1927 in film

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Top Grossing Films of the Year
3 Academy Awards
4 Movies Released
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda.
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928.
October 6 - The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, is released. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer is the first big hit and popularizes sound motion pictures.
FOX Films acquires the rights to the Tri Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole.

Best Production: Wings
Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel

The General, starring Buster Keaton
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson
Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang
Napoléon
Seventh Heaven, starring starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
Sunrise, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, directed by F.W. Murnau
The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
Wings, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston