Best Films – 1929

Alexandra Schmidt in Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness
FILM
Eternal Love
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hans Kräly, Claudine West
The Love Parade
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton
Lucky Star
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Sonya Levien; dialogue: John Hunter Booth; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker
Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück / Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness
d: Piel Jutzi; scr: Willy Döll, Jan Fethke
On With the Show
d: Alan Crosland; scr: Robert Lord
The Pagan
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Dorothy Farnum; titles: John Howard Lawson
The River
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Philip Klein, Dwight Cummings
The Thirteenth Chair
d: Tod Browning; scr: Elliott Clawson
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The Divine Lady
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Forrest Halsey, Agnes Christine Johnston; titles: Harry Carr, Edwin Justus Mayer
The Trial of Mary Dugan
d: Bayard Veiller; scr: Becky Gardner
Weary River
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Bradley King; titles: Paul Perez

Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Janis in The Pagan
ACTOR
Ronald Colman
The Rescue
Charles Farrell
Lucky Star
Charles Farrell
The River
Jean Hersholt
The Younger Generation
Ramon Novarro
The Pagan
Basil Rathbone
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
H. B. Warner
The Trial of Mary Dugan

Corinne Griffith
ACTRESS
Betty Compson
On With the Show
Mary Duncan
The River
Janet Gaynor
Lucky Star
Corinne Griffith
The Divine Lady
Camilla Horn
Eternal Love
Laura La Plante
The Love Trap
Jeanette MacDonald
The Love Parade
Alexandra Schmidt
Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness
Norma Shearer
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Margaret Wycherly
The Thirteenth Chair
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Donald Crisp
The Pagan
Victor Varconi
Eternal Love
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Renée Adorée
The Pagan
Adrienne D’Ambricourt
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Louise Fazenda
On With the Show
Sally O’Neil
On With the Show
Mona Rico
Eternal Love
Rosa Rosanova
The Younger Generation

Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell in Lucky Star
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sepp Allgeier
Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen / Diary of a Lost Girl
Clyde de Vinna
The Pagan
Ernest Haller
Weary River
Robert B. Kurrle, Al M. Green
Evangeline
Chester Lyons, William Cooper Smith
Lucky Star
Oliver T. Marsh
Eternal Love
Victor Milner
The Love Parade
Hal Mohr
The Last Performance
Ernest Palmer
The River
John F. Seitz
The Divine Lady
MUSIC
Maurice Baron
The River
Nacio Herb Brown
The Pagan
Paul Dessau
Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness
Nathaniel Shilkret
The Divine Lady
Louis Silvers
Noah’s Ark

Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade
SONG SCORE
Victor Schertzinger, Clifford Grey
The Love Parade
Grant Clark, Harry Akst
On With the Show
SHORT FILM
The Opry House
d: Murray Roth
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