1927 in film
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Events

• January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
• February 4 - The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, is released. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer is the first big hit and popularizes sound motion pictures.
• April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda.
• May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928.
• FOX Films acquires the rights to the Tri Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole.

Top Grossing Films of the Year

1. The Jazz Singer

Academy Awards

• Best Production: Wings
• Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
• Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
• Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel

Movies Released

Movies released in 1927 include:

• The General, starring Buster Keaton
• The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson
• Napoleon
• Seventh Heaven, starring starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• Sunrise, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, directed by F.W. Murnau
• The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
• Wings, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston

Births

• January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
• February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
• July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress
• July 6 - Janet Leigh, actress
• October 14 - Roger Moore, actor
• October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor
• October 31 - Lee Grant, actress

Deaths

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