Alternate Oscars—1888 to 1909

1888 - 1901

Early Film Pioneers (vote for three)

Louis Le Prince (1888) (first movie camera)

Charles-Émile Reynaud (1892) (first use of sprockets to advance perforated film)

Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope (1894) (first movie ticket sold)

Professor Henry Welton's Boxing Cats (1894) (first cat video)

Auguste and Louis Lumière (1895) (first to exhibit movies to a theater full of paying customers)

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1902

Best Picture of 1902

Jack and the Beanstalk

The Little Match Seller

★ A Trip to the Moon a.k.a. Le voyage dans la lune

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Best Director of 1902

★ Georges Méliès (A Trip to the Moon a.k.a. Le voyage dans la lune)

Edwin S. Porter and George S. Fleming (Jack and the Beanstalk)

James Williamson (The Little Match Seller)

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1903

Best Picture of 1903

Alice in Wonderland

★ The Great Train Robbery

The Infernal Cauldron

Life of an American Fireman

The Passion Play a.k.a. La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ

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Best Director of 1903

Cecil M. Hepworth and Percy Stow (Alice in Wonderland)

★ Edwin S. Porter (The Great Train Robbery)

Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet (The Passion Play a.k.a. La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ)

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1904

Best Picture of 1904

An Impossible Voyage

An Interesting Story

The Living Playing Cards

The Mermaid

★ Westinghouse Works

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Best Director of 1904

★ G.W. "Billy" Bitzer (Westinghouse Works)

Georges Méliès (An Impossible Voyage, The Living Playing Cards, The Mermaid and other short films)

James Williamson (An Interesting Story)

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1905

Best Picture of 1905

★ Alice Guy's synchronized sound experiments including Lilas Blanc, In a Bamboo Hut, Five O'Clock Tea and Dranem Performs "The True Jiu-Jitsu"

The Black Imp

The Night Before Christmas

Panorama from Times Building, New York

Rescued by Rover

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Best Director of 1905

★ Alice Guy (various synchronized sound experiments including Lilas Blanc, In a Bamboo Hut, Five O'Clock Tea and Dranem Performs "The True Jiu-Jitsu")

Cecil M. Hepworth and Lewin Fitzhamon (Rescued by Rover)

Edwin S. Porter (The Night Before Christmas)

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1906

Best Picture of 1906

The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ a.k.a. La vie du Christ

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire and San Francisco: Aftermath of an Earthquake

★ The Story of the Kelly Gang

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Best Director of 1906

Alice Guy (The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ a.k.a. La vie du Christ)

Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon (Dream of a Rarebit Fiend)

★ Charles Tait (The Story of the Kelly Gang)

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1907

Best Picture of 1907

The Dancing Pig a.k.a. Le cochon danseur

The Haunted Hotel

On the Barricade a.k.a. L'émeute a.k.a. L'enfant de la barricade

★ The Red Spectre a.k.a. Le spectre rouge

Tunneling the English Channel a.k.a. Le tunnel sous la manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais

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Best Director of 1907

★ Segundo de Chomón and Ferdinand Zecca (The Red Spectre, The Golden Beetle and other short subjects)

Alice Guy (On the Barricade, The Race for the Sausage and other short subjects)

Georges Méliès (Tunneling the English Channel, The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon and other short subjects)

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1908

Best Picture of 1908

The Electric Hotel

★ Fantasmagorie

The Gold Spider

The Thieving Hand

Troubles of a Grass Widower

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Best Director of 1908

J. Stuart Blackton (The Thieving Hand)

★ Émile Cohl (Fantasmagorie and other animated short films)

Segundo de Chomón (The Electric Hotel and The Gold Spider)

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1909

Best Picture of 1909

★ The D.W. Griffith Biograph Short Films (A Corner in Wheat, The Country Doctor, The Lonely Villa and others)

Le locataire diabolique a.k.a. The Devilish Tenant

Moscou sous la neige a.k.a. Moscow Clad in Snow

Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves a.k.a. Slippery Jim

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy

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Best Director of 1909

J. Stuart Blackton (Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy)

★ D.W. Griffith (The D.W. Griffith Biograph Short Films)

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller (Moscou sous la neige a.k.a. Moscow Clad in Snow)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

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