Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is a 1927 film directed by F. W. Murnau, his first American production, made for Fox Film Corporation, following an unnamed farmer who is tempted by a visiting woman from the city into a plan to murder his wife and move away with her, then reconciles with his wife over the course of a day trip into the city instead. Murnau's fluid, mobile camera work, an elaborate forced-perspective studio-built city set, and the blending of German Expressionist visual technique with a simple melodramatic story made the film one of the most technically celebrated of the silent era. At the first Academy Awards ceremony it won the only Academy Award ever given for Unique and Artistic Picture, a category retired after that one year.
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Why is the Academy Award that Sunrise won not given any more?
The Unique and Artistic Picture award was given only once. Sunrise won it at the first Academy Awards.
Sunrise received the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Picture at the first Academy Awards ceremony, and that award was never given again. At the time it was regarded as being as prestigious as the Outstanding Picture award, but the Academy has since decided that the higher honor went to Wings in the Outstanding Picture category.
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is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Description, original language
Murnau, his first American production, made for Fox Film Corporation, following an unnamed farmer who is tempted by a visiting woman from the city into a plan to murder his wife and move away with her, then reconciles with his wife over the course of a day trip into the city instead.
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is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau
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is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston.
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