| 1928 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA1 | Wings (William A. Wellman) | Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) |
Emil Jannings (the Way of All Flesh) | Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven) | ||
| 1929 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA2 | Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont) | Frank Lloyd (the Divine Lady) |
Warner Baxter (in Old Arizona) | Mary Pickford (Coquette) | ||
| 1930 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA3 | All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) | Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Werstern Front) |
George Arliss (Disraeli) | Norma Shearer (the Divorcee) | ||
| 1931 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA4 | Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles) | Norman Taurog (Skippy) |
Lionel Barrymore (a Free Soul) | Marie Dressler (Min and Bill) | ||
| 1932 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA5 | Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding) | Frank Borzage (Bad Girl) |
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) | Helen Hayes (the Sin of Madelon Claudet) | ||
| NBR4 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy) |
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| 1933 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA6 | Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd) | Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade) |
Charles Laughton (the Private Life of Henry [) | Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory) | ||
| NBR5 | Topaze (Herry d'A. d'Arrast) |
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| 1934 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA7 | It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) | Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) |
Clark Gable (It Happened One Night) | Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) | ||
| NBR6 | It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) |
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| 1935 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | ||
| ACA8 | Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd) | John Ford (the Informer) |
Victor McLaglen (the Informer) | Bette Davis (Dangerous) | ||
| NBR7 | the Informer (John Ford) |
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| NY1 | the Informer (John Ford) | John Ford (the Informer) |
Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty.) | Greta Garbo (Anna Karenina) |
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| 1936 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
| ACA9 | the Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard) | Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) |
Paul Muni (the Story of Louis Pasteur) | Luise Rainer (the Great Ziegfeld) |
Walter Brennan (Come and Get It) | Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse) |
| NBR8 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra) |
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| NY2 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra) | Rouben Mamoulian (the Gay Desperado) |
Walter Huston (Dodsworth) | Luise Rainer (the Great Ziegfeld) |
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| 1937 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
| ACA10 | the Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle) | Leo McCarey (the Awful Truth) |
Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous) | Luise Rainer (the Good Earth) |
Joseph Schildkraut (the Life of Emile Zola) | Alice Brady (in Old Chicago) |
| NBR9 | Night Must Fall (Richard Thorpe) |
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| NY3 | the Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle) | Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) |
Paul Muni (the Life of Emile Zola) | Greta Garbo (Camille) |
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| 1938 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
| ACA11 | You Can't Take It with You (Frank Capra) | Frank Capra (You Can't Take It with You) |
Spencer Tracy (Boys Town) | Bette Davis (Jezebel) |
Walter Brennan (Kentucky) | Fay Bainter (Jezebel) |
| NBR10 | the Citadel (King Vidor) |
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| NY4 | the Citadel (King Vidor) | Alfred Hitchcock (the Lady Vanishes) |
James Cagney (Angels with Dirty Faces) | Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades) |
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| 1939 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
| ACA12 | Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming) | Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind) |
Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) | Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) |
Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach) | Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind) |
| NBR11 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak) |
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| NY5 | Wuthering Heights (William Wyler) | John Ford (Stagecoach) |
James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) | Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) |
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| 1940 | Picture | Director | Leading Actor | Leading Actress | Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
| ACA13 | Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) | John Ford (the Grapes of Wrath) |
James Stewart (the Philadelphia Story) | Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle) |
Walter Brennan . (the Westerner) | Jane Darwell . (the Grapes of Wrath) |
| NBR12 | the Grapes of Wrath (John Ford) |
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| NY6 | the Grapes of Wrath (John Ford) | John Ford (the Grapes of Wrath.) |
Charles Chaplin (the Great Dictator) | Katharine Hepburn (the Philadelphia Story) |