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- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest GarciaThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.[HONORARY AWARD]
*SPECIAL AWARD*
To Charles Chaplin, for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus. - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsEmil JanningsLewis StoneFlorence VidorPaul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.[BEST PICTURE]
*WRITING -- Hans Kraly - DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.[BEST PICTURE]
*ACTOR -- Warner Baxter - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsThomas MeighanLouis WolheimMarie PrevostAn honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.[BEST PICTURE]
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie KingstonA woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.*ACTRESS -- Janet Gaynor
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam PowellA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.*ACTOR -- Emil Jannings
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithVictor VarconiH.B. WarnerThe story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.*DIRECTOR -- Frank Lloyd
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeRobert J. FlahertyStarsMonte BlueRaquel TorresRobert AndersonAn alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.*CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Clyde De Vinna
- DirectorSam TaylorLewis MilestoneViktor TourjanskyStarsJohn BarrymoreCamilla HornLouis WolheimIn Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.*ART DIRECTION -- George Barnes
- DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanJames MurrayBert RoachThe life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsLionel BarrymoreBlanche FridericiCharles LaneA prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsJoan CrawfordJohnny Mack BrownNils AstherA flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.Nominated for 2 Oscars.
- DirectorTed WildeStarsHarold LloydAnn ChristyBert WoodruffHarold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboJohn GilbertLewis StoneWhen two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessMontagu LoveRobert Emmett O'ConnorA crook blackmails a governor because he knows of the governor's wife's dark past.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsJanet GaynorMary DuncanCharles MortonFour orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.Nominated for 1 Oscar
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsMilton SillsDorothy MackaillBetty CompsonA carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsWilliam BoydAlan HaleJacqueline LoganPete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsVilma BánkyWalter ByronLouis WolheimIn Alsace just before the World War, beautiful, virtuous peasant Marie Ducrot, who falls in love with Count Karl von Hagen--a lieutenant in the German Army--is seen visiting Karl in his quarters, and an angry mob of townspeople hurl stones and curses at her. Marie, mistakenly reported dead, becomes a novice in a religious order. War breaks out, and von Hagen is injured in fighting near Marie's convent; he is cared for by Marie and persuades her to return to Germany with him. Le Bête, a French Army sergeant of their acquaintance, helps them to reach the German lines and safety. Le Bête is killed by a sniper's bullet, and Marie and Karl prepare for a brighter future.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsPhyllis HaverAlan HaleFred KohlerSailors find a baby in a rowboat and head to shore to find a woman who knows how to care for it.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsWilliam BoydAlan HaleSue CarolA man pretends to be interested in his fellow steel worker's sweetheart, in order to help the man recover his spirit and come out of depression.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsDolores CostelloConrad NagelJohn MiljanThe real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union and fixes him up with another girl.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsRudolph SchildkrautLouise DresserMilton HolmesAn immigrant family experiences life in the United States.Nominated for 1 Oscar.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.*Top Rated Movies*
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsLillian GishLars HansonMontagu LoveA frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.