Most Surprising Loser Nominated six times, director Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar. Most Astonishing Winner The most votes for Best Actor at the very first Oscars in 1929 went to... Rin Tin Tin. The Academy covered this up and gave the Oscar to...

Perhaps the most heralded collaboration between German expressionist director Josef Von Sternberg and his favorite star, Marlene Dietrich, 1930’s The Blue Angel deals frankly with the perils of sexual repression and moral hypocrisy. Emil Jannings stars...

Lola Lola isn't a definitive femme fatale: she seems genuinely touched by the mix of lust and old-fashioned dignity that ultimately destroys her most ardent admirer, professor Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings). That said, she's too much of a survivor to be...

The Berlinale's special tribute is honoring all of that tumultuous history, beginning with Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's 1924 classic "The Last Laugh," which starred Emil Jannings (the first actor ever to win an Oscar) as an aging hotel doorman who...

Perhaps the most heralded collaboration between German expressionist director Josef Von Sternberg and his favorite star, Marlene Dietrich, 1930’s The Blue Angel deals frankly with the perils of sexual repression and moral hypocrisy. Emil Jannings stars...

He was the finest actor of his generation. At least he would have been if the votes for Best Actor at the inaugural Oscars in 1927 weren’t recast because organisers feared giving the prize to a dog would diminish their credibility. The prize went to...