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Which actor won an Academy Award for The Last Command?
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The actor who won an Academy Award for his performance in The Last Command (1928) was Emil Jannings.
During the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, Jannings received the award for best actor for his work in both The Last Command and the film The Way of All Flesh (1927).1