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By DAVE KEHR

Published: January 6, 2010

THE first Academy Awards banquet, held on May 16, 1929, and honoring films released between Aug. 1, 1927, and July 31, 1928, included a special award to Warner Brothers “for producing ‘The Jazz Singer,’ the pioneering outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry.”

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Does James Cameron’s “Avatar” deserve a similar prize? Some industry observers might think so, including Kenneth Turan, a film critic for The Los Angeles Times, who called Mr. Cameron’s epic “the ‘Jazz Singer’ of 3-D movies.”