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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