OK, this is listed at the very first Best Picture Oscar awarded, but there a little history here that reveals a strange Academy Award fact: it was in fact nominated twice and won twice, well technically speaking. To explain what I'm talking about here, we have to delve into some Oscar creation history. While technically the very first awards were given out on May 16, 1929, when the Academy was founded in 1927, they awarded, sort of, recognition to films of merit in 1928, before the founding of the official award ceremony; Sunrise took that honor--so it technically won best picture twice--the only film, for obvious reasons, in the history of the Academy to do so. Another strange fact about the 1929 awards is that actress Janet Gaynor who took home the Oscar for best female leading role for performance in Sunrise for 1929, also won two more of these on the same evening for her performances in Street Angel for the year 1928 and for 7th Heaven for the year 1927; since the first awards were for 3 years running: 1926, 1927 & 1928. It was a retroactive thing. Obviously, this means that she is the only actress in the history of the Academy to win 3 Oscars in one night for the same category.
Here is the link to the Wikipedia page for The Academy.
Here is the same for the history of the Awards themselves.
Here is the link to the history of the first awards, including menu.
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| Won For Best Cinematography: Charles Rosher & Karl Struss |
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| Won For Best Actress In A Leading Role: Janet Gaynor |
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| Won For Best Picture (1929) |
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| Nominated For Best Art Direction |
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