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1st Academy Awards (1929) - films released between 1 August 1927 and 1 August 1928

Highlights

Best Picture: Wings
Best Director: Frank Borzage
Best Director: Lewis Milestone
Best Leading Actress: Janet Gaynor
Best Leading Actress: Janet Gaynor
Best Leading Actress: Janet Gaynor
Best Leading Actor: Emil Jannings
Best Leading Actor: Emil Jannings
Best Unique and Artistic Picture: Sunrise
Best Original Screenplay: Ben Hecht
Best Adapted Screenplay: Benjamin Glazer
Best Writing, Title Writing: Joseph Farnham

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Best Cinematography: Charles Rosher, Karl Struss
Best Production Design: William Cameron Menzies
Best Production Design: William Cameron Menzies
Honorary Award: Charles Chaplin
Honorary Award: Warner Bros.

Most awarded films

Most nominated movies

Best Picture - 1928

7.3 (1,775)

7.8 (1,706)

6.1 (118)

Best Picture

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Wings

Winner

Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

5 nominations 3 awards

The Racket

Best Director

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Frank Borzage

Winner

Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

5 nominations 3 awards

Lewis Milestone

Winner

Herbert Brenon

King Vidor

Ted Wilde

Best Leading Actress

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Janet Gaynor

Winner

Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

5 nominations 3 awards

Street Angel

Sunrise

4 nominations 3 awards

Louise Dresser

A Ship Comes In

Gloria Swanson

Sadie Thompson

Best Leading Actor

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Emil Jannings

Winner

The Last Command

2 nominations 1 award

The Way of All Flesh

Richard Barthelmess

The Patent Leather Kid

The Noose

Best Unique and Artistic Picture

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Sunrise

Winner

4 nominations 3 awards

The Crowd

2 nominations

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

Best Original Screenplay

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Ben Hecht

Winner

Underworld

Lajos Biro

The Last Command

Best Adapted Screenplay

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Benjamin Glazer

Winner

Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

5 nominations 3 awards

Anthony Coldeway

Glorious Betsy

Alfred A. Cohn

The Jazz Singer

Best Writing, Title Writing

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Joseph Farnham

Winner

George Marion Jr.

Gerald C. Duffy

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

Best Cinematography

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Charles Rosher

Winner

Karl Struss

Winner

Sunrise

4 nominations 3 awards

George Barnes

Sadie Thompson

The Devil Dancer

The Magic Flame

Best Production Design

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William Cameron Menzies

Winner

Tempest

The Dove

Harry Oliver

Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

Rochus Gliese

Sunrise

Honorary Award

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Charles Chaplin

Winner

The Circus

Warner Bros.

Winner

The Jazz Singer

2 nominations 1 award

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