The first Academy Awards
were presented on 16th May 1929, at a
private brunch at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post
Academy Awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel. The cost of guest tickets
for that night's ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honouring
artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the
time for their works during the 1927–1928 period.
Winners were announced three months
before the ceremony. The recipients included Emil Jannings, the first
person to receive an Academy Award, for Best Actor
for the films The Way of
All Flesh and The Last
Command; Janet Gaynor
for Best Actress,
for Seventh
Heaven, Street Angel
and Sunrise: A
Song of Two Humans; Frank Borzage for Best
Director, Drama for Seventh
Heaven and Lewis
Milestone for Best Director, Comedy for Two Arabian
Knights; and the film Wings, the most
expensive film of its time, became the Best Picture recipient. Charlie Chaplin and Warner Brothers each
received an Honorary
Award. Originally, Chaplin was a Best Actor, Best Writer and Best
Director, Comedy nominee for the film The Circus,
but was removed from the list, and was honoured with the award; while the
company received the award for pioneering talking pictures. Awards
also would favour big films' producers—Fox Films Corporation,
MGM, Paramount
Pictures, Radio-Keith-Orpheum
and Warner Brothers Production. Three categories (for Best Engineering Effects,
Best Title Writing and Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production)
disappeared after the ceremony budiness
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