Before the 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in May 1929, honoring films released between August 1927 and July 1928, "The Jazz Singer" was ruled ineligible for the two top prizes—the Outstanding Picture, Production and the Unique and Artistic Production—on the basis that it would have been unfair competition for the silent pictures under consideration. By mid-1929, Hollywood was producing almost exclusively sound films; by the end of the following year, the same was true in much of Western Europe. Jolson went on to make a series of movies for Warners, including "The Singing Fool", a part-talkie, and the all-talking features "Say It with Songs" (1929), "Mammy" (1930), and "Big Boy" (1930).