The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

Similar panchromatic film stocks were manufactured by Agfa and Pathé, the shift to panchromatic stocks had largely been completed by 1928, and Kodak discontinued orthochromatic stock in 1930.

Although finished in August 1927, the film was not released until June 1928.

The film was filmed from October to December 1927 and released in February 1928.

The film was shot from April to June 1928, but Fox ordered an additional 15 minutes of dialogue footage to be shot so the film could compete with the new " talkies " being released.

The film was released in September 1928 and was a moderate hit.

Bogart's earliest film role is with Helen Hayes in the 1928 two-reeler The Dancing Town, of which a complete copy has never been found.

* 1928 – Roger Vadim, French film director and actor ( d. 2000 )

* John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born 1928 ), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind

Kiyoshi Atsumi ( 渥美 清 Atsumi Kiyoshi ), born Yasuo Tadokoro ( 田所 康雄 Tadokoro Yasuo, 10 March 1928 in Tokyo — 4 August 1996 in Tokyo ), was a Japanese film actor.

* 1928 – Jacques Rivette, French film director

* Underground ( 1928 film ), a drama by Anthony Asquith

* 1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director ( b. 1928 )

* 1928 – Andrew Sarris, American film critic ( d. 2012 )

Irving Thalberg of M-G-M invited Flaherty to film White Shadows in the South Seas ( 1928 ) in collaboration with W. S. Van Dyke, but their talents proved an uncomfortable fit, and Flaherty resigned from the production.

Although the release of The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ) by Warner Brothers marked the first commercially successful sound film, silent films were the majority of features released in both 1927 and 1928, along with so-called goat-glanded films: silents with a section of sound film inserted.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

The effect of the failure of the 1928 book was salutary: no further attempts were made to revise the Book of Common Prayer.

Many prominent figures testified in that trial, including members of the parliamentary committee investigating the reasons for the defeat, so some of its results were made public long before the publication of the committee report in 1928.

DKW cars were made from 1928 until 1966.

The German American Rockefeller family's Rockefeller Foundation made a large donation enabling the development of a new dedicated building for the institute, along Kraepelin's guidelines, which was officially opened in 1928.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

Four silent films were made featuring Kit Carson as the " star " from 1903 to 1928.

Steiner immediately began work designing a second Goetheanum building – this time made of concrete instead of wood – which was completed in 1928, three years after his death.

In 1928 she was made a member of the Committee of Yuans by Chiang.

In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices, which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928.

In 1928 important discoveries were made in the region from then on called Copperbelt-enormous copper deposits were found, transforming Northern Rhodesia from a prospective land of colonization for white farmers to a copper exporter.

It was suggested that the Indonesian language is an artificial language made official in 1928.

Baird then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the BBC.

In 1928, Fritz Lang made the film Spies which contained many tropes that became popular in later spy dramas, including secret headquarters, an agent known by a number, and the beautiful foreign agent who comes to love the hero.

The play was made into a film in 1925, which was so successful that two sequels followed in 1926 and 1928.

In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.

After two months of planning, in 1928 Ravel made a four-month concert tour in North America, for a promised minimum of $ 10, 000 ( approximately $, adjusted for inflation ).

In October 1928, Raeder was promoted to Admiral and made Commander-in-Chief of the Reichsmarine, the Weimar Republic Navy ( Oberbefehlshaber der Reichsmarine ).

In September 1928, three German researchers ( E. Allwein, E. Schneider, Karl Wien ), from a Soviet-German scientific expedition, made the first attempt to reach the highest point of the Trans-Alai Range, which at that time had the name Kaufman Peak.

In 1928, Kahn made a European tour and took a particular interest in the medieval walled city of Carcassonne, France and the castles of Scotland rather than any of the strongholds of classicism or modernism.

By 1928 he had joined the Kaiserslautern youth academy, and he made his first team debut at 17, continuing an association with the club that would be his only professional club.

When sound arrived, he made his Hollywood debut in 1928.

This development led to the Cierva C. 8, which, on 18 September 1928, made the first rotorcraft crossing of the English Channel followed by a tour of Europe.

* In 1928, a silent film The Private Life of Helen of Troy, was made.