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Who won the very first Oscar actually handed over first on the first ever Oscar night?
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And what was it for?
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| vultan answers: No one seems to say. The best I could do was find out that iut was hosted by Doglas Fairbanks.
There's a list of winners here:
http://www.filmsite.org/aa27.html
They didn't start filming the event til rather later, so maybe no one even knows what order they were presented in? 3 years ago / reply
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| xoloriib answers: It doesn't actually say who got what first but here's the list and a couple of links :
Best Picture (Production): Wings
Best Picture (Artistic Quality of Production): Sunrise
Best Actor: Emil Jennings (The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command)
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise)
Best Director (Drama): Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven)
Best Director (Comedy): Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Nights)
Best Writing (Original story): Ben Hecht (Underworld)
Best Writing (Adaptation): Benjamin Glazer (Seventh Heaven)
Best Writing (Title Cards): Joseph Farnham (Fair Co-Ed, Laugh Clown, Laugh, Telling the World)
Best Cinematography: Charles Rosher/Karl Struss (Sunrise)
Best Engineering Effects: Roy Pomeroy (Wings)
Art Direction: William Cameron Menzies (The Dove, The Tempest)
http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/film_articles/first_academy_awards...
http://classicfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_first_academy_award_ceremony 3 years ago / reply
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