A Little Housekeeping: Katie Award Nominees For The Silent Era (Movies Released Prior To August 1, 1927)

I've decided for future Katie Awards, rather than announce the winners first and then write essays about them after, I'll announce the nominees first and then write essays as I announce each winner. Which makes sense, but I am slow to figure these things out.

For those of you keeping score at home, these were the Katie Award nominees for Career Achievement during the Silent Era. I'll list the nominees for 1927-28 (even though you've already seen the winners and we're half way through the essays) in my next post.

PICTURE:
Battleship Potemkin
The Big Parade
The General
The Gold Rush
Metropolis
Nosferatu
The Thief Of Bagdad

ACTOR:
John Barrymore
Lon Chaney
Charles Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
John Gilbert
Emil Jannings
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Rudolph Valentino

ACTRESS:
Theda Bara
Clara Bow
Greta Garbo
Lillian Gish
Mary Pickford
Gloria Swanson
Norma Talmadge

DIRECTOR:
Buster Keaton
Charles Chaplin
Sergei Eisenstein
D.W. Griffith
Fritz Lang
F.W. Murnau
King Vidor
Erich von Stroheim

In case you've forgotten who won or never knew, you can click this link.