1st Academy Awards nominees and winners

Best Production

Winner : Wings
Nominees :
The Racket
Seventh Heaven

Best Artistic Quality of Production
Winner : Sunrise
The Crowd
Chang

Best Directing in a Dramatic Picture
Winner : Frank Borzage - Seventh Heaven
Nominees :
Herbert Brenon - Sorrell and Son
King Vidor - The Crowd

Best Directing in a Comedic Picture
Winner : Lewis Milestone - Two Arabian Knights
Nominees :
Ted Wilde - Speedy
Charles Chaplin - The Circus

Best Performance By An Actor
Winner : Emil Jannings - The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh
Nominees :
Richard Barthelmess - The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid

Best Performance By An Actress
Winner : Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise
Nominees :
Louise Dresser - A Ship Comes In
Gloria Swanson - Sadie Thompson

Adapted Screenplay
Winner : Benjamin Glazer - Seventh Heaven
Nominees :
Alfred A. Cohn - The Jazz Singer
Anthony Coldeway - Glorious Betsy

Original Screenplay
Winner : Ben Hecht - Underworld
Nominees :
Lajos Biró - The Last Command

Best Title Writing
Winner : Joseph Farnham
Nominees :
Gerald Duffy - The Private Life of Helen of Troy
George Marion, Jr.

Achievement In Art Direction
Winner : William Cameron Menzies - The Dove and Tempest
Nominees :
Rochus Gliese - Sunrise
Harry Oliver - Seventh Heaven

Achievement In Cinematography
Winner : Charles Rosher and Karl Struss - Sunrise
Nominees :
George Barnes - The Devil Dancer, The Magic Flame, and Sadie Thompson

Best Engineering Effects
Winner : Roy Pomeroy - Wings
Nominees :
Ralph Hammeras
Nugent Slaughter

Special honors

Academy Honorary Award

Charlie Chaplin, "for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus."
Warner Bros., "for producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry."