@rodrigomelo4700]

ALTERNATIVE CHOICES FOR 1929-30 OSCAR WINNERS: Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front Best Director: Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) Best Actor: Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front) (not nominated) Best Actress: Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box) (not nominated) Best Screenplay: All Quiet on the Western Front (George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson, Del Andrews) Best Cinematography: All Quiet on the Western Front Best Art Direction: Pandora's Box (not nominated) Best Sound: All Quiet on the Western Front (not nominated)

[@ericacooper336]

It's 90years old and for that,I tip my hat.That being said,this would have put me to sleep.

[@miriamhavard7621]

😂

[@blondthought5175]

Conrad Nagel is the presenter. He starred with Greta Garbo in "The Mysterious Woman", a silent film. Garbo never looked better.

[@PaddySlattery]

Ah, the good ol' days, before cutaways to Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.

[@spicnspan3797]

*I have a really dumb question, if you don't mind. I've just come here from watching Gregory Peck opening the 1968 Oscars, which he said was the 40th Oscars. If 1929 was the 1st Oscars, then 1930 would've been the 2nd, 1931 = 3rd, 1932 = 4th,....1938 = 10th,....1968 = 40th, etc. So, 1929 had to have been the 1st Oscars, right? You can't say 1928 was the 0th Oscar, cause that makes no sense. So, if 1929 was the very first Oscars, why is the title of this video **_"The Third Academy Awards 1930"?_** Shouldn't it be the second?*

[@aqualcunopiaceclassico3201]

In 1930 two ceremonies were held. The second and the third

[@sodality3970]

Conrad Nagel ! I love his films with Garbo and Gish .

[@ericplunder2744]

The description for this is a bit misleading. This is obviously not footage of the actual ceremony, but a piece put together to be included in preview packages (at Loews, probably)

[@mariogamefreak1]

At least they didn’t bring up politics.

[@jaengen]

No they just made the black attendees sit in the back and they weren’t allowed at the dinners or parties. But yes life was just perfect back then.

[@salahuddinderweh2242]

❤ great days of great past

[@roxy5588]

This is how the Oscars are supposed to be without any crap and politics. And thank you so much for uploading this. I’m glad to see what the very first Oscars looked like.

[@aqualcunopiaceclassico3201]

Just because the politics was all behind the curtains back then.

[@brianoyler706]

Caitlin Frawley...this clip was from the third Academy Awards ceremony. It was filmed to recreate what the actual ceremony was like so that the common folks in the movie theatres could get an idea of what it was.

[@MycketKar]

They should do this today presenting the winners and forget the event. LOL.

[@allanmiller4972]

TRULY, Hollywood & NY's 'GOLDEN' Era! A time of great cinematic passion, dedication & achievement!!! A few decades b4 the circus 'CLOWNs' like Tarantino, Pitt, DiCaprio & Robbie 'trashed' it w/ their respective 'artistic' mediocrity & sanctimony! 😖

[@miriamhavard7621]

It's just different artists; different times, that's all.

[@dagny8336]

When Hollywood had class; at least publicly.

[@BallyakaJuggyD]

oh yea... completely ignore the racism and segregation eh?

[@miriamhavard7621]

I love your qualifier "at least publicly." 😂🌺😊

[@canaladrenalina1047]

É emociante ver oscar tao antigo , eu adoro muito isso.

[@nyla2408]

The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised.. Before that, old film.

[@christopherjhunvallez5742]

Legendary and epic

[@razaalee9477]

Hey, it's the same man that destroyed childhood, adolescence and ultimately the whole life of Judy Garland.

[@TheSultan1470]

Dumb comment

[@brianoyler706]

Raza Alee...if you are referring to Louis B. Mayer, I would advise you to do more research It was Garland's mother who started her down that path. Too many people blame Mayer and MGM for Garland's addiction. No, Garland was introduced to diet and pep pills before she ever came to Metro Granted, Metro did not deal with her addiction properly, or, should I write, more proactively, but Garland did not take the proper steps to rehab either Mayer and MGM were not responsible for her initial addiction. Director Joe Mankewicz even confronted Ethel Gumm and Mayer about the escalation of her addiction. The mother just practically dismissed Mankewicz as if he didn't know what he was talking about. Many times the apple does not fall far from the tree!!!!

[@jerryfrazier6596]

This is the way they should do it today! Class, and hurry up.

[@meiteimandies5406]

Lucky me to see it in 2019-04-12 8:51 pm INDIA

[@Paradise-cq1gx]

Think Norma was a great actress ,however, sure her hubby truly helped her to get the best roles and was able to influenced whom would win those very awards.

[@jimmerjenifer1734]

WHAT A PRECIOUS CLIPS OF 90 YEARS OSCAR HISTORY I LOVE OSCARS

[@misterzag2871]

Oh the Tv show does not look the same but man that Oscar looks like it traveled to the future.

[@christopherwilson7698]

Sometimes KZbin is really awesome

[@thamizhachi1296]

Greater footage

[@sadesade6658]

Whaat, no applause😱👏👏👏👏

[@brianoyler706]

Sade Sade...this was a film made to recreate the actual ceremony with no audience so that the common folks in movie theatres could get an idea of what the ceremony was like...

[@Plattensammler88]

It seems that it's Conrad Nagel who speaks the Introduction, right?

[@MySpace662]

How time has faded the golden age of Holywood that we miss.

[@dxmxo9427]

Wow So amazing!!!