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Best Films - 1929

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Ramon Novarro biography Beyond Paradise

Best Film

Eternal Love
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hanns Kräly; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hanns 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

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

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

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

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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