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All Oscars of the 1920's
Oscar's awarded in 1928 |
1928 Best Picture
Wings
 1927 Wings  Action N/R, 139 Minutes Director: William A. Wellman Starring: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Tucker, Henry B. Walthall, Roscoe Karns, Julia Swayne Gordon "Wings" won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. It is a silent film that depicts the World War I Air Corps aerial flight sequences and an anti-war statement that tells of buddies who fly in the face of danger.
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1928 Best Director
Frank Borzage for "Seventh Heaven"
1927 Seventh Heaven Drama / Romance N/R, 119 Minutes Director: Frank Borzage Starring: Janet Gaynor, Ben Bard, Charles Farrell, David Butler, Marie Mosquini, Albert Gran, Brandon Hurst, George E. Stone, Emile Chautard, Lillian West This story is about Diane (Janet Gaynor), a Parisian waif who, after being exploited by her sister Nana (Gladys Brockwell), finds a life with Chico (Charles Farrell), a sewer worker. When World War I begins, Chico has fallen in love with Diane, but he is sent to the front. Diane gets a report that Chico has been killed, but the report is wrong, and Chico, now blind, finds his way back to Diane. This film won Best Actress (Gaynor), Director, and Screenplay Academy Award honors. This was the first year for the Oscars and covered a two-year period (1927-28).
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1928 Best Actor
Emil Jannings for "The Way of All Flesh"
1927 The Way of All Flesh  Drama N/R, 94 Minutes Director: Victor Fleming Starring: Emil Jannings, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith, Belle Bennett, Jackie Coombs, Fred Kohler, Gordon Thorpe, Philippe De Lacy, Mickey McBan, Betsy Ann Hisle Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal as a bank teller who was mugged and presumed dead. The Oscar was for his work not only in this film but also for "The Last Command" (1928). (In the first years of the Academy Awards, they were presented for a two-year period.) This story was remade in 1940.
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1928 Best Actress
Janet Gaynor for "Seventh Heaven"
1927 Seventh Heaven Drama / Romance N/R, 119 Minutes Director: Frank Borzage Starring: Janet Gaynor, Ben Bard, Charles Farrell, David Butler, Marie Mosquini, Albert Gran, Brandon Hurst, George E. Stone, Emile Chautard, Lillian West This story is about Diane (Janet Gaynor), a Parisian waif who, after being exploited by her sister Nana (Gladys Brockwell), finds a life with Chico (Charles Farrell), a sewer worker. When World War I begins, Chico has fallen in love with Diane, but he is sent to the front. Diane gets a report that Chico has been killed, but the report is wrong, and Chico, now blind, finds his way back to Diane. This film won Best Actress (Gaynor), Director, and Screenplay Academy Award honors. This was the first year for the Oscars and covered a two-year period (1927-28).
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Oscar's awarded in 1929 |
1929 Best Picture
The Broadway Melody
1929 The Broadway Melody Musical / Romance N/R, 110 Minutes Director: Harry Beaumont Starring: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson, Mary Doran, Eddie Kane, James Gleason This film captured the Oscar for Best Picture. Cole Porter songs are the backdrop for two vaudeville sisters (Anita Page and Bessie Love) who are in love with the same man. Nominations also went to Bessie Love and Director Harry Beaumont.
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1929 Best Director
Frank Lloyd for "The Divine Lady"
1929 The Divine Lady Drama N/R, 100 Minutes Director: Frank Lloyd Starring: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler, Dorothy Cumming, William Conklin, Montagu Love, Helen Jerome Eddy, Julia Swayne Gordon Amidst exciting sea battles, this film tells the story of the scandalous affair between Lady Hamilton (Corinne Griffith) and Lord Horatio Nelson (Victor Varconi), which leads to her influence providing supplies for Nelson's fleet and, ultimately, the British victory. Frank Lloyd won an Academy Award for Best Director.
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1929 Best Actor
Warner Baxter for "In Old Arizona"
1928 In Old Arizona Western N/R, 95 Minutes Director: Irving Cummings Starring: Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, Warner Baxter, J. Farrell MacDonald, Joe Brown, John Webb Dillon, Ivan Linow, Roy Stewart, James Bradbury Jr., Fred Warren This tale of O. Henry's "The Cisco Kid" was the first Western talkie as well as the first sound film made outside of a studio. Army Sergeant Mickey Dunne (Edmund Lowe) is pursuing the bandit, The Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter), who is in love with Tonia Maria (Dorothy Burgess). While The Cisco Kid is away, Tonia falls in love with Mickey, and, together, they plot The Cisco Kid's demise. Warner Baxter received an Oscar for Best Actor in his role as the Cisco Kid. The film also received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Director.
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1929 Best Actress
Mary Pickford for "Coquette"
1929 Coquette Drama N/R, 75 Minutes Director: Sam Taylor Starring: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis, William Janney, Henry Kolker, George Irving, Louise Beavers Mary Pickford won the Academy Award for her performance as a college girl who lies to free her deceased father from a murder charge. He killed her boyfriend (Johnny Mack Brown) after discovering that the couple spent the night together, and then he committed suicide.
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