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Academy Award For Best Art Direction

Academy Award for Best Art Direction

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

1920s

This award was originally for Interior Decoration
- 1928 William Cameron Menzies - The Dove and Tempest
- Harry Oliver - Seventh Heaven
- Rochus Gliese - Sunrise
- 1929 Cedric Gibbons - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Mitchell Leisen - Dynamite
- Cedric Gibbons - Hollywood Review
- William Cameron Menzies - The Iron Mask
- Hans Dreier - The Patriot
- Harry Oliver - Street Angel

1930s

- 1930 Herman Rosse - King of Jazz
- William Cameron Menzies - Bulldog Drummond
- Hans Dreier - The Love Parade
- Jack Okey - Sally
- Hans Dreier - The Vagabond King
- 1931 Max Ree - Cimarron
- Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras - Just Imagine
- Hans Dreier - Morocco
- Anton Grot - Svengali
- Richard Day - Whoopee
- 1932 Gordon Wiles - Transatlantic
- Lazare Meerson - A Nous la liberté
- Richard Day - Arrowsmith
- 1933 William S. Darling - Cavalcade
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - A Farewell to Arms
- Cedric Gibbons - When Ladies Meet
- 1934 Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope - The Merry Widow
- Van Nest Polglase, Carroll Clark - The Gay Divorcee
- Richard Day - Affairs of Cellini
- 1935 Richard Day - The Dark Angel
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Carroll Clark, Van Nest Polglase - Top Hat
- 1936 Richard Day - Dodsworth
- Anton Grot - Anthony Adverse
- Cedric Gibbons, Eddie Imazu, Edwin B. Willis - The Great Ziegfeld
- William S. Darling - Lloyd's of London
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Otterson - The Magnificent Brute
- Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope, Edwin B. Willis - Romeo and Juliet
- Perry Ferguson - Winterset
- 1937 Stephen Goosson - Lost Horizon
- Cedric Gibbons, William Horning - Conquest
- Carroll Clark - A Damsel in Distress
- Richard Day - Dead End
- Ward Ihnen - Every Day's a Holiday
- Anton Grot - The Life of Emile Zola
- John Victor MacKay - Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- Lyle Wheeler - The Prisoner of Zenda
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - Souls at Sea
- Alexander Toluboff - Vogues of 1938
- William S. Darling, David Hall - Wee Willie Winkie
- Jack Otterson - You're a Sweetheart
- 1938 Carl J. Weyl - The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Lyle Wheeler - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Bernard Herzbrun, Boris Leven - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Alexander Toluboff - Algiers
- Van Nest Polglase - Carefree
- Richard Day - Goldwyn Follies
- Stephen Goosson, Lionel Banks - Holiday
- Hans Dreier, John Goodman - If I Were King
- Jack Otterson - Mad About Music
- Cedric Gibbons - Marie Antoinette
- Charles D. Hall - Merrily We Live
- 1939 Lyle Wheeler - Gone with the Wind
- Hans Dreier, Robert Odell - Beau Geste
- Charles D. Hall - Captain Fury
- Jack Otterson, Martin Obzina - First Love
- Van Nest Polglase, Al Herman - Love Affair
- John Victor Mackay - Man of Conquest
- Lionel Banks - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Anton Grot - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
- William Darling, George Dudley - The Rains Came
- Alexander Toluboff - Stagecoach
- Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning - The Wizard of Oz
- James Basevi - Wuthering Heights With the awards for 1940 the award was divided into separate awards for black-and-white and color movies.

1940s

- 1940 Black-and-white Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse - Pride and Prejudice
- Hans Dreier, Robert Usher - Arise, My Love
- Lionel Banks, Robert Peterson - Arizona
- John Otterson - The Boys from Syracuse
- John Victor Mackay - Dark Command
- Alexander Golitzen - Foreign Correspondent
- Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright - Lillian Russell
- Van Nest Polglase, Mark-Lee Kirk - My Favorite Wife
- John DuCasse Schulze - My Son, My Son
- Lewis J. Rachmil - Our Town
- Lyle Wheeler - Rebecca
- Anton Grot - The Sea Hawk
- James Basevi - The Westerner
- 1940 Color Vincent Korda - The Thief of Bagdad
- Cedric Gibbons, John S. Detlie - Bitter Sweet
- Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright - Down Argentine Way
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson - North West Mounted Police
- 1941 Black-and-White Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little - How Green Was My Valley
- Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase, Al Fields, Darrell Silvera - Citizen Kane
- Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman - Flame of New Orleans
- Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Samuel M. Comer - Hold Back the Dawn
- Lionel Banks, George Montgomery - Ladies in Retirement
- Stephen Goosson, Howard Bristol - The Little Foxes
- John Hughes, Fred MacLean - Sergeant York
- John DuCasse Schultze, Edward G. Boyle - Son of Monte Cristo
- Alexander Golitzen, Richard Irvine - Sundown
- Vincent Korda, Julia Heron - That Hamilton Woman
- Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis - When Ladies Meet
- 1941 Color Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis - Blossoms in the Dust
- Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little - Blood and Sand
- Raoul Pene du Bois, Stephen A. Seymour - Louisiana Purchase
- 1942 Black-and-White Richard Day, Joseph Wright, Thomas Little - This Above All
- Max Parker, Mark-Lee Kirk, Casey Roberts - George Washington Slept Here
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Al Fields, Darrell Silvera - The Magnificent Ambersons
- Perry Ferguson, Howard Bristol - The Pride of the Yankees
- Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Jack Moore - Random Harvest
- Boris Leven - The Shanghai Gesture
- Ralph Berger, Emile Kuri - Silver Queen
- John B. Goodman, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman, Edward R. Robinson - The Spoilers
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer - Take a Letter, Darling
- Lionel Banks, Rudolph Sternad, Fay Babcock - The Talk of the Town
- 1942 Color Richard Day, Joseph Wright, Thomas Little - My Gal Sal
- Alexander Golitzen, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb - Arabian Nights
- Ted Smith, Casey Roberts - Captains of the Clouds
- Vincent Korda, Julia Heron - Jungle Book
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, George Sawley - Reap the Wild Wind
- 1943 Black-and-White James Basevi, William Darling, Thomas Little - The Song of Bernadette
- Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte, Bertram Granger - Five Graves to Cairo
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark, Darrell Silvera, Harley Miller - Flight for Freedom
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Madame Curie
- Carl Weyl, George J. Hopkins - Mission to Moscow
- Perry Ferguson, Howard Bristol - The North Star
- 1943 Color Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb - Phantom of the Opera
- Hans Dreier, Haldane Douglas, Bertram Granger - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- James Basevi, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little - The Gang's All Here
- John Hughes, John Koenig, George J. Hopkins - This Is the Army
- Cedric Gibbons, Daniel Cathcart, Edwin B. Willis, Jacques Mersereau - Thousands Cheer
- 1944 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Paul Huldschinsky, Edwin B. Willis - Gaslight
- Lionel Banks, Walter Holscher, Joseph Kish - Address Unknown
- John J. Hughes, Fred MacLean - The Adventures of Mark Twain
- Perry Ferguson, Julia Heron - Casanova Brown
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little - Laura
- Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Samuel M. Comer - No Time for Love
- Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin - Since You Went Away
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Carroll Clark, Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter - Step Lively
- 1944 Color Wiard Ihnen, Thomas Little - Wilson
- John B. Goodman, Alexander Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb - The Climax
- Lionel Banks, Cary Odell, Fay Babcodk - Cover Girl
- Charles Novi, Jack McConaghy - The Desert Song
- Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle - Kismet
- Hans Dreier, Raoul Pene du Bois, Ray Moyer - Lady in the Dark
- Ernst Fegte, Howard Bristol - The Princess and the Pirate
- 1945 Black-and-White Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields - Blood on the Sun
- Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter - Experiment Perilous
- James Basevi, William Darling, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes - The Keys of the Kingdom
- Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Love Letters
- Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar, Hugh Hunt - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1945 Color Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte, Samuel M. Comer - Frenchman's Creek
- Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little - Leave Her to Heaven
- Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Mildred Griffiths - National Velvet
- Ted Smith, Jack McConaghy - San Antonio
- Stephen Goosson, Rudolph Sternad, Frank Tuttle - A Thousand and One Nights
- 1946 Black-and-White William Darling, Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes - Anna and the King of Siam
- Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Kitty
- Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - The Razor's Edge
- 1946 Color Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis - The Yearling
- John Bryan - Caesar and Cleopatra
- Paul Sheriff, Carmen Dillon - Henry V Beginning with 1947 movies the name of the award was changed to Art Direction - Set Decoration.
- 1947 Black-and-White John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton - Great Expectations
- Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - The Foxes of Harrow
- 1947 Color Alfred Junge - Black Narcissus
- Robert M. Haas, George James Hopkins - Life with Father
- 1948 Black-and-White Roger K. Furse, Carmen Dillon - Hamlet
- Robert Haas, William Wallace - Johnny Belinda
- 1948 Color Hein Heckroth, Arthur Lawson - The Red Shoes
- Richard Day, Edwin Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish - Joan of Arc
- 1949 Black-and-White Harry Horner, John Meehan, Emile Kuri - The Heiress
- Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - Come to the Stable
- Cedric Gibbons, Jack Martin Smith, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle - Madame Bovary
- 1949 Color Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - Little Women
- Edward Carrere, Lyle Reifsnider - Adventures of Don Juan
- Jim Morahan, William Kellner, Michael Relph - Saraband for Dead Lovers

1950s

- 1950 Black-and-White Hans Dreier, John Meehan, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sunset Boulevard
- Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott - All About Eve
- Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - The Red Danube
- 1950 Color Hans Dreier, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Samson and Delilah
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Richard A. Pefferle - Annie Get Your Gun
- Ernst Fegte, George Sawley - Destination Moon
- 1951 Black-and-White Richard Day, George James Hopkins - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode - Fourteen Hours
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - House on Telegraph Hill
- Jean d'Eaubonne - La Ronde
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Wills, Jack D. Moore - Too Young to Kiss
- 1951 Color Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - An American in Paris
- Lyle Wheeler, George Davis, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - David and Bathsheba
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott - On the Riviera
- William A. Horning, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt - Quo Vadis
- Hein Heckroth - Tales of Hoffmann
- 1952 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - The Bad and the Beautiful
- Emile Kuri - Carrie
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott - My Cousin Rachel
- Matsuyama H. Matsumoto - Rashōmon
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Thomas Little, Claude Carpenter - Viva Zapata!
- 1952 Color Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertes - Moulin Rouge
- Richard Day, Antoni Clavé, Howard Bristol - Hans Christian Andersen
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams - The Merry Widow
- Frank Hotaling, John McCarthy, Jr., Charles S. Thompson - The Quiet Man
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- 1953 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Julius Caesar
- Fritz Maurischat, Paul Markwitz - Martin Luther
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Paul S. Fox - The President's Lady
- Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler - Roman Holiday
- Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Stuart Reiss - Titanic
- 1953 Color Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - The Robe
- Alfred Junge, Hans Peters. John Jarvis - Knights of the Round Table
- Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams - Lili
- Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edward Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore - The Story of Three Loves
- Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - Young Bess
- 1954 Black-and-White Richard Day - On the Waterfront
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Grace Gregory - The Country Girl
- Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri - Executive Suite
- Max Ophuls - Le Plaisir
- Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sabrina
- 1954 Color John Meehan, Emile Kuri - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - Brigadoon
- Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - Desirée
- Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Red Garters
- Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff, George James Hopkins - A Star Is Born
- 1955 Black-and-White Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - The Rose Tattoo
- Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace - Blackboard Jungle
- Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh B. Hunt - I'll Cry Tomorrow
- Joseph C. Wright, Darrell Silvera - The Man With the Golden Arm
- Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds, Robert Priestley - Marty
- 1955 Color William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley - Picnic
- Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - Daddy Long Legs
- Oliver Smith, Joseph C. Wright, Howard Bristol - Guys and Dolls
- Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Jack Stubbs - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
- Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Samuel M. Comer, Arthur Krams - To Catch a Thief
- 1956 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason - Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Takashi Matsuyama - The Magnificent Seven
- Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy - The Proud and the Profane
- Ross Bellah, William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage - The Solid Gold Cadillac
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Oscar Statuette

The official name of the Oscar statuette is the "Academy Award of Merit." Made of gold-plated britannium, it is 13.5 inches (34 cm) tall and depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film. The root of the name oscar is contested. Some believe it comes from Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, who saw it on a table and said, "it looks just like my uncle Oscar!" Others claim that Bette Davis named it after her first husband. However it became, the nickname stuck and is used almost as commonly as Academy Award, even by the Academy itself. In fact, the Academy's domain name is oscars.org and the official website for the Academy Awards is at oscars.com. Margaret Herrick

Awards night

The awards night itself is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers of the day. The ceremony and extravagant afterparties, including the Academy's Governors Ball, are televised around the world.

Nominations

Today, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film has to open in the previous calendar year (from midnight January 1 to midnight December 31) in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify. [http://www.oscars.org/78academyawards/rules/index.html] Rule 2 states that a film must be "feature-length" (defined as 40 minutes) to qualify for an award (except for Short Subject awards, of course). It must also exist either on a 35mm or 70mm film print OR on a 24fps or 48fps progressive scan digital film print with a native resolution no lower than 1280x1024.

Awards Up To 2005

References

Gail, K. & Piazza, J. (2002) The Academy Awards the Complete History of Oscar. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.

External links

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1928

1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January-May

- January 6-7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned
- January 7 - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843, is completely refilled by a tidal wave
- January 12 - US murderer Ruth Snyder executed at Ossining
- January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan
- February - Kurume University (Japan) established
- February 11 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
- February 12 - Heavy hails kill 11 in England
- February 25 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
- March 12 - Malta becomes a British dominion
- March 12 - In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails killing 400
- March 21 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
- April 10 - Pineapple Primary - Republican Party primary elections in Chicago preceded by assassinations and bombings
- April 12 - Bomb attack against the King of Italy in Milan - 17 bystanders dead
- April 22 - Earthquake destroys Corinth - 200.000 buildings destroyed
- May 15-17 - Christian X of Denmark visits Finland
- May 15 - Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, commenced operations
- May 15 - Release of the animated short Plane Crazy, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
- May 23 - Bomb attack against Italian consulate in Buenos Aires - 22 dead, 41 injured
- May 24 - Airship Italia crashes on the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile
- May 30 - A rescue expedition leaves for the North Pole

June-August

- June 11 - Medical doctor's strike begins in Vienna
- June 14 - Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina
- July 6 - The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
- July 12 - Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
- June 17 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she succeeded the next day).
- July 17 - Jose del León Toral assassinates Alvaro Obregon, president of Mexico
- June 20 - Shooting incident in Yugoslavian parliament - Punica Rasic shoots 3 opposition representatives and injures three others
- June 24 - Swedish aeroplane rescues part of Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12
- July 16 - Leon Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico
- July 25 - USA recalls its troops from China
- July 27 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
- July 28 - Official opening ceremony of the 1928_Summer_Olympics in Amsterdam.
- August 16 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
- August 25 - Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog I of Albania; he is crowned September 1
- August 28 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.

September-December

- September 1 - Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic
- September 3 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
- September 15 - Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.
- September 16 - The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.
- October 2 Saint Josemaria Escriva, founds Opus Dei
- October 7 - Haile Selassie crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia
- October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
- November 3 - cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, an animated short produced by Walt Disney.
- November 4 - At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
- November 6 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
- November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
- November 10 - Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
- November 11 - US gambling king Arnold Rothstein is shot to death in New York City
- December 3 - In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sunk near Cap Arcona with Alberto Santos-Dumont on board.
- December 5 - Police disperses Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland
- December 21 - U.S. Congress approves the construction of The Boulder Dam, later renamed The Hoover Dam
- December 31 - Bells of Big Ben first time in a radio

Unknown dates

- Charles King elected president of Liberia with 600,000 votes; the whole of country has only 15,000 voters.
- Chaco war
- Coca Cola enters Europe through the Amsterdam Olympics.
- Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago, Illinois.
- The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.
- Turkey switches from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.
- The right to vote extended to all women in the United Kingdom.
- Frederick Griffith conducts the Griffith experiment, indirectly proving existence of DNA.
- Motorola is founded.
- First (and last) Best Title Writing Academy Award given.
- The Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.
- W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.
- Australian farmer, Jack Trott, finds Rhizanthella gardneri in his garden.

Births

January

- January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
- January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
- January 7 - William Peter Blatty, American writer
- January 11 - David L. Wolper, television producer
- January 16 - William Kennedy, American author
- January 17 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
- January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist
- January 23 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
- January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist and writer
- January 26 - Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
- January 30 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director

February

- February 5 - Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and novelist
- February 9 - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
- February 9 - Roger Mudd, American journalist
- February 23 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
- February 26 - Fats Domino, American musician
- February 26 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
- February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel

March-April

- March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, English writer
- March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 8 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
- March 10 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
- March 12 - Edward Albee, American dramatist
- March 16 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
- March 19 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
- March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, Irish actor
- March 20 - Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d. 2003)
- March 24 - Byron Janis, American pianist
- March 25 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
- March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born U.S. National Security Advisor
- March 31 - Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player
- March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer
- April 1 - Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer
- April 1 - George Grizzard, American actor
- April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
- April 4 - Maya Angelou, American poet and novelist
- April 6 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- April 7 - James Garner, American actor
- April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director (d. 1998)
- April 8 - Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
- April 9 - Tom Lehrer, American songwriter
- April 12 - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
- April 19 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (d. 1984)
- April 23 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician

May-June

- May 3 - Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
- May 4 - Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
- May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and speechwriter
- May 9 - Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer (d. 1982)
- May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
- May 12 - Burt Bacharach, American composer
- May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
- May 18 - Pernell Roberts, American actor
- May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
- May 26 - Jack Kevorkian, American physician
- June 1 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- June 1 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d. 2003)
- June 13 - John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- June 14 - Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967)
- June 19 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
- June 25 - Alexei Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 26 - Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)

July-September

- July 5 - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
- July 10 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
- July 11 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
- July 12 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 13 - Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d. 1999)
- July 16 - Robert Sheckley, American writer
- July 25 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
- July 26 - Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)
- August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- August 10 - Eddie Fisher, American singer
- August 12 - Bob Buhl, baseball player (d. 2001)
- August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, English film director
- August 18 - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004)
- August 25 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 11 - William Kienzle, American author (d. 2001
- September 14 - Angus Ogilvy, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (d. 2004)
- September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist
- September 19 - Adam West, American actor
- September 22 - James Lawson, American civil rights activist and minister
- September 30 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

October-December

- October 1 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
- October 8 - Bill Maynard, British actor
- October 9 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
- October 27 - Kyle Rote, American football player (d. 2002)
- October 30 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
- November 3 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese artist (d. 1989)
- November 3 - George Yardley, American basketball player (d. 2004)
- November 10 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
- November 11 - Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian writer
- November 17 - Rance Howard, American actor
- November 29 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003)
- December 7 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist
- December 15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
- December 16 - Philip K. Dick, American author (d. 1982)
- December 25 - Dick Miller, American actor

Unknown date

- Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, King of Malaysia

Deaths

- January 1 - Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862)
- January 6 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
- January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- January 30 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
- February 1 - Hughie Jennings, baseball player (b. 1869)
- February 4 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- February 15 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
- February 16 - Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856)
- April 2 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- April 5 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- June 4 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
- June 22 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
- August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (b. 1854)
- August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- October 22 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- December 1 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
- December 10 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b. 1868)
- Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)

Nobel Prizes

- Physics - Owen Willans Richardson
- Chemistry - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
- Physiology or Medicine - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
- Literature - Sigrid Undset
- Peace - not awarded ko:1928년 ms:1928 ja:1928年 simple:1928 th:พ.ศ. 2471

William Cameron Menzies

William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 - March 5, 1967) was an Academy Award-winning and versitile art director who earned acclaim on silent films and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect. In his long career spanning five decades from 1918 to 1956, he pioneered the role of production designer but also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut before moving to Los Angeles, California. He died of cancer in 1957 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Notable films he worked on include The Thief of Bagdad, The Beloved Rogue, Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Foreign Correspondent, Invaders from Mars, and Around the World in Eighty Days. He is said to have directed the Salvador Dali-designed dream sequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound.

Awards

His first Oscar was won jointly for the silent films The Dove and Tempest in 1929 at the 1st Academy Awards. The following year, he was nominated again (but did not win) for his work on the films Alibi and The Awakening in the 2nd Academy Awards and for Bulldog Drummond in the 3rd Academy Awards (both held in 1930.) He also received an honorary Academy Award for his work on Gone with the Wind in 1940. (Honorary awards are plaques only. He did not receive a second Oscar statue.) Menzies, William Cameron Menzies, William Cameron Menzies, William Cameron

The Dove

The Dove was a 1927 silent film directed by Roland West and starring Norma Talmadge, Noah Beery, and Gilbert Roland. Based on a play by Willard Mack, the original story is about a Mexican despot (played by Beery), who falls in love with a dancing girl (played by Talmadge), who rejects him. Due to the political repercussions of condemning Mexico, it was decided to relocate the plot to some anonymous Mediterranean country. Though the film was not well received, William Cameron Menzies won the first Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1928 for this film and Tempest, though the award was then called "Interior Decoration." Dove, The

Seventh Heaven

:For other uses, see Seventh Heaven (disambiguation) Seventh Heaven is a 1927 silent film that was one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production"). The film was written by H.H. Caldwell (titles), Benjamin Glazer, Katherine Hilliker (titles), and Austin Strong (play), and directed by Frank Borzage. The movie is a romance starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Gaynor won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Borzage won for Best Director, and Glazer won for Best Writing, Adaptation. Seventh Heaven is the 13th highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking in more than $2.5 million at the box office in 1927. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

1937 Remake

Seventh Heaven was remade as a sound film in 1937, starring Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, and Gregory Ratoff with Henry King directing. Category:1927 films Category:Best Picture Oscar Nominee Category:Best Actress Oscar (film) Category:United States National Film Registry

Rochus Gliese

Rochus Gliese (January 6 1891—December 22 1978) is a German actor, director, production designer, and Academy Award-nominated