Best Films – 1926

Mary Pickford in Sparrows
FILM
Dancing Mothers
d: Herbert Brenon; scr: Forrest Halsey
Don Juan
d: Alan Crosland; scr: Bess Meredyth; titles: Walter Anthony, Maude Fulton
Kid Boots
d: Frank Tuttle; scr: Luther Reed, Tom Gibson; titles: George Marion Jr.
The Scarlet Letter
d: Victor Sjöström (aka Victor Seastrom); scr: Frances Marion
The Show
d: Tod Browning; scr: Waldemar Young; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
Sparrows
d: William Beaudine; scr: C. Gardner Sullivan; titles: George Marion Jr.
The Volga Boatman
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
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You Never Know Women
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Benjamin Glazer
Old Ironsides
d: James Cruze; scr: Dorothy Arzner, Harry Carr, Walter Woods; titles: Rupert Hughes
Mare Nostrum
d: Rex Ingram; scr: Willis Goldbeck
Tell It to the Marines
d: George Hill; scr: Richard Schayer; titles: Joseph W. Farnham
ACTOR
John Barrymore
Don Juan
Eddie Cantor
Kid Boots
John Gilbert
The Show
William Haines
Tell It to the Marines
Werner Krauss
Nana

Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter
ACTRESS
Renée Adorée
The Show
Lillian Gish
The Scarlet Letter
Alice Joyce
Dancing Mothers
Beatrice Lillie
Exit Smiling
Colleen Moore
Ella Cinders
Colleen Moore
Irene
Mary Pickford
Sparrows
Florence Vidor
You Never Know Women
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Noah Beery
Beau Geste
Douglas Gilmore
Paris
Owen Moore
The Blackbird
William Powell
Beau Geste
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Sparrows
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Gertrude Astor
The Strong Man
Gertrude Short
The Show
Alice Terry
Mare Nostrum

Greta Garbo, John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil
CINEMATOGRAPHY
William H. Daniels
Flesh and the Devil
Arthur Edeson
The Bat
Alfred Gilks
Old Ironsides
Byron Haskins
Don Juan
J. Roy Hunt
Beau Geste
Roy Overbaugh
Nell Gwynne
Hendrik Sartov
La Bohème
Hendrik Sartov
The Scarlet Letter
John F. Seitz
Mare Nostrum
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Tags: Alan Crosland, Alice Terry, Best Films, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, Don Juan, Flesh and the Devil, Florence Vidor, Frances Marion, George Hill, Gertrude Astor, John Barrymore, John Gilbert, Kid Boots, Lillian Gish, Mare Nostrum, Mary Pickford, Renée Adorée, Rex Ingram, Silent Films, Sparrows, Tell It to the Marines, The Scarlet Letter, The Show, The Volga Boatman, Victor Sjöström
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