Monday, May 11, 2009

A Little Housekeeping: Katie Award Nominees For The Silent Era (Movies Released Prior To August 1, 1927)

I've decided for future Katie Awards, rather than announce the winners first and then write essays about them after, I'll announce the nominees first and then write essays as I announce each winner. Which makes sense, but I am slow to figure these things out.

For those of you keeping score at home, these were the Katie Award nominees for Career Achievement during the Silent Era. I'll list the nominees for 1927-28 (even though you've already seen the winners and we're half way through the essays) in my next post.

PICTURE:
Battleship Potemkin
The Big Parade
The General

The Gold Rush

Metropolis

Nosferatu
The Thief Of Bagdad

ACTOR:
John Barrymore

Lon Chaney

Charles Chaplin

Douglas Fairbanks

John Gilbert

Emil Jannings

Buster Keaton

Harold Lloyd

Rudolph Valentino


ACTRESS:
Theda Bara

Clara Bow

Greta Garbo

Lillian Gish

Mary Pickford

Gloria Swanson

Norma Talmadge


DIRECTOR:
Buster Keaton

Charles Chaplin

Sergei Eisenstein

D.W. Griffith

Fritz Lang

F.W. Murnau

King Vidor

Erich von Stroheim


In case you've forgotten who won or never knew, you can click this link.