1930
alphabetically
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
The Blue Angel  (Josef Von Sterberg)
Min & Bill (George W Hill)

1931
alphabetically
Dracula (Tod Browning)
M (Fritz Lang)
Le Million (Rene Clair)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau) 

1932
alphabetically
Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg)
Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel & Ernest B Schoedsack)
Rain (Lewis Milestone)
Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
Tarzan the Ape Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)

1933
alphabetically
42nd Street  (Lloyd Bacon)
The Invisible Man (James Whale)
King Kong (Merian Cooper & Ernest B Schoedsack)

1934
alphabetically
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
Imitation of Life (John M Stahl)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
Tarzan and His Mate (Cedric Gibbons) 

1935
alphabetically
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
Alice Adams (George Stevens)
The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
Naughty Marietta (Robert Z Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke)
She (Lansing C Holden & Irving Pichel) 

1936
alphabetically
Dodsworth (William Wyler)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)

1937
alphabetically
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
Nothing Sacred (William Wellman)
Stage Door (Gregory La Cava) 

1938
alphabetically
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
Jezebel (William Wyler)

1939
alphabetically
Babes in Arms (Busby Berkeley)
Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)
Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, etc...)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
Ninotcha (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
The Women (George Cukor)
Wuthering Heights (William Wyler)