Academy Awards®
Awards for 1928 - 1929


Production
Roland West - Producer, THE ALIBI
* Harry Rapt - Producer, THE BROADWAY MELODY
Harry Rapt - Producer, THE HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929
Winfield Sheehan - Studio Head, IN OLD ARIZONA
Ernst Lubitsch - Producer, THE PATRIOT

Actor
Paul Muni, THE VALIANT
Chester Morris, THE ALIBI
* Warner Baxter, IN OLD ARIZONA
George Bancroft, THUNDERBOLT
Lewis Stone, THE PATRIOT

Actress
Ruth Chatterton, MADAME X
Betty Compson, THE BARKER
Jeanne Eagels, THE LETTER
Bessie Love, THE BROADWAY MELODY
* Mary Pickford, COQUETTE


Director
Lionel Barrymore, MADAME X
Harry Beaumont, THE BROADWAY MELODY
Irving Cummings, IN OLD ARIZONA
* Frank Lloyd, THE DIVINE LADY
Frank Lloyd, WEARY RIVER
Frank Lloyd, DRAG
Ernst Lubitsch, THE PATRIOT

Writing - Achievement
Rules changed in 1928: Writing - Original Story and Adaptation consolidated into Achievement.
Tom Barry, IN OLD ARIZONA
Elliott Clawson, THE LEATHERNECK
Josephine Lovett, OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS
* Hans Kraly, THE PATRIOT
Tom Barry, THE VALIANT
Beth Meredyth, WONDER OF WOMEN

Writing - Achievement
(see Original Screenplay category)

Art Direction
* Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Mitchell Leisen - Art Direction, DYNAMITE
Cedric Gibbons - Art Direction, THE HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929
William Cameron Menzies - Art Direction, THE IRON MASK
Hans Dreier - Art Direction, THE PATRIOT
Harry Oliver - Art Direction, STREET ANGEL

Cinematography
John F. Seitz, THE DIVINE LADY
Ernest G. Palmer, FOUR DEVILS
Arthur Edeson, IN OLD ARIZONA
George Barnes, OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS
Ernest G. Palmer, STREET ANGEL
* Clyde DeVinna, WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS

Honorary and Other Awards
No award given for 1928-1929.