(Films released from August 1, 1928 through July 31, 1929 were eligible.)
For the 1928-29 awards, only the winners were announced, and the runners-up received no official notice from the Academy. The records show who was under consideration, however, and they have traditionally been treated as if they were "official" nominees.
The nominees were ...
- George Barnes, Our Dancing Daughters
- Clyde De Vinna, White Shadows in the South Seas
- Arthur Edeson, In Old Arizona
- Ernest Palmer, Four Devils and Street Angel
- John Seitz, The Divine Lady
And the Oscar went to ...
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| Clyde De Vinna for White Shadows in the South Seas (above: Monte Blue and Raquel Torres) |
De Vinna began his career as a cameraman for movie pioneer Thomas Ince, and developed as his specialty working on outdoor locations. White Shadows in the South Seas was begun as a collaboration between director W.S. Van Dyke and documentarian Robert Flaherty, but Flaherty hated the inane, melodramatic screenplay and quit. White Shadows was only part-talkie, which freed De Vinna to do more camera movement than the sound-bound movies of the day were capable of. It's also notable as the first movie in which audiences heard Leo, the MGM lion, roar. De Vinna continued to work with Van Dyke on such films as Trader Horn (1931) and the first movies in the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan oeuvre, compiling reels of outdoor footage that reappeared in countless MGM pictures. He ended his career working in television, including "The Roy Rogers Show."
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