1925 Pre-Oscar Shouldabeens

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Best Picture
*Ben-Hur
The Big Parade
The Eagle
The Merry Widow
The Phantom of the Opera

Best Actor
Lon Chaney, The Phantom of the Opera
John Gilbert, The Big Parade
Buster Keaton, Seven Chances
*Ramon Novarro, Ben-Hur
Rudolph Valentino, The Eagle

Best Actress
Belle Bennett, Stela Dallas
Louise Dresser, The Goose Woman
*May Murray, The Merry Widow
Gloria Swanson, Stage Struck
Constance Talmadge, Her Sister From Paris

Best Director
Sergei M Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin
Rupert Jillian, The Phantom of the Opera
*Fred Niblo, Ben-Hur
Erich von Stroheim, The Merry Widow
King Vidor, The Big Parade