The Awakening is a 1928 American synchronized sound feature film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Vilma Bánky.

While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

[1][2] In Alsace, under German occupation shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, Marie Ducrot is a pretty young peasant woman who falls in love with Count Karl von Hagen, a German army officer.

The film featured a theme song entitled "Marie" with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.

The Nominee, William Cameron Menzies was also nominated the same year for the film Alibi.