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‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’: Expressionistic Classic Among Best Films of 1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Conrad Veidt Werner Krauss Lil DagoverThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Lil Dagover, Conrad Veidt, and Werner Krauss

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BEST FILM

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Conrad in Quest of His Youth

The Last of the Mohicans

The Mollycoddle

What Happened to Rosa?

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Tod Browning
Outside the Law

William C. de Mille
Conrad in Quest of His Youth

Victor Fleming
The Mollycoddle

Victor Schertzinger
What Happened to Rosa?

Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown
The Last of the Mohicans

Robert Wiene
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

 

BEST ACTOR

Douglas Fairbanks
The Mollycoddle

Werner Krauss
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Thomas Meighan
Conrad in Quest of His Youth

Thomas Meighan
Why Change Your Wife?

 

BEST ACTRESS

Barbara Bedford
The Last of the Mohicans

Bebe Daniels
Why Change Your Wife?

Mabel Normand
What Happened to Rosa?

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Richard Barthelmess
Way Down East

Lon Chaney
Outside the Law

Conrad Veidt
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

 

BEST SCREENPLAY

Robert Dillon
The Last of the Mohicans

Douglas Fairbanks and Thomas J. Geraghty
The Mollycoddle

Lucien Hubbard (screenplay), Gardner Bradford (titles)
Outside the Law

Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Mary Murillo and Melville Hammett
The Wonderful Chance

Olga Printzlau
Conrad in Quest of His Youth

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

G.W. Bitzer
The Love Flower

G.W. Bitzer, Charles Downs and Hendrik Sartov
Way Down East

Philip DuBois and Charles Van Enger
The Last of the Mohicans

Willy Hameister
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Charles Rosher
Pollyanna

L. Guy Wilky
Conrad in Quest of His Youth

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Photo of Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, and Conrad Veidt in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Decla Film-Gesellschaft.

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