What year were the first awards offered, how many were offered, and what were they?

The first Oscars were presented May 16, 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Calif.

Best Picture---Wings (Paramount Famous Lasky)

Artistic Quality of Production---Sunrise (Fox)

Best Actor---Emil Jannings, The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh

Best Actress---Janet Gaynor, 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise

Best Director, Drama---Frank Borzage, 7th Heaven

Best Director, Comedy---Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights

Best Writing, Adaptation---Benjamin Glazer, 7th Heaven

Best Original Screenplay---Ben Hecht, Underworld

Best Title Writing---Joseph Farnham

Best Cinematography---Charles Rosher, Sunrise
Karl Struss, Sunrise

Best Art Direction---William Cameron Menzies, The Dove and Tempest

Best Engineering Effects---Roy Pomeroy, Wings

Special Oscars---To Warner Bros. for producing The Jazz Singer, the outstanding pioneer talking picture, which revolutionized the industry

To Charles Chaplin for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus

And they weren't called "Oscars" until 1931...


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My book only has four awards listed. I feel gipped!

Good job, Decal.