
George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in a scene from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (USA, FW Murnau, 1927). At the first Academy Awards, Janet Gaynor won Best Actress and Sunrise was named Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production. From the Taussig film stills collection.
Notes by Stephen Groenewegen
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.