1st Academy Awards
Encyclopedia : 1 : 1S : 1ST : 1st Academy Awards
| 1st Academy Awards | |
|---|---|
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" class="hiddenStructure"
|style="text-align: right;|Preshow
|
|-
|style="text-align: right;|Host
|
|- class="hiddenStructure"
|style="text-align: right;|Producer
|
|- class="hiddenStructure"
|style="text-align: right;|Director
|
|- class="hiddenStructure"
|style="text-align: right;|Duration
|
|}
The 1st Academy Awards were presented on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets cost $10 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 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, for example, was given the Best Actor award for his work in both The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command.
Contents
AwardsBest Production/PictureWinner: WingsNominations: The Racket, Seventh Heaven, The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command. Artistic Quality of ProductionWinner: SunriseBest ActorWinner: Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh and The Last CommandNominations: Richard Barthelmess in The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid Best ActressWinner: Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and SunriseNominations: Louise Dresser in A Ship Comes In and Gloria Swanson in Sadie Thompson Best Director of a DramaWinner: Frank Borzage for Seventh HeavenNominations: Herbert Brenon for Sorrell and Son, King Vidor for The Crowd Best Director of a ComedyWinner: Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian KnightsNominations: Ted Wilde for Speedy Best Writing (original)Winner: Ben Hecht for UnderworldNominations: Lajos Biro for The Last Command Best Writing (adaptation)Winner: Benjamin Glazer for Seventh HeavenNominations: Alfred Cohn for The Jazz Singer, Anthony Coldeway for Glorious Betsy Best Writing (title cards)Winner: Joseph Farnham for Fair Co-Ed, Laugh Clown, Laugh, and Telling the WorldNominations: Gerald Duffy for The Private Life of Helen of Troy and George Marion, Jr. for (various) Best CinematographyWinner: Charles Rosher and Karl Struss for SunriseNominations: George Barnes for The Devil Dancer, The Magic Flame, and Sadie Thompson Best Engineering EffectsWinner: Roy Pomeroy for WingsNominations: Ralph Hammeras for (various) and Nugent Slaughter for (various) Art DirectionWinner: William Cameron Menzies for The Dove and The TempestNominations: Rochus Gliese for Sunrise, Harry Oliver for Seventh Heaven Special AwardsCharles Chaplin won an honorary award for The Circus.Warner Brothers won an honorary award for The Jazz Singer. ReferencesAcademy Awards ceremonies 1927/28 | 1928/29 | 1929/30 | 1930/31 | 1931/32 | 1932/33 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 (years are of film release; ceremonies are the next year)
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. | |