The reason was not the film itself, but the deeply fraught circumstances surrounding its making. As late as 1964, it seemed, this was a film he preferred to forget. Yet paradoxically, though, this is the only film from his mature feature productions which Chaplin does not once mention in his extensive autobiography. It contains some of his best comic inventions, subtly balanced with sentiment that is kept tightly in control. The special award was for ‘Versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing’. The Circus won Charles Chaplin his first Academy Award - it was still not yet called the ‘Oscar’ - he was given it at the first presentations ceremony, in 1929.
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