(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 ...
- Tom Barry, In Old Arizona and The Valiant
- Elliott Clawson, The Cop, The Leatherneck, Sal of Singapore, and Skyscraper
- Hans Kraly, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- Hans Kraly, The Patriot
- Josephine Lovett, Our Dancing Daughters
- Bess Meredyth, A Woman of Affairs and Wonder of Women
And the Oscar went to ...
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| Hans Kraly |
The Patriot today exists only in pieces, the only Oscar-winning film that has not been successfully restored, so we have no way of judging whether Kraly's screenplay deserved the Oscar. The competition, however, is unimpressive, and the film was directed by the estimable Ernst Lubitsch, so there's reason to believe that the Academy got this one right. Kraly begin his partnership with Lubitsch in Germany, where he was billed as Hanns Kräly, and came to Hollywood with the director in 1923. He received another Oscar nomination for the story of One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937).
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| Lewis Stone in The Patriot |
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