My Own Alternate Oscars

[Matthew Reed]

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I did alternatives for the Oscars before (my what if they always had 10 noms list), but now I want to do a full alternative Oscars, a full year of nominations, based mostly on hindsight, of course.

I know I am not the first one to do this, especially on this site, but I wanted to do it anyway.

Here, I will recreate the first Academy Awards for films from 1927 and 1928.

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1st Academy Awards

Outstanding Picture

WINNER: Wings
– 7th Heaven
– The Circus
– The Last Command
– Sadie Thompson

Best Unique and Artistic Picture

WINNER: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
– The Crowd
– The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
– Metropolis
– The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Best Directing (Comedy Picture)

WINNER: Charles Chaplin for The Circus
– Paul Leni, The Cat and the Canary
– Sam Taylor, My Best Girl
– Ted Wilde, Speedy
– Charles Reisner, Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Best Direction (Dramatic Picture)

WINNER: F. W. Murnau for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
– Frank Borzage, 7th Heaven
– King Vidor, The Crowd
– Fritz Lang, Metropolis
– William A. Wellman, Wings

Best Actor

WINNER: Emil Jannings for The Last Command
– Charlie Chaplin, The Circus
– Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer
– Lon Chaney, Laugh, Clown, Laugh
– George O’Brien, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Best Actress

WINNER: Janet Gaynor for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
– Eleanor Boardman, The Crowd
– Brigitte Helm, Metropolis
– Mary Pickford, My Best Girl
– Gloria Swanson, Sadie Thompson

Best Writing (Original)

WINNER: The Crowd
– The Circus
– The Last Command
– Underworld
– Wings

Best Writing (Adaptation)

WINNER: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
– 7th Heaven
– The Love of Jeanne Ney
– Metropolis
– The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Best Art Direction

WINNER: Metropolis
– 7th Heaven
– The Crowd
– The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
– Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Best Cinematography

WINNER: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
– The Cat and the Canary
– The Crowd
– The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
– Metropolis

Best Engineering Effects

WINNER: Metropolis
– The Jazz Singer
– Steamboat Bill, Jr.
– Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
– Wings

HONORARY AWARDS
“To Warner Bros., for producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry”

Multiple Nominations:

1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (8 nominations)
2. Metropolis (7 nominations)
3. The Crowd (6 nominations)
4. 7th Heaven, The Circus, Wings (4 nominations)
7. The Last Command, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (3 nominations)
9. The Cat and the Canary, The Jazz Singer (not including the honorary award), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, My Best Girl, Sadie Thompson, Steamboat Bill Jr. (2 nominations)

Most Wins

– Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (5 wins)
– Metropolis (2 wins)

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I will do the 1928/1929 Oscars later.

• This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Matthew Reed.

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Nice.
The cinematography in Sunrise holds up even today.
Metropolis could be one of the 1st scifis cited. Ahhh Fritz Lang…

The Sunne in Splendour.
I prefer my roses white

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2nd Academy Awards

Outstanding Picture

WINNER: THE WIND
– Beggars of Life
– The Cameraman
– The Docks of New York
– The Iron Mask
– Lonesome
– The Man Who Laughs
– The Passion of Joan of Arc
– Street Angel
– The Wedding March

Best Director

WINNER: CARL TH. DREYER from THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
– Edward Sedgwick, The Cameraman
– Josef von Sternberg, The Docks of New York
– Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs
– Victor Sjostrom, The Wind

Best Actor

WINNER: CONRAD VEIDT from THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
– Buster Keaton, The Cameraman
– George Bancroft, The Docks of New York
– Warner Baxter, In Old Arizona
– Douglas Fairbanks, The Iron Mask
– Erich von Stroheim, The Wedding March

Best Actress

WINNER: RENEE MARIA FALCONETTI from THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
– Bessie Love, The Broadway Melody
– Corinne Griffith, The Divine Lady
– Jeanne Eagles, The Letter
– Greta Garbo, The Mysterious Lady
– Lilian Gish, The Wind

Best Writing

WINNER: THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK
– L’Argent
– Beggars of Life
– The Cameraman
– The Iron Mask
– Lonesome
– The Man Who Laughs
– Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors
– Our Dancing Daughters
– Show People
– Street Angel
– The Wind

Best Art Direction

WINNER: THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
– Aelita, the Queen of Mars
– The Docks of New York
– Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror
– Street Angel
– The Wind

Best Cinematography

WINNER: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
– Abel Gance’s Napoleon
– The Docks of New York
– Street Angel
– White Shadows in the South Seas
– The Wind

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3rd Academy Awards

Outstanding Production

WINNER: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
– Anna Christie
– Applause
– The Big House
– City Girl
– The Divorcee
– Hallelujah
– The Love Parade
– Lucky Star
– Pandora’s Box

Best Director

WINNER: LEWIS MILESTONE for ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
– Rouben Mamoulian, Applause
– F. W. Murnau, City Girl
– Ernst Lubitsch, The Love Parade
– G. W. Pabst, Pandora’s Box

Best Actor

WINNER: MAURICE CHEVALIER for THE LOVE PARADE
– Lew Ayres, All Quiet on the Western Front
– Wallace Beery, The Big House
– Ronald Colman, Bulldog Drummond
– George Arliss, Disraeli

Best Actress

WINNER: NORMA SHEARER for THE DIVORCEE
– Greta Garbo, Anna Christie
– Janet Gaynor, Lucky Star
– Louise Brooks, Pandora’s Box
– Gloria Swanson, The Trespasser

Best Writing

WINNER: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
– The Big House
– A Cottage on Dartmoor
– Hallelujah
– Lucky Star

Best Sound Recording

WINNER: APPLAUSE
– All Quiet on the Western Front
– The Big House
– Hell’s Angels
– The Love Parade

Best Art Direction

WINNER: KING OF JAZZ
– Asphalt
– A Cottage on Dartmoor
– The Love Parade
– Pandora’s Box

Best Cinematography

WINNER: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
– City Girl
– Hell’s Angels
– The Love Parade
– With Byrd at the South Pole

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4th Academy Awards

Outstanding Production

WINNER: THE PUBLIC ENEMY
– Animal Crackers
– The Big Trail
– City Lights
– The Dawn Patrol
– A Free Soul
– Min and Bill
– The Miracle Woman
– Morocco
– Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Best Director

WINNER: WILLIAM A. WELLMAN for THE PUBLIC ENEMY
– Charlie Chaplin, City Lights
– Howard Hawks, The Dawn Patrol
– Josef von Sternberg, Morocco
– F. W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Best Actor

WINNER: JAMES CAGNEY for THE PUBLIC ENEMY
– Charlie Chaplin, City Lights
– Bela Lugosi, Dracula
– Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul
– Edward G. Robinson, Little Caesar

Best Actress

WINNER: MARLENE DIETRICH for MOROCCO
– Norma Shearer, A Free Soul
– Ann Harding, Holiday
– Marie Dressler, Min and Bill
– Barbara Stanwyck, The Miracle Woman

Best Original Story

WINNER: THE DAWN PATROL
– City Lights
– The Public Enemy
– Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
– Under the Roofs of Paris

Best Adaptation

WINNER: LE MILLION
– Animal Crackers
– The Criminal Code
– The Front Page
– Little Caesar

Best Sound Recording

WINNER: THE PUBLIC ENEMY
– Animal Crackers
– The Criminal Code
– The Dawn Patrol
– Le Million

Best Art Direction

WINNER: DRACULA
– Just Imagine
– Le Million
– Morocco
– Svengali

Best Cinematography

WINNER: TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS
– The Big Trail
– Le Million
– Morocco
– Svengali

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5th Academy Awards

Outstanding Production

WINNER: GRAND HOTEL
– Bad Girl
– The Champ
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
– Five Star Final
– Frankenstein
– A nous la Liberte
– Scarface, the Shame of the Nation
– Shanghai Express
– The Smiling Lieutenant

Best Director

WINNER: JOSEF VON STERNBERG for SHANGHAI EXPRESS
– James Whale, Frankenstein
– Edmund Goulding, Grand Hotel
– Rene Clair, A nous la Liberte
– Howard Hawks, Scarface, the Shame of the Nation

Best Actor

WINNER: FREDRIC MARCH for DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
– Wallace Beery, The Champ
– Edward G. Robinson, Five Star Final
– John Barrymore, Grand Hotel
– Paul Muni, Scarface, the Shame of the Nation

Best Actress

WINNER: JOAN CRAWFORD for GRAND HOTEL
– Miriam Hopkins, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
– Jean Harlowe, Red-Headed Woman
– Marlene Dietrich, Shanghai Express
– Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Best Original Story

WINNER: A NOUS LA LIBERTE
– The Champ
– Horse Feathers
– Lady and Gent
– What Price Hollywood?

Best Adaptation

WINNER: SCARFACE, THE SHAME OF THE NATION
– Bad Girl
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
– Grand Hotel
– Shanghai Express

Best Cinematography

WINNER: SHANGHAI EXPRESS
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
– Frankenstein
– Scarface, the Shame of the Nation
– Wooden Cross

Best Art Direction

WINNER: FRANKENSTEIN
– Grand Hotel
– A nous la Liberte
– The Smiling Lieutenant
– Shanghai Express

Best Sound Recording

WINNER: FRANKENSTEIN
– A nous la Liberte
– Scarface, the Shame of the Nation
– The Smiling Lieutenant
– Tarzan the Ape Man

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6th Academy Awards

Outstanding Production

WINNER: KING KONG
– Dinner at Eight
– Duck Soup
– Gold Diggers of 1933
– I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
– The Invisible Man
– Little Women
– M
– The Private Life of Henry VIII
– Trouble in Paradise

Best Director

WINNER: FRITZ LANG for M
– Mervyn LeRoy, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
– Merian C. Cooper and Ernst B. Schoedsack, King Kong
– George Cukor, Little Women
– Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise

Best Actor

WINNER: PAUL MUNI for I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
– Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
– Claude Rains, The Invisible Man
– Peter Lorre, M
– Charles Laughton, The Private Life of Henry VIII

Best Actress

WINNER: KATHARINE HEPBURN for LITTLE WOMEN
– Barbara Stanwyck, Baby Face
– May Robson, Lady for a Day
– Mae West, She Done Him Wrong
– Kay Francis, Trouble in Paradise

Best Original Story

WINNER: DUCK SOUP
– King Kong
– Merrily We Go to Hell
– One Way Passage
– The Private Life of Henry VIII

Best Adaptation

WINNER: M
– Dinner at Eight
– I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
– Little Women
– Trouble in Paradise

Best Art Direction

WINNER: KING KONG
– Gold Diggers of 1933
– Island of Lost Souls
– M
– The Private Life of Henry VIII

Best Cinematography

WINNER: M
– A Farewell to Arms
– The Invisible Man
– King Kong
– Sign of the Cross

Best Sound Recording

WINNER: KING KONG
– 42nd Street
– A Farewell to Arms
– Gold Diggers of 1933
– I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

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7th Academy Awards

Outstanding Production

WINNER: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
– The Black Cat
– The Gay Divorcee
– Imitation of Life
– The Merry Widow
– Of Human Bondage
– Queen Christina
– The Scarlet Empress
– The Thin Man
– Twentieth Century

Best Director

WINNER: FRANK CAPRA for IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
– Ernst Lubitsch, The Merry Widow
– Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress
– W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man
– Carl Th. Dreyer, Vampyr

Best Actor

WINNER: CLARK GABLE for IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
– Fred Astaire, The Gay Divorcee
– Leslie Howard, Of Human Bondage
– William Powell, The Thin Man
– John Barrymore, Twentieth Century

Best Actress

WINNER: CLAUDETTE COLBERT for IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
– Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage
– Greta Garbo, Queen Christina
– Marlene Dietrich, The Scarlet Empress
– Myrna Loy, The Thin Man

Best Original Story

WINNER: QUEEN CHRISTINA
– Cleopatra
– Hide Out
– Manhattan Melodrama
– The Richest Girl in the World

Best Adaptation

WINNER: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
– The Gay Divorcee
– Of Human Bondage
– The Thin Man
– Twentieth Century

Best Scoring

WINNER: THE LOST PATROL
– Cleopatra
– The Gay Divorcee
– Lieutenant Kije
– One Night of Love

Best Song

WINNER: “THE CONTINENTAL” from THE GAY DIVORCEE
– “Needle in the Haystack”, The Gay Divorcee
– “Carioca”, Flying Down to Rio
– “Blue Moon (The Bad in Every Man)”, Manhattan Melodrama
– “Love in Bloom”, She Loves Me Not

Best Sound Recording

WINNER: THE LOST PATROL
– Cleopatra
– The Gay Divorcee
– One Night of Love
– The Thin Man

Best Art Direction

WINNER: THE SCARLET EMPRESS
– The Black Cat
– Cleopatra
– The Gay Divorcee
– The Merry Widow

Best Cinematography

WINNER: THE BLACK CAT
– Cleopatra
– It Happened One Night
– The Scarlet Empress
– Vampyr

Best Film Editing

WINNER: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
– Eskimo
– The Gay Divorcee
– The Lost Patrol
– The Thin Man

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2022

BEST PICTURE
WINNER: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
– Aftersun
– Babylon
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– The Fabelmans
– RRR
– TÁR
– Top Gun: Maverick
– Triangle of Sadness
– Women Talking

BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: STEVEN SPIELBERG for THE FABELMANS
– Charlotte Wells for Aftersun
– Martin McDonaugh for The Banshees of Inisherin
– The Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) for Everything Everwhere All At Once
– S. S. Rajamouli for RRR

BEST ACTOR
WINNER: PAUL MESCAL for AFTERSUN
– Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin
– Austin Butler for Elvis
– Bill Nighy for Living
– Bredan Fraser for The Whale

BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: MICHELLE YEOH for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
– Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans
– Mia Goth for Pearl
– Cate Blanchett for TÁR
– Danielle Deadwyler for Till

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: KE HUY QUAN for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
– Brendan Gleeson for The Banshees of Inisherin
– Barry Keoghan for The Banshees of Inisherin
– Brian Tyree Henry for Causeway
– Paul Dano for The Fabelmans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: DOLLY DE LEON for TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
– Kerry Condon for The Banshees of Inisherin
– Stephanie Hsu for Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Janelle Monáe for Glass Onion

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
– Everything Everywhere All At Once
– The Fabelmans
– Nope
– Triangle of Sadness

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: WOMEN TALKING
– All Quiet on the Western Front
– Glass Onion
– Living
– Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
– Inu-Oh
– Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
– Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
– Turning Red

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
WINNER: DECISION TO LEAVE
– All Quiet on the Western Front
– Argentina, 1985
– Close
– EO

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER: ALL THAT BREATHES
– All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
– Bad Axe
– Fire of Love
– Navalny

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
– Avatar: The Way of Water
– Babylon
– Everything Everywhere All At Once
– The Northman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: BABYLON
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– The Fabelmans
– Pearl
– Top Gun: Maverick

BEST FILM EDITING
WINNER: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
– Aftersun
– Decision to Leave
– TÁR
– Top Gun: Maverick

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: ELVIS
– Babylon
– The Batman
– Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
– Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
WINNER: THE WHALE
– All Quiet on the Western Front
– The Batman
– Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
– Crimes of the Future

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
– Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Nope
– RRR
– Top Gun: Maverick

BEST SOUND
WINNER: TOP GUN: MAVERICK
– All Quiet on the Western Front
– Avatar: The Way of Water
– Everything Everywhere All At Once
– The Batman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
WINNER: BABYLON
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– Everything Everywhere All At Once
– The Fabelmans
– RRR

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER: “NAATU NAATU” from RRR
– “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
– “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All At Once
– “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
– “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick

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