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What movie won the very first academy award for Best Picture?
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- katrinaLv 42 decades agoFavorite Answer
This is what is on Wikipedia. Not sure if it's the right info, but it's the best I've found.
Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year. (Most Best Picture lists omit this award, as it was the "Best Production" award that evolved into Best Picture instead.)
1927–1928 (1st) Sunrise - Fox - William Fox
- 2 decades ago
"Wings" in 1929. Here is the list from Netflix.
Crash R
2005 Million Dollar Baby PG-13
2004 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King PG-13
2003 Chicago PG-13
2002 A Beautiful Mind PG-13
2001 Gladiator R
2000 American Beauty R
1999 Shakespeare in Love R
1998 Titanic PG-13
1997 The English Patient R
1996 Braveheart R
1995 Forrest Gump PG-13
1994 Schindler's List R
1993 Unforgiven R
1992 The Silence of the Lambs R
1991 Dances With Wolves: Special Edition PG-13
1990 Driving Miss Daisy PG
1989 Rain Man R
1988 The Last Emperor PG-13
1987 Platoon R
1986 Out of Africa PG
1985 Amadeus PG
1984 Terms of Endearment PG
1983 Gandhi PG
1982 Chariots of Fire PG
1981 Ordinary People R
1980 Kramer vs. Kramer PG
1979 The Deer Hunter R
1978 Annie Hall PG
1977 Rocky PG
1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest R
1975 The Godfather, Part II R
1974 The Sting PG
1973 The Godfather R
1972 The French Connection R
1971 Patton PG
1970 Midnight Cowboy R
1969 Oliver! G
1968 In the Heat of the Night PG
1967 A Man for All Seasons G
1966 The Sound of Music UR
1965 My Fair Lady: Special Edition G
1964 Tom Jones UR
1963 Lawrence of Arabia PG
1962 West Side Story UR
1961 The Apartment UR
1960 Ben-Hur: Collector's Edition NR
1959 Gigi G
1958 The Bridge on the River Kwai PG
1957 Around the World in 80 Days: Special Edition G
1956 Marty UR
1955 On the Waterfront UR
1954 From Here to Eternity UR
1953 The Greatest Show on Earth UR
1952 An American in Paris UR
1951 All About Eve UR
1950 All the King's Men UR
1949 Laurence Olivier's Hamlet UR
1948 Gentleman's Agreement UR
1947 The Best Years of Our Lives UR
1946 The Lost Weekend UR
1945 Going My Way / Holiday Inn UR
1944 Casablanca PG
1943 Mrs. Miniver UR
1942 How Green Was My Valley UR
1941 Rebecca UR
1940 Gone with the Wind: Collector's Edition G
1939 You Can't Take It With You NR
1938 The Life of Emile Zola NR
1937 The Great Ziegfeld UR
1936 Mutiny on the Bounty UR
1935 It Happened One Night UR
1934 Cavalcade UR
1933 Grand Hotel UR
1932 Cimarron NR
1931 All Quiet on the Western Front UR
1930 The Broadway Melody of 1929 NR
1929 Wings
- Anonymous2 decades ago
Wings
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- 2 decades ago
The movie was called Wings and it won in 1928.
- 2 decades ago
Sunrise: a song of two humans....technically it was called Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production.
Wings won Best Production....
- 2 decades ago
1927/28 (1st)
OUTSTANDING PICTURE Nominees
The Caddo Company -- The Racket
Fox -- 7th Heaven
* Paramount Famous Lasky -- Wings (Winner)
Source(s): Academy award site