1st Academy Awards

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The 1st Academy Awards was the inaugural ceremony of the Oscars, honoring outstanding film achievements for the 1927–1928 period and establishing the foundation for the modern Academy Awards tradition.

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1st Academy Awards canonical 6
First Academy Awards 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Academy Awards ceremony
award ceremony
alsoKnownAs 1929 Academy Awards
1st Academy Awards
surface form: First Academy Awards
awardFor Excellence in cinematic achievements
awardsAnnouncedInAdvance yes
bestActorWinner Emil Jannings
bestActorWinningRole The Last Command (1955 film)
surface form: The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh
bestActressWinner Janet Gaynor
bestActressWinningRole Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
bestDirectorComedyPictureFilm Two Arabian Knights
bestDirectorComedyPictureWinner Lewis Milestone
bestDirectorDramaticPictureFilm Seventh Heaven
bestDirectorDramaticPictureWinner Frank Borzage
bestPictureWinner Wings
broadcastOnRadio no
ceremonyType private dinner banquet
city Hollywood
Los Angeles
country United States of America
surface form: United States

United States of America
currencyOfTicketPrice US dollar
date 1929-05-16
designerOfStatuette Cedric Gibbons
duration about 15 minutes
establishedTradition modern Academy Awards format
firstTelevised no
followedBy 2nd Academy Awards
honoredFilmPeriodEnd 1928-07-31
honoredFilmPeriodStart 1927-08-01
honoredFilmYears 1927–1928
host Douglas Fairbanks
William C. deMille
surface form: William C. DeMille
industry film industry
language English
location Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
mainAwardNameAtTime Academy Award
surface form: Academy Award of Merit
numberOfGuests 270
officialName 1st Academy Awards self-link
organizer Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
outstandingPictureWinner Wings
presentedBy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
sculptorOfStatuette George Stanley
sequenceInSeries 1
state California, United States
surface form: California
statuetteNickname Oscar
ticketPrice 5
uniqueAndArtisticPictureWinner Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
venue Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
surface form: Blossom Room, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
year 1929

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1st Academy Awards officialName 1st Academy Awards self-link
1st Academy Awards alsoKnownAs 1st Academy Awards
this entity surface form: First Academy Awards
Seventh Heaven partOf 1st Academy Awards
Academy Awards statuette firstAwardedAt 1st Academy Awards
The Crowd academyAwardsYear 1st Academy Awards
Wings academyAwardsCeremony 1st Academy Awards