Oscar Rewrite: 1928/29

 

Best Picture: The Broadway Melody   The Man with a Movie Camera

Best Director: Frank Lloyd (Divine Lady) Sergei Eisenstein (October: 10 Days that Shook the World)

Best Actor: Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona) Buster Keaton (Steamboat Bill Jr.)

Best Actress: Mary Pickford (Coquette) Maria Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

Best Screenplay: The Patriot The Passion of Joan of Arc

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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