Production (Best Picture): Wings (Paramount), produced by Lucien Hubbard
Artistic Quality of Production: Sunrise (Fox)
Best Actor: Emil Jannings, The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh (both Paramount)
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise (all by Fox)
Director: Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven (Fox)
Comedy Director: Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights (UA)
Writing: Seventh Heaven, Benjamin Glazer
Original Story: Underworld, Ben Hecht
Title Writing: Telling the World, Joseph Farnham
Cinematography: Sunrise, Charles Rosher and Karl Struss
Interior Decoration: The Tempest, William Cameron Menzies
Engineering Effects: Wings, Roy Pomeroy
Special Awards:
Warner, for The Jazz Singer, the outstanding pioneer-talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry
Charles Chaplin, for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing, and producing The Circus.
Complete List of Nominees in All Categories
Best Picture
The Last Command: 3N, 1A
The Racket: 1N
Seventh Heaven: 5N, 3A
The Way of All Flesh: 2N, 1A
Wings: 2N, 2A
Best Actor
Emil Jannings, The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh
Richard Barthelmess, The Patent Leather Kid
Charlie Chaplin, The Circus
Best Actress
Janet Gaynor, Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise
Louise Dresser, A Ship Comes In
Gloria Swanson, Sadie Thompson
Best Director
Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven
Herbert Brenon, Sorrell and Son
King Vidor, The Crowd
Best Director Comedy
Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights
Charlie Chaplin, The Circus
Ted Wilde, Speedy
Writing (Adapted):
Benjamin Glazer, Seventh Heaven
Alfred Cohn, The Jazz Singer
Anthony Coldeway, Glorious Betsy
Writing (Original):
Ben Hecht, Underworld
Lajos Biro, The Last Command
Writing: Title
Joseph Farnham, Telling the World, The Fair Co-Ed, Laugh, Clown, Laugh Gerald Duffy, The Private Life of Helen of Troy George Marion, Jr. Oh Kay!
Cinematography
Charles Rosher and Karl Struss, Sunrise
George Barnes, The Devil Dancer, The Magic Flame, Sadie Thompson
Karl Struss, Drums of Love
Interior Decoration
William Cameron Menzies, The Dove, Tempest
Rochus Gliese, Sunrise
Harry Oliver, Seventh Heaven
Effects
Roy Pomeroy, Wings
Ralph Hammeras, The Private Life of Helen of Troy Nugent Slaughter, The Jazz Singer
