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The 1st Academy Awards | 1929. Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Thursday, May 16, 1929. Honoring movies released from August 1, 1927 - August 1, 1928.
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Academy Award for best director, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honours outstanding achievement by a director in a movie from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. At the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, the award recognized the work in films from 1927–28, and it was offered in two categories: drama and comedy. However, the two Oscars were subsequently combined into one award that covered all genres. In addition, beginning with the seventh ceremony (1935), only work in movies released the previous year was eligible for consideration. The winning directors are given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar.
John Ford has won the most Academy Awards for best director (four), and Frank Capra and William Wyler each have received three. Other notable recipients include Kathryn Bigelow, who is the first woman to earn the award (2010), and Chloé Zhao, the first director of colour to win (2021). Below is a list of the winning directors and the films for which they won. The year is when the award was presented.
•1929: best drama: Frank Borzage (7th Heaven [1927]); best comedy: Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights [1927])
•1930: Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady [1928])
•1931: Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front [1930])
•1932: Norman Taurog (Skippy [1931])
•1933: Frank Borzage (Bad Girl [1931])
•1934: Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade [1933])
•1940: Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)
•1941: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
•1942: John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)
•1943: William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)
•1944: Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
•1945: Leo McCarey (Going My Way)
•1960: William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
•1961: Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
•1962: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)
•1963: David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
•1964: Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)
•1965: George Cukor (My Fair Lady)
•1980: Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
•1981: Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
•1982: Warren Beatty (Reds)
•1983: Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)
•1984: James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
•1985: Milos Forman (Amadeus)
•2000: Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
•2001: Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
•2002: Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
•2003: Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
•2004: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
•2005: Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
•2020: Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite)
•2021: Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
•2022: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
•2023: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 12, 2023 · Joseph Farnham won the first and only Academy Award for title writing in 1929. Courtesy of AMPAS. The first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 honored winners in just 13 categories. Some...
Herman Rosse, Best Art Direction winner. Nominees were announced on September 19, 1930. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. [3] [4] Multiple nominations and awards [ edit] See also [ edit] 1929 in film. 1930 in film. References [ edit] ^ Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac.
- November 5, 1930
- All Quiet on the Western Front and The Big House (2)
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1928/29 (2nd) ART DIRECTION. Hans Dreier -- The Patriot. [NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable...
Mayer asked Cedric Gibbons, art director of MGM, to design an Academy Award trophy. [8] [10] Nominees were notified through a telegram in February 1928. [8] In August 1928, Mayer contacted the Academy Central Board of Judges to decide winners. [8]
