1927 in film

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Years in film

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1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Films released in 1927
5 Short film series
6 Animated short film series
7 Births
8 Film Debuts
9 Deaths

[edit] 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.
August 12 - Paramount's Wings, which would go on to win the first "Best Picture" Academy Award, opens at the Criterion Theater in New York City, with an unheard-of roadshow admission price of $2.00 per ticket.
October 6 - The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, 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.
Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.

[edit] Top grossing films

The Jazz Singer

[edit] Academy Awards

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