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Events
- January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
- April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda.
- May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928.
- August 12 - Paramount's Wings, which would go on to win the first "Best Picture" Academy Award, opens at the Criterion Theater in New York City, with an unheard-of roadshow admission price of $2.00 per ticket.
- October 6 - The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer is the first big hit and popularizes sound motion pictures.
- FOX Films acquires the rights to the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole.
- Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.
Top grossing films
Academy Awards
- Best Production: Wings
- Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
- Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
- Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel
Films released in 1927
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- The Cat and the Canary
- College, starring Buster Keaton
- The General, starring Buster Keaton
- Hula, starring Clara Bow
- Huntingtower, by George Pearson (John Buchan novel)
- It, starring Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno
- The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy
- The Kid Brother, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
- The Lodger
- London After Midnight, starring Lon Chaney, Sr., Conrad Nagel and Marceline Day, directed by Tod Browning
- Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang
- Napoléon directed by Abel Gance
- The Private Life of Helen of Troy
- The Scar of Shame, a race movie starring Harry Henderson and Lucia Lynn Moses
- Seventh Heaven, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
- Sunrise, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, directed by F.W. Murnau
- Underworld
- The Unknown
- The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
- Wings, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston
Short film series
- Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
- Our Gang (1922-1944)
- Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
Animated short film series
- Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
- Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
- Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes (1924-1927)
- Alice Comedies (1924-1927)
- Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
- Un-Natural History (1925-1927)
- Pete the Pup (1926-1927)
- Inkwell Imps (1927-1929)
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
- Newslaffs (1927-1928)
Births
- January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
- February 7 - Juliette Greco singer, actress
- February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
- March 1 - Harry Belafonte actor, singer
- March 20 - Cairbre (also known as Leo), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lion mascot, born in Dublin Zoo
- May 13 - Herbert Ross, director (d. 2001)
- June 23 - Bob Fosse, director (d. 1987)
- July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress
- July 6 - Janet Leigh, actress (d. 2004)
- September 16 - Peter Falk, actor
- October 14 - Roger Moore, actor
- October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor (d. 1999)
- October 31 - Lee Grant, actress
- November 14 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. February 15, 1996)
Deaths
- June 3 - Einar Hanson, Swedish actor
- June 4 - Robert McKim, actor (the villain in Fairbanks' "Mark of Zorro")
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