1st Academy Awards (1928)
The 1st Academy Awards honored the best films released between 1927 and 1928.
The award ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
"Wings" won the Best Picture Award.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Wings
- Lucien Hubbard
The Racket
- Howard Hughes
Seventh Heaven
- William Fox
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Last Command
- Emil Jannings
The Way of All Flesh
- Emil Jannings
The Noose
- Richard Barthelmess
The Patent Leather Kid
- Richard Barthelmess
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Seventh Heaven
- Janet Gaynor
Street Angel
- Janet Gaynor
Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans
- Janet Gaynor
A Ship Comes In
- Louise Dresser
Sadie Thompson
- Gloria Swanson
Best Art Direction
The Dove
- William Cameron Menzies
Tempest
- William Cameron Menzies
Seventh Heaven
- Harry Oliver
Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans
- Rochus Gliese
Best Cinematography
Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans
- Charles Rosher, Karl Struss
The Devil Dancer
- George Barnes
The Magic Flame
- George Barnes
Sadie Thompson
- George Barnes
Academy Honorary Award
The Circus
- Charlie Chaplin
The Jazz Singer
- Warner Brothers
Best Writing Adaptations
Seventh Heaven
- Benjamin Glazer
Glorious Betsy
- Anthony Coldeway
The Jazz Singer
- Alfred A. Cohn
Best Writing, Original
Underworld
- Ben Hecht
The Last Command
- Lajos Biro
Unique and Artistic Production
Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans
- William Fox
Chang - A Drama of the Wilderness
- Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
The Crowd
- Irving Thalberg
Best Engineering Effects
Wings
- Roy Pomeroy
Ralph Hammeras
Nugent Slaughter
Best Director, Comedy Picture
Two Arabian Knights
- Lewis Milestone
Speedy
- Ted Wilde
Best Director, Dramatic Picture
Seventh Heaven
- Frank Borzage
Sorrell and Son
- Herbert Brenon
The Crowd
- King Vidor
Best Writing, Title Writing
The Red Mill
- Joseph Farnham
The Magic Flame
- George Marion, Jr.
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
- Gerald Duffy