Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emil Jannings, the first man to win an Oscar for Best Actor (Rex) Looked at through the long lens of history, the decision ...

AT the Rialto is Emil Jannings in “The Patriot,” giving a superb performance as the mad, degenerate Czar Paul of Russia. Such triumphant acting is rare. You should go and see it. The film, apart from ...

Angelica has been a TV/Film Features Writer at Collider since 2022 after graduating with an AB Communication degree at UST Manila. She is now in Spain working as a Language Assistant while still ...

The first Oscar Awards, honoring films released between July 1927 and August 1928, were held on May 16, 1929, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. That night saw Wings take home the inaugural Academy ...

THE only new picture worth leaving your cozy fireside to see is “Sins of the Fathers,” with Emil Jannings, which opened this last week at the Rivoli. This picture has not the in terest of “The Patriot ...

Splendid English version of a German original [released earlier the same year]. It's Emil Jannings' first talker with his name over the title and Marlene Dietrich's underneath. Splendid English ...

The academy awarded some honours in their inaugural year for performances in more than one film. Jannings won for his portrayal of both a bank clerk in 1927's The Way of All Flesh, and for playing ...

When the ballot results came in to decide the first winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences realised they faced a tricky problem. The “actor” who had ...