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The 1st Academy Awards were presented on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets cost $5 and fewer than 250 people attended. The whole ceremony lasted only 15 minutes. Unlike later events, the winners had been announced months prior to the ceremony. This was also the only Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 ceremony not to be broadcast in some way.

Unlike later ceremonies, awards could be granted to an actor or director for multiple works within a year.






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The 1st Academy Awards were presented on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets cost $5 and fewer than 250 people attended. The whole ceremony lasted only 15 minutes. Unlike later events, the winners had been announced months prior to the ceremony. This was also the only Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 ceremony not to be broadcast in some way.

Unlike later ceremonies, awards could be granted to an actor or director for multiple works within a year. Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings was a Switzerland-born German people actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor....
, for example, was given the Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 award for his work in both The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh (film)

The Way of All Flesh is a 1927 in film film that was written by Lajos Bir?, Jules Furthman, Julian Johnson and Ernest Maas from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan....
 and The Last Command
The Last Command (film)

The Last Command is a silent film, written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Bir?, and directed by Josef von Sternberg....
.

Winners & Nominees


Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    • Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
    • The Crowd
      The Crowd

      The Crowd is an United States silent film released in 1928 in film and directed by King Vidor.The picture is an influential and acclaimed feature and was nominated for the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production....


Best Picture, Production

  • Wings
    Wings (film)

    Wings is a silent film about World War I fighter pilots, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture -- and the only silent film ever to win Best Picture -- and stars Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Richard Arlen, with Gary Cooper in a scene whic...
     
    • The Racket
      The Racket

      The Racket is an Academy Award-nominated 1928 in film Cinema of the United States crime film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E....
    • Seventh Heaven
      Seventh Heaven

      In some religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam the universe is Categorised to Seven Heavens or Realms....


Best Actor

  • Emil Jannings
    Emil Jannings

    Emil Jannings was a Switzerland-born German people actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor....
     - The Last Command
    The Last Command

    The Last Command is the third and final book in the popular The Thrawn Trilogy by author, Timothy Zahn....
     and The Way of All Flesh
    The Way of All Flesh

    The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family....
     
    • Richard Barthelmess
      Richard Barthelmess

      Richard "Dick" Semler Barthelmess was an Academy Award for Best Actor silent film star.The son of an actress, Barthelmess began acting in college, doing amateur productions....
       - The Noose
      The Noose

      A noose is a type of knot.The Noose may refer to:* The Noose , a 1926 play by Willard Mack* The Noose , a 1928 film adaptation of the play directed by John Francis Dillon...
       and The Patent Leather Kid
      The Patent Leather Kid

      The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 in film silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I....


Best Actress

  • Janet Gaynor
    Janet Gaynor

    Janet Gaynor was an American actor.One of the most popular actresses of the silent films era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise , Seventh Heaven , and Street Angel ....
     - Seventh Heaven
    Seventh Heaven

    In some religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam the universe is Categorised to Seven Heavens or Realms....
     , Street Angel
    Street Angel

    Street Angel is a silent film about a spirited young woman who finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter ....
     and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
    • Gloria Swanson
      Gloria Swanson

      Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
       - Sadie Thompson
      Sadie Thompson

      Sadie Thompson is a silent film which tells the story of a "fallen" woman who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco, California....
    • Louise Dresser
      Louise Dresser

      Louise Dresser was an United States actor....
       - A Ship Comes In
      A Ship Comes In

      A Ship Comes In is a 1928 in film silent film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States. It stars Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser, Milton Holmes, Linda Landi, and Fritz Feld....


Best Director, Comedy Picture

  • Two Arabian Knights
    Two Arabian Knights

    Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....
     - Lewis Milestone
    Lewis Milestone

    Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....
     
    • Speedy
      Speedy

      Speedy is the name of two DC Comics superheroes, fictional characters that have each served as teenaged sidekicks for the Green Arrow . The original Speedy currently operates under the name Roy Harper ....
       - Ted Wilde
      Ted Wilde

      Ted Wilde was a comedy writer and Film director during the era of silent movies, though he also produced two movies with sound in 1930. He was born in New York , New York ....


Best Director, Dramatic Picture

  • Seventh Heaven
    Seventh Heaven

    In some religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam the universe is Categorised to Seven Heavens or Realms....
     - Frank Borzage
    Frank Borzage

    Frank Borzage was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859....
     
    • The Crowd
      The Crowd

      The Crowd is an United States silent film released in 1928 in film and directed by King Vidor.The picture is an influential and acclaimed feature and was nominated for the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production....
       - King Vidor
      King Vidor

      King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
    • Sorrell and Son
      Sorrell and Son

      Sorrell and Son was a silent film released on December 2 1927 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards the following year....
       - Herbert Brenon
      Herbert Brenon

      File:Herbert Brenon Mausoleum 12-2-2008.jpgHerbert Brenon was a film Film director during the era of silent movies through the 1930s. He was born in Dublin, Ireland....


Best Writing, Original Story

  • Underworld
    Underworld

    In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly the dead souls go....
     - Ben Hecht
    Ben Hecht

    Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
     
    • The Last Command
      The Last Command

      The Last Command is the third and final book in the popular The Thrawn Trilogy by author, Timothy Zahn....
       - Lajos Biro
      Lajos Biró

      Lajos B?r? was a Hungary novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He was born in Nagyv?rad, Austria-Hungary and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by Alexander Korda....


Best Writing, Adaptation

  • Seventh Heaven
    Seventh Heaven

    In some religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam the universe is Categorised to Seven Heavens or Realms....
     - Benjamin Glazer
    Benjamin Glazer

    Benjamin Glazer was an Academy Awards-winning screenwriter, Film producer, foley artist, and Film director of United States films from the 1920s through the 1950s....
     
    • Glorious Betsy
      Glorious Betsy

      Glorious Betsy is a mostly-silent film, based on a play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young and starring Dolores Costello. It was produced by Warner Brothers and was nominated for an Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation in 1929....
       - Anthony Coldeway
      Anthony Coldeway

      Anthony W. Coldeway was an Academy Awards-nominated screenwriter who had an extensive career from 1910 through 1954. Although most of his work was on films, he did some writing for television and also was the film director of a silent film, entitled Her Great Dilemma, in 1917....
    • The Jazz Singer
      The Jazz Singer

      The Jazz Singer may refer to:* The Jazz Singer , a 1925 Broadway play* The Jazz Singer , a film version of the play, and the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences...
       - Alfred A. Cohn
      Alfred A. Cohn

      Alfred A. Cohn was an author, journalist and newspaper editing, Police Commissioner, and screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered for his work on The Jazz Singer , which was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in the 1st Academy Awards of 1929....


Best Writing, Title Writing

  • Joseph Farnham
    Joseph Farnham

    Joseph White Farnham was an United States playwright and an Academy Awards-winning film writer and film editor of the silent movie era to the early 1930s....
     and George Marion Jr.
    George Marion Jr.

    George Marion Jr. , was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 106 films between 1920 in film and 1940 in film.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in New York, New York from a myocardial infarction....
     


Best Cinematography

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - Charles Rosher
    Charles Rosher

    Charles Rosher was a two-time Academy Awards-winning cinematographer who worked from the early days of silent films through the 1950s. Born in London, he was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with 1929 co-winner Karl Struss....
     and Karl Struss
    Karl Struss

    Karl Struss, A.S.C. was a photographer and an Academy Awards-winning cinematographer of the 1920s through the 1950s. He was also one of the earliest pioneers of 3D films....
     
    • The Devil Dancer - George Barnes
      George Barnes

      George Barnes may refer to:*George Nicoll Barnes , Scottish politician, Leader of the UK Labour Party*Sir George Barnes , television and radio producer and executive...
    • The Magic Flame - George Barnes
      George Barnes

      George Barnes may refer to:*George Nicoll Barnes , Scottish politician, Leader of the UK Labour Party*Sir George Barnes , television and radio producer and executive...
    • Sadie Thompson
      Sadie Thompson

      Sadie Thompson is a silent film which tells the story of a "fallen" woman who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco, California....
       - George Barnes
      George Barnes

      George Barnes may refer to:*George Nicoll Barnes , Scottish politician, Leader of the UK Labour Party*Sir George Barnes , television and radio producer and executive...


Best Art Direction

  • The Dove
    The Dove

    The Dove is a 1927 in film silent film directed by Roland West and starring Norma Talmadge, Noah Beery, and Gilbert Roland. Based on a play by Willard Mack, the original story is about a Mexico despot , who falls in love with a dancing girl , who rejects him....
     and Tempest
    TEMPEST

    TEMPEST is a codename referring to investigations and studies of compromising emanations . Compromising emanations are defined as unintentional Intelligence -bearing signals which, if intercepted and analyzed, may disclose the information transmitted, received, handled, or otherwise processed by any information-processing equipment....
     - William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies

    William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning United States film production designer and art director who also worked as a Film director, Film producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades....
     
    • Seventh Heaven
      Seventh Heaven

      In some religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam the universe is Categorised to Seven Heavens or Realms....
       - Harry Oliver
      Harry Oliver

      Harold Oliver was a Canada professional ice hockey Defenceman who played for the Boston Bruins and New York Americans in the National Hockey League....
    • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - Rochus Gliese
      Rochus Gliese

      Rochus Gliese was a Germany actor, Film director, production designer, and Academy Awards-nominated art director of early films from the 1910s and 1920s....


Best Effects, Engineering Effects

  • Wings - Roy Pomeroy


Honorary Award

  • Charles Chaplin
- For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus. - Though nominated for best actor, the academy decided to remove Chaplin's name from the competitive classes and instead award him a Special Award.

  • The Jazz Singer
    The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer may refer to:* The Jazz Singer , a 1925 Broadway play* The Jazz Singer , a film version of the play, and the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences...
     - Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.

    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
     
- For producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry.