A function was going on at 'Blossom room Hollywood Roosevelt' hotel in Los Angels, on 16th may 1929!
It was just a simple dinner party attended by about 250 people!
Even the folks in next street didn't know such a function was going on!
No buzz, no media, no hype... Douglas Fairbanks,in his calm voice called out the winners (no secrets... the list was published three months before) and within ten minutes he handed out all the bronze statues!
Every body attended the party returned home,without knowing they had just started a grand movie legacy!
MGM art director Mr.Gibbons paid George Stanley 500 $,to carve out the knight with his sword standing on the film reel!
They called it 'academy award of merit'!
And the most interesting fact was the first recipient of the award,Emil Jannings (mainly for the movie 'The last command') didn't attended the ceremony!
As he preferred to go to his home in Germany,the statue was given to him personally!
Janet Gaynor won the best actress category for the movie 'Seventh heaven' a great romantic movie and also for her roles in 'Street angel' and 'Sunrise'... only time in history an actress won award for roles in different films! (another well titled movie of hers is 'Midnight kiss')
'Wings' won the best movie (and the story is no different from the latest 'pearl harbor'... two army pilots falling for same woman)
Frank Borzage won the best director award mainly for 'seventh heaven' (even 'street angel' is also of his direction')!
And another director shared the award was 'Lewis Milestone' for the movie 'Two Arabian knights... and it was produced by Howard Hughes!
I hope you won't ask who is he.. if u were blessed to watch Leo in 'The Aviator'! 
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