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• ACADEMY • MERIT AWARDS
1927 — 1930
Awards for 1931-32 are listed on page 37
1927 1928
ACTRESS— Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise* ACTOR— Emil Jannings (Way of All Flesh. Last Command*
DIRECTORS— Frank Borzage 'Seventh Heaven). Lewis Milestone. (Two Arabian Knights) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS— Wings (Paramount*; Sunrise (Fox* CINEMATOGRAPHY— Charle Rosher and Karl Sfruss (Sunrise) ART DIRECTION— William Cameron Menzies (Tempest. The Dove) WRITING ACHIEVEMENTS— Ben Hecht (Underworld); Benjamin Glazer (Seventh Heaven*
TITLE WRITING — Joseph W. Farnham (Telling the World, Fair Co-ed* ENGINEERING ACH I EVEM ENT— Roy J. Pomeroy (Wings)
FOR MARKING AN EPOCH IN MOTION PICTURE H ISTORY— Warner Bros, for producing The Jazz Singer
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1928 1929
ACTRESS— Mary Pickford (Coquette)
ACTOR— Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona*
DIRECTION— Frank Lloyd (Weary River, Divine Lady. Drag)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— The Broadway Melody I Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) CINEMATOGRAPHY— Clyde DeVinna (White Shadows of the South Seas) ART DIRECTION— Cedric Gibbons (Bridge of San Luis Rey) WRITING— Hans Kraly (The Patriot)
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1929 1930
ACTRESS — Norma Shearer (The Divorcee* ACTOR — George Arliss (Disraeli*
DIRECTION— Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front* OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION— All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal* CINEMATOGRAPHY— Joseph T. Tucker and Willard Vander Veer (With Byrd at the South Pole)
ART DIRECTION— Herman Rosse (King of Jazz)
SOUND RECORDING— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio (The Big House) WRITING— Frances Marion (The Big House)
1930 1931
ACTRESS— Marie Dressier (Min and Bill))
ACTOR — Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
DIRECTION— Norman Taurog (Skippyl
BEST PRODUCED PICTURE— Cimarron (Radio Pictures*
ORIGINAL STORY— John Monk Saunders (Dawn Patrol)
ADAPTATION— Howard Estabrook (Cimarron)
CINEMATOGRAPHY— Floyd Crosby (Tabu)
ART DIRECTION— Max Ree (Cimarron)
SOUND RECORDING— Paramount
Scientific Achievements
NOISE REDUCTION RECORDING EQUIPMENT— Electrical Research Products. RCA
Photophone and RKO Radio Pictures SUPER-SENSITIVE PANCHROMATIC FILM— DuPont Film Mfg. Co. and Eastman Kodak
Co.
HONORABLE MENTION FOR SYNCHRO-PROJECTION COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHY— Fox Film Co.
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