The History of the Academy Awards

The 1st Academy Awards - 1927/28

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 16, 1929. Since the winners were announced to the press on Monday, February 18, 1929 - three months early - the 250 people who attended the presentation in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel weren't anxious for the results to be announced. After a dinner of Filet of Sole Saute au Buerre and Half Broiled Chicken on Toast, Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille presented each winner with a statuette, The Academy Award of Merit.

Emil Jannings, the winner for best actor, did not attend the ceremony so that he could travel back to his home in Germany. Prior to his departure, he was given the statue and became the very first person to be given an Academy Award.

Picture (Production)

Wings

Picture (Unique and Artistic Production)	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Actor	Emil Jannings (The Last Command; The Way of All Flesh)
Actress	Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven; Street Angel; Sunrise)
Director	Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights)
Adapted Screenplay	Benjamin Glazer (Seventh Heaven)
Original Story	Ben Hecht (Underworld)
Cinematography	Sunrise
Interior Decoration	The Dove The Tempest

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History of the Academy Awards

1927-28 1928-29 1929-30 1930-31 1931-32 1932-33 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943

1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975

1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

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