1st Academy Awards
Held in 1929 · 8 categories
Best Picture
- Winner Wings
- Nominee Seventh Heaven
- Nominee The Racket
Best Actor
- Winner The Last Command · Emil Jannings
- Winner The Way of All Flesh · Emil Jannings
- Nominee Alibi · Chester Morris
- Nominee The Circus · Charlie Chaplin
- Nominee The Noose · Richard Barthelmess
- Nominee The Patent Leather Kid · Richard Barthelmess
- Nominee The Patriot · Lewis Stone
- Nominee The Valiant · Paul Muni
- Nominee Thunderbolt · George Bancroft
Best Actress
- Winner Seventh Heaven · Janet Gaynor
- Winner Street Angel · Janet Gaynor
- Winner Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans · Janet Gaynor
- Nominee A Ship Comes In · Louise Dresser
- Nominee Coquette · Mary Pickford
- Nominee Madame X · Ruth Chatterton
- Nominee Sadie Thompson · Gloria Swanson
- Nominee The Barker · Betty Compson
- Nominee The Broadway Melody · Bessie Love
- Nominee The Divine Lady · Corinne Griffith
- Nominee The Letter · Jeanne Eagels
Best Director
- Winner Seventh Heaven · Frank Borzage
- Winner Two Arabian Knights · Lewis Milestone
- Nominee Drag · Frank Lloyd
- Nominee In Old Arizona · Irving Cummings
- Nominee Madame X · Lionel Barrymore
- Nominee Sorrell and Son · Herbert Brenon
- Nominee Speedy · Ted Wilde
- Nominee The Broadway Melody · Harry Beaumont
- Nominee The Circus · Charlie Chaplin
- Nominee The Crowd · King Vidor
- Nominee The Patriot · Ernst Lubitsch
- Nominee Weary River · Frank Lloyd
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Seventh Heaven · Benjamin Glazer
- Nominee Glorious Betsy · Anthony Coldeway
- Nominee The Jazz Singer · Alfred A. Cohn
Best Cinematography
- Winner Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans · Charles Rosher, Karl Struss
- Nominee Sadie Thompson · George Barnes
- Nominee The Devil Dancer · George Barnes
- Nominee The Magic Flame · George Barnes
Best Production Design
- Winner The Dove · William Cameron Menzies
- Nominee Seventh Heaven · Harry Oliver
- Nominee Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans · Rochus Gliese
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Wings · Roy Pomeroy