With studios looking for momentum for nominated films every year, actors are at the heart of the “Your Consider” campaign, with experts predicting big winners until Showtime.
Such crazy energy was not part of the first Academy Awards. The ceremony took place three months after the winners were announced.
Academy President Douglas Fairbanks hosted the event on May 16, 1929. There, gold statues designed a year ago by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons, in 12 competitive categories (plus two special awards) honoring the best films of 1927 and 1928. It was distributed. .
Here’s what film lovers need to know about the first Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards, just a month away on March 2nd.
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Where was the first Oscars held?
The first Academy Awards, announced at the Blossom Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, was a dinner party more than today’s high-profile spectacle, with 270 people attending and guest tickets priced at $5. (By comparison, movie tickets cost a quarter.) It was also the only Oscar style that was not aired in any way. Due to the popularity of banquet in 1929, local radio stations broadcast the second one for the second hour. Oscar on April 3, 1930.
What movie won the best photos at the first Oscar?
“Wings,” a drama starring Rogers and Richard Arlen as a pilot of a World War I fighter, and as both men’s love interest, Clara Bow has been called “Exceptional Photography” (final) The engineering effect was acquired by the best photo. It was also the only silent film to win the top category.
“Sunrise,” FW Murnau’s film “Margaret Livingston” persuades the farmer (George O’Brien) to kill his wife (Janet Gayner), and romance and the most Oscars (three people) in the seventh heaven We tied it together: “Most notable is that ‘Sunrise’ won the most unique and artistic painting. This is the award that was discarded when Oscar won that category seven a year later.
Fun fact: You can stream both “wings” and “sunrise” on Tubi.
Who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the First Best Actor?
In the first year of the Oscar, winners could be recognized in a single film, multiple films, or a series of films. Janet Gayner won the best actress for her roles in “Sunrise,” “Seventh Heaven,” and “Street Angel.” In 1938 she was once again nominated in the first “Star was born” category.
The best actor went to Swiss German performer Emile Jannings for “The Last Order” and “All Body Paths”. Giannings later starred Marlene Dietrich and “The Blue Angel” in the 1930s, but never again acted in Hollywood after World War II due to his work in Nazi propaganda films.
Which other films won at the first Oscars?
In 1929, two best directors, Oscars, were handed out. Lewis Milestone won in the comedy photo “Two Arabian Nights”, while Frank Borzage earned the trophy of “Seventh Heaven.”
Interestingly, two influential films of the time received honorary Oscars. Charlie Chaplin was originally scheduled to be nominated for Best Actor, Director, Written and Outstanding Photos on “The Circus,” but instead the Academy Committee unanimously renamed his name from the competitive category. He decided to remove it and instead awarded him one special prize. “Vernability and genius in writing, acting, directing, and production.”
“The collective achievements displayed like this will put you in your class yourself,” the Academy wrote in a letter to Chaplin dated February 19, 1929.
Three months later, when presenter William C. de Mille accepted the award on behalf of Starr, he told attendees, “Mr. Chaplin has a high appreciation for his honor, not because of his cold feet. “Was said.
Another special award was sent to Warner Bros. for producing 1927’s “The Jazz Singer.”