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