Recap / First Academy Awards

The 1st Academy Awards

Host: Douglas Fairbanks

Air Date: May 16, 1929

Outstanding Picture

• Wings (winner)
• The Racket
• 7th Heaven

Best Unique and Artistic Picture

• Sunrise (winner)
• Chang
• The Crowd

Best Actor

• Emil Jannings - The Last Command (winner)
• Richard Barthelmess - The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid
• Charlie Chaplin - The Circus

Best Actress

• Janet Gaynor - 7th Heaven (winner)
• Louise Dresser - A Ship Comes In
• Gloria Swanson - Sadie Thompson

Best Director (Comedy)

• Lewis Milestone - Two Arabian Knights (winner)
• Charlie Chaplin - The Circus
• Ted Wilde - Speedy

Best Director (Drama)

• Frank Borzage - 7th Heaven (winner)
• Herbert Brenon - Sorrell And Son
• King Vidor - The Crowd

Best Writing (Original)

• Underworld (winner)
• The Circus
• The Last Command

Best Writing (Adapted)

• 7th Heaven (winner)
• Glorious Betsy
• The Jazz Singer

Best Art Direction

• The Dove (winner)
• Tempest
• 7th Heaven
• Sunrise

Best Cinematography

• Sunrise (winner)
• The Devil Dancer
• The Magic Flame
• Sadie Thompson

Best Engineering Effects

• Wings (winner)
• No specific film for Ralph Hammeras
• No specific film for Nugent Slaughter

Best Writing (Title Writing)

• No specific film - Joseph Farnham (winner)
• The Private Life Of Helen Of Troy - Gerald Duffy
• No specific film - George Marion Jr

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