Around two years later, on May 16, 1929, the Academy held its first awards. Hosted by Fairbanks, it was a muted event lacking glamour, red carpet, and surprise—the winners had been announced three months ago. Simple Chinese lanterns adorned the Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel; the attendees’ tables had candles and candy replicas of the statuettes. The awards also aimed to advance another motive of the Academy, “defining film jobs as skilled industry rather than labour,” according to Peter Decherney’s Hollywood and the Culture Elite. The first ceremony, he argues, had separate awards for the Best Picture (Wings) and the Best Unique and Artistic Picture (Sunrise), “separating commercial fare from prestige art films”. Similarly, the acting awards recognised a body of work as opposed to one movie—Janet Gaynor won it for Sunrise, Seventh Heaven, and Street Angel—thus separating “‘below the line workers’ from the artists who wrote, directed, and acted in films, effectively distinguishing the unionised labours from artists.”