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that there is one Academy Award winning performance that is lost: Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor prize for The Way of All Flesh , which has no known surviving complete copies.

Apr 10, 2022•1 min read

Fun Fact: that there is one Academy Award winning performance that is lost: Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor prize for ‘The Way of All Flesh’, which has no known surviving complete copies.

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