1927-28 Alternate Oscars

Let's call this the Great Reconciliation. No, not between the Republicans and the Democrats — as if! Even the Monkey's not that good!

No, this is the reconciliation between what I used to call the Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (read about them here) and my alternate Oscar polls. I stopped working on the former seven or eight years ago as I took up the latter and now the two lists have greatly diverged. So I'm reconciling the two.

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Follow the highlighted links to read about the movie or nominee in question.

1927-28
PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (prod. William Fox)
nominees: The Crowd (prod. Irving Thalberg); The Last Command (prod. Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor); Laugh, Clown, Laugh (prod. Herbert Brenon); The Man Who Laughs (prod. Paul Kohner); Wings (prod. Lucien Hubbard)

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: The Jazz Singer (prod. Warner Brothers)
nominees: The Cat and the Canary (prod. Paul Kohner); The Circus (prod. Charles Chaplin); My Best Girl (prod. Mary Pickford); Speedy (prod. Harold Lloyd); The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg (prod. Ernst Lubitsch)

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat) (prod. Alexandre Kamenka)
nominees: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City) (prod. Karl Freund); Oktyabr (October (Ten Days That Shook The World)) (prod. Sovkino); Spione (Spies) (prod. Erich Pommer)

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Lon Chaney (Laugh, Clown, Laugh)
nominees: Emil Jannings (The Last Command); Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Charles Chaplin (The Circus)
nominees: Al Jolson (The Jazz Singer); Harold Lloyd (Speedy); Albert Préjean (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat))

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven; Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans and Street Angel)
nominees: Eleanor Boardman (The Crowd); Gloria Swanson (Sadie Thompson)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Mary Pickford (My Best Girl)
nominees: Marion Davies (The Patsy); Norma Shearer (The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: F.W. Murnau (Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans)
nominees: Paul Leni (The Man Who Laughs); King Vidor (The Crowd); Josef von Sternberg (The Last Command); William A. Wellman (Wings)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Charles Chaplin (The Circus)
nominees: René Clair (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie a.k.a. An Italian Straw Hat); Paul Leni (The Cat And The Canary); Ernst Lubitsch (The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg); Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights); Ted Wilde (Speedy)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Lionel Barrymore (Sadie Thompson)
nominees: Gary Cooper (Wings); Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Spione); William Powell (The Last Command); Bert Roach (The Crowd)

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jean Hersholt (The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg)
nominees: Lucien Littlefield (The Cat and the Canary and My Best Girl); Tully Marshall (The Cat and the Canary)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Clara Bow (Wings)
nominees: Olga Baclanova (The Man Who Laughs); Evelyn Brent (Underworld and The Last Command); Gladys Brockwell (7th Heaven); Mary Philbin (The Man Who Laughs)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer)
nominees: Louise Brooks (A Girl In Every Port); Martha Mattox (The Cat and the Canary); Olga Tschechowa (Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat))

SCREENPLAY
winner: Herman J. Mankiewicz (titles) and John F. Goodrich (writer), from a story by Lajos Biró and Josef von Sternberg (The Last Command)
nominees: King Vidor and John V.A. Weaver; titles by Joseph Farnham (The Crowd); Elizabeth Meehan; titles by Joseph Farnham; from a play by David Belasco and Tom Cushing (Laugh, Clown, Laugh); Raoul Walsh; titles by C. Gardner Sullivan; from a story by W. Somerset Maugham (Sadie Thompson)

SPECIAL AWARDS
George Groves (The Jazz Singer) (Special Achievement In The Use Of Sound); "Toot Toot Tootsie" (The Jazz Singer) (Best Song); Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans) (Cinematography); Roy Pomeroy (Wings) (Special Effects)