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All awards1st Academy Awards (1929) - films released between 1 August 1927 and 1 August 1928
Main awards
Best Leading Actor: Emil Jannings
Best Leading Actress: Janet Gaynor
Best Leading Actress: Janet Gaynor
Most awarded movies
Sunrise (3)
Tempest (1)
The Dove (1)
Underworld (1)
Most nominated movies
Sunrise (4)
The Crowd (2)
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Best Picture Year 1928
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Best Picture
Winner
 
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen
Nominees
Best Unique and Artistic Picture
Winner
 
Sunrise
(4 Nominations3 Awards)
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Nominees
Best Director, Drama Picture
Winner
 
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Gladys Brockwell
Nominees
  • Herbert Brenon
     Sorrell and Son
    Herbert Brenon
    H.B. Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mickey McBan, Carmel Myers
  • King Vidor
     The Crowd
    King Vidor
    James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark
    (2 Nominations )
Best Director, Comedy Picture
Winner
 
Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone
William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim
Nominees
  • Ted Wilde
     Speedy
    Ted Wilde
    Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict
Best Leading Actor
Winner
 
Emil Jannings
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell
Nominees
  • Richard Barthelmess
     The Noose
    John Francis Dillon
    Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Jay Eaton
  • Richard Barthelmess
     The Patent Leather Kid
    Alfred Santell
    Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, Lawford Davidson, Matthew Betz
Best Leading Actress
Winner
 
Janet Gaynor
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Gladys Brockwell
 
Janet Gaynor
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rabagliati
 
Janet Gaynor
Sunrise
(4 Nominations3 Awards)
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Nominees
  • Louise Dresser
     A Ship Comes In
    William K. Howard
    Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser, Milton Holmes, Linda Landi
  • Gloria Swanson
     Sadie Thompson
    Raoul Walsh
    Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Raoul Walsh, Blanche Friderici
    (2 Nominations )
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
 
Ben Hecht
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook
Nominees
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
 
Benjamin Glazer
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Gladys Brockwell
Nominees
  • Anthony Coldeway
     Glorious Betsy
    Alan Crosland
    Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott
  • Alfred A. Cohn
     The Jazz Singer
    Alan Crosland
    Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Best Cinematography
Winner
 
Charles Rosher, Karl Struss
Sunrise
(4 Nominations3 Awards)
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Nominees
  • George Barnes
     Sadie Thompson
    Raoul Walsh
    Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Raoul Walsh, Blanche Friderici
    (2 Nominations )
  • George Barnes
     The Devil Dancer
    Fred Niblo
    Gilda Gray, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Serge Temoff
  • George Barnes
     The Magic Flame
    Henry King
    Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Agostino Borgato, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Best Art Direction
Winner
 
William Cameron Menzies
Sam Taylor
John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Viktor Tourjansky
 
William Cameron Menzies
Roland West
Norma Talmadge, Noah Beery, Gilbert Roland
Nominees

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