Oscar Rewrite: 1927/28

 

Best Picture: Wings / Sunrise       The General

Best Director: Frank Borzage (7th Heaven)   King Vidor (The Crowd)

Best Actor: Emil Jannings (The Last Command, Way of All Flesh) Al Jolson (The Jazz Singer)

Best Actress: Janet Gaynor (Sunrise)

Best Original Screenplay: Underworld   Sunrise

Best Adapted Screenplay: 7th Heaven   Metropolis

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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