The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in Los Angeles,California.AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost five dollars, 270 people attended the event and the ceremony lasted fifteen minutes. Awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation.It is the only Academy Awards ceremony not to be broadcast either on radio or television.
During the ceremony the AMPAS presented Academy Awards in twelve categories. Winners were announced three months before the live event. Some nominations were announced without reference to a specific film, such as for Ralph Hammeras and Nugent Slaughter, who received nominations in the now defunct category of Engineering Effects.Unlike later ceremonies, an actor or director could be awarded 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. Moreover, Charles Chaplin and the Warner Bros. Inc. both received an Honorary Award.
Winners in competition at the ceremony included Seventh Heaven and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, each receiving three awards, and Wings, receiving two awards. Among its honors, Sunrise won the award for "Unique and Artistic Production," and Wings won the award for "Outstanding Picture, Production." In every subsequent Academy Awards, these two awards categories were eliminated, replaced by a single award to honor the Best Picture of the year, usually seen as the Academy's top prize. In the first year, with no Best Picture award, Sunrise and Wings shared this highest honor, the former for artistic strength, the latter for production quality.
Winners:
- Outstanding Picture,Production:''Wings''.
- Best Director,Comedy Picture:''Two Arabian Knights''-Lewis Milestone.
- Best actor in a Leading Role:Emil Jannings-''The Last Command'' and ''The Way Of All Flesh''.
- Best Writing,Original Story:''Underworld''-Ben Hecht.
- Best Cinematography:''Sunrise:''A song Of Two Humans''-Charles Rosher and Karl Struss.
- Best Engineering Effects:Roy Pomeroy.
- Unique and Artistic Production:''Sunrise:A Song Of Two Humans''.
- Best Director,Dramatic Picture:Seventh Heaven-Frank Borzage.
- Best Actress In A Leading Role:Janet Gaynor-''Seventh Heaven'' and Street Angel-''Sunrise:A Song Of Two Humans''.
- Best Writing,Adapted Story:''Seventh Heaven''-Benjamin Glazer.
- Best Art Direction:''The Dove'' and ''Tempest''-William Cameron Menzies.
- Best Writing,Title Writing:Joseph Farnham.
Honorary Award:
- Chaplin Charlie
- Warner Bros Production
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