Best Special Effects, 1927-28

Awards presented May 16, 1929
(Films released from August 1, 1927 through August 1, 1928 were eligible.)

The award was called "Engineering Effects" this year only. 

The nominees were ...

• Ralph Hammeras, no specified works 
• Roy Pomeroy, Wings
• Nugent Slaughter, no specified works 

And the Oscar went to ... 

Roy Pomeroy

Pomeroy was one of the founders of the Academy. As a pioneer in special effects, he used gelatin to simulate the parting of the Red Sea in Cecil B. DeMille's first version of The Ten Commandments (1923) and devised the rigging that made Betty Bronson and the children fly in the 1924 film of Peter Pan.

Charles "Buddy" Rogers in Wings