A Little More Housekeeping: Katie Award Nominees For 1927-28

Again, more housekeeping, retroactively listing the Katie Award nominees for 1927-28. The winners, in case you've forgotten, are here. I'll be back on track with my next blog entry, an essay about Jean Hersholt (and Gary Cooper).

PICTURE:
The Circus (prod. Charles Chaplin)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (prod. Herbert Brenon)
The Man Who Laughs (prod. Paul Kohner)
Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (prod. William Fox)
Wings (prod. Lucien Hubbard)

ACTOR:
Lon Chaney (Laugh, Clown, Laugh)
Charles Chaplin (The Circus)
Al Jolson (The Jazz Singer)
Harold Lloyd (Skippy)
Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs)

ACTRESS:
Eleanor Boardman (The Crowd)
Marion Davies (The Patsy)
Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven and Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans)
Mary Pickford (My Best Girl)
Gloria Swanson (Sadie Thompson)

DIRECTOR:
Charles Chaplin (The Circus)
F.W. Murnau (Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans)
William A. Wellman (Wings)

SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Lionel Barrymore (Sadie Thompson)
Gary Cooper (Wings)
Jean Hersholt (The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Clara Bow (Wings)
Gladys Brockwell (Seventh Heaven)
Mary Philbin (The Man Who Laughs)

SCREENPLAY:
King Vidor and John V.A. Weaver; titles by Joseph Farnham (The Crowd)
Elizabeth Meehan; titles by Joseph Farnham (Laugh, Clown, Laugh)
Raoul Walsh; titles by C. Gardner Sullivan (Sadie Thompson)