1927-28 (1st Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1927-28 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film or person in the list to display more information about that film or person Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Outstanding Picture

Wings, Paramount Famous Lasky.

Best Actor

Emil Jannings in The Last Command, Paramount Famous Lasky, and in The Way of All Flesh, Paramount Famous Lasky.

Best Actress

Janet Gaynor in 7th Heaven, Fox, in Street Angel, Fox, and in Sunrise, Fox.

Directing

(Comedy Picture)

Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights, The Caddo Company; United Artists.

(Dramatic Picture)

Frank Borzage for 7th Heaven, Fox.

Art Direction

William Cameron Menzies, The Dove, Joseph M. Schenck Productions; United Artists; and Tempest, Art Cinema; United Artists.

Cinematography

Charles Rosher, Sunrise, Fox.

Karl Struss, Sunrise, Fox.

Engineering Effects

Roy Pomeroy, Wings, Paramount Famous Lasky.

Unique and Artistic Picture

Sunrise, Fox.

Writing

(Adaptation)

Benjamin Glazer, 7th Heaven, Fox.

(Original Story)

Ben Hecht, Underworld, Paramount Famous Lasky.

(Title Writing)

Joseph Farnham

Special Award

To Warner Bros. for producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry. [Statuette]

To Charles Chaplin for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus. [Statuette]