1926 - The Year in Review

Tough year--so many movies I haven't seen from this period. But I have to go with the obvious, though I split on director, simply because the German film is so resplendent to look at! NOTE: These are MY choices for each category, and are in no way reflective of the choices made by the Oscars.

PICTURE: THE GENERAL (US, Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
2nd: Faust (Germany, F.W. Murnau), followed by:
Mother (USSR, Vsevelod I. Pudovkin)
The Lodger (UK, Alfred Hitchcock)
Flesh and the Devil (US, Clarence Brown)

ACTOR: Buster Keaton, THE GENERAL (2nd: Emil Jannings, Faust, followed by: John Barrymore, Don Juan))

ACTRESS: Vera Baranovskaya, MOTHER (2nd: Greta Garbo, Flesh and the Devil, followed by: Camilla Horn, Faust)) 

DIRECTOR: F.W. Murnau, FAUST (2nd: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, The General, followed by: Vsevelod I. Pudovkin, Mother)



SHORT FILM: MENILMONTANT (France, Dimitri Kirsanoff) (2nd: Emak-Bakia (France, Man Ray) (2nd: Anemic Cinema (France, Marcel Duchamp), followed by: Menilmontant (France, Dimitri Kirsanoff), Film Studie (Germany, Hans Richter), The Town Rat and The Country Rat (France, Wladislaw Starewicz), Mighty Like a Moose (US, Leo McCarey))

SCREENPLAY: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg and Charles Smith, THE GENERAL (2nd: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Hans Kyser and Gerhart Hauptmann, Faust; Eliot Stannard and Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Carl Hoffmann, FAUST (2nd: Burt Haynes and Dev Jennings, The General, followed by: Anatoli Golovnya, Mother; William H. Daniels, Flesh and the Devil)

ART DIRECTION: FAUST, Don Juan, Mother

COSTUME DESIGN: DON JUAN, The Son of the Sheik, Faust

FILM EDITING: THE GENERAL, Mother, The Lodger

VISUAL EFFECTS: FAUST 


MAKEUP: FAUST