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smokey asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 2 decades ago

What movie won the very first academy award for Best Picture?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    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

  • 2 decades ago

    Wings

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Wings

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  • 2 decades ago

    Wings

  • 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....

  • 1927/28 (1st)

    OUTSTANDING PICTURE Nominees

    The Caddo Company -- The Racket

    Fox -- 7th Heaven

    * Paramount Famous Lasky -- Wings (Winner)

    Source(s): Academy award site
  • 2 decades ago

    uuuuuummmmmmmm chicken litle??

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