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1928-29 (2nd Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners

Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1928-29. TheWinner marker&origin=noms-by-year symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film or person in the list to display more information about that film or person. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.

Outstanding Picture

Alibi, Art Cinema; United Artists.
Winner markerThe Broadway Melody, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Hollywood Revue, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In Old Arizona, Fox.
The Patriot, Paramount Famous Lasky.

Best Actor

George Bancroft in Thunderbolt, Paramount Famous Lasky.
Winner markerWarner Baxter in In Old Arizona, Fox.
Chester Morris in Alibi, Art Cinema; United Artists.
Paul Muni in The Valiant, Fox.
Lewis Stone in The Patriot, Paramount Famous Lasky.

Best Actress

Ruth Chatterton in Madame X, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Betty Compson in The Barker, First National.
Jeanne Eagels in The Letter, Paramount Famous Lasky.
Corinne Griffith in The Divine Lady, First National.
Bessie Love in The Broadway Melody, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Winner markerMary Pickford in Coquette, Pickford; United Artists.

Directing

Lionel Barrymore for Madame X, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Harry Beaumont for The Broadway Melody, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Irving Cummings for In Old Arizona, Fox.
Winner markerFrank Lloyd for The Divine Lady, First National.
Frank Lloyd for Drag, First National, and Weary River, First National.
Ernst Lubitsch for The Patriot, Paramount Famous Lasky.
NOTE: Frank Lloyd was considered for his work on more than one picture, but the document signed by the Academy’s central board of judges singled out The Divine Lady as the basis for their award.

Art Direction

Hans Dreier, The Patriot, Paramount Famous Lasky.
Winner markerCedric Gibbons, The Bridge of San Luis Rey and other pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Mitchell Leisen, Dynamite, Pathe; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
William Cameron Menzies, Alibi, Art Cinema; United Artists; and The Awakening, Samuel Goldwyn Productions; United Artists.
Harry Oliver, Street Angel, Fox.

Cinematography

George Barnes, Our Dancing Daughters, Cosmopolitan; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Winner markerClyde De Vinna, White Shadows in the South Seas, Cosmopolitan; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Arthur Edeson, In Old Arizona, Fox.
Ernest Palmer, Four Devils, Fox; and Street Angel, Fox.
John Seitz, The Divine Lady, First National.

Writing

Tom Barry, In Old Arizona, Fox; and The Valiant, Fox.
Elliott Clawson, The Cop, DeMille Pictures; Pathe; The Leatherneck, Ralph Block; Pathe; Sal of Singapore, Pathe; and Skyscraper, DeMille Pictures; Pathe.
Hans Kraly, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Winner markerHans Kraly, The Patriot, Paramount Famous Lasky.
Josephine Lovett, Our Dancing Daughters, Cosmopolitan; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Bess Meredyth, A Woman of Affairs, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; and Wonder of Women, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
NOTE: Hans Kraly was considered for his work on more than one picture, but the document signed by the Academy’s central board of judges singled out The Patriot as the basis for their award.