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Hollywood, Calif.
THE FILM MERCURY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929
Page Three
Best Pictures and Performances of ’28
Best Pictures of the Year
AS SELECTED BY TAMAR LANE
“The Patriot.”
“The Racket.”
“The Barker.”
“Sadie Thompson.”
“The Wind.”
“Dressed to Kill.”
“Craig’s Wife.”
“Docks of New York.”
“Outcast.”
“The Spieler.”
TALKING PICTURES “In Old Arizona.”
“The Terror.”
“The Singing Fool.”
“On Trial.”
Best Performances of the Year
AS SELECTED BY TAMAR LANE
Emil Jannings in “The Patriot.”
Louis Wolheim in “The Racket.”
Betty Compson in “The Barker.”
Louise Dresser in “Mother Knows Best.” Marion Davies in “The Patsy.”
Joe E. Brown in “Hit of the Show.”
Jack Mulhall in “Waterfront.”
Earle Foxe in “Four Sons.”
Irene Rich in “Craig’s Wife.”
Colleen Moore in “Synthetic Sin.”
William Powell in “Interference.”
Warner Baxter in “In Old Arizona.”
Best Pictures of the Year
AS SELECTED BY ANABEL LANE
“The Patriot.”
“Docks of New York”
“The Last Command.”
“The Racket.”
“Sadie Thompson.”
“Dry Martini.”
“The Barker” (Silent Version).
“White Shadows in the South Seas.”
Best Performances of the Year
AS SELECTED BY ANABEL LANE
George Bancroft in “Docks of New York.”
Emil Jannings in “The Patriot.”
Albert Gran in “We Americans.”
Betty Compson in “Docks of New York.” Baclanova in “Street of Sin.”
Lewis Stone in “The Patriot.”
Louise Dresser in “Mother Knows Best.”
Gloria Swanson in “Sadie Thompson.”
Raoul Walsh in “Sadie Thompson.”
Marion Davies in “Show People.”
Earle Foxe in “Four Sons.”
Janet Gaynor in “The Street Angel.”
Laura LaPlante in “Finders Keepers.”
Skeets Gallagher in “Alex the Great.”
John Gilbert in “Masks of the Devil.”
Lars Hansen in “The Wind.”
Margaret Mann in “Four Sons.”
Best Pictures of the Year
AS SELECTED BY RICHARD WATTS JR.
“The End of St. Petersburg.”
“The Patriot.”
“The Last Command.”
“Ten Days That Shook The World.”
“The Man Who Laughs.”
“White Shadows in the South Seas.”
“The Wind.”
“The Big Noise.”
“The Crowd.”
“The Docks of New York.”
Best Performances of the Year
AS SELECTED BY RICHARD WATTS JR.
Alexis Danor in “The End of St. Petersburg.” Emil Jannings in “The Patriot.”
Chester Conklin in “The Big Noise.”
James Murray in “The Crowd.”
Janet Gaynor in “Street Angel.”
Charles Farrell in “The River.”
Anita Page in “Dancing Daughters.”
L. M. Leonidoff in “Czar Ivan the Terrible.” Olga Baclanova in “Streets of Sin.”
Richard Tucker in “On Trial.”
Davy Lee in “The Singing Fool.”